Oh my god, Tam Lin!  A friend of mine in ninth grade suggested I read it, and while I enjoyed it at the time, I kind of dismissed it quickly after finishing it.  Fast forward to 36-year-old me, and I find myself thinking about it all the time.  But I'd completely forgotten what the name of the book was, until seeing…

Angel Dust is brilliant, from start to finish.  And it seems to get better with each listen (which is saying a lot, as I've been listening to it for over 20 years now…).

Oooh, nice call on the Bourne Trilogy!

Ghosts of the Great Highway is so good that I find a lot of Kozelek's other stuff pales by comparison.  It's almost like it's too good for me to be able to fully enjoy his other work.

I'm glad I read this far, because I was about to toss "Gentlemen" onto the list.  That album is as good as they come.

My dad did the same thing; he was really strict about movie ratings, so I wasn't allowed to see very many contemporary films.  He tried to make up for it by bringing home tons of older movies from the video store, but I always felt like I was being unfairly banished to eternal "uncool"-ness because of it.  (Despite…

"Young Frankenstein" is one of those movies that I just have to watch all the way through when I stumble across it on TV, and every time I see it I'm surprised anew at how brilliant it is.  So yes, it's an excellent choice for this; completely flawless!

Babe is flawless and I will brook no argument on this one. 

@avclub-938603766b16954933bae247b9a4f8ac:disqus I actually love how cheesy and dated the score is for The Princess Bride.  Isn't it supposed to be cheesy and dated?  It just makes it even more perfect.

Oh man, that last episode…  I was watching it with my family on Christmas Eve, as a "funny family entertainment to distract us from wanting to open all our presents early" thing.  We had no idea what was coming, and were just blindsided by that final scene.  There was a long silence, and then, "Holy crap.  What do we…

That's awesome that everything's going so well!  It's so great when a plan comes together.  And hey — there's no guarantee that it's going to come crashing down.  I did some big life changes, with the moving and the career changing and whatnot, ten years ago and have been consistently happy since.  I hope the same…

What a terrible standing-in-line experience!  What kind of douchebag thinks standing 20 feet away from a line counts as being in a line, and then refuses to accept "oh, sorry, go ahead of me" apologies?  I'm outraged on your behalf!  Retroactively!

What the hell?  Why would someone run a meeting like this??  Your office should totally bring in the consultants my office had a few years ago, who were there to teach us all how to foster an environment of productive meetings.  The takeaway message, after who knows how many thousands of dollars were spent on gaining…

That stuff is so good.

Another full-albums person here.  I also love making playlists, tailored to the seasons or specific moods.  The whole "unexpectedly great combination" that @Scrawler2:disqus likes about shuffle is something I love discovering while making playlists.  Or rather, while crafting playlists.  I mean, constructing the…

@avclub-108f4510f4f8b285146ac0d227562705:disqus It doesn't get, like, Brie gooey.  But if you let it go long enough, it does go beyond just being soft.  Whatever the adjective is for "between 'soft' and 'gooey'".

It was like the greatest revelation ever when a friend mentioned baked feta to me.  It's really nice to dress it up, too — add sun-dried tomatoes, sliced shallots, fresh herbs, and so on.  Just tightly cover it while it's baking, let it go long enough that it gets really gooey but also a little browned, and…

Are we sharing unbearable moments here?  Because mine was when I was in line at the Chinese Consulate in New York yesterday, waiting to drop off my boss's visa application.  The guy in front of me was feeling very chatty, and being polite and in a good mood, I wasn't being unfriendly to him in return.  Then, once I…

I remember hitting that same "I should be a writer when I grow up.  I wish I could be writing instead of doing this shitty job" wall, too.  I ended up starting a blog and stumbling into being a medium-sized fish in my blog subject's small (at the time) pond.  After a couple of years of writing for hours and hours…

Demand enormous stacks of presents from your friends and loved ones!  That's what we do in my household, and it seems to work.  (That, and ice cream cake.)