Agreed. Their first album was very good; the second managed to build on it.

Thank you!

I think it's been pretty apparent from the outset that you haven't put very much thought into this! Anyway, it is lame of someone else to respond to this comment that you don't care about! Which you posted! And which you've followed up on twice now! Sorry for sneaking into your private diary hidden under your silky,…

Yes! There's no way an A.V. Club reader might want to see A.V. Club video content on another video site they patronize regularly, especially one that makes it easy to subscribe to desirable content by putting it in a simple queue! I didn't know you could watch Undercover on Hulu until now, but I sure wish I had waited…

Yeah! Because readers of the A.V. Club don't want to hear about a concert put on by the A.V. Club! Or about content that will be featured on the A.V. Club!

I hope the covers are all obscure Ryan Adams side projects that he only released on his blog. Or alternately, Kenny Chesney songs.

This is great news.
A fantastic band. A LESSON IN CRIME wowed me like no other album has this millennium (and everything since has been top-notch, too).

Yeah, the use of phones in The Matrix (pretty sure it didn't have to be a phone booth per se, after all, just a phone hardwired the right way) is pretty clearly a sorta steampunky nod to telephone lines being the early conduits of the mainstream internet. It's not a nod to Bill & Ted; you're just high (we've all been…

Actually, as I note in a thread above, Simmons wrote about flashback in HYPERION, which was published well before either STRANGE DAYS or "The Albertine Notes" came out.

I really dig the Endymion books — I wouldn't call them retcon after retcon; it always seemed to me like he was finally revealing stuff he'd set up in the Hyperion novels. (That said, it's been awhile since I read them.)