I only exercise so my skeleton doesn't try to leap out my mouth and escape my body. It's a rare condition called Bonus Eruptus.

I have a deep affinity for this album. I had forgotten about Hum until I heard Stars again on the Saints Row 2 soundtrack. Now I play this record on repeat - while I'm cooking, cleaning, exercising, driving, everything. It's ethereal and melancholic but avoids self-pitying angst. It's retroactively become a top 5 90's…

I read this entire article with Elliott Kalan's voice in my head from The Flop House.

I liked the movie as well. I saw it before reading the series and came back to it afterwards and somehow had more appreciation for it.

While not necessarily a song about nuclear devastation, I think "Chemical Bomb" by the Aquabats deserves a shoutout. Its perky melody and irony may be a little heavy-handed but I enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It's horrible meeting people whose work you admire. You have all these great questions in your head that just fall apart when it's your turn to talk. You Wind up sounding like Chris Farley in that SNL sketch where he's interviewing Paul McCartney.

I bought my wife and I tickets to a symphonic LoTR performance for Christmas a few years ago. They projected The Fellowship of the Ring and played the soundtrack as the film ran. The overture instantly brought tears to our eyes. It was a powerful experience and I'd love to see the other two films. Sadly, all the other…

My favorite this year is the manga Ajin. It's incredibly illustrated and so nuanced in its characters and tone.

I'm listening to the audiobooks right now for about the third time (I enjoy reading them, but prefer Jim Dale's narration). My plan is to finish Deathly Hallows on Christmas. I've been paying close attention to the Christmas scenes and this article perfectly captures everything that makes them so interesting.

I'm with you, Darke - I have nothing but love for the show and fond memories of watching it with the fam. My mom still cracks up thinking about the Sinclairs shopping at Kave Mart.

Chilly down with the turkey gang

I'm so glad Magic got mentioned here. I saw it years ago on a whim and it really is a creepy, effective movie. Dolls, dummies, and puppets are generally freaky, but it's compounded by Hopkins' unhinged performance.

I saw Beach Slang a few weeks ago at DC9. The guys in the band were in rare form: joking, fucking up songs and having to re-start, rambling, playing each other off instrumentally mid-tirade, then absolutely nailing a song with this blast of energy. It felt real - like a bunch of guys playing a basement show for…

I had similar experiences trying to show this album to friends. I still remember fuming in the passenger seat of my sister's Volvo after my friends laughed at me for putting Sparkle and Fade on the CD player.

My favorite from Raising Arizona is, "Do you know what recidivism means? REPEAT O-FFENDOR!"

My two favorite things about Atlanta are Mastodon and their crazy puppetry scene. This was an awesome combination of both.

My list of unfinished games is a billion times longer than the games I've finished. For some reason I just lose interest and move on - it's almost certainly an attention problem. I have a stack of unfinished games at the moment: Far Cry 4, The Last of Us, Final Fantasy VII, Xenogears (third playthrough), Katamari…

I'll just stick with Psycho Pass. It plays off the same sci-fi tropes established by Philip K Dick but with a more original premise. I like to see new franchises rather than a TV reboot of a movie that came out in flippin' 2002.

I'll go to bat for Hank Hill. Red's funny and all, but I think Hank is a surprisingly deep character.

I'm fascinated by Killer Queen and watched it for a long time but still have virtually no idea how the hell it works. I wanted to play it at this year's MAGfest but the lines for the game were insane at all hours of the day and night. Must be good. Hooray for new arcade games!