Yeah, the later ones are a bit bumpy, but there's still some good stompers on Diamond Hoo Ha, and I was pleasantly surprised with Road to Rouen. Have you heard Gaz's solo albums? It's a different sound, but it was a random purchase of Matador that got me going back to listen to Supergrass.

Yeah, that was my whole purpose in teaching it, too…part of a "how to empathize with an unreliable/unlikable narrator" thing. Maybe their failure to get it was a blessing in disguise for me, though - if I couldn't convey the beauty of this story to a bunch of college kids who claim to want to be writers, then maybe…

Seconded. Her memoirs are great and pretty quick to read, and her novels are witty and sharp as hell, a lot more literary than just some typical actor vanity book. I usually describe Postcards From the Edge as a sort of Jay McInerny/Tama Janowitz type book with a Dorothy Parker sense of wordplay. Be forewarned,…

Ahh, yes, that final passage. It's so beautiful, it kills me. And these kids were like, "wait, so, like…the bartender was his mother the whole time?" The few who actually bothered to show up to class, that is. I thought to myself, "yep, back to temping I go!"

Such good stuff. I used to teach that story, back when I was teaching. Actually, in my last semester, my students' indifference to that story was one of several things that made me never want to teach again. But anyway. RIP, Denis Johnson.

Same - I've wasted half my afternoon on this one comments section alone. Hearing people talk about their giddy childhood Star Wars joy just does not get old.

I'm fairly sure this is how I die. Someone goes back in time and plays this video to 18-year-old, X-Files and Bowie-obsessed me. And my young, uncynical heart explodes with joy.

Yes! She totally nails the way he would kind of…talk with his teeth together. Am I describing that right?

I only wish I could upvote this more.

I can't remember a single, life-changing moment when I saw Star Wars - it seems like it was just always there. I remember having ESB and RotJ on video, taped from TV, and they played in a near-constant loop alongside movies like Neverending Story and Ghostbusters and Labyrinth. We didn't own a VHS copy of Star Wars…

One of my earliest memories is getting to lead story time during kindergarten. I read a picture book of Return of the Jedi to the class. At the time, I was really proud of myself and my reading skills, getting to sit up in front of everyone and be the kindergarten big shot, but in retrospect, I can only think of my…

Ahhh, those Burger King Star Wars glasses. I still had my Lando glass until just a few years ago, when my boyfriend dropped it in the sink. I'm still working on forgiving him.

I made my boyfriend watch the OT with me before we went to see Force Awakens. He'd seen ESB in the theater without seeing the original back in the day, didn't care for it, never went back to watch the entire trilogy. (He was in his late teens at the time, thought he was too cool for it.) When we got to the scene…

The Pitchfork review was pretty insightful, and I'm not usually a fan of theirs: http://pitchfork.com/review…

I'm not ashamed to say I enjoy the hell out of his latest album.

Personally, I'll always be sad about the missed opportunity of having more of Leia in Episode 9. But, given the choices of recasting or having a CGI Leia, both of which might be well-meaning but ultimately emotionally vacant, I would actually be okay with them killing Leia off-screen, especially if the last image we…

Better casting than Shia LaBouf, or that fancy lad in the young Han movie.
Somewhere in the hinterlands of the interwebs, someone did a side-by-side gif of Ford in Apocalypse Now and Driver doing his "Matt the Radar Technician" bit from SNL, and there was actually an uncanny resemblance.

I'm with you on this. I would 100% have an Inspector Gadget-like closet filled with just that Leia outfit.

Though some of his side projects aren't to everyone's taste, there's a shocking amount of quality in Bob's output.

They've been on tour for a while now. Looks like this is just the last leg of it. I saw them play for 3 hours on New Year's Eve. Bob's still got it!