You're probably better off having no knowledge of Jazz.  It's an extremely good primer if you're a neophyte. For someone who's a huge Jazz fan, they'd probably have major problems with it.  I'm only a casual fan and even I found myself getting pissed off that Burns spent large chunks of several episodes chronicling…

Give it a shot.  I felt similarly before I watched it.  Though I'm interested in history, I was always more into the WWII and Vietnam eras.  But he manages to bring an antiquated era to life as well as can be done, as he did with the early episodes of Baseball.  It immerses you simultaneously in the complicated…

I largely agree.  I'm a fan of all eras of Radiohead (maybe not Pablo Honey so much, but no one likes that) and I think King of Limbs is just kind of weak.  It does sound directionless, whereas Kid A and Amnesiac, their other two "difficult" albums, had real grooves and something to say and had a sense they were…

I'm 26, poor, work in a bookstore, no car, college educated, drink terrible beer and am very much in tune with what's happening in music.  I and most of my friends of the same age/income level love both of these bands.  Theory: debunked.

Fair enough, I agree on Fallon, Conan, Tina Fey etc, but I was talking about SNL specifically.  He's not the primary creative force behind any of the projects you mentioned.  He does still seem to know when people are funny, but when he's running the show at SNL his instincts have consistently failed him.

Oh come on, I'm no huge fan of Billy Madison but there are a few things in there that always get me.

Yeah. What's Sandler done for me lately?

Oh are they doing Descendents and and Adolescants covers?  Because that's the only way that shit would be bearable.

Claudia Bassols?  Google search that lady.  This is probably the most egregious hot woman/ugly dude pairing ever.  This is giving me hope I should never have had.

I agree on the criticism of Michaels.  He was a great producer with great instincts in the 70's and much of the 80's.  But he's past his audience now.  The boomers are all old and the show's not really aimed at them anymore, and he has no clue how to appeal to the comedy fans of current generations, excepting the…

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I'm just young enough (born in '85) to have been heavily into turtles and ghostbusters but also just brushed up with the first couple seasons of MMPR.  But I think I quickly lost interest by the time I was 9 yrs old or so.  It's funny, because I remember Rita Repulsa and the green ranger and Lord Zed very clearly, but…

Eh, there's a similar feel and the melody is sorta close, but I don't think it's lifted any more than "So It Goes" is lifted from any number of Thin Lizzy songs.

I agree that he comes off condescending and can't really back up the shit he says about politics, and much of the time I don't completely agree with him (even though I'm generally liberal).  But for whatever reason I find all of that stuff funny instead of insufferable.  It feels almost like a guilty pleasure to…

The Rock situation was more about the fact that they were so close that Rock felt he could be honest with Louie, rather than pretend that he wasn't annoyed about the whole thing.  I think a lot of that behavior in the movies and shows you mentioned is meant to convey the closeness of the characters precisely because…

Just for the record I'm an absolutely massive fan of the Stones up until probably Some Girls (and subtracting Black and Blue) and I concede the point that they're still better at it than most folks their age.  I'm sure they put on a better show than someone like Eric Burdon would now.  I think it's more that I can't…

I dunno.  Willie Nelson or Dylan or Neil Young seem more appropriate as old men because they were kinda doing the old man thing even when they were 25.  Despite the base in blues and county the Stones were shit-hot rockers in the 60's/early70's, more or less the equivalent of Biafra in the early 80's.  I think they…

It's a great book, but honestly all of the horrible things that happen to every member of that family couldn't help but start to get a little funny by the 12th person who died in some horrifying way.  Someone drowns in a puddle.  Someone is eaten alive by rats.  The girl who plays the violin (irony!) has her hand…

I like thrash as much as anyone.  But c'mon, Scott Ian.  Society's outcasts?  90% of the bands and their fans are made up of suburban white kids.

Not NOFX.  Just….no.