@Fred Garvin: Thank you for reminding me. As a bass player, the scene where Bob Babbitt brings James Jamerson's poster out and the announcer says "…and the greatest bass player of all time, James Jamerson!" Whew, that got me.

My parents still give me a hard time about having to leave the theater when I was 3 or because I was crying at a Benji Movie.

I doubt it Szude.

That "no side project" policy was pretty bogus because Hetfield played on some Corrosion of Conformity album. Dick move.

"despite clearly having no clue what this game is or what's going on."

Ugh, Mustaine sounds like he's playing guitar with an outboard motor. That's why he hired Chris Poland and Marty Friedman to play the real solos.

Wow. That First Battle of Bull Run may be the only thing I remember from EB. I actually thought about that a couple of months ago for the first time in 25 years.

Yeah, I have to agree, the scene where Mantegna tells off the teacher was the first thing I thought of after Fat Tony when I saw his name for the article. I really liked Searching For Bobby Fischer.

The Simpson family is also the only family on TV that goes to church every week. Put that in your pipe and smoke it family values types!

I'm glad someone else said it.

I'm a bass player (have a gig tomorrow night) and when I informed my parents at age 14 that I was giving up electric guitar and becoming a bass player, my mom said without missing a beat "you should go check out my old Motown records, there's some good bass playing on those". Now my mom is not a musician and did not…

My parents showed me "Psycho" when I was 10 and I believe we watched "The Birds" within the same year.

I don't mean to ruin your great story Phel, but I'm going to.

My wife an I are both admitted nerds (me a musician, her an illustrator) and we know our future kids will likely be nerds. We thought about giving them creative names, but if you're a nerd, it wouldn't help to have a name like Thelonious. They will get normal bland names like Christopher or Elizabeth.

I was in high school when the Simpsons premiered. I wouldn't say my dad is a regular watcher, but he surprised me by saying one of his favorite lines is from the Australia episode when Lisa says to Bart: "I'm surprised you could write so legibly on your own butt".

I enjoyed Ledger's performance, but it did not stick with me in any way. Academy Awards? Meh.

We need more bands with 2-string-slide-bass players and a bari sax with NO guitar. Like , NOW!

Hated Eyes Wide Shut when I saw it in the theater 10 years ago. I watched it a couple of weeks ago on cable and really got into it.

3 years is pretty fast for $16.7 million.

I think Oxygen also had those Canadian soft-core porn for women shows on Sunday nights. Aimed at women but I disgraced myself to more than a few episodes.