Me too! I offer you a Special Low Frequency high five, followed by a distant cymbal crash twenty minutes later.

Indeed. I think it's worth making the distinction that just because something doesn't challenge my personal tastes or patience doesn't necessarily mean it's mainstream. For example I can listen to the most squawky of meanderings of bands like Sonic Youth or Archers of Loaf, and I don't find that challenging because…

I had a similar epiphany recently, realizing that I no longer want to be "challenged" by art, whether it's TV, movies, music, or books, I'm not looking for anything to test my boundaries anymore. Likewise, I think I've lost the ability for anything to grow on me, if I don't like it in the first five-seconds than I…

I am right there with you. For me Beyonce is serving as the prime example of "shit I do not understand"….the hype train is incredible, and then I go listen to the music and it's as flat and uninteresting as anything could be, and the content/lyrics are being hailed as empowering and inspirational, but she's still…

I don't get this dude. Clearly many, many folks are able to hear something special that definitely separates him from the pile of similarly styled modern singer/songwriters, but I'm not hearing it. As I become a crusty old cynical relic it seems like the shit that has passed me by is emotional balladry like this, and…

Yes, I can hear you Clem Fandango!

Now, I don't know how you feel about this shrimp, but if you'll eat it, you never have to prove your courage in any other way.

Just last weekend my drum teacher was talking about how he was going to sell his vintage reel-to-reel tape machine because his VCR works just as well for creating sound effects, so there's at least one dude in Portland working on your wavelength.

How about King Buzzo?

I'm a cynical old bastard, but finding out the kid sang in Les Mis on Broadway actually makes the karaoke party performance kind of worthless and sad. Professional actor sings from his professional repertoire of '80s show-tunes to a completely silent children's party. Whee? The complete lack of 'fun' in that video is…

I guess credit to Johnny Depp and his agent for squeezing 53 fucking million dollars out of Mortdecai & Tim Burton's Wet Fart the 5th.

Hey! Lookit George. He's giving it to T-Bone!

The PeePee Advisory Board has issued a very serious warning regarding their Coca Cola supply.

I don't mean it as a dismissal of What's Opera, Doc, which is a wonderful cartoon, but mention of it always serves to remind me of Rabbit of Seville, which is MY favorite opera-based rabbit cartoon. The wall-eyed look on Bugs' face (at 3:27), as the strings swell and he slowly climbs on top of a passed-out Elmer…

What a funky lady. Oh, she like it, like it, like it.

Consider that at one point Steven Seagal's former producer was demanding he pay the Gambino crime family $150,000 every time he made a movie. Now, he seemingly makes all his movies exclusively in Eastern Europe. My math suggests that he probably gets 'paid' entirely in forgiveness of debts, and sleeps in a locked and…

So he got up and threw his bowling ball in the sink.

Digging through my mp3s, I'm thinking All The Nations Airports by Archers of Loaf was probably the most important to me at the time and also one that still holds up the best.

Who the fuck is Bonney Bear?

Yes, in fact I could, and do, which is why I wrote speculatively. Perhaps you can ____ yourself?