Love Other Music. But yeah, the employees are a mixed bag.

When I was 15 I thought my parents were pretty cool when they let me go to a Smashing Pumpkins concert. With my friends. If my parents had gone with me, I might have murdered them.

Seal, Kiss from a Rose, I worked at Blimpie's.

Man, I don't think I've ever been as disappointed by a TV show as I was by Studio 60—my expectations were so high.

Yeah, people talk about Nirvana like they just surged up out of nowhere, but throughout 89-91, there was definitely a growing amount of new rock music on popular radio or MTV that didn't fit the hair metal model—the stuff you mention, but also REM, Jesus Jones, Sinead O'Connor (all of whom were certainly less "out…

It's also just a weird critique of this movie, since the two leads appear to be pretty much middle-class, and both less well-off than their former spouses or their friends. Both characters live in what look to be cookie-cutter, well-worn 2-br ranch houses. We see Louis-Dreyfuss's character go to work over and over…

Yeah, I guess I like this movie quite a bit more than that. Or at least the parts of it that are delightful (and the review names many of them) are so delightful that I'm willing to overlook some of it's flimsiness.

The timeline of Spencer's career isn't exactly clear. I believe they said that he's 38, which would mean that he was born in 76 or 77, which would mean his pro career probably started right at the tail end of the 90's. So I would assume that he played for some other team for a long time and then came to Miami? But…

Not really a moment, but the whole sequence of Lolita where Humbert recreates the diary entries in which he describes day to day life at the Haze household, and specifically how repulsive he finds Charlotte Haze. It's savage, but it is very, very funny.

I agree that I liked the S2 finale better than the S1 finale. Definitely preferred Season 1 as a whole, but it sputtered at the end where Season 2 went out with probably its strongest episode.

I didn't catch the crayon thing when I watched—that's great.

I really liked the Billy Bragg one. Still, the original is pretty un-toppable.

I think the point of including the ad was that it was for a business that specializes in collision damage to cars, and the Rock was getting tested to see if he had sustained any collision damage to his brain. But I might be reading too much symbolism into a show called Ballers.

Saw the Old 97's on my 21st birthday. I wasn't a big drinker at the time, so it was nice to be able to embrace the new privilege of being able to attend 21+ shows. Damn good show, too.

Obviously some of it is just the hooks, which I suppose you either like or you don't, but for me, the thing that makes the Stones so repeatedly listenable is this kind of warm growl that sits in the back of the songs, especially once they hit their real "classic rock" period in the late 60's/early 70's. It's…

If you think the Stones were a bunch of English public school boys "ripping off" black electric blues, there's really no intellectually consistent way you can avoid thinking that Parsons was a Harvard dropout "ripping off" various white country giants.

It is interesting how, even though it is a movie about misfits and weirdos, it largely avoids the "slobs vs. snobs" dynamic that has characterized most ensemble goofball comedies since Animal House. It's more like "weirdos sealed off in their weird little worlds" than "slobs vs snobs".

I spent the summers of the late 90's working as a counselor at a summer camp where my boss was a woman named Beth. Suffice it to say I have always loved this movie. In addition to doing lots of brilliant genre-spoofing, is also a great spoof of the experience of being a counselor at summer camp. In particular, the…

I hurt myself laughing the first time Dennis gave the speech about how he is going to wear another man's skin because that is how you get off.

Jayson Williams to OJ Simpson is five moves.