Wrecksracer, obviously we now need a list of the greatest really short songs ever.

Back in my early guitar lesson days, I performed the entire song for a Thanksgiving family gathering, reading from an Arlo Guthrie songbook. I imagine it was excruciating.

"All my favorite singers couldn't sing."

It's so bad it goes past good and back to bad again. I like Jimmy Webb but "MacArthur Park" is positively baroque in its awfulness. I'll defend "Wichita Lineman," though. "I hear you singing through the wires …"

Yeah, that was a little gratuitous.

This is the story of Johnny Rotten
"Before it was about being a caricature of someone being irritating, John Lydon's entire career was based on being actually irritating."

JANTLT, thanks. I wouldn't ever do that publicly, it would just be vindictive. This was a controversy and stress-filled conference and I'm only recounting a small part of it. Another highlight was the nastiest, ugliest panel discussion I ever witnessed.

Thanks, Hadou.

"Medium relative to what?"

Part of me is concerned that I am willing to defend Moore and forgive his shortcomings merely because he is on "my" side of the argument. Certainly that could be true. But granting everything you've said, Shane, I still don't see the need to recant. I don't have any corroborating evidence that he is a demanding diva,…

Dreaclio, there are many such movies, but like it or not they don't get his press. He is a bit of an egocentric blowhard but I am hard pressed to disagree with any of the opinions he expresses in this interview. I know the end doesn't entirely justify the means. But if you listen to five minutes of Hannity, five…

Strangely, every letter in her last name is silent.

I agree that poor writing has a lot to do with it. The other factor, the one that probably threads all of this together, is money. Films that are low-budget propositions incur less financial risk and therefore can handle a greater degree of artistic risk. That's as true today as it was in 1940. But the budgets and…

It's fun trying to guess the gender of AVClub posters.

While you're at it, you might want to invest in a little thing called Google.

I have a special place in my heart for Myrna Loy. It's hard to fathom, but somewhere along the line we seem to have collectively decided that real women with intelligence, charm, and wit were less desirable than vacant ciphers with nice tits.

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not a crap idea for a movie if it bites them in the ass.

Saturday night's all right for lighting five for foo fighting farts.

Ouch.

Firstie success, pal. Not that I don't welcome the vitriol. I felt like a dork but I could not help myself.