I'm an electrical engineer, and I get to use "reverse the polarity!" all the time. Of course its basically a fancier way of saying "you hooked it up backwards dumbass".

You should try actually listening to those live albums before you say that bullshit. If you don't like 70s J Geils you don't like rock and roll.

My 14 year old daughter asked for a Gorillaz tshirt for last Christmas. I think she is more into the art than the music but I was pretty amazed. Didn't know anyone her age had even heard of them. No child of mine probably counts as "normal" though.

Damn near everybody records digitally, this is hardly unique. Trent is of course more reliant on digital than most, but still, this is now the norm. Your favorite trendy indy band that only releases things on limited edition 8 track tape still recorded digitally. Now, pretty much any pro is recording at 96kHz 24 bit…

Valve may as well make "Christmas with GLaDOS" a thing. They need to do something with their time since they can't count to three.

Skid Row was kinda unique in that they were a pop metal/ hairmetal band that was also respected by "real" metalheads. All my metal head friends loved the shit out of Slave to The Grind, their second album. It would have gone down in history as very successful for a metal record, had it not been completely overshadowed…

Read that in the voice of Carl from Aqua Teen for maximum enjoyment.

Yeah it only recently started appearing in my local grocery store. I hope they keep carrying it as its my new hot weather beer of choice. I'm a total beer snob but I'm not above wanting something mild and yellow after mowing the lawn and such.

I've been drinking a lot of Michelob lately. Not light or ultra or insert variable here. Just basic Michelob which can be hard to find. It resembles a German helles or a craft session lager way more than its mass market brethren but is still pretty cheap. Next time you want a lighter beer that still has some flavor…

Well, I am a 40 year old hetero male who openly wept when Pearl sang "it's over isn't it ". So yeah other than the embarrassing crying I would say it's pretty awesome.

When this album pops into my head, I'm as likely to think of Ramona's monologue from I am with name as anything else. That MIDI life crisis line is great.

This really isn't that surprising. Whedon was a hired gun for Avengers, and although he had lots of geek cred he had zero hit movies at the time. That massive avengers budget included big name actors, tons of special effects, presumably complicated character rights, massive marketing blitz, yada yada yada. I'm sure he…

Nerd tech support time:
If you are like me, for some reason Windows\System32 (which is where utilities like tracert live) was not in my default search path. So I so I just switched to the directory first using cd \Windows\System32

Cantspeak and Let it Be Captured from Danzig 4 do the whole "same music but backwards" trick. Young me was pretty proud of himself when I figured that out.

Not that I disagree, a lot of geeks should lighten up. But I also sympathize. I can testify being a geek in a small town was a pretty lonely miserable thing. When the internet happened, it kinda WAS like escaping a repressive regime. Not that I would trade my childhood for say, someone who escaped Pol Pot, but it did…

Huge fanboy here, so take my words with much salt. But Dune is great, and there was nothing quite like it before (or really since). It combines (relatively) hard sci-fi addressing real world ecological and socio-political issues, with what amounts to "magic" (the abilities granted by the spice) and grafts all that…

I'm with you that there were a lot of great female artists around that time and before, many who I personally prefer and seem to have stood the test of time better. The point they were trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to make though is the shear scale of Alanis's success. Jagged Little Pill is one of the highest…

That is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

Of course, never meant to imply otherwise. Generalization is bad, mmkay. Only opened my fat mouth because his story gave me a prescient vision of my son behaving that way in the future. This of course being a future I hope to prevent.

No just a kid. And given that he understands that the dos and don't s of social interaction are things he needs to actively work on I certainly hope as an adult he won't behave that way. But I can definitely imagine someone growing up in a less supportive environment carrying those tendencies to adulthood.