That Crazysloth cover is really good. I also love the Format's cover of "For You" and Cowboy Mouth's kick-ass cover of "Born to Run" of the Light of Day Tribute.

That Crazysloth cover is really good. I also love the Format's cover of "For You" and Cowboy Mouth's kick-ass cover of "Born to Run" of the Light of Day Tribute.

Yeah, I've never actually ordered it either, but the stuff my folks make it absolutely stellar. My dad also makes something called pain patate, which is a sweet potato pudding that is unbeatable.

There was a 25 cent Surge machine in the town I grew up in. It fueled most every weekend night in HS. I kind of miss the stuff, even though I rarely drink anything that sugary anymore.

Oh yeah, me too. Growing up in rural WI I had absolutely no exposure to anything remotely "ethnic" beyond the standard strip-mall Chinese and Tex-Mex. I was also fucking obsessed with Red Dwarf in HS, and I always asked my mom to pick up some curry take-out for dinner. Never happened, but in college I finally got…

I don't usually order G&T's all that often, but there's one old bar in Madison, Le Tigre, where I order it exclusively, always with Tanqueray. It's all kinds of delicious, and I believe during happy hour they only clocked in at $2.50 or so. I've also found that after filling up on the crazy IPA's or Imperial Stouts…

The Dark Throne at Kuma's and the Pepperjack Juicy Lucy at the 5-8 Club are the pinnacle of Burger Olympus for me. However, I don't happen to live in either place so I settle for the Black & Bleu at Dotty's. And Dotty's isn't really settling. Also, the walnut burger at the Harmony is top fucking notch!

Yeah. Yet again I'll be relegated to standing by the Interstate and waving as the tour buses go by.

Ten or so years ago I worked with an old biker dude that was a regular at the Pub on State Street in Madison. He and his fellow regulars would park their asses on the stools looking out the plate glass windows onto State and would hold up numbered grade cards as women would walk by. Clever enough idea, but he was a…

Squirm is one of the best, but I have a deep and abiding love for Touch of Satan and Future War. The later seasons in '98 and '99 are the ones I've seen most frequently.

I've always said B-Side is that kind of place where they may not always have exactly what I planned on buying, but I always end up buying something I hadn't planned and it's always for the better. Between this place and Ear Wax I ended up quadrupling my library my freshman year of college.

While a terrible movie through and through, I always have had a soft spot for Detroit Rock City. I saw it in college on cable one day when I was down with the flu, and the combination of Nyquil and a fever made this seem like a Terry Gilliam film.

B-Side, Tonight
It's been a while since I've made it a point to hit up my local record store on the Tuesday an album drops, but tonight I'll be heading to B-Side in Madison after work for to purchase this and the new Titus Andronicus.

While true that it was just a one game playoff for the AL East Division (pre-Wild Card), the first movie doesn't go so far as to AL Championship game or the WS. The movie ends with the team as winners, though in the sequel it's revealed they lose to the Sox in the Championship.

The movie was pretty decent, but the final game sequence felt almost like watching an NFL Films version of a crappy preseason game, plus Alan Alda. Though his last series as a garbage time QB was hilarious.

Re: the Living End - I don't know shit about Australian music per se but I love "Second Solution." I even bought Modern Artillery a few years back, and I thought it was pretty good.

I graduated HS in 1998, and we voted in Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) as our class song right after Nimrod came out. At the time it was a major coup, since the overwhelming pressure was to pick some sappy country song. A small group of us lobbied, cajoled and bartered to get a Green Day song voted in and…

I'll have you know that clove cigarettes are no longer legal in Madison.

When my friends and I went to see The Fifth Element in the theater I was the only one that liked it. I went back several times during its run, including one solo excursion. I was under the impression for several years afterward that I was alone in my love of this movie.

I like hardcover books in general and will buy them whenever possible, but only from used bookstores where the prices are more reasonable. I find the hardcover books easier to read physically, mainly in the way I hold them. They just feel ergonomically right to me.