I don't understand why everyone always creams their jeans over Blue Velvet.  I guess his more straightforward stuff is less appealing to me in general, but even among those, The Elephant Man or Wild at Heart seem a lot more interesting.  So there's a dark side lurking beneath the Norman Rockwell American dream. …

How did you get that gig?

Agreed.  It just sparkles with wit and flawless craftsmanship, much more so even than Sideways or Payne's other relatively good stuff.  I would nominate it for best comedy of the 90s, yet it seems all but forgotten these days.  Is it because the subject matter is "just" high school? At any rate, it shows how shallow…

How is it that "AVA" is an abbreviation for "Angels & Airwaves?"

Yes.  Yes it is.

Why doesn't he just go all the way and release an album of ambient soundscapes a la Aphex Twin or something? For some reason, I would find that a lot more interesting than this Amy Winehouse from hell stuff.

Yeah, there's definitely a tendency to assume that actors are separate from their characters but that musicians are always themselves.  I can't really think of a good reason for why that is though.

A far more important issue is raised by this article: what is this "Butt Book" and how quickly can one be delivered to me?

What's the problem?

Searched the page for any mention of the greatest theme of all time and not a single hit.  Unbelievable.

Are you crazy?  That might actually be entertaining and unexpected. How dare you.

Marilyn happened to be in some good movies, but the quality of the movies had little or nothing to do with her presence.  Plus, Megan is actually a halfway decent actor, certainly better than Marilyn, even by the standards of the time.

Where's the love for Twiggy Ramirez?

SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!

Geez, what an ugly motherfucker.  Note to self: become rock star.

I disagree about the hotness. Even more so than most celebs, her looks seem to come from makeup, lighting, and knowing how to seduce the camera:

I always thought his most distinctive narrative device was the one mentioned in the article: jarring shifts in tone that usually seem really bizarre.  Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, Uncle Buck, you name it.  Frankly, I think the ones in this movie are fairly jarring too, but I suppose the actors handled it about as…

At first I was all: wow, that's kind of un-PC to make up a title that plays on stereotypical black names like that.

No, but those fucking Red Bull flash ads keep causing my computer to explode.  Is Firefox the new Internet Explorer?

In the words of cultural critic and eminent man of letters Jimmy Pop, "a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is crying"