As a devoted Mudhoney fan, I always loved just how tossed off and lazy their contributions to major motion picture soundtracks were. The pinnacle of the form is "Run Shithead Run" for With Honors. Here, it sounded like they recorded it in one take, then went off to get high with Sir Mix-a-Lot. Thanks for the check,…

There are many reasons Usain Bolt is my favorite athlete on the planet, but this tidbit sort of sums all those reasons up. More goofy athletes who are awesome!

Angry White Guys all over the internet are declaring victory. This cancelling on top of Ghostbusters not breaking box office records is really emboldening the worst parts of the internet. So… yay.

I thought Mike Yard was the best part of the show. Hope he finds more work. He reliably made me laugh.

Probably my favorite album from 1996 is the Modest Mouse double shot of Long Drive… and Interstate 8. But I'd be lying if I said I encountered either in 1996.

Fuck Stummies.

I will always stop down to watch Beautiful Girls if it shows up on TV. His speech about Pooh disappearing is still one of the saddest things I've seen in a movie. Every scene in that movie hits the right beat, and almost everyone feels like a real person. The final fight being broken up by the daughter coming to the…

I was already a Coen fanatic by this point, and this movie was like validation. Though, of course at the time I scoffed that it wasn't as good as Barton Fink. I was just being an ass.

Outside of The Subway, we had the last great Homicide: Life on the Street episode in 1996, Full Moon. One of the great episodes of still on of the greatest network shows. All of the short stories in a seedy motel made for one great episode.

She only has to make up the difference. A mere $75 million.

I rather enjoyed the movie. Oh, and a little girl got up and danced during the final credit sequence at the theater where I saw it. That was cute.

You're No Rock n Roll Fun by Sleater-Kinney is in that conversation. Hard to top the Plan, though.

I disagree that there is no fun music being made, but I do remember the Hold Steady and Drive-by Truckers making the same complaints about the dour nature of the indie scene. So while there are exceptions to the rule, I think your overall point is correct: there's not as much fun rock music being made. I do give…

I always though Mudhoney was funny as hell. Still do. One of my all-time favorite bands, and yeah, I liked turning the amps up to 11 to listen to them, but I think describing them as angry misses something critical about them.

You mean 311.

Well, it's sort of a muddled mush of metal and punk. Sure, Soundgarden tipped hard on the metal edge, but Mudhoney tilted far into the punk end, yet both fell under the same banner (and the term grunge was initially used to described Mudhoney, though it was Soundgarden who put out a record on SST). Throw in the arena…

By 1996, pretty much who had rode the "alternative" wave had grown tired of the whole thing, and the idea of your favorite obscure band getting radio airplay had lost its novelty. It also served to show that alternative only works when it actually IS an alternative. Once it took over the mainstream, it lost a lot of…

The Posette and I initially bonded over our mutual love of Death to Smoochy. I also unironically enjoyed Howard the Duck, despite its faithlessness to the source material.

I purchased the Muncie Girls CD about a month ago. It was literally cheaper to buy the CD and get a free MP3 download than to just buy the download. I keep the CD in my car and it has gotten a surprising amount of play.

M is ridiculous. Way too many bands…