I know a guy who was an extra in Kill Bill (the House of Blue Leaves restaurant fight scene). It was filmed in China so most of the extras were Chinese but he's Japanese and spoke briefly with Chiaki Kuriyama. After many hours and dozens of takes he said to her "taihen desu ne" (hard work isn't it) and she said…

I also liked that it's a fairly typical adjective choice after "wild, shirtless" and "bong-rattling" yet Homer says it with the same amount of enthusiasm.

They were actually the first band that came to mind, but then I thought that recollections of the offensively-unoffensive-shitty-blandness that was their multi-platinum selling album were influencing my judgement. But yes, it really is a stupid name.

Y Kant Tori Read

Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?

I read the headline and actually thought that was what was happening.

I would go as far as Top 5, which is probably insane but aside from My Aim Is True, This Years Model and Get Happy I am having a hard time thinking of an album of his as consistently good from beginning to end (though Armed Forces, Imperial Bedroom, Blood and Chocolate and Brutal Youth are all in close competition for…

So great to see this album get some love. A lot of critics cite Delivery Man as his late-period masterpiece, but for me the combination of hip hop production values and top-notch songwriting gives this one the edge. It should also be noted that Costello was infatuated with Ethiopian music at the time - an influence…

Just watched the video long enough to see it came out back in March; "summer song" my ass!

Hell yeah, had Clayton Park come out on Elektra instead of Sweet Homewrecker, things may have gone very differently; at least Joel Plaskett has continued putting out good music since then. And there was a drop-off in quality after the first few seasons of TPB and very little after season 6 worth re-watching (with a…

That is correct; he attended high school in my hometown (Bridgewater).

So much great music came out of Halifax at that time - any number of bands that given the right opportunities and exposure could have become better known on a national level. And the Trailer Park Boys sure made it cool to be from Nova Scotia for a while.

I once played host to a German couple with limited English ability and brought up the few German bands I was familiar with at the time as a topic of conversation. When I mentioned Rammstein they conferred in German and then the female half said in labored English with a somber expression: "We like the music, but we…

Back in the days of VHS, I proudly brought home a widescreen version of the then-just-released Life Is Beautiful from the video store; high-fives from one roommate, while the other one complained about how much they hated the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen and said they preferred "pan and scan" (does…

And in addition to the oft-quoted lines related to Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots, "Range Life" has the line "School's out, what did you expect?" which for me kinda made it the theme song to that weird summer between finishing high school and starting uni. Played Crooked Rain to death that summer.

And deeper and deeper the rabbit hole goes… :)

Well, as they say in these parts: みーつけた！(mi-tsuketa)

Yes!!! I had no idea up until now, but I just looked into it and he's the one who wrote "The City Of New York vs. Homer Simpson". That episode had some funny moments, but as someone who loved the show and still watched it religiously at that point, something always seemed off about that episode - a combination of…

I'd say in this case, best cover = best album

An interesting document for sure, but this sure as shit ain't no Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Whoever wrote that headline is trippin' Jack Daniels.