One song, “Lounge,” actually appears in different forms on both Modest Mouse’s This Is A Long Drive and The Lonesome Crowded West, with the revised version exemplifying Brock’s improved ear for song structure.

Thankfully it wasn't Talking Shit About a Pretty Album.

Oh, Marah…

For me: Good News -> Lonesome -> Long Drive ->We Were Dead/No One's First -> and then the rest is a blur from here, but I think -> Fruit/Everywhere -> Interstate 8 [used]/Sad Sappy Sucker -> Moon/Building -> Whenever You See Fit

Long Drive may be the MM album I come back to the most.

Is that Eat Up Martha's ex-avatar?

Don't you understand grades, Alex? … Do you?

WHAT KIND OF SHOWS ARE YOU WATCHING, DENNY??

WHAT KIND OF SHOWS ARE YOU WATCHING, DENNY??

— A.A. Dowd

— A.A. Dowd

Don't worry about it.

Don't worry about it.

But what about Joe Pantoliano?

This film just won't cut the crust, will it?

No hula-hoop, no deal.

No wonder he won't come back to host SNL, the way YOU treat him! Hmmph!

This and that other film are tied for worst film of the year.

To pimp thy ride? Or not to pimp thy ride?

That's actually, like, the first thing I knew him from (was too young for Oz).