Ironically, titanic isn't a good movie to watch.

Made it there again yet?

It totally was about rooting for them.

That's pretty funny, but they do have plenty of time to screw us over in the next go round.

I feel a real kinship with all that.

For me it's Ran vs. Fletch.

I think eraserhead is such an easy pick for '77

Argument could be made that, exactly in their glitzy, derivative shittiness, one of those Tarantino wanna-be films actually best epitomizes the '90s. Like, say… oh jumpin' Jesus, I'm blanking on the name of it, but that one with Willem Dafoe and the two Irish killers. The Bouffant Exegesis? Whatever it was.

My take on TV shows is to do it in terms of what was the best thing on TV in a given year. e.g.,
1978 Saturday Night Live (seasons 3 and 4)
1979 Fawlty Towers (season 2)
1980 M*A*S*H (seasons 8 and 9)
1981 M*A*S*H (seasons 9 and 10)
1982 M*A*S*H (seasons 10 and 11)
1983 M*A*S*H (season 11)
1984 Late Night with David…

Regarding movies, I say
1978 The Last Waltz
1979 Apocalypse Now
1980 Raging Bull
1981 My Dinner with Andre
1982 Koyaanisqatsi
1983 Vacation
1984 Stop Making Sense
1985 Ran
1986 Blue Velvet
1987 Wings of Desire
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ
1989 Last Exit to Brooklyn
1990 Begotten
1991 Naked Lunch
1992 Bad Lieutenant
1993…

I like that list.

I had no idea this was making the rounds right now, but I've done this list for movies, books, TV shows, and albums.

Reminds me of the Traveling Wilburys track where Roy Orbison did the Pretty Woman growl like twenty times. Like "hey everybody, remember this thing that made me famous? Well, here it is again!"

I could've respected this more if the lyric at 0:45 was "yes, yes, wanna sniff your butt."

But words do come to no longer mean what they "actually mean(t)." Often. These things that "make the language worse" are just individual pet peeves. (I keep mine secret, so people can't go out of their way to annoy me with them.)

I think that kind of thinking may get at how it came to be used in that way, but I think people's meaning is completely plain when they say it. (They don't care.) In other words, I think people sometimes treat the language use of others like rigorous lines of code ("he used two negatives, therefore he means the…

It's on my shelf, but I haven't read it. There's always Pinker, e.g. The Language Instinct. I also not long ago read an interesting one The Last Lingua Franca, by Nicholas Ostler. I also recommend reading Bryan Garner.

I have it, and though I'm uncomfortable saying so (because it looked like excellent scholarship), I found it a fairly dry read when I started it. Would you say that that changes as the book goes on?

Nick Drake mix.

Not when you're down in that… kind of sandy place and there are chains and you have to get keys and then that floating face flies after you when you're carrying it.