I'm certain he's not the only paedo lurking in the subway.

That's the worst version of the hokey pokey I've ever heard of!

Given all the spambots who are secretly mindless robots regurgitating randomized phrases into a crude, hideous mockery of human speech, I suspect that understanding the very words they write is not their strong suit, but they can still LOVE. They can create, and not only destroy.

And more power to them! I grew up loving Errol Flynn movies*, Laurel & Hardy, and the Universal monster movies, and no, I didn't grow up in the 1940's (I'm 29). So there are definitely exceptions, I just meant that there are a fair few kids (especially teens) who don't have that attitude.

Gee.

Favorite bands… hmmm, I love the Who, although that might be colored a little bit by the fact that they were the first band that I ever really got into; the first album I ever bought with my own money was Tommy, on CD. I got into them as a teen because my parents were big on British comedy, and they picked up a…

My parents weren't anti-music, but definitely always played music purely as background noise (on the fairly rare occasions they played it at all), very quietly. Usually movie soundtracks if my dad was the one choosing the music, or Johnny Cash, Harry Belafonte, or the Clancy Brothers if my mom chose (throw in Tom…

Horrible realization: by the time they're teenagers, there's a good chance they won't want to watch an "old movie" like Fight Club.

Never forget.

How disappointing.

At this stage, I wonder if he isn't a gentile who heard that some other guy was Jewish and figured to himself "—Hey, I can steal that!"

Get saucy!

I will give it a little credit for referring to Arwen as Aerosmith. That was a bit clever.

[Spike Lee tweets Bruce Springsteen, Richard Harris, Bill Murray, Clark Ashton Smith, Pinky and the Brain, and Gertrude Stein's* respective home addresses.]

Mmwwaaaaaaaah, the French.

Psssst… in Battle Royale, in Kawada's death scene, he has a boner.

Ceci n'est pas un pénis.

I doubt it, from what I understand he tended to target women who had nascent or shaky careers in Hollywood so that he could intimidate them into keeping silent. He probably wouldn't go after an established actress with a ton of friends in the industry who was also well-known to the public. Too risky.

That's a good theory. Mine was always that Americans picked up the cliche because they had to figure out what "people from a massive empire" would sound like, and the British had been dominating that category for a couple centuries, so they made the association that way.

It's true, they're Greeks so Hollywood has more options. If they were Romans, they'd have to have British accents, though (I don't know why this is).