At my high school the intersection of soccer and skateboarding was initially the Beastie Boys demo. Kids who liked both punk and rap were into them before Licenced to Ill and I remember being a little shocked when regular jocks embraced them, but only for about a minute. I think that was a big part of them taking a…

One thing this album has going for it is there's a lot more stuff you can put in a DJ set, so my love it was revived by countless mixtapes. I probably really love it more for the 100 memorable cuts and drops than the actual sequence of songs. The 90s stuff holds up in a different way but it's not as iconic. Also, they…

This is still my favorite of their albums. Or rather I guess it is again, Paul's Boutique was for a long time but I listen to this much more often nowadays. I had been a fan for a couple years before this came out but didn't actually buy the album, I taped it from a friend, and skipped Fight for Your Right, and I'd…

As much as I liked the S.F. Amoeba I always enjoyed going to Berkeley before they opened, the circuit was always Mod Lang, then Rasputin's, that hip-hop store around the corner and then hours in Amoeba. I think I went to Chez Panisse once when my mom was in town but never found another reason to visit Berkeley.

Will you concede that it's marginally better from one viewing angle and dramatically worse from all others?

First that comes to mind is Rammstein's Mein Herz Brennt at the end of Lilja 4-Ever although I'm not sure I've heard it in any other context. Packs a punch there though.

I disagree, The Hater was the best feature the AV Club ever had and O'Neal is pretty much the only person on the internet who actually makes snark funny on a regular basis. This feature should be good in theory but I do think there's ample evidence that it doesn't come off most of the time. This one is better because…

I really liked What's Luv? but he still led off by saying he wouldn't go down on the chick, in 2002. Dude knew how to stay on brand, although now that he's just Stocky Joe I wonder if he's come off the weird romantic misogynist thing.

It's like the US version with less charm and more money.

The best thing about Clarkson was his infectious enthusiasm when he was doing test drives. Those were always a lot of fun. Eventually I was pretty sick of all three of those guys, they're smug dicks and their shtick had gotten pretty stale. Still the formula worked and will be very hard to replace. I never heard of…

I've watched most of those and some are really good but most of the time they just pick some strings or some other neutral background noise and add it to a beat they made with their own collection of drums. It doesn't seem like the selection of records has any meaningful effect on the final product. Also it's…

I'm gonna make an old-person comment. I just saw the posters for this in the subway for the first time the other day. They're just that updated version of the logo, which I don't love, but it made me smile because my first experience of the original was seeing the exact same posters in the subway and immediately…

I saw them that year with Motorhead and Overkill. It was a theater so no real fan anxiety but it was pretty amazing how they were able to top Motorhead.

You must really hate someone if you're not glad that they got off that sinking ship.

The main thing I remember from that was Jac Mac & Rad Boy Go!, which I guess they must have shown a lot. I know there were other weird cartoons from people who probably went on to do other stuff but I can't remember any of them.

The weird thing is that LaserDisc was also analog.

Does the theme from Repo Man show up on any of those comps? I just need that, a decent version of I've Got a Right and Five Foot One and I'm good.

She was one of the best things on Big Love too, she was killing it in 2009. Mad Men, Big Love and House, pretty low-key since then though.

They really fucked with the Wongs on this interview.

Not the darker part, I just think scifi is bullshit for morons and that Amy Acker is the worst performer in any field of show business. Seriously, great show right up to the moment that character showed up, instant garbage thereafter.