Remember, this is the movie with the Kevin Costner butt double. These itty bitty green wangs must be some sort of a commemorative thing.

@i hate to be that guy - Heywood is correct - you're thinking Inquisition.
Vatican Rag is Tom Lehrer (who wrote it not long after Vatican II) , and predates Mel Brooks' movie by more than fifteen years

I've lived with both health systems.

Wagons East, sure. But Canadian Bacon is really creepily prophetic in some ways lately.

Control also has some great moments of humour (although they're early in the movie), usually involving the guys in the band goofing around. I love the scene where Tony Wilson is doing thier contract in blood and is looking rather peaked. Stephen Morris tells him he's spelled his name wrong and will need to insert…

Hamburglar, I did that, too, I think the summer before my second year of university.

Mr. Fhtagn, you pretty much summed up what I was planning to post. Python was such a big revelation in my late high-school years. Both HG and LoB would be fascinating for me to watch for the first time today—I ended up getting degrees in classical and medieval history, and since the more you know history, the…

Yep, Dan Ackroyd has a deal with an Ontario winery. They do have icewine. Maybe it's made from dissolved and fermented Stay-puft Marshmallow Man.

Glad to see the KITH voyageurs are getting some love. I work on Bay St. in Toronto, the street where they go hunting for Armani suits. I still think of that sketch almost daily while walking in to my office.

My Canadian redneck sister-in-law and her idiot family love this show. My husband and I were subjected to it at Christmas and just looked at each other wondering what we were missing. I'm glad to hear apparently not much. rsh412, don't go there. You'll never get that time back.

Spy Fy - what they're calling that channel that runs nothing but "Cheaters" all the time

Denby - actually the Pussycat Dolls were a burlesque troop in LA.

What I love about so many of New Order's songs is that they've got several layers, some of which contradict each other in a way that seems very real. (Temptation, my 1A song after Ceremony, is great for this, but the classic is Every Little Counts.) Love isn't all squishy, love isn't horrible, but often it's both at…

If you want the real REM gems, ya gotta go back further. "Reckoning" is an amazing album, and "Seven Chinese Brothers" and "Time after Time" two of its many highlights.

Oddly enough, Canada has a second national song in "The Maple Leaf Forever" that rivals "O Canada" for coolness. Especially on bagpipes.

oh thankyou thankyou thankyou - I'm not alone in my obsession.

I'm a big fan of This Must Be the Place (and pretty much the entirety of Speaking in Tongues) and the goofiness of some of the songs off Talking Heads: 77, but oddly enough the song that evokes the most memories is Road to Nowhere. What a great driving song.