Ellen Tigh - Depressing Gremlin Nightmare Woman!

I enjoy your snark, but insulting an entire city is no way to maintain readership. Keep fucking yourself in Chicago.
Sincerely,
Atlanta

I enjoy your snark, but insulting an entire city is no way to maintain readership. Keep fucking yourself in Chicago.
Sincerely,
Atlanta

Stay out of Atlanta. This town is mine.

Every song in the article sounded like a ripoff of "You Dropped A Bomb On Me."

Uh… Hello? Gap Band, anyone?
Is there such a thing as Proto-New-Jack-Swing? Gap Band is to New Jack Swing as MC5 is to Punk.

Bad Boys, whatcha gonna do?
I recommend Bad Boys - but not Bad Boys 2. It's close to the first Lethal Weapon in it's ability to balance buddy/comedy with action/thriller and honestly good.
The Island, however, I wouldn't recommend to anyone. I have a thing for Scarlett (what straight male doesn't?) and a female friend…

TV and A/C
I believe television and air conditioning are responsible for the greatest changes in our society since the automobile. Nobody goes outside any more. Nobody sits on their porch. Nobody knows the neighbors. Nobody goes to protests. Just sit at home and let the box tell you what is happening out there and why…

I second the Oxford Collapse recommendation. I saw them years ago on a Tuesday night in an empty bar and instantly fell for them. Remember the Night Parties has the jerkiness of Pavement without the snarkiness.
But I can't believe Otis Redding doesn't rate Remarked Upon. And you call yourself a southerner?

There are they now
Noel, you might be interested to know former LaBrea Stomper Jim Stacy now manages Atlanta's only surviving drive in, Starlight Drive In, after recently selling The Star Bar. (He still plays at The Star Bar a couple of times a year with various bands.)
And former owner/founder of dB Recs owns/manages…

Repo Man
The Repo Man soundtrack was our mid-80's introduction to a world of music that had not reached our small town. That Juicy Banana "song" was quoted endlessly in my gang, much as were the other movies you note. It's funny to me that there are these little pockets of incredibly similar sub-cultures and shared…

infamous
I saw this film because of the controversy. I figured if everyone railed against it and Jim Belushi made death threats because of it, it had to have some redeeming, or at least interesting, quality.
I could not have been more wrong.
This is not even worth renting, even for the morbidly curious.

The internet is the greatest invention yet. It democratizes communication such that anyone can express themselves.
So yes, I agree - the internet is "a humongous retard", or at least of, by and for humongous retards.

Noel, you are the alternate universe version of me
I moved from a small town to Atlanta and grew up with many of the same bands you discuss. I just missed The Jody Grind, or maybe I saw them once. I can't remember because that's about the time I discovered local music and was going to 2-3 shows a week. Smoke was one…

From an aging hipster - f off and die, you ignoramous. The man's work will stand like the monolith in 2001 while monkeys like you sit around confused.

Jacko
After years of VH1's Behind the Music, I came to the decision that fame is not good for mental health. Nobody should ever get to the point of fame and power where no one else will ever say "no" to their desires, no matter how alien or base, and nobody should have to suffer throngs of screaming lunatics charging…

Yes, but where are they NOW?
I thought this article would be MUCH more interesting if they included where these objects - the props themselves used in the films - are today. It's interesting to think that someone might own the actual Maletes Falcon, Chevy Malibu, etc.
SO, AV club, rather than just pulling some pop…

Speaking of overwrought…
"In its overwrought manner, the film manages to capture something of the savage tenderness at the heart of Dean's cult, how behind the hatred there lied a murderous desire for love. "

Generation X
With the plethora of pop-punk over the last decade I can't beleive Gen X doesn't rate some kind of comment. I got their Best Of on cassette in some cheap bin about 15 years ago. 5 minutes later, Green Day was on every radio station every half hour and I realized there is indeed nothing new under the sun.…

I get my Extra from…
Soup. I don't need to watch any of the other pointless TV when it is boiled down into condensed form.