Yeah, fair enough. My larger point stands.

They may be garbage, but they are not unwatchable garbage. You're approaching them in the wrong way. By any conventional yardstick, yeah, they're probably silly, stagey movies. But why would you use a conventional yardstick for John Waters? They are full of weirdness, and his casts are game, and they are some…

I would say say, yes. Most bands are improved by having a lead singer that can actually sing in tune. Granted, yeah, you're still doing novelty ska, but still, have some pride in your debasement.

Is it a rule for novelty ska bands that the lead singer can't carry a tune?

My mom was a fairly progressive folk singer, educator (though she did not use booze, drugs) and even she was horrified when I bought the first issue of the Kiss comic book and she looked at the photo supplement w/ pics of Simmons covered in stage blood & breathing fire.

As a person who was the appropriate, pre-teen age during this era of Kiss, I can attest w/ absolute certainty that the band did have an aura of crass dangerous mystery that alarmed the bejeezus out of boomers who came up on Peter Paul & Mary and, oh, Santana or whatnot. Simmons had not yet fully revealed himself to be…

Has Mike Binder ever created anything that didn't just reek of mediocrity? Mind of a Married Man should be reason enough that no one ever lets him write or direct anything ever again.

Bill Nighly *is* awesome in Love, Actually. If one could just extract that part from the rest film that surrounds it.

yes, I'm going to take your opinion on philosophers seriously.

I wasn't excusing myself, I was acknowledging that it was a featherweight correction.

I just watched it again. To be the pedantic pop culture dbag, she appears to be just some random extra at the end. Not on the scooter.

Just refreshed my memory by watching the video, and a couple more Len tracks. I guess in our over-sexualized culture it could be read as a little oddly affectionate. Or, you know, they could just get along really well. Who knows.

Oh nos, a band of 20 something kids with a hit song about coming down from ecstasy used their video budget as an excuse to go somewhere fun and party! How dare they.

The phrase half-assing it comes to mind.

"I wanna retweet memes"

Aside from being generationally predisposed to like most of these 90s-era one-off hits (give or take a Gin Blossom or Marcy Playground), I think that only Harvey Danger & Chumbawamba had catalogs that were interesting outside of the song they're remembered for, and perhaps the album said hit was on. I bought the Len…

War Buddies from Little by Little.

Whether you love the song, merely like it, or hate it, I think we can all agree that Deer Tick version is fuckin' objectively terrible.

Somewhere along the line I wound up with an MP3 of the Kidz Bop version of "Bette Davis Eyes". They did not change any of the words. Did you know that song is about a one-night stand?

You're not describing an economic system, you're discussing commerce. Commerce is an aspect of capitalism but it is not the whole.