"Seasons" still rocks my world.

The Pumpkins tune is SUCH a highlight of the soundtrack.

Sooooooooo overrated.

Which also brings us to the following question: If the dissolution of his parents' marriage affected him so powerfully, and the birth of his daughter had elevated his spirits in a way he hadn't felt in almost 20 years, why would he turn around and voluntarily inflict on his daughter—and in an irreversible way—the…

As a general rule, I tend not to give much thought to John Lennon's utterances since, among other things, he was more of a revisionist than a communist propagandist. If there was ever someone I would use the dreaded 'Shut up and sing' phrase towards, it would be him.

THIS.

"Delivery Man suggests that there are worse things Vaughn could do than continue being Vince Vaughn. Like, say, turn into Robin Williams."

For personal reasons some folks decide they don't want to use the common pronounciation of their last name (former MLB player Bill Mueller pronounces his last name as "Miller": his grandpa wanted no German association during WWII), but I have heard Mankiewicz pronounced both MAN-ke-witz and MAN-kay-vitch; and recently…

"The beatings will now begin!" Ha!

Post-DLR, the "Van Hagar" years, sure. Otherwise, tread lightly, heh heh.

Not a fan of the band, but "Swim" is one of the best songs of that time frame.

Ha!

On point. The early '90s were, arguably, only the second time during the rock era—the first being the mid-to late '60s—in which the majors had no clue what "the kids" were into and signed anything that even resembled what was going on at the time. And that led, as you state, to exposure to bands who might have even…

Excellent point.
Re grunge vis-a-vis Candlebox et al: Not gonna hold it against VH for spawning Poison, ya know? Shit happens.

I dunno if I agree, but that was a great way of putting it.

I can't say that. I just feel it's an apt description of Jeselnick's comedy. I can't compare it to Tosh, who I've never seen.

"…Jeselnick sounded a little too much like he was reading cards, and his
humor is more the lol-stupid-brown-people-high-five-bro variety."

You think so? I was under the impression that only the hardcore fans liked it. And I'm referring to ska of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones variety not the classic stuff.

My issue is he uses as examples a genre that has become even more watered down and mainstream (punk) and another which has remained in a rut for decades now (ska), to make his point.

"Punk has gone through similar waves of idealism and disenchantment, but
it survives—and it is thriving to this day, unstoppable almost 40 years after its advent—because it spent its unpopular years laying down a solid infrastructure, a true subculture…Even ska, that black sheep of ’90s alternative subgenres, has a…