Yeah, it's a good A- or B+. I'd personally give it an A-.

You let me in right now, or I call the INS, comprende?

I'm reading Vineland right now, then I'll move on in chronological (release date-wise) order on to Mason & Dixon and then (gulp) Against the Day. ATD seems dauting, but doesn't it, from what I've read of it, feature a group of kids called the Chums of Chance who pilot an airship, possibly time traveling, who show up…

@Mitch
You nailed it, man.

Man, anybody expecting to breeze through it without paying attention hasn't been paying attention.

Rule of thumb regarding the Coen brothers: If they say they were influenced by something, they probably weren't. Remember when they claimed that they based O Brother, Where Art Thou? on the Odyssey? Then it turned out that they were just having a larf, they never actually read it and were really more influenced by…

Ecto 1 is just the license plate number, isn't it? Regardless, that's what I always called it.

It took me just over 3 weeks to read Gravity's Rainbow, start to finish, and I'm not a fast reader by any means. Unless I'm reading something breezy and brainless like the Harry Potter books (that's not a knock—it's great storytelling) or something, I tend to savor the words and sometimes stop and re-read passages if…

Yeah, I know, I was dumbfounded by the "cast of thousands" comment. It's a few dozen at the most, so that's quite an exaggeration. And it was a very easy read by Pynchon standards. Hell, the plot's easier to follow than The Big Sleep. I loved it; it's a great read.

Check out the trailer for the book and tell me Pynchon isn't channeling The Dude a little bit. (Yes, that's him.)

The Crying of Lot 49 is the logical starting place because of its brevity and relatively straightforward narrative. Actually, Inherent Vice isn't a bad starting place either.

Tuxedo, that was me, just having a little fun at the Prof.'s expense. I've actually corresponded with him, and he was always friendly and non-condescending. I had a couple of hard-to-find Cassavetes documentaries that I sent him when he was working on "Cassavetes on Cassavetes," so he thanked me in the…

Marvin and Tighe? What's that, a buddy picture starring Lee Marvin and Kevin Tighe?

So
Not a Fergie side project?

No, THIS is how you go from arena rock institution to laughing stock in less than 5 minutes.

Regardless, Spirit of Eden still qualifies because even Colour of Spring doesn't prepare you for its awesomeness.

Abbey Road was actually recorded after Let It Be, though Let It Be was released later.

No, the weakest part of Die Hard is Reginald VelJohnson as a Twinkie-munching desk jockey who also happens to be THE SAVVIEST, MOST KNOWLEDGABLE COP IN L.A.

That's ill.

One thing he is absolutely right about
Paul Rudd's reactions (or non-reactions, really, like he wanted to say something but decided not to) —when someone would unknowingly make a sexually suggestive remark, such as Jane Lynch's "My job is to service these young boys" or the "Now let us gingerly touch our tips"…