The Great Pumpkin Waltz
is Vince Guaraldi's most beautiful piece of music, in my opinion. He wrote several great tunes for "A Charlie Brown Christmas", including the ubiquitous "Daaa-da-dat da-da-dat daaa-daa" (propertly known as "Linus and Lucy"), and chamber-jazzified several traditional holiday songs,but none as…

You'll have to fight me for Mia. Her skinny sister is cute but…. eh…

Wheaties?

Are you positive of that? I would assume that Sideshow Bob's last name of Terwilliger (check your spelling!) was taken from Terwilliger Boulevard in Portland, Oregon — one of many names Matt Groening took from street names in his home town (mine too, this is why I'm such a Simpsons/Portland name geek), including (but…

Encyclopedia Ignoramus
Is that finally available on-line? If it is, it's probably a pay site though.

Tough, intelligent, snarky as hell, and hilarious. And damn quick with the funny rejoinders. I certainly get self-conscious, and sometimes too intimidated by the quality of this message board to write. However, because it's an Internet message board, I'm a good deal less intimidated than I would be if it were a…

Nabin's been teasing us about Townes for months now. "In a few weeks", he wrote. Hate to burst your bubble, little Posey, but Nathan is NEVER going to write about Townes Van Zandt. Why? Because he is just plain MEAN. And I'm starting to think he hates our freedom.

When I was a painfully shy teenager I assumed that all the other kids learned about the cool bands by going to shows and dancing and socializing and having lots of sex and taking lots of drugs, and I was the only one learning about bands from magazines. It's comforting to find out, in these genre-fragmented, solitary…

ok, not only am i a loser for failed firsties, but for learning about music through magazines instead of friends, like Nabin, when I was a teeneger. Only the cool kids had "friends". At least I'm in good dweeb company.

guy's got a weak chin
ok, now i'll read the article.

Hey, if Amelie considers Kate Hudson and Madonna to be
…particularly dull celebrities — dull enough to single them out, even out of all the famous-for-being-famous nonentities whose dating lives are all over the gossip media — there must be some celebrities out there whom Amelie finds interesting. I mean, it stands to…

At least they can CALL it Halloween
I just got back from my workplace's annual "Scary Potluck". With our HR department being afraid to have the word "Halloween" uttered (endorsing a "religious" holiday? offending fundamentalist Christians? what?), I'm surprised that public school districts haven't cracked down. Or is…

Kurt Cobain was probably going to join him on stage, if he hadn't died!

Tyler Perry's Caligula

Has everyone forgotten Snakes on a Plane already?
The entire plot of the movie spelled out in 4 words! Didn't the studio want to change the title, for that exact reason, until the blogger nerds forced them not to?

Or if not the adorable Asian girl from the commercials, at least adorable Asian reporter Trisha Takanawa?

I'm-a let…

That would be Funeral For A Friend SLASH Love Lies Bleeding. The first song segues into the second: what is commonly know as a suite. Disqualified. I hereby yank away Sir Elton's lifetime pass.

…And if memory serves, the whole "suite" clocks out at 7:-something, which disqualifies it.

Yeah, I love "Layla" the single, the "real" song (even since I was a kid and bought the 45, with just the "real" song) (though I HATED Clapton's lite-jazz remake!), and I love the hypnotic piano thingy with slide guitar solo, but you're right, those two parts have nothing to do with each other musically, so it can…