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Pete Townshend
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The worst episode has to be the one where the fire gang all hand out on the beach for the weekend. That one nearly wrecked the season for me—had to pretend it never happened.

The Beach
That one where the Fire gang hangs out on the beach like normal teenagers, is absolutely the worst episode.

Blue, Red and Grey
I was actually going to do that. It would have been called Who, Red and Grey, and I still think it would have been a better album for it.

Point: Ryan

(When you italicize the phrases in your parenthesis)
(It makes them read like commands)

Vs.
Check out the grammar and syntax in the Arcade Fire tumblr vs. the Lady Antebellum tumblr. Doesn't say much about those who ARE fans of these bands, but it says a hell of a lot about those who AREN'T.

MTV
The M stand for MNEHHH

Oh man—
Didn't they release this like a a year ago? Were you guys cleaning out your closet before Christmas break, only to stumble on a cache of regretfully overlooked indie-pop gems you'd ignored the first time around?

Hey, well at least I'm right.

Is it just me…
Or does Nasim Pedrad play the same character in every scketch. A young, awkward girl or boy who idolizes one or more members of his/her family WAY too much. I only ask 'cause it's such a specific character type, it seems like it can't be a coincidence.

Jesus was way cool
He could've played guitar better than Hendrix
He could've told the future
He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world
He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky
He could've danced better than Barishnikov
Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of
Jesus was way cool

Maybe I'm responding to his story telling. I'm more of a fan of his new yorker pieces which don't aim for huge themes, and are enlightening on a small scale. His piece on the food revolution that led to the look of the modern supermarket (thousands of choices) was really interesting—He's the only one I can think of

Malcolm Gladwell
…may not be the most brilliant sociologist on the planet, but he's a genius when it comes to finding threads that others may not observe, and of taking fairly esoteric and nebulous subjects and making them interesting and accessible to anyone. Why the hate? Always with the hate.

There's tons of good shit out there—you just gotta look for it. /this is like a golden age, are you kidding? Maybe not in pop music, but rock and hip-hop are flowering.

Muhammed Ali Vs. Sonny Liston
I think Clay changed his name to Ali a week after the first Liston fight, not the second. It's the second fight in the episode, right? The second fight is where that photo, and that ninety second knockout come from. He was already referring to himself as Muhammed Ali by this point, just

I've always been a Tommy man, album wise—it was the first album I ever bought for myself and it literally changed my life (as in literally, like I would be an entirely different person if that hadn't been my foray into pop music). But as weird as the Who could get, which was weird, they were rarely wacky, or

Quadrophenia
Is a much better movie AND translation of a who album, I think. It's just so much more grounded in working class life. Compared to Quadrophenia, Tommy is flighty and pretentious, I think.

IT'S BEGUN
Now Indie rock is the mainstream. What will be next? What underground scene will bubble to the surface? Will Indie rock lose its cache? Will it start sucking? Will it mean the same thing alternative rock does now?

Let me just say…
I love Who week at the AV Club

Someone once described…
Summertime Blues as a classic Who song that happened to be written by Eddie Cochran (or something along those lines). In other words, it's the perfect Who single—three minutes, four chords, power chord riff, stops and starts. it was sort of tailor made for the who in a strange way.