I tried to articulate this to my ladyfriend last week- sometime in my early twenties, I pretty much gave up on religion, and had a few years where I felt adrift, and overwhelmed by the prospect of a universe with no guiding consciousness. I think more than anything it was the scope and immensity and sheer power,…

David Bowie - "Dirty Boys"
The Clash - "Tommy Gun"
Dropkick Murphys - "Road of the Righteous"
Bruce Springsteen - "4th of July, Asbury Park"*
The Pogues - "Amadie"

I'M HE'S FINISHED

There's a great line in Ebert's review, about how the director has learned that other people sometimes tilt their cameras, but he hasn't learned why yet.

I have seen an embarrassing number of these, but I will maintain Battlefield Earth is a top-ten Bad Movie. A lousy bad movie tries to get in on the joke, which usually winds up feeling lazy. A great bad movie has to keep a straight face, which Battlefield Earth manages to do while being more ridiculous than 90% of…

He sympathizes with Justin Bieber, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to accept him.

Plaintiff in the first case was Simon Tam, the doctor from Firefly

They do not discuss it with outsiders.

Could they at least get someone to pretend to be Jonathan Frakes sharing salacious backstage gossip, or, failing that, could they get Jonathan Frakes sharing salacious backstage gossip?

As a craven hypocrite, I find the concept of "after shows" to be stupid and worthless, but welcome the idea of an AV Club capsule / review where I can discuss the episodes.

"Books, books, magic, books. You boys are stupid."

They can't very well show him flexing his biceps and asking if we "have tickets to the gun show", now can they?

I'm going to rule no, on the basis that it is about cities as a general concept rather than about a specific city. Same judgement applies to Joe Walsh's "In the City", and to The Jam's debut single, which was also called "In the City".

While that is the chorus, I believe the title is the tourism slogan, "One Great City!" I guess they have Jets again, so they'll have to go back and update it.

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - "Big Sister's Clothes"
Vampire Weekend - "Worship You"
The Replacements - "Hold My Life"
Frank Black - "Thalassocracy"
Joe Strumer & the Mescaleros - "At the Border, Guy"

I'm sorry for your loss. It's always bittersweet going through old stuff like that- it's painful, but it's also fun to see pictures of your folks in their younger days. That's a great find. While Peyton and Eli may be perfectly good at throwing footballs, I don't think anyone ever accused them of being "cool"- it's…

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Bruce Springsteen - "Atlantic City"
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - "Baltimore"
The Gadjits - "Cleveland, OH"
X - "Los Angeles"
Rancid -"Detroit"
The Hold Steady - "Sequestered In Memphis"
The Clash - "London Calling"

But if I style my pompadour so that it makes me 6'8", it's worth the extra weight in hair!

I rarely went to the principal's office in grade school, but as near as I could determine when I was in there, at least half our tuition was going to fund Sr. Rose's Precious Moments habit.

Not nearly as effective at transmitting national secrets to foreign powers.