"Punk being against Pink Floyd was like one half of art school having a fist fight against the other half of art school."

"albums that will always be meaningful to high schoolers as long as there are high schoolers":

Irony all around! And dark sarcasm in the classroom!

I still don't know why they don't do Permanent Records anymore. It seems like a short, easy feature any writer could knock out and it was always one of my favorites. I started reading the Onion in the mid 90's and began using their articles to teach irony in AP classes. Then I moved to the AVC when Roger Ebert got…

Annearchist—you have a Gin and Tonic English class? I want one!

"Disco is just Funk's delightfully gay brother"

Not a good movie in so many ways (inferior animation in many segments, less than appropriate music given its release date)—and yet I watched it too many times to count back when it was a staple of 'Nightflight'. I especially liked the future noir segment (with the cabbie) that I somehow saw as a companion piece to…

Speaking of Sister Carol
"Demme tends to find people who seem as if they could potentially spin off an entire movie of their own."

I went through a moment suspecting Gwen as a jealous murderer, and the one who may also have murdered the wife in the first place. But if she (or for that matter, Darren) is responsible, she's kind of bad at it—leaving the body in a campaign car and all that. These are supposed to be high level players and strategists…

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and…

The Plague has one of my all time favorite opening lines, which I was trying to find to quote but couldn't—I did find this though:

I didn't read a lot of Young Adult books when I was one, but when I was a bookseller and earning my teaching certificate I went back and dug out the ones I did like—Robert Peck's Blossom Culp series and 'Lizard Music' especially.

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"too many chapters devoted to discussing minutiae on the boat"

And still people doubt that nomenclature is destiny…?

"And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese are, many queer cups and saucers inform us."

That's not hyperbole—that's actually the plot of a Becket one act play.

"Real Fun" is the Geneva Bible with all the inflexible commentary telling you exactly how to interpret everything. Follow that with the Malleus Maleficarum and re-enact your own little Salem.

I've made a similar comment before, but as someone who'se worked in a record store and later for much longer in a bookstore, I have very mixed feelings about 'High Fidelity' (as I did for the film 'Slacker' when it came out). The first time I read it it was funny because it was just like me and my friends. The second…

'England's Dreaming'