Saaaiiilll-ing… takes me awaaaayyyyy…..

Living in the underestimated, yet still impoverished town of Rockford, IL, it would be sacrilege not to choose a song from Cheap Trick to represent my state, let alone my home town.  That being said, I'd still pick Something Corporate's "I Woke Up in a Car" as a song that represents this state well.  Name-checking…

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So truly, truly epic.

Everything I ever learned about Marvin Gaye I learned from John Cusack.  (Said nobody ever)

Sonya,  Thanks for highlighting that Jimmy Eat World song.  As a 39 year old, I was going through a particularly nasty separation from a long-standing relationship and stuck in the mud of depression when I first stumbled on that song.  After all too much Evanesence and dark spaces, hearing that song spurred me to get…

"That Zooey Deschanel is so Adorkable…"

Puzzled as to the absence of The Shawshank Redemption.  Second only in importance to Pulp Fiction in the year it was released, (Forrest who?), the movie that made Frank Darabont a household name and that ensured that whenever someone posts a picture of Morgan Freeman with a caption, you can hear his voice speak it in…

Puzzled as to the absence of The Shawshank Redemption.  Second only in importance to Pulp Fiction in the year it was released, (Forrest who?), the movie that made Frank Darabont a household name and that ensured that whenever someone posts a picture of Morgan Freeman with a caption, you can hear his voice speak it in…

I believe the rock bland you're referring to is the ridiculously titled "Blessid Union of Souls" [sic] whose lyrics encourage listeners to punch babies directly in the face.

I believe the rock bland you're referring to is the ridiculously titled "Blessid Union of Souls" [sic] whose lyrics encourage listeners to punch babies directly in the face.

Idiocracy - a Prequel to Futurama?  Discuss.

Dane Cook, Pay Per View, Twenty Minutes!

Melinda and Melinda
I really must say that, though the movie is probably among Woody's lesser-known films, I really enjoyed Shawn's character in Melinda and Melinda. The conceit of the two writers telling a story of a fictitious character over dinner sounds like something my friends and I may have done back in…

Anytime anyone mentions Rutger Hauer, I am reminded of the classically horrible movie "Flesh + Blood" featuring a very young and very frequently naked Jennifer Jason Leigh.