Oh, one of those… I guess life doesn't always have a beginning, middle and end. Let's pretend this person was turned on to B&S, and has eternally fond memories of you as a result!

It's a really short interview, and I could only read half of it. He lost me at 'I'm a bold flavor man from way back' as the reason he doesn't spend time with his kids. 
Fucking clown shoes.

It's the START of a cool story… the next part should be how the person you gave the gift to reacted to getting a Belle and Sebastian CD. Were they confused? Annoyed? Indifferent? Or really happy?

"You know, when you feel a woman's breast, and it's like a… bag of sand?"

I see where you're coming from, but I think the whole 'smart=depressed' connection is one of those false equivalencies, kind of like 'smart=migraines'. I think it's the same fallacy as the 'gateway drug' theory, which states that since the vast majority of heroin addicts have smoked pot, then smoking pot will lead to…

That's a pretty strong endorsement… I was a little behind the curve and heard about B&S when Tigermilk was released in the U.S., and so that was the first of their albums I heard. I love it, but got wrapped up in other things and somehow didn't ever get If You're Feeling Sinister. I've heard Boy With the Arab Strap,…

Wow, when you take a position, you really take it. I didn't realize I was expressing such a common opinion, beloved of douches everywhere. I remember being very impressed with the band for going through the whole transition after that Ronald guy left, and doing their parking garage experiments (some of which I…

I love Abbey Road, though there are certain songs on the White Album I can live without and I think the whole thing is a little overstuffed. Also you have Magical Mystery Tour (fuck you, Fool on the Hill) and Yellow Submarine in there, which are hardly essential. There are great spots, I just don't think they put out…

Deliah's Gone is great… someone close to me wanted it played at her funeral when she was sick. We played a bunch of things, that among them. Can't listen to it now without choking up.

Judging from the largely negative feedback here, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the Flaming Lips' 'moment' is now over. This begs a question I've been interested in for a while: When should a band stop? For example, a lot of people think the Beatles quit at just the right time, while I think they could…

I just walked to the Y downtown! That homeless guy is the spitting image…

Are you referring to Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig) or The King in Yellow? I guess it doesn't matter, neither one is very good… and I say that as a huge fan of the band. The Butterfly Joe album was pretty great, though.

Satin is the evilest of the synthetic fabrics…

Liked! Bar none, one of my favorite asides in the entirety of 30 Rock. Works on so many levels: improv is silly, Oprah's fat, Carl talks funny, Jenna's an idiot, etc., all summed up in about 10 seconds.

FTW!

Thom Yorke to whoever's taking that picture: "What's a Chipotle? Is it some kind of sex toy or somethin'?"

Say, what chord is Betty playing there? And I guess she uses her fingernails instead of a pick?

I never got that comparison… I kind of can't stand The Fall, but love Pavement. But even aside from that I don't think they sound anything alike, except maybe they both have guitars and are kind of sloppy.

You know, it's the grammar burns that originally made me love the AV Club comments… I'm so happy that hasn't changed.

Those guys are pretty nice. Sometimes the guys at the vinyl-centric record stores come off like the snobs in High Fidelity, but the Guestroom guys are just very enthusiastic about turning people on to new music. Don't know if it was the same guy, but one of them used to come to the CD Warehouse I worked at, and found…