I'll always have a soft spot for Secrets and Lies because it helped launch my most successful* high school relationship. I finally got the guts up to make a move on the girl I'd been flirting with forever somewhere around the 20 minute mark of that movie. We made out throughout the rest of it. In hindsight I suppose…

Up there among the greatest male lead performances of the 1990s for sure. And on a very different note, I love his scene opposite another contender for that title in The Big Lebowski.

Katrin Cartlidge was so great. Every film I've seen her in was elevated considerably
by her presence. I remember being really shocked and saddened when she died,
especially because I hardly knew anyone who'd even know who she was.

His multiple rape scenes are among the most disturbing I've seen on film because they're so much about mental torture. He repeatedly charms women to the point that they want to have sex with them, then intentionally repels them to the point that they absolutely do not, then forces them to against their will. Just…

A new, hip indie video shop opened in Minneapolis a few years ago. I hoped it was the start of a resurgence of video stores as a niche business, like vinyl-heavy record stores are now. Sadly, it went under earlier this year.

Mine is a Panera Bread. I'll accept that.

As an MFA, I think I can safely say I have never used that phrase unironically.

This is like a gossip column blind item for business geeks.

I got some killer t-shirts there back in high school. I still have my long-sleeve Pulp Fiction shirt and the one with Archie, Reggie, Moose and Jughead crossing Abbey Road, but my Tick shirt is sadly lost to the ages.

"Moistening the brand"?

As much as I mourn the loss of video stores in general – my god, I used to be able
to spend literally hours wandering blissfully around my local video shop browsing titles before deciding on a rental – I can't feel bad about this. Blockbuster was always the worst. They weren't even fun to loiter in.

I would be shocked if that exact thing doesn't exist somewhere on YouTube.

Tarantino's performance is wholly redeemed by his delivery of "Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks."

We watched it on the bus on my 5th grade class trip to Washington, DC. When the sperm appeared, a boy in the back of the bus yelled out, "SPERM!" He got the biggest laugh of the movie, because we were 5th graders.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force's "The Dressing," mainly because I'm deeply interested in hearing what Donna Bowman would make of ATHF.

Don't get me started on early '90s Christian rap. Everybody remembers DC Talk, but they were only for the mainstream. I was more about Michael Peace and SFC.

I'd give you a fist bump of solidarity, but I don't like the symbolic violence of
making a fist.

FOR OUR CONSIDERATION:

I recall a Nick Cave interview, possibly on this very site, where the interviewer asked if Murder Ballads being his best-selling album was a reflection of the public's enduring fascination with songs of violence and darkness. Cave's response was, "No, it's because Kylie was on it."

My favorite moment from Craig Kilborn's old "Five Questions" bit was when he asked Joey Lawrence, "If your album sold more than a million copies, why have I never known a single person who owns it?"