BOOM! Thank me later. "Great Divide" is also solid.

Didn't "Pocketful of Kryptonite" count as a hit too?

Haven't you heard? We're not supposed to eat eggs again. Just stop going to the store.

Do yourself a favor and rectify that. They were a seriously underappreciated band.

Don't read The General in His Labyrinth unless you've done some research on Simón Bolívar. It's the only Marquez I really didn't like, because it assumed I knew much more about the history of South America than I did.

I have listened to this album more than any other album I own. I had preconceived notions about what I thought S-K sounded like before I actually heard them and had no interest. When I got around to listening to "Entertainment," I was absolutely blown the fuck away. I bought The Woods the day it came out, popped it…

Have you read any Kay already? He's an author I keep meaning to read but keep getting sidetracked by other stuff.

I think it's cool in theory that Erikson, by all accounts, has this very well thought out. I just think he's severely lacking in his skills as a writer. He just constantly throws in new races and characters without any context. People praise this series because it's THE MOST EPIC THING OF ALL EPIC THINGS, but I…

I thought Marlowe being a drunk putz was the point. Whiny? Eh… not so much.

I enjoyed The Name of the Wind quite a bit. It was very much small-stakes fantasy. Most of the book is Kvothe worrying about how he's going to pay his way through college, but it's weirdly compelling for being so small scale.

Crying of Lot 49 I was totally following for like the first 2/3rds and then something happened where I just completely lost the thread and then I woke up a day later in a ditch and my head hurt.

If on a Winter's Night… is a ton of fun and a great head trip to boot. I feel like that book can be appreciated on quite a few different levels. You can just do a "light" read and really just appreciate the many styles that Calvino can write in, or you can do a deeper reading and all of his wonderful ideas on the…

I remember stopping for like 6 months smack dab in the middle of Two Towers. I think my problem was that I was getting pissed off that Tolkien was spending two pages on what the Forest of Fangorn looked like. I was like "Dude, they're trees. I know what trees look like. Get on with it."

Memories of Ice, Book 3 of the thoroughly bizarre Malazan Book of the Fallen is now finished. I started off really feeling this one. I've grown to accept that Erikson's characters are going to remain poorly rounded and that thoroughly batshit stuff will be happening every few pages or so. And for a while, I was ok…

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is tops for me, maybe because, like you said, it was the first albums of theirs that I owned. Still, though, after becoming pretty familiar with most of the rest of their catalog, that album stands out for me. It just has such a huge breadth of songwriting on it. They took more risks on that…

His discography isn't exactly overwhelming. Just jump in. This new album and "2" are pretty accessible all the way through.

That's a show that kinda needs to be watched in it's original form.

Why in the ever living fuck are you watching an edited Dream On?

Deadwood would, in fact, be the GREATEST SHOW OF ALL TIME if it had an ending. As it stands, it's only the second greatest.

Whoa. I had no idea that was happening.