Thanks to Google Music's new "shuffle my library" button - which they may have added in direct response to my specific request, in which case, you're welcome - I can now participate in this thread!

I'm glad I'm not the only one whose first association with "heavy metal tuba" is Billy and the Boingers

If the only thing she ever did in her life was inspire this Colbert Report segment, it was enough.

Free is when you don't have to pay for nothing or do nothing!
We want to be free!  (Free as the wind!)

Put me in the indifferent column too.  It's not like Christian Bale was such a worthy choice for the role either.  He hammed it up and looked ridiculous, more or less as I would expect Affleck to do.

Well I'm glad I decided to check for a metal thread this week.  It's probably the least metal song on the album, but I am totally in love with "Faux Semblants," so thanks for the tip!

"Summer Nights," from Grease.  Holy fuck I HATE that song.

I'm chiming in late here to say that the best pet ever would be a coatimundi:

Way to go confusing death metal and black metal in your headline, AVC.

Meanwhile, the appropriations of stylistic tropes from Buñuel,
Hitchcock, and De Palma are merely another example of the film’s
overriding prankster-ish humor.

I was 8 when Hysteria came out and Def Leppard became my first "favorite band" - I bought all their cassettes(!) back to "On Through The Night" and listened to them obsessively for a couple of years.

Sorry, that was more for @avclub-d6eab33032ebeb4e1f8a5891a29427df:disqus ' benefit.  Though you should totally come to New York, it's worth the insane cost of living (in my opinion anyway).

The Lower East Side walking tour they do from there is also quite good, and reasonably priced.

I'll have to check that one out.  I too like my metal proggy.

Not sure what counts as too obvious here.  The Brooklyn Bridge is a beautiful walk and free, though there's work going on right now so the view is not as spectacular as it normally would be.  The Staten Island ferry is also free (departs every half hour and you can just ride it right back if there's nothing in SI you…

I use Google music on my Android phone and keep a swap battery.  It works pretty well for me, and I listen to a lot of music.

I was thinking this past week that a great heist would be to break the EZ-Pass (note for non-Northeasterners: wireless toll payment system) encryption and just stand on a highway overpass with a wand sucking money out of people's cars as they drive by.  Or walk around the parking lot at Giants Stadium doing the same.

Well this is oversharing but fuck it.  My grandmother has lost her short term memory more or less completely.  About four years ago my uncle, her son, died at age 59 and we were all thankful she was still with it enough at that point to remember that he was gone.  This week I am at our cabin in the Adirondacks alone,…

Have you tried ping when your service gets wonky?

Where do we stand on the question of whether Radiohead is prog rock?  Because I love that shit.  And my other favorite band is Rush, so I am definitely a prog fan.