Trust me, Obama had that election in the bag before he even started campaigning. He was groomed for the position for years by Paul (not the singer/songwriter) Simon, and had the full support of Simon's decades-long foundation of political networks behind him.

I always saw the robot/bear argument as a meta-metaphor on Tracy's entourage, which quickly shrank down to two from the half-dozen of the first few episodes.

Shallow Grave is a good bet. I'm not a big fan, but it carries a terrific retroactive pedigree, both in front of and behind the camera, so there's plenty of room for discussion.

I dig Minaj, but MST3K already made this song, and they did it better:

A little of Column A, and a little of Column B. I also really like ol' Bob's approach of taking 30 minutes out of your day to just not worry so much. He never pretended that life isn't tough or complicated or even painful; his laid-back show wasn't meant to be a solution to the viewers' problems, merely a nice…

"The Joy of Painting" with Bob Ross

Funny how the Tour existed for decades before EPO and blood doping, huh? (not that greenies didn't get passed around by some of those guys in the 60s and 70s)

As much as I'm not a fan, it's kinda impossible to argue against "Call Me Maybe's" stranglehold on a good 3/4ths of 2012, including the summer. Before that, I'd say "Umbrella" in '07 and (like last year) another one-two combo of "Crazy" and "Hips Don't Lie" in '06 qualify for the title.

We used to half-jokingly say that you can tell the Song of the Summer by what song is blared from the most floats in the Pride Parade, but according to that barometer, "Sexyback" has been Song of the Summer for eight years running.

There have always been those big summertime hits, but they were simply seen by most of us as hit songs that happened to be popular in the summer. I don't know when it happened, but one day/year someone coined "song of the summer," and now every summer HAS to have one.

"Snowpiercer."

For me, it's "Too Dark Park" and then everything else. That album is a goddamned sonic assault of the highest order, and it's creepy and unsettling as fuck throughout. If a blind person ever asks me to describe a horror movie, I'll just play him/her "Too Dark Park."

There are a couple of gems on "Rabies," particularly "Rodent" and "Tin Omen," but "Worlock" stands head and shoulders above everything else.

I cannot agree more.

There's plenty of forgettable stuff on Wax Trax, but it's worth sifting through to get to those singles (sometimes by one-off side projects) that you'll keep handy for decades to come. Like "Rubber Glove Seduction."

When Reznor can stop bitching about women, he's really a force to be reckoned with (see also, about 1/3 of the songs on "Downward Spiral.") I'm not a huge fan of "Fixed," but that's probably because I love "Broken" so goddamned much that remixes just seemed unnecessary.

One of the things I love about "That Total Age" is how crisp it all sounds, especially in a sea of voice distortion from other industrial bands back then (and since.)

I'll go you one better: NIN - particularly Pretty Hate Machine - is industrial pop. With the exception of "Head Like a Hole," the lyrics to all the songs on PHM are godawful moaning about getting dumped by a girl. N'Sync or One Direction could use those most of those lyrics verbatim with their own style of music and…

Is he strictly Twitter now? I enjoyed his feed, but it's not enough to make me go back to that hell hole.

I showed "Detour" to a new girlfriend long ago. A little more than halfway through, she blurted out, "he's lying! This guy's just been lying to us the whole time!" I knew then that she was a keeper (well, more like a very nice long-term lease…)