The lyrics are purposefully oblique a lot of the time. They work best as teenage memories as you are drifting into sleep, I think. Lots of surreal imagery mixed in with the mundane and everyday humorous musings. But you're not really missing a story if that's what you're worried about.

Ken Marino: Secret musical genius? Maybe next time he'll do "I try".

Good thing you edited out that hashtag  or else people might think you're a self-absorbed douchebag

"Professor Oak, this is madness! Can't you see where playing God is going?"

An eye-searing crapfest… are audiences ready for a Dikachu origin story?

Shit on my father's balls

I think it's a modern classic. Glenn Tipton to Lily & Parrots is one great song after another, and then Duk Koo Kim just completely blows everything away and sets up the last two songs for a beautiful unwinding coda. Kozelek has lots of great albums, but Ghosts is just like him bringing it all together as a real…

I thought I'd be done with them after At War with the Mystics, but I can stand their restless, gimmicky tendencies if they can continue reinvigorating themselves with a Soft Bulletin or Embryonic every few albums.

love would be loco
without ice and coco
may their love soldier on
as will and amy are gone

Haven't seen Rilke mentioned yet. I love "Requiem for  a Friend," which I guess isn't a poem, but it's so vivid and powerful in a metaphysical sort of way.

I think it's rather soon to call out a lack of emotional payoff to season 4. I see the main problem being that they went all out in season 3 in terms of everything, and that has hung like a shadow over a new personnel that has to simultaneously ground the series back down, and also try to capture the spirit of the…

Nevermind old Disqus is back… looks like it's back to Art History for me!

(pulls avclub out of laundry)

I WAS GOING TO POST THIS JOKE. I WOULD DOWNVOTE YOU BUT IM AFRAID.

New Disqus oh god… I don't believe in nothing no more. I'm going to law school!

I inherited this account from my grandfather the Baronet Lord Farthing Mystworth Bouncington, I am entitled to dissent more than others, I daresay!

Do jokes exist in those parts of the world, too?

What happens when literally everything is taken from the Taking Everything Literally Theatre? Do you guys have to order more?

He will suck your dick/off. With Nic Cage's face.

Caramel Cheese from the Rugrats… it's been calling to me since childhood.