@avclub-8e241a00e2905962b86a2e25a7945c70:disqus I loved that review section, and really the magazine on the whole. I also fondly remember their review of some Pink Floyd live album: "Further proof that you can't capture a light show on audio tape."

I absolutely scandalized the manager of my local Dairy Queen back in '96 when I said I didn't like Bush. He started shrieking, "You don't like Bush? How can you not like Bush? Not even 'Glycerine'?"

Oh man, Phranc. What does it say about me that I was a heterosexual 15 year old boy in rural Wisconsin in the mid '90s who owned albums by both Phranc and Michelle Shocked?

The latter. I really have no stake in the former.

Musician magazine's review of that album was, in its entirety, "Shallow, showy, shrill."

Huh. I was pretty certain that Michelle Shocked was a lesbian. This is disappointing.

I love that theory and would not be at all surprised if Warren's weird story was in fact an inspiration for this.

T.S. Garp's The Pension Grillparzer is pretty good, at least in the original novel. I don't recall that it was very prominently featured in the movie.

True story: One of my in-laws hired an all-Polish work crew to renovate her apartment (in her neighborhood of Chicago all-Polish work crews are pretty standard). One afternoon I walked into the kitchen to find three Polish guys with a stepladder in the process of changing a light bulb. I ran to get my wife, hissing,…

It's a real gem. I'm glad they've been able to keep it going. I know it's not easy to sustain a classic theater in a relatively small community. I saw Trainspotting five times there in high school.

It's his birthday today! He's 76, which would have made him only about 66 when I saw him. Crazy.

Truth on the food. Maybe the most underrated musical aspect is the in-store performances. I spent one Saturday in the Quarter just wandering around watching big names in jazz play tiny stages in the back of record stores. I remember Donald Harrison at Tower Records and Los Hombres Calientes at Louisiana Music Factory…

There's a great old single screen theater in La Crosse, Wisconsin called The Rivoli that used to do an annual festival along those lines. I once sat through Dr. Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia back to back at that fest. It was painful but it was glorious.

The best part of Jazz Fest season in New Orleans is all of the side performances at clubs around town. My gold standard is the year I made it out to the Ponderosa Stomp, this three-night affair that pulled out a ton of forgotten rock, R&B and jazz performers and had them play through the night at Mid-City Lanes Rock &…

Parrish Making Double Dollars

I've enjoyed this exchange even if no one else has.

I feel sorry for @avclub-4a41426212472d896dfc021d9e139baa:disqus 's mother!

If you think pH is a common goal it goes to show how little you know.

And what about Magritte? I still get shivers remembering the conclusion of his "Is this a pipe?" case.

Rainn Willson IS Julia Stiles AS Desdemona IN Tim Blake Nelson's O: The Series!