Maybe it's not as silly of a thing to get hung up on as I thought. It got my goat too.

Hence "sticking in my craw as a total tip of her hand to youthful naivete." I wonder if anyone in her vicinity called her out on it. Doubtful.

As a guy who recently turned 40 and is sincerely invested in the music that some folks who are almost 20 years my junior are making these days, I'm really put off by this sentence of hers: He's only imitating what his curmudgeonly peers are doing - fumbling to hold on to whatever relevance they have left in order to…

I read that Meredith Graves post yesterday. I'm hung up on the fact that part of her argument is built around her impression that Kozelek is closer in age to "Mellencamp and Fleetwood Mac" than to Granofsky and that this informs his behavior. While that's certainly how Kozelek is behaving, like a sour old puss…

And even though her name is "Selina Kyle," she insists that you refer to her as "Cat" or she'll scratch your eyes out. Because she's gonna be Catwoman, you see?

When countless web searches of several variations of "Phil Hartman's junk" fail to yield results, I started to wonder if my pubescent psyche hallucinated the whole thing. You've effectively helped me have some closure around this sketch, @avclub-64f027640f63616a277e92096313264f:disqus. Thanks for that.

That is the essence of Jan Hooks' charm in that sketch right there. Just wonderful. Dammit.

There's an SNL sketch he did once where he ends up taking off his pants and he stands there in tighty-whities, yelling about something or other. I don't remember what the sketch was about and I've tried my damnedest to find it to no avail. But that's ok because Phil Hartman's junk cradled in those briefs is emblazoned…

Yes, indeed. Those were totally my favorite SNL years and Jan Hooks is a huge part of the reason I feel that way to this day.

I'm getting kind of choked up here. Jan Hooks was easily one of my favorite SNL cast members. I used to mimic her Tammy Faye "I rebuke you," defiant hands up and all, and just crack myself up. Loved the Sweeny Sisters. Loved her in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. She was one of those comedians I was always happy to see in…

By way of explanation, that second bit of insight effectively suppressed any ill will I had for many of his past performances. I understand now, Matthew Lillard. All is forgiven.

He teases the fuck out of that Mtume bassline though. You could make a good case for how that adds some tension to the song. But if there was one great change made in the album version it was the decision to let that bassline ride out.

I was interested until this "good with Excel" business. I'm sorry, but I don't practice witchcraft.

That's just it. Are there any kids in the audience? If so, are they being restrained by their parents? I can't see your average kid letting comedy gold like this go unacknowledged with raucous laughter.

They're playing to a very sympathetic crowd. For a sec I thought maybe there was only one guy in the audience. The delayed applause only made me laugh harder.

It was a bit of both, actually. She definitely had a sizable fan base in the U.S. but was poised for bigger and better things. She released what is arguably her best album merely a month before she died. She was also set to be in both of the Matrix sequels in the role that eventually went to Nona Gaye.

While I haven't viewed it so much through the eyes of the jaded curmudgeon I've grown up to be, I would routinely get chills and tear up at the ending of The Breakfast Club when I watched it incessantly as a teen. So that scene in Pitch Perfect totally spoke to me n' stuff.

Godzilla was so much freakin' fun. At the first full view of the king of the monsters, the theater erupted with gleeful cheering from the audience and that only repeated itself with every subsequent monster battle. I had no problem with the human characters, no matter how thinly drawn or questionably performed,…

"But then again, I always kind of liked diagramming sentences."

I foresee no hurdles to your enjoyment of the rest of the album if "Fear of Flying" sits well with you. It helps to have an appreciation of a little more straightforward shoegaze for some of the songs. Give it a spin. It's great.