Huh. The More You Know.

Do your blurb writers even care any more?
"From Animal House to the Oval Office"?

Hey, new Beirut!
Dude's pretty great. I'd be bummed that this was just an EP, but my favorite Beirut song, "Elephant Gun", came from an EP, so ya never know.

The Patty Duke, The Wrench, and then I bust The Tango
Got more rhymes than Jamaica's got mangoes

Or, y'know, "Red Right Hand" for good measure.

Although I've certainly seen plenty of scary places in hot girls.

If you're gonna go with the Magnetic Fields, you need "The Book Of Love". Goddamn it that's a fucking great song. I mean, fucking goddamn. I'm usually reasonably eloquent in my defense of music, but there's absolutely no way to explain why that song is as great as it is.

Scott Pilgrim Scott Pilgrim Scott Pilgrim
It's coming. I'm so excited.

Action
The only thing in which Jay Mohr is tolerable? Discuss.

Wait a minute!
I thought The Roots were The Roots of Hip Hop.

The blooper reel kinda bugged me - it pierced the magical atmosphere of the film, particularly the ending, by reminding us that, yes, it was just a movie. Maybe that was the point? I don't know.

Amazing
I never really got on the Nightmare Before Christmas bandwagon - I thought it was a little schticky and simplistic, though these are hardly major faults for a children's movie. I can't remember ever seeing James and the Giant Peach (though I do love Rolled Doll), and the less said about Monkeybone the better.

Really?
We're still doing Kenny G jokes? It's 2009, guys. How about "Creed" or "Nickelback" or something?

Would you say Corbin Bleu is, like his costar Zac Efron, a "song-and-dance man"?

Heavenly Creatures
Love that batshit little movie. I always felt bad that not-Kate-Winslet's career never really took off, she was excellent in it.

Keep it up, Carnivorous Danus!

Sarah Vowell is delightful and you can get the fuck out of town.

Also, The Sound of Young America got picked up by PRI a year or so ago, and that's always quality. (The real prize, of course, is Jordan Jesse Go, but about five people listen to that wonderful, wonderful internet program.)

The movie star
The movie star in question who agreed to do the narration was Johnny Depp, for all you unwashed masses who don't watch the show for some baffling reason. Dude's pretty alright in my book.

A highly entertaining review
When you said the bitch up and explodes, I assumed you were making some kind of jocular hipster hyperbole, but, no, she just up and the fuck explodes. Did they explain - no, of course they didn't, this movie makes no goddamned sense.