You're probably about my age, as I remember that too. We're the thirty-something Silent Generation, it seems.

Six minutes? That statement could have been made in one tweet! He'd've had space for all the emojis he wanted!

Nothing will be as funny as her role in MacGruber. I will never not cackle at her sex scene with Will Forte.

I think she's probably coming it at it from the angle that Chapin came up with the story because it resonated with him for reasons that she doesn't like. I'm stretching here, but it seems to me that Hanna's talking more about the kind of person she imagines being really into this song than she is about the narrative…

It really has. The kids in the audience don't even know who the hell these celebrities are most of the time. It has no impact on their enjoyment of the movie. I'm glad that the big studios have been moving in the direction of at least casting appropriate voices (Zootopia genuinely hinged on those two lead…

It's kind of a time capsule now, yeah. Imagine the luxury of those days when working a job that makes you miss your children growing up was actually a choice!

I agree with her karaoke-based reasons, certainly. It's really long and slow for a karaoke song. I'd be tempted to take it out of the book too.

Lower middle-class white named Idunoe who just inherited a bit of money, maybe?

If there's a bright side here, though (and I haven't seen the movie), it looks like a movie studio finally realized that the US is full of voice-acting professionals working in TV and deigned to hire one for a movie for once. Break down that wall, Tara Strong!

Does it introduce its climax with a song where a line of incidental characters give eyeblink impressions of their lives immediately before being impersonally murdered on screen?

There's a hell of a story lurking behind the first and last ones in that list. I'll be thinking about that for a while.

I wonder. I genuinely don't know what Wes Borland's technical skills are like, as I've mostly heard him in Limp Bizkit and technical skills were sort of beside the point there.

I only listened to it once when it came out, but I distinctly remember another verse or two of new, wretched lyrics. There was something that sounded a bit like a Speak and Spell in there, too.

You've got my ticket. I've never even heard of that and I'm interested. That's a hell of a case.

I never liked Slipknot (though their drummer is pretty good). However, I remember reading an article during their first cresting of popularity that casually mentioned their little-heard first album and the fact that said album was themed around White Wolf's Werewolf tabletop RPG. This was the best thing I'd ever…

Kittie was one of the few big names from my town, so I heard a great deal about them. I didn't like any of their singles, but I respect the band as musicians and hard workers. I also wouldn't ever have thought to call them nu metal. Aside from their time period, do they really sound anything like the other bands in…

And they replaced that part, as I recall, with new lyrics that were among the worst I'd ever heard at that point. It was sort of surreal to hear how bad that version was.

I really liked the only Big Dumb Face song that I heard. Borland, in retrospect, seems like he missed the obvious career arc of forming a supergroup with Les Claypool and then showing up here and there as a hired gun.

I'll be very interested to see that when it's done. At this point, a black and white 16mm doc sounds positively sumptuous, regardless of subject matter (which, by the way, what is?). It seems weird that "everything in camera" should be such an odd thing (isn't/wasn't Don Hertzfeldt one of the last big names to be…

I sort of wonder if a Dogme 95-level challenge issued by and to documentarians would be fruitful. It's a field that needs some shaking up in terms of form. There's so much reliance on the tropes you're talking about that forcing oneself not to use them could prove exciting. Even a simple limitation to use only live…