A Big Star fan trashing someone else for being too earnest? Alright, now I'm just confused. I thought the whole point of punk was that it was about cutting out all the corporate bullshit and saying what you really feel, man. I'm cool with that, it's just that punk fans seem to think anything longer than three minutes…

Nah, it's OK. Some people just can't handle it, I understand. Look, don't make yourself suffer on my account. Go listen to Pavement or some shit.

(googles "Katie Findlay")

I'm not a parenting expert, but ragging on your teenage son for having wet dreams seems kind of dumb, and cruel, and gross. Whole movie seems like that, actually.

Alan Silvestri on why "Theme From Jurassic Park" sucks real hard.

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME

You listened to three damn minutes, if that! Jeez, you prog-haters are implacable.

I don't see how a draft would change that, though. I've heard arguments like yours and I see the appeal, but ultimately I can't get behind it. Even if I could trust the government to run it fairly and cleanly, I think making people suffer until they 'get the message' and demand change is just morally wrong, never mind…

Policy plans that revolve around punishing people until they get the message usually don't work, never mind the morality of them.

Sigh. I always want to like the left-wing rock anthems more than I actually do. This one's pretty bad, but the nadir of that genre is probably NIN's Capital G. Again, good message but man, those lyrics clunk like lead weights. ("I'm sick of hearin' bout the haves and the have-nots/ have some personal…

I guess it works if you're from New York, but they didn't have that excuse.

I once tried to make common cause with a hardcore punk fan by talking about how I liked The Clash. He said The Clash were a shitty band and not punk. These guys deserve the crap music they saddle themselves with.

Yes, let's! Glad you agree.

Let it all out, man.

Seems like that would be a great way for theaters to exponentially jack up the prices of the good seats, so the "standard" $10 ticket would get you wedged in the way back or the neck-strain section, and you'd have to pay $30 to get the good seats.

And nothing of any value has ever come out of those comics with the shitty meme-faces.

"Jeez, their songs just go on forever! And everyone's stoned out of their mind, amirite?!"

Musically I confess I'm pretty much on their side (I've never sent racist hate mail to NPR though), but like the libertarians or MRA's they often are or are becoming, they're the definition of a vocal minority. I've met many more kids who don't recognize that anything older than five years even exists. Both groups…

Well, as long as shots are being fired, my music hell would be half spent with some Steven Hyden-esque rap hipster telling how Kanye West is "the foremost musical genius of the 21st century" and half spent with a bunch of punk snobs going on about how their favorite shitty lo-fi bands from a shitty local scene 20…

I get the sense that a lot of them are coming at things from a hard-sciences perspective, where there mostly are right and wrong answers, and anyone who argues against the evidence is simply an idiot. Obviously, they're not all like that but it does seem like a trend.