indie softrock
makes me yaaaaaaaawn.

Agreed on "Please Please Me". I was originally just trying to say that the Beatles are a bit more fey and otherworldly and the Stones are more earthy - in no way suggesting that the Beatles are the blander of the two.

Beatles: Life is Beautiful

How about Beatles as Shakespeare and Stones as Hemingway? Both masters of Western lit (rock), except that one is more sublime and inexplicable, and the other is a little more clearly Earthbound. (I'm trying to think of the British equivalent of Hemingway, but since the Stones are so fixated on American roots music,…

the money-go-round
Why isn't "Strangers" played at more weddings?

Waiting room for Jury Duty
was the first time I'd seen a full episode of this. I was surprised at how trashy it wasn't.

I even got my garthok narfled, if y'all can dig that. So then I had to be all "get ready, my little pleasure-bot, cuz I'm about to nuke that site from orbit!!!"

I've experienced that during science fiction movies for the most part, which, apparently, some girls find boring. Then things sort of degenerate into what I imagine nerd erotica to be like…

I read about this in Premier magazine…
Terrific film, and a much better "date" movie than "Apocolypse Now", or "Date Movie"

Various Vaughn Vehicles
Would "The Cell" be eligible for MYOF? I thought that movie actually got some respect for art direction, though I have no idea if it made any $$$ or not.

at AI
It was the best of times, it was the …. blurst of times?

once, twice, three times Shilelagh
Not a terrible film, but I didn't fall in love all over again with Once! as many people told me I would. At least the scenes portraying the genesis of some of the songs didn't even approach the awkward unbelievability of that awful scene in Ray, when they're writing/acting out Hit…

"Today's Special"
Nickolodeon sure treated kids like a bunch of goddamned babies when I was growing up. Maybe instead of all this they could just have some kind of girl Paddington bear get knocked up by the fake security guard from Today's Special, and have Mr. Wizard come on to explain the mechanics and tubing,…