Terse, by Dennis Farina.

Far from cool, but…
Mine is "Title And Registration" by Death Cab For Cutie.

Yeah. A guy in my band suggested we cover "Ceremony" a few weeks ago. I shut that down pretty quickly. I'm not going to ruin it for myself or for anybody else.

Wilt Chamberlain.

Dude, that's one-and-a-half monstrosities you're creating there…

Wait. Goya is real? I thought that was just some shit that bumblebee man made up.

Yeah. I was just kidding. I used to actually get in trouble for underbilling for things when it took me a little longer than I thought it should.

What do you guys bill your time to while you're reading the AV Club?

Same here. I like everything I've heard so far. Of course, Neko could sing the phone book to me and I would still love it. That voice. Oh, that voice.

Agreed. That was a fantastic interview.

What the hell was NASCAR doing on TV at a laundromat in Tasmania?

There's one guy in Sydney who rides (drives?) one to work. I see him every now and then rolling through Hyde Park in his suit.

Set Lists
The first (and only) time I have seen The Shins was at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney in 2007. I had flown down from Brisbane with my girlfriend for the show. Upon arriving at the Enmore (and having not been before) we discovered that as we'd bought tickets separately we were in different sections of the hall.…

Well Tom, I come for the articles, but I stay for the comments. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Kim Wilde - Kids In America - 5 Stars

Actually Fats, I'm at work. It's Monday morning here…

I didn't expect any Bright Eyes songs when I saw them, but I was secretly hoping for one. Then, after a bunch of people had been screaming out for "Bowl Of Oranges" all night, he finally said "Ok, this next one is called Bowl Of Oranges" and then proceeded to play something entirely different. Needless to say, he…

The reason I asked is precisely what's been said a couple of times above. In New South Wales, when I was finishing high school the english (which was effectively literature) course requirements were that we learned:

In the US…
who determines what's in the syllabus? Presumably you have state education departments.

Lobster stuffed with tacos?