"I made"
That should read "I made," although the more accurate version would be "clip that I sampled, slowed down, and added echo to using really basic sound-editing software."

How'd It Get Burned?
If anyone out there needs material for a Wicker Man-themed sound collage, I'd like to submit the following clip that made and have been using to annoy co-workers and loved ones for a couple of days now.

Why can't the editor edit his own comments?
That should read "pieces of advice."

Yummsh
One of the sagest piece of advice I ever received as a critic was that you can never judge something by its worst fans. (Than you, Maggie Thompson.)

…And we're done
I just submitted the questions so we're done here. Thanks! The piece should run next week.

The initial-name-name theory
True confession: My first name is Randall. I've never liked it and never used it. (And by never I honestly mean never, as in since I could talk.) But throughout college I turned in all my work as "R. Keith Phipps." When it came time to sign my first professional byline (for this here…

Comments
Jason: Seconded. That Sharon Jones album is fantastic.

Fixed it.
Sorry, Noel.

Regrets (we've had a few)
I almost wrote up "Ode To Billie Joe" but ended up losing it out our unwritten rule that the most obvious choice not be included. But "Street Hassle"… "Up The Junction"… I would have loved to have written about those.

Sweet mystery of life…
Okay, the best I can tell this was accomplished by cutting out frames from the film—Is it JINGLE ALL THE WAY?—and then looping it in the established YTMND style. So why do the sounds seem to keep changing shape the longer I watch it? And why can I suddenly taste the music I hear?

God is in the house
Fixed. We regret the error and hope this doesn't mean we're hellbound.

To Master Chivo
I'm a big BATTLESTAR fan but I always skip the credits because the shots of the show to come give too much away. Love the prologue, though. I watch that every week even though it never changes. "The Cylons were created by man…"
Say, did you know that members of Oingo Boingo are involved in the score…

To Alowishus
Sometimes Crosstalk's not all about the fighting.

To: Coldkilla
No thought experiment you can think of ends with me getting sick of Gram Parsons / The Ramones / Velvet Underground / Neutral Milk Hotel / Erik B. And Rakim / whatever. It's bogus experiment especially given that a lot that's on this list silly Defintive 200 would be on my personal definitive list even…

To: Sassy
Damn right.

Steven Hyden is wrong
Steve,
I disagree with just about everything in this post. (But I let you post it anyway since I'm a nice editor.) Having listened to them so much for so long, I had to put R.E.M. on sabbatical for a while, but when that Best Of The I.R.S. album came out last year it was a stunning reminder of how…

The early word
Not to get all Ain't It Cool on you but your list should have HOT FUZZ on it. And HARRY POTTER AND WHATEVER THE SUBTITLE IS THIS TIME, which I saw in sort-of complete form a couple of weekends ago. (Slipped into a test screening. Effects and music weren't done but it was a complete cut. No, I'm not…

Venture
That's fair. The Venture Brothers starts out pretty unimpressively and most cartoons get better as they go along, both technically and artistically. (Just look at The Simpsons.) I probably would want to see more, but I had to judge what I had to watch.

In The Aeroplane…
Hmm… Your memory's better than mine "Tall Pox." I was very much around then but I don't remember that review (or that writer, for that matter!) Well, we got it wrong. That album's a classic.

Premiere
I haven't read it for years, but it's weird to think of a world without Premiere. At one point it was positioned to be the Rolling Stone of film publications, with all the strenghts and weaknesses that implies. I used to read it religiously as a film-hungry high-schooler, though.