I remember these posters in the windows of the student supply store in college. But they were completely ignored due to the amazing Macintosh demos running in the same window display.
I remember these posters in the windows of the student supply store in college. But they were completely ignored due to the amazing Macintosh demos running in the same window display.
That's exactly what I did.
I have playlists that I have put together that I dust off when I go to particular places. Driving around the town where I grew up, wandering around my old college campus in the rain, haunting the places my ex-girlfriend and I enjoyed when we first moved to California… I have very specific songs that go with those…
I finally got a chance to listen to the new album. You know what? I really liked it! It's more "pop" than "Pixies", so I can see why long-time fans would be disappointed. But for me, a fan who didn't really discover them until the mid-2000s, I don't have the emotional ties to the band that might color my perception of…
Early and Rusty Cuyler.
My dad took me and my brother to see "Sasquatch" at the tiny theater downtown. That bit about the miners attacked in the shed… When the camera pans, following the miner looking outside the cabin in the morning, and then suddenly BAM! there's a Bigfoot silhouetted by the light… That scared the everliviing daylights out…
Hey! I made the header image!
[Citizen Kane clapping GIF]
Hmmm. Surprising that such a "child of the 90s" didn't get into Billy & Co. But then Nirvana and Pearl Jam never did a thing for me. I don't have a single song by either of those bands in my collection, but Pumpkins… I've got gigabytes and gigabytes.
Josh, sorry to go back a column, but… Did you not have any Smashing Pumpkins in your "S" section? It just dawned on me that I don't remember seeing them in the last purging…
I know everyone references "Swamp Thing" and "Watchmen" and "V For Vendetta" when talking about Moore's genius, but "Promethea" is one of the most conceptually dense and intricately written series I've ever experienced. I pull out the trades once and year to go back through them, and I always find things I've missed.…
Not to take away from the importance of "Private Eyes", but I would argue that "Voices" was the album that made them superstars, and paved the way to their dominance of the charts of the early- to mid-80s. "Kiss On My List", "You Make My Dreams", "Every Time You Go Away"… And the simple yet classic videos for the…
The first name that popped into my head when I read the question:
The worst song of all time is "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson. It's haunted the dark corners of my mind since I first heard it as a kid. And now that I've uttered its name, I will spend a couple of days waiting for my brain to slowly forget it again.
Josh, you really didn't have any Queen? Not even "Greatest Hits"? You've mentioned that you have a lot of stuff in the digital format, but I figured everyone who's a big music fan wouldn't have dipped a toe into those waters. (Queen's my favorite band of all time, which is why I'm pushing the issue here…)
For me, I'd have to say it's "Big Trouble In Little China". I saw it in the middle of summer, with two of my absolute best friends (and my girlfriend at the time who eventually became my ex-wife), and after the movie we went for a long hike. Revisiting the movie always takes me back to that great summer.
I've got a couple of reasons for sticking with my beloved physical movie media. One, the streaming services don't always give you a full HD experience. Depending on your bandwidth and other circumstances, you could find yourself watching a brand-new shot-in-HD movie/show in a resolution that's a notch or two below…
I'm 50 years old, and the first time I heard the song (or even heard of the band) was a couple of years ago when Devin Feraci wrote an article about them. I grew up in a very very rural part of the South, so my music exposure was local FM radio, until I went to college. But even then, I didn't hang out with any true…
Nope. Early Cuyler. Most entertaining TV dad in the history of the medium.
New Line didn't understand what the hype was. The Internet was laughing at the film, not embracing it. No one making GIFs or LOL Cat-style images or anything like that was ever going to actually see the film. We were all collectively giving it shit. But the execs thought people were really excited to see the film.