There's a lot of gatekeeping in the craft beer world and a lot of it centers on IPA's. For many, you either love a double IPA with more bitterness than a 35-year-old incel, or you drink Bud Light exclusively. I love craft beer but I stay away from most IPA's, which I find very one-note and boring.

The next point after that one is pining for Weird Al's band to do a club and small venue tour where they only play his originals, no costume changes or multimedia, just music.

I always preferred Grant's songs, but when it comes down to it I'd be happy even if he managed to get his shit together enough to do a proper tour. Bob's fit, sober and can still tear the roof off a venue; Grant's a disheveled mess who looks from recent YouTube videos like he's already got one foot in the grave.

The sight gag of the law firm being called Babip, Pecota, Vorp and Eckstein made my FJM-missing heart squeal with glee.

Guadalcanal Diary's first three albums are available remastered on CD and they're all better than Flip-Flop, which was a desperate last grasp for commercial stardom by a band out of ideas.

Nearly 400 comments and no one has mentioned the entire body of work of the Housemartins yet?

Nearly 400 comments and no one has mentioned the entire body of work of the Housemartins yet?

"Well, is this the tug that's supposed to take us out to the Queen Catherine?"

The book doesn't skip them entirely, but two or three pages isn't really enough to do them justice. LOTL sold out the Ontario Place Forum in their heyday… 8,000 people to see a local indie band.

Any Canadian indie compilation without the Lowest of the Low isn't worth it. Unforgivable omission.

Oh God, yes. I've seen every BP nominee prior to the Oscars for at least a decade. This year I've only seen The Artist, Moneyball, Hugo and The Help, and I don't honestly care if I see any of the others unless one of them happens to win. This year's films seem like such a festering vat of mediocrity compared with…

Rik Mayall was in a horrific accident involving falling off a quad bike while not wearing a helmet in the mid-90's and nearly died, so that put a stop to his career for a while. He was supposed to play Peeves in the Harry Potter movies but his part was cut for time.

Not many drummers also contribute other instruments (most of the piano on REM albums was Bill), and backing vocals, and also have the writing chops to pen songs like "Perfect Circle", "Driver 8" or "Can't Get There From Here".

I'm identifying myself as Canadian here, but goddamn if the Lowest of
the Low shouldn't have been the biggest band in the world in the early
90's. They were the most played artist on Toronto's modern rock station
in 1993 and played to crowds of thousands in Toronto and Buffalo, but
barely made a ripple outside that…

1982. I remember the Berlin Wall coming down and Reagan being President.

Movie
The movie's plot was actually more "The Far Side of the World" than "Master and Commander", with a little creative re-writing thrown in (e.g. in the book version, the privateer was American, versus the movie's French). I still thought they did a bang-up job, though.

It was available in the rest of Ontario as well.

This is my favourite show
I was a fan of Tom's back in the cable access days, when the show was less gross-out and more a few stoners with a camera and complete creative control. If you can find the original Canadian DVD's, they're worth watching, and way funnier than anything he did on MTV which was more about shock…

Holy Roman Emperor
"honk honk, to an imaginary 9-year-old named after the best Holy Roman Emperor ever. "

Hall of FAIL
Did they finally run out of long-forgotten 50's and 60's doo-wop, pop and girl groups to induct? Wake me when they finally put Kraftwerk in.