Years after it came out, I heard "Fly" on the radio, and paid attention to the lyrics for like the first time in my life. It makes no fucking sense whatsoever. The whole damn song makes me mad.

I'm not a connoisseur by any means, so maybe there's other somewhat-decent stuff, but "Someday" is the one Sugar Ray song that deserves to exist. Everything else is Axe-covered boardwalk shit, but "Someday" has a fair amount of pathos to it. I wonder if they recorded this song and were like, "Uh. . . guys, is this an…

Monster is a really strong midlife crisis album - on the surface they're all like "See! We CAN rock, assholes!" But deep down it's still a regular REM album, and thank god for that.

He's probably got a hula hoop!!

Actually, being the guy who started this thread - I don't have a nostalgia woody for CDs, and I feel like you took one fairly open-ended sentence I wrote and went on the snotty defensive with the "pops" and such and just assumed I'm defending the format. All I was defending was the fact that, in 1997, that's basically…

I read this and think, there's no fucking way this author was older than six in 1997.

Yeah, Monster somehow managed to show up excessively in every used CD bin. I have a theory people were just buying it to sell it again, so it kept showing up in the same used pile as before.

Yeah, it was actually more plaster and bamboo. That original Godzilla suit barely moves at all, in the wide-angle shots you can tell he's doing everything he can to just walk across the set.

Sadness. He really was fantastic at portraying giant monsters, even though they were fake he managed to imbue them with a good deal of personality. I'd always hoped I'd get a chance to meet him one day.

Sorry 'bout that man.

God bless you, Mr. Herzog.

That… shit, you're right.

Fair enough.

In all fairness, most of Ted Leo's best stuff has always had an air of "recorded in a carpeted basement with 8-foot-high walls" sound to it. I think it's just how he rolls.

No better time than the present to honor the work of the criminally undervalued character actor Dwight Frye. RIP Renfield.

Agreed. It's the closest we get these days to Stewart's Daily Show circa 2002-2006.

Man, gimme a beak!

I'm pretty sure Lucas was a fine director, "American Graffiti" attests to that. It's more, he's a fine director who works great with a team. On the prequels, there was no real team, just a bunch of yes guys who didn't dare question him.

Hey, I was the music director at Fancy Ray's church for 8 years, that at least counts for half a stamp on the card right?

So, the fact that this comes from St. Louis, and looks pretty disgusting, is a good enough reason for me to have lived in the Twin Cities for more than a decade and never heard of this, right?