She's Caucasian Penelope Cruz. Facial features that should be on a slightly bigger face. Slightly bird-like. Not necessarily a negative.

@ urgh - I'm curious to know what you mean by "they don't do enough with it." Do you mean they don't use enough of it, or that they don't make it enough of their own sound? What appeals to me about their use of all that stuff is that they strip it down to show that it's just unpretentious pop music like any other -…

A lyric that makes a reference unknown to most people does not automatically mean that the band thinks it's better than most people. Would it be better if he was in December drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon? VW sings about horchata, Bustah Rhymes raps about Courvoisier, Insane Clown Posse yells about Faygo - you do what…

Give us some credit - Florida is also the home of Backstreet Boys and Matchbox Twenty.

One strike, two strikes, swing away
Yes, getting behind in the count rocks.

And this is my wife…
Dinner? Denim? I don't want to be the guy that picks on accents, but he's not even in the ballpark.

Meryl Streep
How old will she have to be before they decide to give her another award? Her last win was for what, Kramer vs. Kramer? They'll nominate her for absolutely anything, but that's it.

And after dragging us all through that verbal fellatio, the presenters for Best Actor/Actress proceeded to remind us, once again, who was nominated for the awards. Like 5 seconds later. I guess the producers assumed that the young people they were trying to court this year would have very low attention spans.

Thanks, DeadSea. I was fast running out of ways to waste time at work in a remotely intelligent fashion - that article carried me straight through quitting time.

Right on! I'm sure most people here were hardly even aware of exotica as a genre. It's almost as if Leonard is helping us find an entry point to a rather unknown genre that is nevertheless adored by a limited group of people. Being a fan of alliteration, you might even call it a gat-… oh, I see what's happening here.