This particular Tower shared its absurdly large warehouse-like space with a CompUSA. I understand the feeling that Tower was similar in a lot of ways to the big box chains, but they definitely tried harder to stock a much wider variety of music, and their employees (at least at this branch) had some verve and energy…

I think I love Rope so much because I see it as a bit of a dry run for my personal favorite Hitchcock film (and my vote for his best), Rear Window, which has similarly Aristotelian unities of action and place (but not time). In the same way I see The 39 Steps as a great but not perfect lead-up to North By Northwest.…

The appearance of Missingno at the end sealed this video’s perfection.

I definitely did a double take when that song happened and thought it might actually be DMX as Crews’ rapping voice.

My Chemical Romance went for Liza Minnelli, while AFI seemed like it was going for more of a Goth Madonna vibe.

I know fellow AV Clubber David Anthony would back me up on this: Black Sails In The Sunset is still a vital, riveting album. And then we differ on how to rank the rest and what’s worth listening to. But Black Sails is pretty much unassailably awesome.

“I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams” is another personal favorite, and basically the only song Rivers wrote for that concept that ever got the full female vocal recording that was originally intended. But I’m actually kind of glad it ended up as Pinkerton. I think the more concise focus made that a much better…

I love “The New” so much, but I slightly prefer “Specialist” as my longer Interpol jam of choice.

That and Steve’s line were the only two that really made me laugh tonight. I always say that these shows are best watched with other people because I think the company leads to more laughter. But I was watching by myself tonight, so take that as you will.

Shit that’s right, totally slipped my mind.

That’s definitely true for Nebraska, they didn’t add a specific market, but a strong regional following. And I’ve always been surprised at how many ardent Nebraska fans I’ve found in big cities around the country.

Oh god the Rutgers thing. We all see that Delaney is basically trying to do what Gavitt did, going after television markets in expansion, but it’s coming at the cost of diluting the conference. Sigh, it’s a move that once again signals that money trumps everything, including the quality of the product.

I was a little disappointed that story didn’t get recounted, but it didn’t really fit with anything else the documentary was trying to say. The only place it might have fit in is the segment that essentially eschewed every other team in order to focus on Georgetown’s special status as the first BE team to win the NCAA…

There’s no truly good alternative station in the market, and I’ve been really disappointed at the slow descent into “new classic” format, but I have so many good memories of attending Not So Silent Night and BFD a bunch of times in middle and high school that it’s hard not to want the station to survive.

Wasn’t that 96.5 KOIT? I haven’t lived in the Bay Area and been listening extensively to the radio in many years, so I can’t really remember.

I was so nervous that this was actually the Bay Area alternative station Live 105.3 changing format in the most awesomely dickish way possible. But once I realized it’s a few ticks up on the dial, I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

That’s a fair assessment, though so many of Jan Nemec and Jiri Menzel’s films are near impossible to attain in the US that I’m more than happy the set exists. Allegedly Criterion had initially planned two subsequent sets, but Eclipse has seemingly gone by the wayside. I would do terrible, terrible things in order to…

Absolutely, but since Chytilová was often explicitly making films centered on women and about the constrained place of women in Czech society when the rest of the CNW was made up of male directors, she’s been properly identified as a feminist filmmaker. But that wasn’t why she was so great. Her films stand on their…

That diacritic is such a pain to find on the keyboard, I ended up just going with the accent on the last a whenever I used her name. It’s the bane of liking Czech cinema so much that I can never properly type out any of the names.

None of that is historical, but it still gets the generally accepted series of mythical events wrong in service of a pretty lame joke about how Achilles’ heel is injured so he’s not in the horse with all the other Greek soldiers.