I love Belinda Carlisle's solo stuff and it's a shame so many people dismiss her songs as fluff. It's really solid pop music that doesn't pretend it's anything else. And the woman knows she makes pop music (she's a sport and has a sense of humor about herself). So I thought I'd make a list of Belinda Carlisle solo…

Yeah, I love that album! "We Don't Get Along" is a great song! I especially love the 1982 live version from Rockpalast because you can hear how much the Go-Go's were influenced by early rock and roll (think Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire").

I kind of look at the Go-Go's not as a punk band or a pop band or a new wave band, but as an early rock and roll meets '60s girl groups band. Punk was just a platform that allowed them to grow into their sound — which was more about early rock and roll, garage rock, '60s girl groups, and the California sound. You only…

Could you recommend some songs by The Clean other than, but similar to, "Anything Could Happen"?

I went through Pulp's entire discography this year also. I went in expecting to like their post-punk songs and ended up liking their new wave/Britpop songs, eg. "Razzmatazz", "She's a Lady", "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E", "Help the Aged." And Radiohead's, but that's only because I liked "Lotus Flower" and I…

The thing about Fleetwood Mac is you're either a Peter Green person, in which case you look down on every song recorded after his departure from the band, a Stevie Nicks person, a Lindsey Buckingham person, or a Christine McVie person. It's usually that if you're a, say, Stevie Nicks person, you find the totality of…

Hillary Clinton.

Yeah, they smeared the camera lens with Vaseline for shots where it's just her in the frame. (I'm not sure if they also did that for two shots, though.) The show makes fun of this in the season 3 episode The Straight Poop. But I mean the lighting. The way she's lit from above makes her hair shine. It's distracting. In…

I see. And do you have anything to add to the discussion or did you just come here to clear your throat?

Is anyone else bothered by how in the Christmas episode of Moonlighting, in the scene where Maddie is talking to David in her office (6:45min, 6:55min), the lighting bounces off Cybill Shepherd's hair and necklace? The color palette in the scene is light purple-ish/pink-ish with no gloss or shine, and then you have…

Anywho, I came across this great interview (part 2) with Cheers co-creator and director, James Burrows, where he talks about the importance of the setting (the bar), the casting process, the characters ("every bar has a Norm… a Carla, a Sam, a Cliff Clavin"), his favourite Sam and Diane episode (Diane's Perfect Date…

“Coach Returns To Action” affirms who this character is and why he’s so easy to like. It’s in the way he can tell Diane his last effective pick-up line—“How would like a pair of nylons, fraulein?”—and not realize how funny that is.

Her acting makes me want to set her hair on fire. The fact that some people on the Internet act like "adorkable" is a word makes me want to set her hair on fire. Yesterday I thought "Hey, maybe I'm being too harsh on her. Maybe I ought to actually watch a few episodes of her show to make up my mind about her acting.…

Well, Sidney Lumet, who directed her in "The Group", was a New Hollywood director; and the late '60s were very much part of the Hollywood Renaissance that was taking place since (roughly) 1966. The early part of the Hollywood Renaissance (roughly 1966-early '70s) produced many "artsy"/art house movies inspired by the…

Yeah, possibly. I just remembered that joke because of the discussion about Paul Simon, and an opportunity to use it presented itself. It was a cheap joke, though, and I apologize. But while we're on the subject, is it just me or did the Liz-Lemon-is-unattractive jokes get progressively more hateful in the later…

The writers made a bunch of nickname name plates for Liz Lemon, like F. Kruger, Winona Ryder in a Hundred Years, Fart Barfunkel. And then Liz looks at the last name plate, which says Paul Simon, and she says: "I don't get that, but it hurts!" That's the punchline.

No, okay, I went for an easy joke. Seriously though, I'm on the fence about Paul Simon's '70s output. For me, it's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and "Peace Like a River " vs. "Kodachrome", the first two are excellent and the last one almost cancels out the excellence of the first two. I guess I'm just a fan of his…

Yeah but, the thing is, thanks to his '70s output he became a punchline on 30 Rock. So I say "Let's remember the stuff he did with Garfunkel in the '60s."

I don't think Phil means it like that. I don't think he means in terms of commercial success. He means in terms of zeitgeist. For instance, Bob Dylan is revered by critics and listeners alike, and he's a had a long and sometimes fruitful career, but he's still a relic of the '60s. In the same way, you cannot deny the…

Definitely. Her unfortunate roles in those masturbatory movies probably had a good deal to do with the fact that Hollywood was generally a boys' club when she was just starting out. The early '70s was a terrible time for actresses. You let a bunch of insecure, adolescent men with fantasies of becoming great auteurs…