Fun Fact: The only Roman numeral that's actually an abbreviation for the number is C (for centum, 100). The I's are pictograms representing fingers (& the Romans usually wrote IIII, not IV, for 4; likewise, VIIII for 9, rather than IX). 5 is the hand with fingers together & thumb extended (looks like a V shape), &…

"Me In Honey" is one of my favorites on that record.
And I would second @Dikachu:disqus on both "Shiny Happy People" (the video for which was filmed in the venerable Georgia Theater) & "Radio Song" (which I unabashedly love).

de gustibus and disputandum, I guess.

Lifes Rich Pageant for me, though I suspect it has more to do with just when it hit me. Reckoning is a close second, though.

I lived in Athens for a few years, around when Automatic for the People came out, so I got to see Stipe & Mills around town a couple times (though not Berry & Buck, though some of my friends saw them, too). But I never met or spoke to them, let alone shared a meal. "Cool story, bro" indeed!

First R.E.M. song I ever heard, via the video on MTV of all places. Didn't turn me into a fan, though I liked it OK at the time. Fandom came right after Green, more from friends who shared earlier R.E.M. with me than from Green itself. Reckoning is still one of my favorite R.E.M. records—among my favorite records,…

Wow. The people running your school must have been morons.

*raises ear trumpet*
WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY?

Nobody wants to comment on the shirt buttoned alllll the way to the top?

Class of '88 here. So, um, yeah.

I had to re-read it immediately, it was so fast. I almost couldn't believe what I was reading. I had the same experience reading Dumbledore's death in HP: "Jesus—did that really just happen?!?"

I dunno. The fact that he really loves Shae would make her betrayal hit him even harder. People have been driven to murder for less.

Looked like dark feathers over her hair, & on her shoulders (or clothes made to look like feathers).

Headey fucking killin' it, as usual.

I don't think I'd say "conniving". She's not a schemer, like Littlefinger is. She's just finally accepted that she has to be willing to cheat to win. And she's been pretty slow to learn that lesson.

Eh, he doesn't need to be a fully developed character—he just has to be mean & evil & hard to kill. I don't think anybody is trying to make us care about him.

Or, you know, just stayed a step or two further away. I'm pretty sure he still coulda heard any confession The Mountain might have made from a few inches back.

But he only had to appear to fight, not to survive. Even if he lives, he could be re-re-re-cast for season 5.

Also, if he DOES still have the pillar, it could still work. Eunuchs who've only lost the stones can still get erections, though I don't know how they'd, um, finish.

I wouldn't call it grandstanding, ranting, or even monologeing. Oberyn was obsessed about his sister's—and her babies'—brutal murder. You can hardly blame him for that. But his obsession left him vulnerable, let him take his eye off the ball.