I've heard of Nazz, but I think the only song I really know is "Open My Eyes". You have a decent claim on this song, though. The fills have more of a Keith Moon vibe than a Bonzo feel.

Coda is overall a pretty great album, odds 'n' ends though it may be. That live (soundcheck) "Since I've Been Loving You" is epic, & "We're Gonna Groove" & "Walter's Walk" have terrific momentum. "Bonzo's Montreaux" is a little too overproduced for me, but still has some impressive shit. And I, too, really dig…

None of these are bad choices, @avclub-cf4b19e32ce29fef04468ac9d2a6787d:disqus, but if we're picking based on drums (I myself am a mediocre drummer, but I hit 'em pretty hard), for me I'd probably pick:

You are correct that the split is happening between the root verb & its compounding prefix, though I would still argue that once you make circumdare a word, if you break it apart you're still splitting it. Anyways, the more important part is that claiming split infinitives are wrong in the first place is BS, so I…

Split infinitives are not only possible in Latin, they're not even particularly rare. While present active, present passive, & perfect active infinitives each consist of just one word, even they can be split if the verb is a compounded form—e.g., circumdare, "to encircle" (i.e., to put something around something) can…

Yeah, these are the kinds of movies I avoid now. When I was younger, I made more of an effort to see movies I thought were somehow important, even if they seemed like they'd be a drag. One year, in an attempt to see all the Best Picture nominees as possible before the Oscars, Mrs. Neophyte & I suffered through both I…

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Stilted actually works pretty well for the stylized formality of LotR's elves.

Maybe, but then why even make it? Or set out to make a different story, & don't call it what it isn't. Harumph.

Both of those songs are actually ABOUT Christmas. A non-Christmas song can become Christmas-y by association, but you can't un-Christmas a Christmas song. It is known.

To this day I refuse to watch either Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat or Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. They're both live-action abominations. Both books were already rendered, to perfection, as half-hour animated cartoons. There was, & there remains, neither need nor room for improvement.

"Linus & Lucy" really IS a Christmas song, though—it was composed specifically for A Charlie Brown Christmas So even though they kept using it for other Peanuts stuff, it's not really a non-Christmas song.

We sang this song in a group when I was in 3rd & 4th grade (so, '78-'79). We'd all gather for "Sing-Along" a couple times a year—sat on the floor in a common area while a teacher played piano & they projected the words with and overhead projector. The way I remember the lyrics is:

One Christmas we left The Steve Miller Band's Book of Dreams playing over & over on the 8-track* while we decorated the house. Now those songs always give me a Christmas vibe, though it helps that one of them is "Wintertime". Not sure how old I was—8th or 9th grade, I think. I don't remember doing that more than…

I dunno—sounds like a pretty easy gig. That's basically what Reiff does here.

This has been pitched by Mrs. Neophyte as a family activity, so if we do in fact watch it, that'll be at least four.

So YOU'RE the one!

You know, he DID say "Well" a lot!

You're welcome!

Did you really mean to describe Jackson's early splatstick as "viscous", or did you misspell "vicious"? Works either way, I suppose.