Cornell has a better and more interesting voice. Rose writes better songs.

That's weird a weird thing for him to say. In his recent interview with Marc Maron, Chris Cornell talks a lot about how they weren't quite metal, but they could (and did) tour with metal bands just as easily as they could with bands that were more prog or more alternative. And in terms of influences he talks about…

In his defense, if you listen to the recent Marc Maron interview with Cornell, even Cornell will say that he is not a great lyricist.

That clip is not the best representation. When there's more action on the screen, it actually works pretty well. I still prefer the old style, but the new style wasn't as jarring as I thought it'd be. What I found more jarring were some of the weird character beats in the special - they had the girls throw a…

Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage", though I can't say I have a huge knowledge base of concept albums to draw from. I also have a soft spot for both Queensryche's "Operation: Mindcrime" and Dream Theater's "Scenes from a Memory", both of which I discovered late, through a friend.

Really? I also finally saw Godzilla over the weekend, and while I liked the monster design and monster fighting, I found everything else about the movie to be pretty boring.

Welcome back, and good timing. I'm currently churning through Farscape for the second time, this time with my wife. We're getting close to wrapping up the third season so I'm looking forward to having the reviews back.
About the credits music - it isn't the narration that bugs me about the change, it's the…

Funny, I also just started reading Moby Dick for the first time, on a whim, and my reaction to the first third is in line with what Sonia wrote here. I'm finding the middle third a bit less flowing - lots of digressions to talk about whales - but whenever the plot is moving forward I'm still enjoying it quite a bit.

One of mine, too! Let's be friends. This album played on repeat extensively for me in 1994 as I started college and again in 98 as I started work, away from everyone I knew. No Excuses in particular, with the lyric of "And if we change well I love you anyway" got me through dozens of lonely moments. It's a song I…

Nicholas Angel and Danny Butterman from Hot Fuzz.
"I think you would have made a great muppet"

I unabashedly, unironically love this song, and this is a pretty good cover of it.

I love Last Crusade. It was the first of the series that I was able to see in the theater, and there's very little of it that doesn't hold up for me when re-watching it years later.
There's so much I didn't like about Crystal Skull as a movie, much less as an Indiana Jones movie. It was fun to see Indy on the screen…

As a matter of fact, it is.

"…a few other clichéd tune montages (Getting the gym ready for the big dance! Getting the girls ready for the big dance!) will hype up the 6-year-olds but will leave their parents wondering why they have to watch some kids musically sweep up a gym yet again."

Broadchurch!  Holy crap, thank you for the recommendation, that is just outstanding drama.  Well-acted, compelling plot, beautifully shot, heartbreaking.  Never would have checked that out if it weren't for this column.

Yes, yes he is.  It took seeing them live for me to realize that, though.

I was 7 in 1983 and I did see the premiere of Thriller.  I can't remember all the details but I am fairly certain my parents had friends over to watch it.

Amen to that.  This was one of my favorite books as a kid, probably right around the same age that my son is now (he's 9, I would have been 7 when this book came out but probably didn't read it until I was 10-11).  I didn't relate to the specific struggles of Leigh but responded strongly to his emotional state, and…

Amen.  The 1-2 punch of this followed by State Hospital is just killer.

Mine is from Mr. Plow