Ah, that's interesting Steven Wright co-wrote the episode. The Civil War stuff instantly made me think of a short film he made called One Soldier.

The only music cue I would've added would be John Legend's All of Me during the bath tub scene.

I think the music industry is a little nostalgic for the 90s also.

I recently saw one of their albums listed on ebay as "Circle of Jerks". It makes me happy that apparently there are still real-life Todd Flanders' out there being confronted with the relics of punk via the Salvation Army.

And just think: only two years prior, punk icon Mike Watt released his album Ball-Hog or Tugboat — the most radio-friendly single from which had something to do with nostalgia and that earlier bygone era…

One thought that I keep coming back to, while reading through other threads from these comments too, is how a lot of this discussion about Cobain's creative motives revolves around the apparent assumption that everything was singularly driven by emotional / psychological expression: e.g., the more dissonant / loud /…

There is a paranoid part of me that believes the internet is a tool designed to seamlessly merge creative and consumerist impulses until they are indistinguishable. At some point we all became our own human centipedes.

That Improv4Humans episode is pretty much the apex of "podcasting" at this point, if that's even fair to say. One of the funniest solid hours of comedy in any form I've experienced in recent memory.

This delivery by Lance Henriksen in the movie Dead Man comes to mind:

Yeah Ron, the guy who runs the label seems like a cool dude. I bought a handful from his discogs store and he sent them along with a pile of odd found-object kind of graphic art and a free CD. The feedback he left was 4 lines of "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…"

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your dog's anus.

Yeah, good call on both counts. Perhaps a little more love for rap as well, at least more hardcore stuff. And I'm pretty sure there would be at least a couple writers pretending like they were into black metal back in the 90s.  

I actually happened to have just been looking back on Pitchfork's "Top 100 albums of the 90s" list compiled back in 2003 — almost a decade ago itself.

Plus, I thought it was a pretty good episode, definitely worth listening to if you are a fan of NNF.  In fact I thought it was one of the better ones they've done recently. everyone was on board, Jimmy obviously gets along well with Tommy Johnagin — one of the most enjoyable things I find in podcasts is hearing funny…

That sounds like terrible listening, and yet I would applaud the effort behind it. 

The Danny McGrath who graduated from Knibb Highschool in 1984? 

Yeah, I also remember a bit of awkward tension when they were talking about perceived misogyny in his work, and then subject of his wife came up. All relatively innocuous, but I think maron made some semi-off color remark about her posing nude on the album cover, and then something about it's her job to be objectified…

Rabin certainly made me cringe more than once, but out of sympathy more than anything. I feel like a lot of comedy fans would fall into the same trap if given the opportunity. It's why Colbert Report guests are encouraged to play it straight for their interviews. Often non-comedians don't have the restraint or timing…

Too bad Upsidedown Cross was never discussed. I was hoping for Larry Lifeless anecdotes. 

Too bad Upsidedown Cross was never discussed. I was hoping for Larry Lifeless anecdotes.