You aren't alone. It's been a long, strange trip.

I got it just because I knew Bach was right and Handel was the only other composer I could think of that seemed like he could've been born that early and been German.

Episode 1: B+
Episode 2: B
Review: D+

That's what I have engraved on the back of my pocketwatch!

I was wondering about this too. I assumed this would be the outcome too.

I didn't know about this! Thanks for making my mornings at work less productive!

I wonder what would've happened if Kristen had bet everything and missed.

We also love obscure REM references.

I had to look away during the last few minutes of The Entire History of You. I haven't watched White Bear yet, but I've been amazed at how good all of the previous episodes have been.

NPR did a piece a while back on movie scores, and they played about 30 seconds of the Michael Giacchino piece that accompanies that sequence and I had to pull over. It's a masterful sequence all the way around.

I've got Colin Meloy on line 2.

It's a fine song, but I had already heard it a bunch of times when The Smashing Pumpkins did it and it was called "Today".

I actually thought their album was alright. It sounds not unlike a local band's demo that got remastered by a pro later down the line, which is to say, it sounds like the stakes were really low when they made the album and then this song blew up for some reason. So I would argue that while they're not the most…

Ditto. Although I totally wish I had thought of the name "The Mason Jars" first.

That's what she said.

This is the comment my brain wanted to make earlier. Thanks, Wad.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

I thought Bella Thorne was the character's name. Is that not the perfect name for a bitchy character in an under-developed teen movie?

Did anybody see that movie Gigantic? I don't have any hatred for quirkiness: I like Zooey Deschanel, The Decemberists are one of my favorite bands, etc., but Jesus God, Gigantic made me so angry after watching the first 20 minutes that I nearly broke the rental DVD in half. It remains probably the only movie that I've…

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