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I love, love, love Elton, but I would be perfectly happy never hearing “Bennie And The Jets” or “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting" ever again.

I dislike both Shayamalan and most comic books, and I still loved Unbreakable.

Oh, that's how we first bonded.

On the flipside, my GF and I ended our first date listening to "Under Your Spell" and it's been "our" song ever since.

I have it on good authority that at least one person read this thread while walking down a hallway.

And in Byrne's case, he's always been very upfront about where he's drawing inspiration and tries to keep the names of other artists in the conversation.

The moment I almost gave up on LOST. (paraphrased from memory):

No, you'd have to publish a severely abridged "graphic novel" version with every bit of nuance removed.

Syndicated means it's being sold to individual stations around the country to fill time slots not committed to programming from their respective networks.

You can flush a toilet with a bucket of water. I assume the zombies haven't chewed through the concrete sewer pipes.

Scissor Sisters are on "indefinite hiatus".

I'm 99.999% sure that's a bootleg / fan compilation cover.

Many of the same people who complain about a Netflix price hike will happily spend more on 4 drinks from Starbucks between now and Friday.

Random thoughts on this season:

The passengers should've known something was up the second all the lighting on board inexplicably turned teal.

I'm pretty sure Body Language (NSFW) did far more to hurt them in the US than "Another One Bites the Dust" ever did. The latter was a huge hit. The former… not so much.

Yep. "Hot Space" followed two years later and essentially ended their U.S. career until Live Aid. Though, it wasn't a full rebound. Their last American concert took place in 1982.

'80s Queen > '70s Queen. The band experimented more and covered more ground in their last full decade together than they did in the one before. Don't get me wrong, they did some truly great, groundbreaking work in their early years, but the end of the '70s album cycle leaves me feeling like they painted themselves

…out of a parking spot. I'm running into our favorite chicken place now to grab us some takeout. We can save fine dining for another night. :)