I love Chuck, but his most grating moments are when he gets preachy about things that are normally panned. Sometimes his point is valid, sometimes it isn't, and sometimes he is guilty of it himself (by all means Chuck, keep beating that "Courtney Love didn't write her own songs" drum). I'll still read this though.

I like his visual style when filming fight scenes (I never get lost in what's going on amongst all the explosions like I would in a Michael Bay film) and other touches (the opening montage in Watchmen looks brilliantly realistic, like you really get the sense that he's filming real people in costumes which is the…

Despite all the gross shit that the live action parts left in there, they cut what sounded like a great scene from the animated part supposedly: sperm cells working out in the Gonad Gym. Something about sperms running on treadmills is just hilarious to me.

People don't like Unbreakable? When did that start? Bandwagon-jumping on Night being shitty these days, I guess.

I had a really awesome history teacher in 11th grade who used to sneak all kinds of populist-movement stuff into our lessons, like IWW flyers from the 40s and lessons on the Haymarket Riot and Sacco and Vanzetti. What was hilarious was that she used to openly mock one of the go-to favorites for lazy teachers from our…

I gotta go with Pynchon's Inherent Vice (read before I knew an adaptation was coming) and Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan.

Fuuuck. I saw that kid and was like "oh cool, Dewey" and then realized why that was impossible. are they related?

It can happen, I'm chunkier than the rest of my family, and Jackie and Bev were never big. Roseanne was probably an outlier, and Dan seemed like he was more a workmanlike beefy than blubbery so it seemed like he packed it on gradually. Plus if Becky had been Lecy Goranson instead of Sarah Chalke, she'd have gained a…

Rian Johnson would be my pick to direct. He has a great eye for making bleak visuals pop and i'd love to see what he does with a more sepia-toned palette. Plus I think Joseph Gordon Levitt would be a great Tom Joad.

I like Rage Against the Machine's cover of it, but it felt like the subject matter didn't quite reach it. Considering the whole theme of the novel is trying to hold onto hope, that "nobody's fooling nobody as to where it goes" line seems kinda tone deaf. Cool line though.

Ugh I fucking hate that. Reminds me of when they showed Meadow Soprano's dorm room and they made a big stink in the press about how Jamie Lynn Siegler had a lot of input into her own tastes for the decor. Unfortunately they didn't count on Siegler having really childish taste in music for someone her age, resulting in…

What I always loved about Roseanne as far as realism was that they wore the same clothes for years and they cycled them through the kids. I also loved the subtle touches about the house that felt like stuff I recognized (a knitted afghan over the couch, a mudroom with the washer & dryer in the back). They realy knew…

When I used to sell TVs I once had someone refuse to buy anything made in Korea, because he said he left too much of his soul over there to send his money there. Even my grandfather, who fought in WW2, doesn't harbor that kind of resentment. I don't hear a lot from Korean war vets, and it just seems like they feel…

The line is "You clockin' ME. I know I pretty. But I ain't as pretty as a couple a titties."

So a guy shows up late for a business meeting, tries some lame ass business tactic, you shut him down completely and he gives in, and you do business with him and never have to see him again; and as a result you hate a song he wrote prior to that? And no one thinks that's weird? Does Vanderslice not even realize he…

To clear it up, The Impression That I Get is a song about a friend having an AIDS scare and Dickie Barrett saying how lucky he is that he's never been in that situation, "because I'm sure it isn't good". So he's never been in the position where he's had to knock on wood, hoping for good luck of the not-having-AIDS…

It amused me to no end that I rented that around the same weekend that may only-2-years-younger-but-infinitely-more-immature sister rented The Tigger Movie and hearing this song in both. What better soundtrack for amethed-out romp in Hundred Acre Wood?

but I wouldn't play anything by The Boxmasters for my parents. Seriously, they have a song called "Beautiful Door"? He's singing lovesongs to millwork?

Regardless of Eddie's voice, I gotta love PJ because Gossard and McCready's guitars are like a blanket you can curl up in. And Eddie's voice matches the tone of that well, so it seems like a case of "they're good at what they do but its what they do I don't like." Except I do kind of like it, in the right mood.

I'm excited about the punk series, although I've always been a little iffy on Heller as a writer. His redemption for me will depend on how much credibility he affords Rancid.