Selena! SELENA! There is no 1997 without the movie Selena. Maybe it was a growing-up-in-Texas thing, but Selena—the singer, the movie, the legend—was extremely important and still sticks with me. I still think about that movie at least two or three times a week. Anything for Selenas!

I worked at a bookstore in Houston TX about ten years ago, and a kid brought an Animorphs book (one with a boy changing into a bird on the cover) up to his dad, who was standing in line, and asked if he would buy it for him. HIs dad took a quick look at the cover and just said, "Looks like evolution to me." Which…

Melissa Clark's Dinner is my favorite cookbook ever. That chicken and grapes recipe is my favorite way to make chicken. I thought I was done with fish sauce recipes after some way-too-fishy fuck-ups, but Clark brought me back around. And I am incredibly grateful for all the thoughtful tofu recipes too. There are soooo…

I didn't mean it! I take it back! I'm sorry, David Berman! I'm sorry, apples! This whole comment section is messing with my emotions!

Oh, man. Twin Falls is so good. "Seven Up, I touched her thumb / but she knew it was meeee / although she couldn't seeee / unless of course she peeked." I'm not crying! You're crying!

Your greatest-hits-playlist criterion is a good way of thinking about it. The high water mark for me was always There's Nothing Wrong With Love, which weirdly doesn't seem to get a lot of love (at least not in the one or two articles I read or discussions I have about Built to Spill each year).

Tanglewood Numbers immediately came to mind, but I felt bad for thinking it because of how much I love David Berman and everything he put out before that one. We'll always have American Water.

I abandoned Built to Spill after Ancient Melodies of the Future. It's not really Built to Spill's fault, though. That album dropped on 9/11, so it just always profoundly bummed me out. And that bummed-out feeling gradually spread to the rest of their catalogue.

Never really listened to Surfer Blood before, but I feel like I could use this album right about now. The groundhog saw its shadow, and even though this song's called "Frozen" it feels kinda warm.

The YMCA song will produce emotions in you that you didn't know you had.

Didn't realize that. I'll chill.

The title of this review kinda spoils this episode and the episodes before it. I haven't watched this season. And I get that I open myself up to some spoilers for waiting to watch stuff and reading pop-culture websites, but this seems like a multi-episode spoiler.

Absolutely agree. His latest Lemon Demon album, Spirit Phone, is my current album-of-the-year pick, too.

Mirror Traffic is a Malkmus album worth a reevaluation. It's got "Forever 28," "No One Is (As I Are Be)," "Senator," "Share the Red." Just all of it. All of it is Pavement good.

One of these days my wife is gonna leave me for PFT. . . . Unless I leave her for PFT first.

The video is no "Quail and Dumplings," but what is? (y'know, besides "Quail and Dumplings")

Somewhere over the rainbow *hic* way up high…

Having simply read "Can't Do Without You" just now I can already tell it's gonna be stuck in my head for the next like 77 hours.

Neil Cicierega - "Aaron"
G.L.O.S.S. - "G.L.O.S.S. (We're From the Future)"
Royal Headache - "My Own Fantasy"
Beach House - "Sparks"
METZ - "Nervous System"
Colleen Green - "TV"
Kristo Rodzevski - "Kadife" (featuring a really nice guitar thing at the end by Mary Halvorson)
Sheer Mag - "Fan the Flames"
J Fernandez - "Between…

The Number Ones - "Girl"
Ramones - "Danny Says"
Hospitality - "Argonauts"
White Hassle - "Life Is Still Sweet"
Matt Ulery - "By a Little Light"
Smoking Popes - "Need You Around"
Giant Giant Sand - "Out of the Blue" (The Band cover)
Matt Ulery (feat. Grazyna Auguscik) - "To the Brim"
Loudon Wainwright III - "One Man Guy"
Chavez…