Saw Jeff, Who Lives At Home - fun stuff, sorta like the movie equivalent of a short-story.

Dex Dynamo, the latest front in the GOP's War On Women.

I feel like NCIS & Big Bang Theory aren't quite fairly lumped into the same catergory here. While Big Bang isn't a ground breaking show, it's a classic, old school sitcom done with no-frills but a fair amount of intelligence. If nothing else, the amount of actual science that gets into the show is pretty impressive (I…

And also, IN RE: NBC's treatment of Community. Though I respect NBC trying to stick with Community and other, smart, low-rated shows (is there another kind of smart show on network TV?), I've long felt that they were shooting themselves in the foot in terms of scheduling it.

As I read through the article's links, I see "The Boob Tube Dude" come across the same revelation - that the show is not good despite being trapped in a endless loop of self-aware conceits but rather it's good because it can acknowledge, mock and pay tribute to those conceits all while still doing a great, character…

I might have mentioned on here before how much this show reminds me of the writing (both fictive and non) of David Foster Wallace (in for a cult, uber-nerdy dime, in for a dollar, right?). They're both "post-modern" in a way that doesn't make your eyeball roll back into your skull in that they're both dealing with the…

To my ex's immense credit, however, when we snuck into the end of Rent after seeing Saw II, she did conceed that, as bad as the latter was, the former was much, much worse.

When I was first courting my college girlfriend (and by "courting" I mean we were both cautiously sniffing around each other to see if there was any interest) my school used to rent out a local movie theater for free midnight movies on Friday nights. One evening I stumbled across her and her friends while stumbling…

Let's see, The Jolly Banker, When The Roses Bloom Again, Bugeye Jim and My Thirty Thousand have all been released already and Give Me A Nail and Ain'ta Gonna Grieve were on the Mermaid Ave Demos but that's still a lot of genuinely new stuff!

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I saw him in Chicago. It was a good concert but an amazing experience. He sounds good solo acoustic but isn't as captivating as say, Jeff Tweedy. But one other thing I love about Tweedy is that he welcomes the comparisons between concerts and church. Good concerts are communal and ineffable and restorative in a…

Sigh, the Three Stooges. Homer was doing a Stooges bit.

As the Church continues to be increasingly loudly and proudly assholish, I'm just glad that Stephen's out there to remind people that, bishops aside, a lot of American Catholics are awesome.

I never heard of these guys before but based on your review and the fact that Josh Ritter apparently wrote a few songs on here, I might just have to check this sucker out.

Check out a Chicago band called Radar Eyes. It's like 60's garage meets new wave on acid, I can't get enough. I've also been wearing out the new Sharon Van Etten.

This album seems like an earned nod towards increasing maturity from Nada Surf. The production keeps things (generally) pretty lively and the lyrics, while sometimes a bit dewey-eyed or overly-earnest mostly land.

Well put. In recent years I've gone out of my way to see a certain bands (Pixies, Iggy Pop, Stiff Little Fingers, Mavis Staples, Booker T., Bob Dylan, Violent Femmes, Patti Smith, Public Enemy, Sonic Youth, Billy Bragg etc.) just to say I was there and I can never say I've regretted it, no matter how fat or grey they…

Word. Saw him in Maidson in '05 touring off of Modern Times. He couldn't really match the band and only sounded good on the low-key acoustic songs but now I can say that I saw him.

Have you ever seen the rain… of bad responses to an awesome firstie?

Well damn my cursory tracklist reading, well played Meloy.