Yup, Forced Entries is a better piece of work. Cause it's not by a teenager.

You Know: Hmm… intriguing. Thanks for the answer.

hey You Know, what was judge's idea for a better ending?

only the second best thing nick castle ever participated in.
…since there's this:

Except Jedi came out before Dune.

burn before reading, that's genius

Mad World
Am I the only one who thinks the Gary Jules version of that song takes a perfectly unsettling Tears for Fears song and cheeses all over it? It always bothers me when people talk about how it "rescued" this beautiful song from a supposedly garish '80s production. Playing something all slow and sad-like…

must've been david felton's finest moment…
outside of rainn wilson's portrayal in almost famous

Good lord… skip the Crack Fox?! The Crack Fox is the funniest shit of all time. "Yeah, that's not the film I meant to show ya… that's the nighttime film, for me in the nighttime… for the fuzzy-tinkle time."

hmm, i think king's quest VI was far and away the best of the bunch, and that was post-talking-owl

Better Off Dead.

the song "poison heart"
might be the greatest, most underrated, most heartbreaking thing that band recorded, particularly once you've seen end of the century and understand how brutally autobiographical the lyrics are. they really capture the vulnerability of being a born fuckup. "no one ever thought this one would…

leonard definitely doesn't win—it's KK DowNing! what kind of metalhead are ya…

yeah, it's them backup vocals that make him essential. and, clearly, his superhuman tolerance of other people's egos.

Araby's really a nice one too—great last line. But there're few stories I know that come close to The Dead.

heh heh. "rack my brains."

Greatest short story ever written.

Yeah, Rourke's basslines on Hatful of Hollow (and others) manage to be both intricate and well-integrated with the songs, which is a tricky thing.

Help! is a blast.

Not that Rolling Stone speaks for all of white culture, but one of the most egregious disses of black guitar gods ever was their "100 Greatest Guitarists" list. Absent: PRINCE.