I'd be much more inclined to call The Mountain Goats "that band that was on Moral Orel" than the other way around. John Darnielle's an interesting guy, but when people say he's a really captivating, entertaining songwriter, I just don't get it.

I love all the classic rivalries. Led Zeppelin or Sun Ra? The Buzzcocks or Faust? Donovan or Nick Drake? Mos Def or the Beach Boys? Can or Nine Inch Nails?

Everyone where?

Nor anything like anything Syd Barrett ever did.

I've never heard anybody say it any way other than "PET Sounds."

I like his current look. He looks like a doofus in most of this 1991 footage.

Gotta love that "let's go fix Iraq" hubris too.

OK. Well, I never know.

Is that funny for some reason?

Motorhead's 1916 is better than at least half of those.

I do, with caveats. I was of the prime age group to get caught up in the, uh, Seingeist right as the show was at its peak. I'm very aware of how the characters are total a-holes, if you consider them as people at all. But it's still funny.
I just felt like the CYE that I sat through was like Seinfeld stripped of…

I could name several, but one I haven't seen mentioned yet is Curb Your Enthusiasm. watched a few episodes once and had no idea why I was supposed to enjoy or appreciate it.

I can understand the appeal in a theoretical way, but I don't understand being obsessed with it, or even excited to watch it.

Bland as Saltines in every single role he ever plays.

While simultaneously loving Inland Empire, even.

And Tom Hanks is ridiculously overrated in general.

No he didn't. it legitimately worked for him.

The After the Astronaut versions aren't nearly as bad as the Weird Revolution.

It's a good story, but I saw them on that tour, and as i remember it they played about 80% new shit before finally closing with some older songs.

It's effectively a technicality that most of the Cheers characters were at work. Virtually nothing was ever focused on but what may as well be called hanging out (and, as you pointed out, relationship stuff).