Don't forget that IanMcKellan came in later! Also Hugh Jackman's mom was in the audience.

As the article here a bit ago detailed, Graham is really good at setting up a situation where this can happen (the booze helps, but isn't everything).

I've always considered Xiu Xiu a pop band, in their way. Underneath all the experimental aspects there was always really quality pop songwriting.

I'm not saying I wouldn't be here for an all-singing, all-dancing Avengers or X-Men movie.

It was fine because REM wasn't producing new albums, but I do really miss their orchestral sound. I like the Americana better than the prog, but neither of them is a string section.

My dad is a massive Sonic Youth fan who has spent the past decade mostly going to jam-band shows, and I guess that makes more sense than one would think.

I can't really consider an opinion that says "Nightswimming" is bad. Our tastes are just too separate.

The last few Magnetic Fields albums have had basically one good song on them. But that one song is really good, and Stephin Merritt actually seems motivated about the new album…so I guess I'm not quite abandoning them yet.

They've got their moments. "William Bloke" and "Don't Try This At Home" are fun (you have to have tolerance for horn sections, though), and "I Keep Faith" off of Mr. Love & Justice is really great. But you aren't any lesser, no.

I feel like myself at 15 would be really into Girls In Peacetime Want to Dance, but me at 15 was also really into Soft Cell and the Cure.

Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is really good, though.

I always thought that CHVRCHES sounded like VNV Nation with an indie-rock vocalist instead of a fake German.

I know several in the Netherlands, it's a subculture that definitely still exists but has evolved in an interesting way.

I really enjoyed the short they put out and I'm kind of hoping that Thor's characterization from now on is "Australian bro." I mean, what would we be missing by him not being that? He hasn't really been much, personality-wise, in the other movies so at least he'd be distinct.

The grocery store I go to in the Netherlands often has liverwurst samples by the deli counter "for the children." I actually really like it, to be honest.

There's no way that JCVD is six foot four. Not even by Belgian standards.

I hadn't thought about it like this, but I really like the idea now.

Yeah, probably.

Husband is getting transferred out there for a couple of years. Means a lot more money and a great boost to his career, but also, Detroit.

Man, I thought Romulans were the smart ones.