But is there hot, sweaty, grunting tennis action before a gripping climax on an out-of-control carousel?

I haven't heard it myself but I was pretty surprised to learn he had a side project involving one of the guys (the one that isn't dead) from Telefon Tel Aviv. That makes me think you could quite likely be making a good point.

Yeah, it's definitely not a 'thing' in the part of New Zealand I grew up in and have always found it odd and amusing when portrayed in American television.

So Todd, in that story you were pretty much Homer in Dancin' Homer???

I used to really hate them and I still get pretty bored of their sound (it's just a bit too bland for me, and I'm aware this is entirely personal and not a slight on anyone that loves the band) but they do have some killer songs, like Falls on Me, Imitation of Life and Electrolite

Speaking of charming, watching Fox last night, I heard a rather amusing story. This character named Martin was feeling rather… randy and he was heard to remark…

Happy was the one on the corner of Tory and Vivian, right? My abiding memory of that place was being pissed off by the cash-only bar every time I was there. Bodega I have fond memories of, particularly because I met Kim Hill there once!

Oh man that gig sounds like it would have been awesome! Where was it?

Or Stand, the REM song that sounds almost identical to Shiny Happy People.

Having now looked it up on Wikipedia, I think Universal's marketing must have been poor because as a 9/10 year old who ate up all sorts of that crap (I saw and enjoyed Batman Forever at the cinema), I'm sure I would have been begging my parents to take me if I'd heard of it! It's possible that after it flopped so…

Ha, when I read that list of films I thought to myself "I am not aware of any of these films but I bet @avclub-b750f74544cb00c138079607276995e9:disqus is!"

@avclub-4c56756898d633b36107f305da70351d:disqus I worked out recently that it was only between the ages of about 9 and 25 that I didn't nap during Christmas Day. It's now my favourite part of the whole thing - stuff myself with amazing food, drink quite a bit of sparkling fine then fall asleep in a comfortable…

@avclub-4c56756898d633b36107f305da70351d:disqus Even if you're not attempting to be racist, it's a pretty ignorant and intolerant think to do. You're essentially saying "This guy's name is weird and different from the culture I am familiar with so I'm not going to bother to spell it correctly.". Even ignoring the…

The only film I've ever walked out of was Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls. We were extremely excited and went to the midnight opening after drinking heavily. By the time of the car chase through the jungle, I had put inhibitions aside and started hurling abuse at the screen. When the monkeys started…

The woman that got Phil Collins to help her write a torch song has always stuck with me.

I thought Nora wasn't dead yet?

With the new expansion, Civ V is pretty much the only thing I want to do. That on my PC and Fringe or Lost on the TV took up most of my weekend because who needs socialising?

That guy from the hatch gets his own flashbacks? This has made my day!

A pretty boring weekend from this end. On Friday night I rushed home in the rain to play Civilization V: Brave New World with a friend from back home which took up about 8 hours. I love what they've done with the latest expansion, it really makes the later game (where I usually just give up and start again) much more…

We had to leave for church halfway through episodes of the X-Men cartoon. I was never able to discuss the conclusion of episodes with my schoolyard chums and it hurt. It still hurts.