Zwan was definitely super underrated. I'm not surprised for the (faint) praise for TheFutureEmbrace, either; I thought it sucked, but really, it was just too early for the 80s new-wave revival.

Fucking hell, the one time I tried to use MUNI (it was raining) it ended up taking longer than if I had just walked.

Your name isn't L.T. Smash, it's Lieutenant Smash.

The Suitcase was the 2nd episode of Mad Men I ever saw (after I happened to catch the just-airing Waldorf Stories the previous week). It was strange, because I barely knew who was who and what was happening but still understood what the episode was about. That's why I started watching Mad Men.

I rewatched that episode recently, and I was hit with how awful the dialogue was. It might have been because of the writers strike, or something, but it felt so heavy-handed with the Penny-Des stuff. Also, the supporting cast were all generic place-holder performances. I felt like I was watching an old episode of…

My GF and I are just now working through The West Wing, and that episode totally overshadowed everything that came before and after it (at least until mid season 7, which has been pretty good so far).

Fenton Mewley's turning eight!

Shhhh! You wanna get sued?

I've had this song stuck in my head for two days now.

I was hopeful for this movie. Not because it looked fun and appealing, but because we need a good science fiction action adventure that's not part of an existing franchise.

@avclub-6c6094f256f51e83fe02bce6091163e7:disqus  Some of the scenes were filmed at the University of Oregon in Eugene; when I was in college, I regularly ate lunch in the same cafeteria where they filmed the food fight (never saw an actual food fight, though I'm sure more than one freshman had the completely original…

So was much of Animal House. Cottage Grove (10 miles south) still holds a recreation of the parade every year.

Cherry Poppin' Daddies were more of a campy ska-punk band until the swing craze hit, and they jumped that bandwagon and never looked back.

Yes. Also fun: someone's talking Cherry Poppin' Daddies in 2012.

Fun fact: Cherry Poppin' Daddies are from my hometown of Eugene, OR. I met the lead singer many years ago as he was purchasing a Limp Bizkit CD from the record store I worked at (Ed: this was well after their 15 minutes were over). According to my friends who still live there, they still play shows from time to time,…

If nothing else, you can thank Dolemite for the existence of Black Dynamite.

Dolemite? What the fuck?

I would love to see a properly edited The Room to test that theory.

Yes, he gave me Transmissions. He still liked Yoshimi and The Soft Bulletin. But he wanted me to know that the band had been making great (albeit very different) music well before the albums that made them famous. And I'm glad he did, because Clouds, Hit to Death and Ambulance (and to a lesser extent, Transmissions)…

Yup. And I liked Mystics a lot too. People complain that it's not a Lips sounding album because it's trying to sound too 70s, but I think that particular sound is what I like about the album.