Hmm. I wonder if Operation Ivy is to 90's Punk as Minor Threat is to 80's Punk.

The Flyin Hawaiian is right—Going into college in '90 and the soundtrack to protest of the Gulf War was 'The Mind is Terrible Thing to Taste'. Club music was Bigod 20, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, RevCo, Consolidated and all that. But it was also 808 State, Lords of Acid, Depeche Mode's 'Violator' and NIN's…

"UO will always be a footnote"

Another thing looking at the 'Today' video does is remind me of how influential videos still were at that point. That was one of the first videos I remember seeing and thinking that videos were just getting to be lazy almalgams of unrelated imagery along thematic lines (as opposed to the narratives that thrived on…

You could say that about anyone who does a basically academic critical analysis of Popular music, especially if it's about some artist you never gave much thought to. But it's like drawing a parallel between any gourmand's description of a meal and Hannibal Lector's gushing over a nice chianti—which is to say, yeah,…

I don't know about any of that—but I never listened to Black Sabbath until after Grunge came along, because I didn't grow up with Metal (or Proto Metal like Blue Oyster Cult or Atomic Rooster) as a presence in my life and hard guitar Rock for me I started with Punk. But I had a roommate in college who was a Sabbath…

"defining grunge masterpiece"?

But there are plenty of female vocalists whose voices are acquired tastes or that you just get or you don't—Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Bjork, Poly Styrene, Joni Mitchell, Regina Spektor—I think the idea of a Rock vocalist in particular allows for a certain expressive leeway.

But if you're really looking for an examination of Women in Alternative (or Underground) Rock circa 1993 you should be looking at Bikini Kill and the Riot Grrl stuff. I think that had a more lasting impact on Rock (and the later rise of Pop Punk) than the media creation that was Grunge ever did.

I'm sure this colored by proximity, but there was a period in the mid 90's where Dayton, Ohio was convinced it would be the next big scene. The Breeders were hyping it, and there was a decent and viable little scene there at the time with Brainiac, Guided By Voices, and my own favorite Pure Plastic Tree.

The Beginning of the End
I worked at a record store in high school, and was known for knowing all about the esoteric bands nobody had heard of in the days before anyone with an internet connection could know anything. This was the 80's before the Alternative broke, when the underground meant dark bands like Albini's…

For me, a crucial part of the success of 'Shawn of the Dead' is that its characters have seen Zombie movies and adapt pretty quickly. I think it's excusable in the Romero movies to reason that the characters haven't seen Romero movies or any of the films that derive from the Romero tradition since they would not exist…

Should he? Not really. Not if Shane was acting in good faith as I believe he at least thinks he was. Sure, he could have nobly protected the wife and child of his friend without rutting with her in the woods, but there's no reason to think she's not the original instigator of that. And fucking in the face of death is…

"There is a slew of zombie types out there and its all up to those who created them"

"where all the black people at? Even the zekes are white, uh grey"

Yeah, harrisonMD —human bodies that don't work.

So the guy's either not even reading what I post or he comes when he's called.

"I mean how dare these characters on a television show behave like people you've actually met."

Zombie physiology—I was under the impression that the basic Romero Zombie formulation had just the brain operating a rudimentary nervous system—which accounts for their lurching inelegance and the fact that taking out the brain is the only way to kill them. If that's the case they have no circulatory system, no…

I wasn't reacting to Park in particular, but to the question itself. 'The Player' is a meta-narrative—as opposed to being film within a film, or a film about the making of films—because the story it tells is simultaneously about story telling and influenced by its own conclusions about storytelling. I haven't seen…