I recommend signing up for pre-sale if just to get those live versions of "The Mercy Seat" and "Mermaids" from the upcoming live Bad Seeds album. They're pretty great.

I'm more of a Two Boots guy.

I never got that ketchup "child" bullshit either. One would think we're talking about cutting our caviar with Fluffernutter here. It's a fucking hot dog.

As a NYC-native and lover of most bread-based foods that usually happen to involve cheese and sauce, I'm okay with this.

That's similar to what you'd find in Italy. Though there it's less "cracker with cheese" and more "melts-in-your-mouth sublimation of everything you ever loved about pizza" style. If you get it from the right place, at least.

It depends. The NYC Italian American style is what I know and love the most, but some of the greatest pizza I've ever had was in Italy. They mostly prepare them as paper-thin individual pies, so that might turn people off if they're accustom to how it is stateside (even though I never really thought of individual pies…

Those places are absolutely depressing. Rome — and I'd imagine most major cities — actually wind up being incredibly hit or miss because of their high concentration such places. When I first visited there I wound up in a couple of real shithole eateries because of that. Fate ultimately steered my party well, bringing…

A movie can be perfect, but the LEGO video game version will always be better.

Yeah, Epcot has that whole "Promise of Tomorrow" vibe down pat, especially if you approach the park by monorail. Also, beer. It's my favorite theme park.

Returning to your hotel after a parade or firework spectacle is about as bad as it gets at Disney. The only one my family ever really sticks around to watch is Illuminations at Epcot. It works out because while everyone rushes back through Future World to catch the monorail or bus we exit through the World Showcase…

I think they're only letting guests rooming on premises make use of that new fast pass feature. The Disneyfication of the 1% if I ever heard it.

Might have been the best thing they played at the Beacon Theatre shows.

Yeah, I'm pretty surprised that I have a chance to see the Bad Seeds again so soon. They mixed up some of the classic material for their European leg of the tour, but as you said, it doesn't really matter. Hopefully they stick with the Beacon for the NYC show.

I watched The Goonies for the first time this year as a college senior. After hearing its praises sung since I was a child who should have been watching the damn film instead of listening to people sing praises all the time, I found it thoroughly charming. It definitely registered as something I would have loved back…

I was in Italy when the original premiered there. The ad campaign was charming; little meatball lights were stringed across various Roman side streets. The best part was the Italian title of the movie, "Piovono Polpette," which roughly translates to "It's Raining Meatballs!" At the very least I can't read it without…

Between the song selection and the DJs, I'm finding it really difficult to settle on any one station for too long. Making me pick between Bootsy Collins and Flying Lotus is fucking criminal.

This isn't about a specific beer, but an Alamo Drafthouse just opened in my neck of the woods and, to be frank, I'm hyped as fuck. Might catch The Warriors this weekend with a choice brew.

That's the great thing about Nick Cave's discography. There's stuff to love to. There's stuff to weep to. There's stuff to maim to.

"Pink Cigarette" can be misconstrued as sexy until you realize what it's about and then feel traumatized as a choir of Mike Pattons send you over the edge.

"You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks," on the other hand…