So Cher is supposed to be like 17 in Clueless, right? Which means she was born in 1978 or so. How in the fuck is she a millennial?

One good thing about the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame is every once in a while you learn something. I had never heard of the "5" Royales before reading this article, and based on ten minutes of Youtube browsing, I can confirm that those guys were pretty fucking great.

I've been playing and enjoying Imperial Assault quite a bit. It probably has a bit of a balance issue (seems tough to win as Rebels), but the core dynamic of the game is a lot of fun, and even though it is based on Descent, it feels very Star Wars-y.

So, um, this whimsical little listicle ended on a bit of a down note.

God, that Willie clip is ferocious.

I might point to a cross between "Shoot Out the Lights"-era Richard and Linda Thompson and early Replacements. It's a glorious combination, but in terms of getting anyone to pay attention to them, the early to mid-aughts was not ideal timing. But I'm not joking when I say I think they're the best "M"-band. I think…

I submit The Mendoza Line.

You said "dong's arc."

What did the five fingers say to the face?

Such a great album—I haven't listened to it in a while, but it is one of the albums that I bought and listened to for like two years straight. The analogy isn't exactly perfect, but Townes is the closest thing country has to The Velvet Underground.

Yeah, that's a fun game—opener you'd never heard of that won you over, and was perhaps even the best part of the night. These are the ones I recall off the top of my head. Given our respective lists, I suspect I'm a bit older than you, and possessed of somewhat more chicken-fried tastes:

It's really beautifully shot, too. When she sits down next to him on the backseat of the bus, it is obviously supposed to be a nod to "The Graduate", and calling up that reference is already heartbreaking. But then instead of staying on the iconic two-shot it switches to a series of individual shots that visually…

I agree that their handling of college admissions is unutterably dumb. Real-life Rory would obviously have applied to 7-10 schools, UConn probably would have been her safety (since she doubtless could have gone there for free on merit money), and at some point someone somewhere would have asked her what she might…

Hey local breweries: cliff divers, or gtfo.

Okay, I'm two years late, but you're nuts re the finale. The Lorelei Chris stuff really gets me because it feels real. You hit the age those characters are at and there are some things you want another crack at. Seems like they have a second chance but then life intervenes, and instead of going for histrionics the…

Probably 12 or so years ago, I saw Chip Taylor open for Alejandro Escovedo. I had never heard of Taylor, had no idea what he'd written, and his set was mostly "new stuff" that was terrible—there was a song about recycling that was especially egregious. Anyway, early on in the set he said something about having "made…

Yeah, it's been a while since I watched it, but in my brain it had taken place somewhere in an old industrial midwestern city—there's a particular kind of Edward Hopper urban bleakness in how it's shot. In retrospect, I guess that's just a reminder that "NYC as soulless plastic playground for Russian oil…

Think they'll include the scene where the student radical woman taunts the Swede by exposing her vagina to him? Definitely one of the ten Rothiest scenes in all of Roth.

Agree. It is a natural for a movie adaptation in a way that Am Pastoral (a far super book imho) probably isn't.

Well, looks like I re-up the ol' HBO subscription on April 10 (though I'm the weirdo who is doing so primarily for Veep rather than GoT).