Grandma van Houten vs. Vaclav, tough call! Probably my top two episodes
In Bart Sells His Soul, it was Grandma Van Houten that delivered the Simpson's quote my wife and I use the most often, that being "A caller at this hour? You dial nine-one, then when I say so, dial one again."
But in Mr. Plow, you get Vaclav…

"Blind Lemon Simpson"
"Blind Strawberry Alarm Clock Simpson"
I can't remember the rest.

Yep. All it usually takes to have someone acknowledge Prince's awesomeness as a guitar player is to see him play something live. A lot of his brilliance as a player gets lost on his albums, among all of the OTHER things that he is great at…

I would love to see GWAR cover Parliament's "Flashlight".

Nick Drake - Cello Song

Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom

Aimee Mann: Wise Up (or anything else she did for Magnolia)

Bruce Hornsby: The Way It Is

At my in-laws in Iowa for a week, not much access to pop culture, but…

I've also mostly been outside of super hero comics (reading Saga, Locke & Key up to its conclusion, Trees, Peter Panzerfaust, and a few others here and there). But I wanted to catch up on some of the last few years of Marvel so I am trying a one-month Marvel Unlimited subscription over the holidays, and reading both…

Live is another band that has a really talented drummer / rhythm section. Throwing Copper is a good album across the board, and I love the song "T.B.D." even if I have no idea what it is supposed to be about. However the pretentiousness of everything they did post-Throwing Copper (and even some of the stuff they did…

"It stokes great memories even if I don't really dig the music in a vacuum"

He's a ridiculously skilled drummer, and while I mostly owned this album due to peer pressure and haven't listened to it in a long time, it's follow-up Crash is one that I still occasionally go back to and listen to just for the drums. You have to come to terms with Dave's vocals in order to do it, though.

Wrapped up Season 2 of Orphan Black on Friday. Love that show. As it expands its scope it threatens to fall apart but the center performances are still amazing and keep me coming back.
Saturday, Bought a few new blu-rays at the newly rebooted, non-profit Scarecrow Video in Seattle, and had planned to watch one of…

I finished my senior year in high school and started college in 1994, so it was a big year. It is fun to see a couple of these that I actually did. I saw that TMBG tour, and I saw Pulp Fiction 5 times in the theater, including on one of my earliest dates with my now wife (15 years yesterday).

44%, I also had trouble typing. Some of the clips (e.g. "Shoop") I didn't even hear until I knew to listen for them.
Yet I feel successful in that I correctly identified all but two of the bands that I know I owned CDs for in '94 (my high school graduation year).

This two-parter is my favorite thing in Farscape, and the moment that Crais tells Talyn to starburst is my favorite moment in it. My wife and I have been watching the series (her for the first time, me for the second) and we just wrapped up season 4. But all through seasons 1-3 I just could not wait for the moment…

We've decided to play our way through our game closet, and started that this weekend with Escape: The Curse of the Temple, Forbidden Island, Catan Junior, and Jaipur. We're rating them as we go with the intent of getting rid of games we've outgrown or no longer like.
I've been reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, I was…

Love the reviews. I'm rewatching the show for the first time since it aired. I bought the Blu-ray set at some ridiculous price, and convinced my wife to watch the show with me this time. So while the show is new for her, it is a repeat for me, and your reviews help me to spot things that I didn't see the first time…

It kinda depends on when Meth Lab was in middle school as to how "out there" getting into Radiohead would be. I got hooked on them with "The Bends", which came out in, what, 94/95? Which would have been my freshman year in college, when every goddamn dorm room and frat house was spewing Dave Matthews Band. It…