Yeah, while his later stuff is great — he's one of the few people I can think of who put out consistently good work for six decades, probably rivaled only by Kurosawa — his stuff from the '50s and '60s is just absolutely essential. "Le Beau Serge", "Le Cousins", "A double tour", "Les Bonnes Femmes", "Les Biches", and…

1. Postmodernism predates deconstruction, and Derrida invented neither. He coined the term, but he was building on extant work by others. You don't even have your facts straight. Beyond that, all Sokal demonstrated is that if you throw a bunch of words together that most people don't understand, you can fool people…

Well, since you're so well-read, this should be easy:

Death, taxes, and people who haven't read any post-war European thought claiming that it's all worthless because of Alan Sokal.

Todd, the volume I reviewed is where Schulz brings back Spike for the first time. He's all over the place in this one.

It's only 40 pages long. I can't really give away much more of the plot without giving away the whole thing.

My house has many fuckin' mansions, dude.

Far from a Francophobe, I am a Francophile.

Yeah, this was before Kathy Najimy and Paula Abdul were famous. Ralph Nader was around, but I wasn't much of a consumer safety nerd at age 12.

Hey, UMD, I just now — like, 20 minutes ago — got that Father Befouled record in the mail, and you're right; it's pretty good stuff. May get a write-up next month.

If you define "getting paid in anything other than free beer" as "too popular to bother reading about", I doubt you're going to be interested in anything on this entire website, let alone this column.

I, too…
…was mildly obsessed with Asaad Kelada. When I was growing up, he and Casey Kasem were the only famous Arab-Americans I knew about, so I tried to watch a lot of shows he directed. Which meant, of course, watching a lot of crappy fucking shows.

I've made it pretty clear that I'm not much of a fan of power metal, but I do try to throw y'all a bone from time to time. Sorry about that. If it makes you feel any better, there's a new Ross The Boss record coming out in November.

Alas, I heard about this after this month's Metal Box had already gone into edits, or best believe I'd have included it.

By "bands that already have a massive degree of notoriety", I assume you mean Drudkh, Demiurg, Krieg, Sungod, Drunken Bastards, and Autopsy, all of whom are tearing up the Top 40 and getting regular rotation on MTV.

Not both of them, just the first one. "Chickens" is from the 2000-Pound Old Man sketch.

That sketch is mentioned, but you have to actually read the article to see it, and I know how difficult that is for some of you.

Good grief. No wonder I've always thought how odd it was that her voice was so much higher. Apologies!

As has been noted before, these are songs about couples that have broken up/are breaking up, and the singer is happy about it. "No Children" is about a couple that will stay together forever out of spite.

Yes, I'm gonna say "Roam" is worthless. Clap clap. Clap clap.