I loved "Age Of Ultron", but it was obvious from the start of the film that it had been edited down to within an inch of its life. Some of the action beats in the opening battle seem like they were "frame-shaved" to death. Even the exposition scenes didn't breathe that well. A batch of deleted scenes have been pretty…

This has been a busy weekend. My wife was down south helping her mom and sister with some stuff, and I had a break from work, so I decided to just veg out for three days and wallow in pop culture awesomeness. So, this weekend, I have:

I was just semi-enjoying the show, but when he showed up at his custody hearing dressed as Batman, something clicked, and I was giggling like a madman. I was hooked for the rest of the season. It was a great show… can't wait to see Season 2.

Cornershop. One of the few bands I still love enough to pick up their newest album without hesitation. Like most people, I discovered them through "Asha", but the accompanying album, "When I Was Born For The 7th Time", so blew my socks off that I hunted down their back catalogue. And I've been a loyal fan ever since.…

How in the world did EARLY CUYLER not take the "C" spot? He's the worst - and GREATEST - dad in pop culture ever.

Seconded. This is one of the few horror movies I own on physical media (the excellent Scream Factory Blu-Ray in this case). The story is incredibly original, the mask effects are awesome, Dan O'Herlihy is a god, and that Silver Shamrock theme… Fantastic! I watch it every Halloween weekend.

"Indie Cindy" is not bad! It's gotten slammed on the AVClub by old-time die-hard fans, but it's not the crap-fest they make it out to be. Is it "Surfer Rosa"? Or "Doolittle"? Hell no! There's no way it could be. But "Blue Eyed Hexe" is deliciously disturbing (and loud), and "Jamie Bravo" is a multi-harmonied pop gem.

I guess any additions down here are going to be more personal than logical, and since it's not "what would you get rid of from 1991" and I can't nominate "Nevermind", I have to gleefully throw Alanis Morrisette's "Jagged Little Pill" into the Expunge-O-Meter. Her Nirvana-style screamed-not-sung faux-angry-young-woman…

This will probably get me laughed off the boards, but for me, it was hearing the Howard Stern Show LIVE on a local radio station for the first time. It was July 1995. I had just started a huge new chapter of my life, moving from NC to Silicon Valley with my then-girlfriend. We had just moved into a new condo. We'd…

July 1995 I upended my life, moving from a small corner of North Carolina to Silicon Valley. That was a big year, with a lot of big pop culture milestones, the biggest of all (for me) being Matthew Sweet's "100% Fun".

Grand Budapest Hotel for the win. Funny, dazzling, wrenching, tense, euphoric… It's an amazing achievement. I cannot WAIT for the eventual Criterion Blu-Ray.

"Wiggles". My friend and I have used that nickname since the episode aired. Still makes me laugh every time. It goes hand-in-hand with "Pickles", the premonition-bot from the "Minority Report"-ish episode.

I went to see The Posies in order to see Velocity Girl open. And I didn't stick around for The Posies. A very dumb move on my part. But Velocity Girl were wonderful.

You guys can scoff, but "Coach" was a great show. Jerry Van Dyke was fantastic. It had a certain something that set it apart from typical crappy sitcoms. Unfortunately they did a "Roseanne" towards the end with the movie to Florida, but the first four seasons or so were immensely entertaining.

Oh man, the "Amazon" episode… I remember when Bender uttered "How about you interface with my ass… by biting it!", I started laughing and couldn't stop for almost half an hour. I had to stop my tape and just sit there, giggling and chuckling, until it finally left me. Same thing happened with "The Critic", when Orson…

"Rolling Blackouts" was the soundtrack (along with Sleigh Bells' "Treats") for a very difficult period in my family's history. Things were so damn bleak, but that album kept my spirits buoyed. I probably listened to the first 7 songs over and over every day for about two weeks. I am beyond psyched to finally have this…

If I'm writing, I listen to jazz. Classic era, 1954 thru 1962 or so. Davis, Getz, Baker, Coltrane… That stuff puts me in a good mood.

My favorite is "Let Me Give The World To You". Such an amazing song. It straddles pop and rock in equal measure, with one of Corgan's strongest hooks.

The subtlety of Daryl's "You were just tryin' ta help him" to Aaron, after the loss of the horse, was really well done. That was the first sign of Daryl's hardness beginning to soften.

Oh my God… I swear I read the title as "Martha Plimpton joins DOC Savage's ABC pilot". I'm way too into my pop culture heroes. I need a life.