I think She Said She Said is both my favorite Ringo drumming AND my favorite "deep" Beatles cut.

I also agree. I didn't have any real problems with it (except for the weird uncharacteristic romance), but it didn't really blow me away or anything. It was a competent little thriller, but that's about it.

Yeah, Bob's usually slightly more subtle than David, a little more understated. It conveys a certain naturalness — and makes the juxtaposition between those "real" moments and his explosions of screaming all the more effective.

Who besides me likes Bob better than David?
I love David, but Bob pretty much always cracks my shit up.

@Occono — How do you figure?

As I.Strange noted, the Charlotte/Miles thing makes total sense in the context of the show. Miles's Dad (Chang) was on the Island and worked with Charlotte's parents (and knew little Charlotte) well before The Incident.

I was definitely expecting a solid B when I came here.

I still maintain that Jacob and Smokey were once the same person. Every character on the show has been struggling with this internalized conflict between reason and faith. Smokey and Jacob are this concept made flesh (and smoke). Smokey is the cold analytical logical half of the original Jacob; Jacob is the half that…

@ Tajes — Reasonably dressed??? He's wearing a fucking bathrobe!

Optimistic?
I love the Muppets and all, and I enjoy Segal's acting, but somebody must have slipped the special "UnHumored!" DVD of Sarah Marshall in my Netflix envelope. That movie was painfully dull and unfunny. Not so sure that Segal should be writing any more movies…

Yeah, I was really excited for this until I read that they cut out oodles of the side-stuff for the American release.

Lavigne's biggest hits were written by The Matrix — these guys:
http://www.soundonsound.com…

I have a question regarding the issue of wage equality.

I'm sort of surprised that wasn't one of his favorite 5. It's definitely PG's best solo album, amazingly solid all the way through. Intruder, I Don't Remember, Family Snapshot, And Through the Wire, Games Without Frontiers…so many good songs!

Starr's in Party Down now (Season 2 starts up in a couple weeks), and I feel confident in saying that its new season will be a lot better than this dreck.

@ Sharkey/Mayor — Actually, the more I think about this theory, the more sense it makes. It works thematically, it meshes with the characterization we've seen so far of both Jacob and MiB, and it plugs up some loopholes in the plot.

Whoa, whoa, whoa…you're saying you missed my single post on the topic out of the 1400+ comments regarding last week's episode??? Unforgivable!

@Mayor — I proposed the same thing last week w/r/t MiB and Jacob being the same person. I'm still sticking with that theory. (That is, the ancients stripped out the "dark half" of Jacob's personality to create a dual-protection system for the Island.)

@ba — I think he was so unconcerned because he had Jacob's "protection". Well it apparently wasn't a literal protection, he was being kept alive for some purpose.

@ Philodote — Exactly. Also, for all we know, Ben is just waiting until Alex's position at Yale is secured to extort the position. He has power over Reynolds for life. Emails can't really be destroyed.