One of my favorite films, and still my vote for the best debut film ever.  (Yes, I said that.)  Other things to love:

It's one of my absolute favorite scores. (EDIT: there are some great, rhythmically tricky lines for synth strings in the opening and closing titles, and also the best rewrite they did of the Risky Business score.)

OH YEAH, SPOILERS

In the Vic-and-Farrah scene, Kenneth Johnson does some great work, just needing a gesture or two to show how disgusted Lem is.

SPOILERS BUT BARELY

Haven't seen Deadwood yet (and am so very looking forward to that) but the Tony/Bobby fight ranks just below this one.  The difference is (ripping off my own post here) Tony and Bobby are too out of shape to do any serious damage.  Shane and Tavon are young and strong and fuck each other up.

Also, @avclub-5729ca33ae94a781cb6466b86979fa06:disqus , @avclub-6ee934260c80f2e2f9098dcd3e44c032:disqus gave us all this:  http://www.youtube.com/watc… which pretty much defines "lifetime pass" around these parts.

Yeah, I don't think Julien forgot anything; also I don't see what he did as "taking advice from Vic Mackey."  It was more that Vic explained the rules to him, and he understood.

OH WAIT, DOUBLE FUCKING NEWS FLASH, SPOILERS

Shane and Mara, Vic and Farrah, Claudette, Corrine, Cassidy, Trish, Vanessa and Julien, Tavon and Mara, David and Claudette, the cuddler rapist, Dutch and Claudette, David and Deena, and Vic and the ghost of Connie:  these are two episodes that are all about men, women, and their relationships, and all the…

Bach is my favorite (with Elliott Carter my fave among the moderns—you can read some stuff I wrote on the obit page:  http://www.avclub.com/artic… ), but there is fucking well nothing wrong with loving Beethoven.  I am continually astonished at everything he did to transform Western music.  The Citizen Kane comparison…

If you haven't checked out Beethoven's late quartets, do it, like now. More beautiful than the 9th, even.  I've argued that they are the perfect Gateway-to-Geekery for all classical music, because you can move forward or backward in history from them.

Favorite piece of music?
Most underrated piece of music?

Don't worrrrrry about it.

Oh hai @avclub-3f8dbf957cb410962d25ee34837a3555:disqus .  You my best friend!

Wait a minute guys, my daughter's not worth it.

One book a week now, I guess.

Actually, I think ancient civilizations pretty much invented body ointments, etc.; I've seen a lot of small containers specifically to hold that kind of stuff.  And there are formulae for that kind of thing that go wayyyyy back.

Pretty hard to not be better than Greyhound. . .good luck!  What do you pack in your emergency travel kit?  (For me:  Starbucks instant coffee, micro bottles of Tabasco, and a quick-opening knife.)

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG that's so cool!  (We are allowed to act like this.)  My only comparable celebrity moment is that I got to meet John Cage at a Pomona College concert back in 1990.  (He was exactly as nice a guy as you'd expect, God rest 'im.)