Hip hop is just as nostalgic as any other genre of music, if not more-so. The first paragraph mentions reverence for Illmatic as a form of nostalgia, but the album itself is filled with nostalgia for childhood. (It's got a track called "Memory Lane," and even the title comes from the line "Time is illmatic.") Ready to…

Has no one mentioned Topper yet? Motherfuckers! Few films so perfectly exploited Grant's not-trying-at-all charisma, at least so far as most other roles required him to have a profession and usually to be good at it. If Cary Grant the character and not Archibald Leach truly existed in reality, you'd want him to not…

"All Pavement albums are great, and Malkmus's first solo album is also great," is the way that sentence should have read.

I suppose the rhyme itself isn't particular remarkable, but I'm quite taken with the couplet "Punjabi's finest/bring me your wine list" from "Pink India." Damn it that's a fun album.