In freshman year of high school, we had to read "Things Fall Apart." Naturally, the word "Yams" became a fixation of the entire population of my grade, to the point where there was at one point a group called "Yam Squad" that was on the borderline of being an actual, legitimate gang. When we took our class photo for…

Oh hell yes. I can't say I relate to this song at all, but this is my favorite Death Cab song, bar none. The way it just builds and builds in anger is fantastic, and there are some incredible lyrics (as with most DCFC songs prior to Codes & Keys).

Daisy confused the hell out of me the first time I listened to it but a year or two ago I listened to it again and it quickly became my second favorite Brand New album (TDAGIRIM is unbeatable for me).

My mom dug up a couple of photos I took as a 5 year old with my first camera from the top in June '99 and posted them to facebook this morning, one of my parents and the other of the city below. Both adorably crooked and undoubtedly bad photos, but I'm really glad she found them.

Cheese is actually one of chipotle's most expensive ingredients, believe it or not. With the lettuce though, we're just told to give almost nothing. Most stores ignore that order and give lots but some managers are sticklers for the rules.

I think most Chipotle employees (and I am one) are happy to give you whatever you want, at least at my location we go out of our way to make customers happy. You want a double or triple scoop of something that's not meat, you got it for free. Guac is gonna be extra though, is that okay?

As others are saying though, you do that to sell copies perhaps, but no one (well, maybe Kanye…) plans on being the most important artist of the decade. It's just not something you can prepare for. The idea that Cobain wanted arena-level success wouldn't surprise me, but Nirvana ended up being beyond simply…

I love WWPJ, but yeah they do tend to have really great openers. Honeyblood are fantastic.

I was at that show too! I had never heard of Frightened Rabbit before that night, and they're now one of my favorite bands ever.

This exact thing happened to me with Battlefield 4. Well past the halfway point in the (already godawful) campaign, I ran too far ahead of the other characters in my squad and fell through a floor that hadn't fully rendered yet (seriously, how does a game manage to let you do that? either trigger loading earlier, or…

Jones would probably be the safe pick. But Williams would be a huge breath of fresh air in a genre mostly led by middle aged white men. Klepper just isn't there yet. He's funny, and I generally enjoy his segments, but I don't think he can hold a show together. Aasif Mandvi would be an interesting dark horse candidate…

It seemed to me that they only brought up that so that they could get the DNA tested. You have to have some sort of theory as to who the DNA might be from, and it sounds like it's easier when it's a convicted murderer (who's dead, so he can't challenge it) to get that OK'd.

Oh man, the first segment of that episode was just insane. Like, how was that a thing that happened, multiple times?

Modern GnR does have an absurd number of guitarists onstage. It's what happens when you try to recreate an album that you spent 15 years overcooking in the studio.

You know, I had never listened to that song until now. Uhh. wow. That's a hell of a way to begin a verse. I totally agree that it sits in that same category with that Mountain Goats line in that "holy shit did he just say that?" way.

Exception: any time Hader returns and does Stefon, because the fun of that sketch is watching him struggle to keep it together while reading absurd cue cards for the first time.

I might tomorrow. And when I street perform in the square later (on Wednesday?), I'm going to play a few of the car-related songs they used as bumper music through the years - the compilation CDs of those were the first albums I ever owned as a kid and they're probably why I'm a musician.

My dad got an invite to speak at a dinner in a few months where Bono will be guest of honor. I'm really hoping I can get in just so I can ask Bono for some fuckin' t-shirts for the Scotts.

But she is fairly attractive…and from what little I've heard that isn't horribly processed and autotuned, she's not a terrible singer. Lucky, probably. But frequently telling someone they suck is absolutely verbal abuse.

(Questionably) fun fact: Casey Affleck went to the same high school that marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went to (obviously, not at the same time).