I'm old. So I did pretty much all that in 1983 and I will say the TOP was seeing Talking Heads on the "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads" tour (the tour Demme shot) twice. First was in Detroit, at Cobo. Blew my mind: I was of course familiar enough with theatricality in staged pop shows, but this was different…

My reaction as well. I saw two of the movies and "In a Gadda da Vida" or whatever it was called - Zap and Leela in Eden - and all were so clunky and lacking the sweet-n-sour, cynicism-n-sentiment of the original four seasons, I have since declined to see any of the Comedy Central shows.

Worth it to see The Joy Formidable. Their brand of aggro-shoegrunge dreampunk makes me all hot 'n' bothered. As does everything about Ritzy.

I've been lucky (i.e. old) enough to see them many times and in order of live performances, I'd say:

My daughter and I watched Ponyo last night, at her request (she's six.) It grows on you, though it's more in the beauty of small scenes like the ones in their home. Setting up the radio antenna on the starry night, the way Lisa makes a meal for the kids, the entire trip in the toy boat after the sea rises. It's a…

Weirdly that's my 6-year old's list of what she chooses to watch. I mean yeah, the fact that we HAVE a shelf full of Ghibli movies influences her, but How to Train Your Dragon (how did DreamWorks manage to make something with humor and humanity instead of their usual amped-up garbage?), classic Disney, and some of…

Against the Day is cool, and in tone is not entirely unlike Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky. COULD be done.

Would this be the first movie treatment of a Pynchon book? V would be EPIC as a movie. Impossible and deeply confusing but it'd be like Lawrence of Arabia filtered through full-strength Tellry Gilliam.

"Ordinary fuckin' people, I hate 'em. Ordinary people spend their lives avoiding intense situations. Repo man spends his life getting INTO intense situations. That's why I do a lot of speed."

Mom took took me to see that in its initial theatrical run. I was almost six. I freaked out during the trip through the obelisk, still vividly remember being COMPLETELY disoriented by Dave's arrival in the white room, and Mom felt awful as I shrieked in the theater, 'THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR FIVE YEAR OLDS!"

And a gold star for your moniker, sir.

Love the Joke. Somehow I stumbled across them in the early 80s, I think just because the cover art of the first LP looked so great. I was, like every fresh young prop-hipster, into the dBs and Love Tractor and Rain Parade and such. "The Wait" was quite a revelation. I have to say their releases are always all over the…

Great band. Like the aforementioned Garbage, they managed to weld shiny candy melodies to twisted bleak lyrics, but were MUCH weirder than Garbage. "I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer" is fucking brilliant.

I was at the same show. ATR was… well, jumping up and down to bitcrushed noise.

I have to say, when I saw that album I just thought "What the hell. Stranglers with more estrogen?" and thought the same when i heard it. They had one song on there that was a note-for-note ripoff of "No More Heroes." Sorry, but the Stranglers and Wire, in this case, were far more interesting than the imitators.

We used to open for Dreams So Real on a regular basis. Also opened for The Connells (could have made the list.? And don't forget The Swimming Pool Qs. They made a lot of critics' lists.

We used to open for Dreams So Real on a regular basis. Also opened for The Connells (could have made the list.? And don't forget The Swimming Pool Qs. They made a lot of critics' lists.

If you're looking at Boston power-pop, you might want to check out Christmas. Later they mutated into Combustible Edison, but their records "In Excelsior Dayglow" and "Ultraprophets of Thee Psykick Revolution" are some severely twisted power pop and fit the timeline (I think both were mid-late-80s.} Also Check The…

If you're looking at Boston power-pop, you might want to check out Christmas. Later they mutated into Combustible Edison, but their records "In Excelsior Dayglow" and "Ultraprophets of Thee Psykick Revolution" are some severely twisted power pop and fit the timeline (I think both were mid-late-80s.} Also Check The…

No kidding. I know I need to give it another chance, but after two of the movies and then a wretched episode with Zap and Leela in a garden of Eden, I chose to retreat to my memories of the first four seasons.