If I have to give up my avclub name, I'm out. I've been with this site since forever. Back in the days of Keith Phipps (who killed me in his posts and Wordswithfriends) , Noel Murray (who killed me with his X-Files reviews), Todd VanDerWerff (who is killing me now on Vox) and Lexicon Devil and ZOMBIEMOTHERFUCKER (who…

See also Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks who didn't let go of WW2 for decades. Or 'The Man in High Castle.' Or the 6,842,534 pieces of entertainment about WW2 that's out there right now. It's the war we don't ever stop talking about . . .

Also 'Rick and Morty' and 'Bojack Horseman'

Nirvana: Unplugged will always be the first album that was an album to me — as in, not something I skipped over or cherry picked — but something I listened to and absorbed. It's also the album that got me into the blues — strictly because of 'Where did you sleep last night?'

It's not that. It's — celebarchy*. It's how elections are now popularity contests. And how we've given up the notion that democracy** is about the good, the gifted, the serving and instead replaced it with 'well they had that thing one time'.

It's not worse than that.

Whaaaaa???

GI Jane!

Fifth Element and Gattaca would be on my list.

Not for nothing, after 'The Suitcase' (still, in my mind, the best episode of 'Mad Men' ever), I'd be totally down for a meta take on this.

One of my favorite things in 'Zombieland' is how he corrects his film history by openly addressing Garfield.

The end scene or him sitting with clothes-pins on his suit jacket in 'Lost in Translation' (or the orange camouflage shirt), the pool scene with scotch in 'Rushmore,' Bunny in 'Ed Wood' and Lumpy in 'Scrooged' — let's not forget the dramatic roles.

Or, midway through, he takes over the piano and plays it perfectly.

How was this not high school though? I mean, he made the awkwardness real because it was.

'Per Aspera ad Astra' is on the statute that commemorates the first mission to the moon. It means 'through adversity to the stars' (thanks Bruce Willis/Armageddon).

Wait a second here —- what's the difference between per ardua ad astra and per aspera ad astra?

It's not strange that I just got ridiculously nostalgic over the term laptop guns, right? But really . . . laptop guns.

My father was a mechanical engineer who worked for one of the big tech companies most of his life. He was always adamant about giving me, his oldest daughter, a strong knowledge of both computer hardware and software. He knew that was the way the world was going (this was back in the 90's). I had to learn DOS, Linux,…

There's a quote out there somewhere from PTA about porn, about how he obsessively watched it growing up and about how he noticed the difference in production values from the 70's to 80's. It ends with him saying that fact of it fascinated him.

While on the topic of "acoustic" Jack White, The KCRW acoustic show for 'The White Stripes' back in the day is one of my favorites. I still have the mp3's. I listen to their cover of 'Folk Singer' all the time.