Word on the street is that there will be an all-new BF5 album followed by a full tour next year. I hope the street is correct!

THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME.

Dang
Y'all totally overlooked "The Day No One Needed To Know" by Moneen, an absolutely unbelievable song about Katrina and its immediate aftermath:

Love this guy!
I saw Kyle open for Patton in Cleveland last year, and I fell in love with his comedy immediately. Bought the CD that night and have turned many, many friends onto him. I even hit him up on Twitter about putting it out on vinyl (as I have a small record label), but he never got back to me about it.…

My old boss
lives in the Hollywood Hills now and goes running with Allison Janney and her Australian Cattle Dogs. (He also owns one.) The first time he ran into her, he actually couldn't remember who she was; when he asked her what she had been in, she said, "Oh, I was just on this little show for a few years, it was…

You know who'd never do this to their fans?
Dawes.

Eh.
The Jersey Shore bit made me laugh, but the actual storyline stuff fell pretty flat to me. Is it possible I outgrew Beavis & Butt-head? That makes me a sad panda.

I'm only 29 and I watched every single episode. Fantastic television.

Horseshit.
This show was goddamn brilliant. If I ever win the lottery, I will re-hire the entire cast and crew and have them film an entire season's worth of episodes just for me and anyone else with good taste.

I always loved
the Beth/Mr. James profit-sharing subplot. One of my all-time favorite NR storylines, up there with Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor, Buttafuoco and when Bill and Beth try out for the voiceover commercial.

I should also clarify that my saying The State mattered more than Mr. Show is meant to imply that the former was empirically better than the latter (although I believe that to be true); the point I'm trying to make is that it's impossible for Mr. Show to have as much widespread resonance as Rabin claims it has because…

Uh…
"To my generation, Mr. Show mattered as much as any television comedy can. We viewed it the way an earlier generation viewed the first four seasons of Saturday Night Live: as an event. This was appointment television. This was worth getting together with friends to watch."

Chris Hrasky and I…
…share the same hometown—Rockford, Illinois. (Or so Wikipedia has told me before.) I imagine we're similar in age and probably had similar musical tastes growing up, too, but considering how insular the Rockford scene was in the late '90s/early '00s, I'm amazed that I don't know the guy. Hell, I…

Hmm…
"It's a common trope in Seinfeld: the escalating story of something so manic they just couldn't film it, with constant twists and turns coming out of left field."

Well well well…
…looks like I was right! From last week's recap:

"We, The Vehicles" is without question Maritime's high-water mark; the last one was so-so, and this one doesn't really even register with me on any level. Glorified background music. It's sad, because when Davey is on (see "We, The Vehicles" and the Promise Ring's "Wood/Water"), the dude is legitimately a pop genius.

Favorite matches
Would it have been in poor form to pick a WCW match? Because in my mind, it rarely got better than the Benoit/Booker T best-of-7 series for the U.S. title.

What if they kept Redemption Island going for all the jury members? Say they all competed against one another each week, then whoever comes out on top the most gets to re-enter the game as the third person playing for $1 million at the end or something.

Factcheck on aisle 5…
Appeal To Reason didn't go platinum, it only recently went gold. I also wouldn't call that album their "breakthrough," seeing as how the two albums prior to that each went gold, as well.

iJustine
I knew this girl back when she was just Justine and was scamming dudes on MySpace into getting her free iPods through freeipod.com. She was just as annoying pre-fame as she is post-"fame," if that means anything.