My wife's cousin just got married and we went out to dinner to get to know the new husband. He admitted to several cultural faux pas that I just slide because different strokes for different folks. But then, through the course of conversation, he dropped the bomb:

I agree. Mudhoney was my personal fourth band on the Mt. Rushmore of grunge. Despite AiC's popularity among metal fans, I always viewed Soundgarden as just a metal band, which wasn't really my thing.

I wouldn't call Heaven is Whenever my favorite, but I do agree it is underrated as all hell. "Barely Breathing" and "A Slight Discomfort" are two of my favorite Hold Steady songs.

Pretty much every SST album needs to be remastered because of Spot. But I would buy a Zen Arcade/Double Nickels quadruple album on general principle.

I bought a house just so I could have a room for my books.

NOFX is so critically reviled they can't even get a mention in a Primer on pop-punk. I mean, we were willing to overlook Ben Weasel being an asshole but not Fat Mike? Screeching Weasel and NOFX are my go-to pop-punk bands.

Outside of the fact the film is morally reprehensible, and has done more to perpetuate the lie of Reconstruction than perhaps any other thing ever created, I don't see the problem with GWTW either. I don't think you can separate the repugnant racial politics of the film, and how it is still indoctrinating people even…

Women's hockey for sure. No shame to lose to a better team like the men did. But to lose after being up 2 goals with 3:30 to play? That was one of the single most gut wrenching things I have ever seen in sport. That was Jana Novotna levels of meltdown.

I read the SI profile on Shiffrin before the Olympics and I have to admit, I was looking froward to watching her ski. After the hockey game, I avoided all coverage so I could watch her without any knowledge of the results. She was amazing, and lived up to the hype. The way she recovered when sh lost control in the top…

The only reason figure skating is an Olympic sport is so that boxing wouldn't be the most corrupt sport in the Olympics. Being upset by crooked officiating in Olympic figure skating is like being mad at the tides.

You can avoid spoilers by bookmarking the video page on the website and then going straight to the Day X listings without clicking any other link. It will then just be a long list of every video feed for that day, with no links to how things turned out. It's how I've avoided spoilers before watching online. It's…

The rest of the world has caught up quick in the "X-sports". In freestyle skiing, Canada leads the medal count 7-6 win 3 golds to the US and Belarus' 2 apiece. The US leads the snowboard count 5-3 (Switzerland and Russia tied) and has 3 golds to Switzerland's 2.

I go back and forth between Twin Cinema and Together as TNP's best album, but I have to agree with the idea that Crash Years would put Together over the top. Man, I love that song so much.

Drugachusettes, the worst children's show ever.

Yeah, because I hate happy music played fast that you can dance to. What a terrible memory. Though Less than Jake was even better.

Dagg sums up the reason I will always love Screeching Weasel. Yes, Ben is a raging asshole, but he was one of the few guys willing to call his fellow punk bands out for their stupid BS. He had the ability to piss off the popular kids, the cool kids, and the losers. He was the one guy who truly seemed to not give a…

Deny everything! Deny everything!

I saw them about 5 years ago as an opening act. Had no idea who they were at the time, but about halfway through their set, they had completely taken over the room with their performance. It was just an amazing, and totally unexpected, delight. They closed with Keep Yourself Warm which immediately became one my…

And therein lies the problem. I like the books, but the Red Wedding is the moment I felt the books actually became predictable in their sudden turns. If memory serves, the RW happens right after a Robb POV chapter, which to me signaled that Martin wanted to humanize Robb more before something awful happened to him. I…

There's nothing about The Cutman Cometh that I don't love.