The song is actually called "Lipstick". It's pretty great, though.

Um, you clearly have never heard of AKB48, then. This video features only a fraction of their members, and they have sister groups in cities all over Asia, as well.

Also Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader. This is one of the more comprehensive books about the Kim regime around

"Roly Poly" is a legendary song.

I don't know why the author listed "Go Away" and "I Don't Care" as being some of their best singles. They're totally banal-sounding to my ears. "I Love You" and "I Hate You" are so much better, and the videos are cooler, as well.

I always thought her nickname should be Princess Gangbang, but HP works, too.

Sources vary on his actual number of children, and who their mothers were. Regardless, the Great Heathen Army that invaded England was led by his sons Ivar, Halfdan, and Ubbe. Bjorn led a massive raid into the Mediterranean, including a really bad-ass attack on Pisa where he gets the bishop to believe he's died, had a…

For the uninitiated

Well, flatten my funnel!

That character seems to be a conflation of several saints, actually. Saint Swithun (that's definitely his name. The fat bishop in the sauna uses it) was bishop of Winchester in the 800s, but he wasn't martyred, he just died. Saint Edmund was martyred during the Great Heathen Invasion in the same manner as the guy in…

It's been forever since I saw this movie, but to me it's an example of a movie where the main actor just can't quite pull their weight. Steve Buscemi and Scarlett Johansson fucking kill it in this movie, but they're supporting roles under Thora Birch, who's just adequate. It's the workhorse pitcher and great outfield…

Assuming that he's running away with in Final Jeopardy, his response should be

I'll submit When the Last Sword is Drawn. It's definitely not in the same category as 13 Assassins, as it's just a straight-up samurai genre piece, but it's quite good, and the ending had me crying like a baby.

People are going to tell you Audition and Ichi the Killer are the essentials, and yeah, they're great (especially Audition) but my favorite Miike by far is The Happiness of the Katakuris. I randomly saw this movie on IFC one night, then could never find it again until I actually lived in Japan. The trailer doesn't do…

SMAP also doesn't need your reunion-tour-pity-money. They're basically all active variety show talents or actors, even if they are mostly terrible. Katori Shingo is famous for being not only a colossal dickhead, but the guy who stank up the taiga drama about the Shinsengumi.

It's totally tacked on, but I'm sorta OK with that. If that is how the producer meeting went down, I can see where they're coming from. Without a bit of romance to even things out, I think Office Space would have tipped over into being just a bit TOO weird.

At first I got my New York bridges messed up, and thought that Robert Moses had built the Brooklyn Bridge (it was the Triborough Bridge). I was totally getting excited about the prospect of a film adaptation of The Power Broker a book featuring 1200 pages of excruciating detail about the politics of municipal bonds…

I haven't seen this yet, but I'm disappointed in the mediocre review, mainly because I was hoping for a pirate version of Vikings. That show had a very interesting central character in Ragnar, and there are many historical pirates whose adventures could have given us a good five or six seasons of drama. Are you…

Indeed. It actually disturbs me a great deal the degree to which Americans and others on the winning side of World War II consider their victory to be the result of their inherent moral and by implication genetic superiority. The horrors inflicted by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were startling in their scale, but…

OK I had to go and double- and triple-check that, because I had trouble believing it when I read the cast listing. He's a brilliant director, but I never knew he had any acting chops. Also, his sensibilities are a bit…different…from those of Miyazaki.