I might be CD only. I can't quite remember the album, but I do remember owning a CD in the 90s where there was a hidden track in which you had to start the first song and then manually rewind the CD. I'm not sure how you would accomplish this in mp3 form.

The show certainly looks nice (David Fincher really made sure of that). And Kevin Spacey's performance is a lot of fun. It's entertaining, if not essential viewing. Plus, I want to see Spacey's character and Tusk go head to head.

For me Berlin is one of those albums that really grows on you, which often end up being some of my favorites. It doesn't have the immediate hooks of Transformer, but after a number of listens you can really get lost in it.

I'm really sad about Lou Reed's passing. I'll try to make the most of it by adding even more Lou Reed albums to my collection. (The man had an intimidating discography).

You're right that the show's ensemble is both a strength and a weakness. But I wonder if the problem is that the show, especially early on, was using the anti-hero formula from shows like The Sopranos, even as that formula was starting to wear itself out. Nucky is a fun character, but not nearly as complex as…

This review is one of many discussing why Boardwalk Empire just doesn't reach the heights of The Sopranos and The Wire. I agree that it's not nearly as thematically complex as those two shows, and if you're looking for something that "transcends the genre," then don't look to Boardwalk Empire.

I can't speak to the live shows, but Let's Go Eat the Factory, Class Clown Spots a UFO, and Bears for Lunch are three of the best Guided by Voices albums since Under the Bushes Under the Stars (English Little League was a little disappointing). I don't think that's just happenstance. Bob may not like to hear it, but…

That attitude sticks in my craw as well. It's not like teachers aren't the very backbone of our democracy or anything. What's an educated populace really good for, anyway?

I'm not Lipton's biggest fan or anything, but the guy has made a steady living off of being an actor. Sure, he's not Brad Pitt and a lot of the work he's known for is more "acting related" than actual acting. But acting is a pretty brutal profession. People get strung along and then chewed up and spit out by the…

I think you're underselling Big Boss. A couple of the action set pieces are on par with his later stuff, and the story of a corrupt company exploiting its workers and skirting the law seems oddly relevant again.

Funny, I always thought The Walking Dead's politics veered towards the right. It presents the apocalypse as a libertarian playground where only the strong will survive (we never really identify with the characters who die, just the ones who survive). There's no government, so you need guns and strong cowboy…

The show is mediocre, but the fact that last season's episodes show up on Netflix every year around Halloween means that I'll probably keep on watching.  But I'll probably always be one year behind.

I love that the only time Harry Dean Stanton shows the slightest sing of interest or emotion is when talking about a scene they cut from The Avengers.  He's right, too.  That scene shouldn't have been cut, if only because it would have given us more Harry Dean Stanton.

This just sounded like an incredibly fun interview to conduct.  It must have been a blast to listen to Hiddleston spout out snippets of Shakespeare from memory.  Great read.

I always thought you could construct an interesting TV show that follows Bruce Wayne around the world as he's training to become Batman, kind of like The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, but better (hopefully).

When someone is going through Gale's notebook there's a clear Ron Paul for President sticker, so I'm pretty sure the show can be read as a critique of libertarians.

It turns out that we, the viewers, were in purgatory the entire time were were watching Dexter.

Is Levar Burton some sort of vampire that can walk during  the day (like if Blade were really into helping children develop a love of reading).  The man has not aged a day since the late 80s.

I do know this: no matter what, the Disney Star Wars films will not live up to the impossibly great film fans have built up in their head over the preceding years, and they are sure to be disappointed.  There will even be some factions that will claim that the new Disney films are worse than the prequels, no matter…

I can't wait for these movies to come out, and watch the pandemonium that happens when they're so terrible they make George Lucas's horrible prequels look like the work of Stanley Kubrik.