Plus the openings are different.  These final first seasons have such a different feel to them.  I wondered if they were early episodes that were pulled to use at the end, like "The Cage" in Star Trek, but they were at the end of the first year production.

Those fucking sound effects.  And their reactions to watching the ball move.  It's way too cartoonish.  You could maybe do this and not go overboard, but it would probably still suck.

He would make a better Shakespearian villain.

$25,000 for gear? Are they playing electric Stradivariuses or something? Give me a tenth of that and I'll string some rubber bands around a box with a hole in it.  Mike it, buy an amp with distortion, and you're fine. 

Yeah, I don't have any big memories about seeing any big acts before something big happened; I do have a couple misses (Beck in the summer of 94, Bon Iver right before he got real big) that stung.  But one of my favorite memories is last year seeing The Album Leaf at a local theater.  Maybe 50 people there, and being…

Yep. Me too.  They came on my birthday, and I don't even remember what I did for my birthday.  It wasn't anything like seeing Clarence live for the last time. 

Right, Netflix just allows me to binge and binge and binge and if I don't see it on my recently watched list and I search the title and that's not available, like happened to me last night, then I panic and oh god what if they don't have that series anymore do I have to buy the dvds where can I get the dvds before…

Here's my observation: The two most highly regarded albums are Separation Sunday and Boys and Girls in America. The two Hold Steady albums with the most Twin Cities references are Separation Sunday and Boys and Girls in America.  So my conclusion is: If you stop putting references to things like Lowry Ave and…

Your English teacher must be awesome.

Juanito recommended a track off of Scarface's The Fix, so I went and listened to it, and there's several characteristics that you mention. There are tons of different producers, guest spots all over the place, and no skits or shout-outs, but I just enjoy Mr. Scarface Is Back more. It's him by himself, and I don't know…

Please don't encourage the trend of double-albums by rappers.  It's not a trend that ever needed to begin, and it certainly doesn't need to be revived now.  I'm sure everyone has one that defies the trend (and I do), but they are almost always bloated and in need of trimming.

I care.  I cared when it was Vanilla Ice.  That sunk my whole dream about a motocross racing, Miami Hurricane-turned Ninja Turtle rapper.

Seconded.  This has been a great discussion with tons of good nuggets on the production.

What if you´re quoting someone who does that? You´re good, then, right?

That's Marvin Nash.  Well, a mixture of drool and blood.

Yeah, it's NOT to get information.  It's amusing, to him, to torture a cop.  If I'm in that situation and someone says that to me, I need new diapers.

I think you're thinking of a different festival of films where kids bang grandmas.

Yeah, I always realized the long tracking scene, but I never caught the fact that the song was synced up to the right time at the re-entrance.

Bye bye Mr. American… uh.. Blonde.

Except some of his pronuciations I didn't understand without subtitles.  He said "Fuck jail, man" but it sounds like "channel".  I don't know, maybe anyone shot in the gut would pronounce things that way.