It was Wilco's Being There for me. I know it came out late in 1996, but I got it for Christmas so it dominated my 1997. Such a huge step up from A.M. and still my favorite band to this day.

I just started watching the TV series "Fargo" and after two episodes it really hit me that Randall Flagg is pretty much Billy Bob Thornton's character from that show. He is more just intimidating and arrogant that outright "magic" in the DT series. The movie made him all-powerful and it just didn't feel right.

I believe the comics started with Wizard and Glass, which makes sense because outside of his battle with Cort that is the logical starting point. I hope they do eventually do the whole series.

Survival of the Fattest was great too
** EDIT ** Wrote comment before reading. I have brought shame to my family.

I said it in a comment below but I will never understand how they took a great Western/Sci-Fi epic series of books and turned them into a reboot of Last Action Hero

The most apt comparison I can make for Dark Tower: The Movie would be Last Action Hero. A kid is drawn into a foreign world where he is shepherded by a mysterious action hero. Also, people chase them.

I saw the Dark Tower. I had read all the books in the last couple of months, breathlessly explaining how cool they were to my very patient wife. We went to the movie and I felt like such a dork for dragging her to it. She put it best: People that haven't seen the movie couldn't make any sense of what was going on, and…

The first four are really, really good. The fifth one is okay. The sixth one is garbage. The seventh one is worth it for the ending but not great overall.

Why of course you can!

Oh no problem. It's so inconsequential that it doesn't even count as a spoiler.

RIP Patricia

This premise sounds funny but….. Jimmy Fallon. Can't do it.

Church Mouth is amazing, Censored Colors was so good, even Satanic Satanist was a really catchy album. I just haven't been able to get into them much after that.

I had a chance to see Jimi Hendrix play a show with Kurt Cobain. Tupac was the opening act and there were rumors that Bowie was going to be there. Then the EMTs revived me. A-holes.

Amazing finale, amazing series, but I'm still a little confused about Kevin… Was he actually dying when he drowned/was shot? I'm perhaps not smart enough to figure out that thread…

She birthed Matt Saracen

We were forced to watch "The Day After" in sixth grade. Can you imagine the uproar if you subjected a class of ten year olds to that now!?

I really, really like season two a lot. I can't say if three is better until I see the ending…

As I have mentioned before, my wife and I hate-watch Walking Dead every single week. We are a living example of the sunken cost fallacy. I asked my brother why I hate the show so much and he explained that when the show was good, every episode made the characters make a decision that the audience could argue about,…

Yes! That's the one. It was a disaster. I was surprised that Weezer played first during that show (in St. Paul anyway), seeing as how they ended their set with a huge burst of Weezer-branded confetti. They actually put on a much better show than I expected.