Really that’s the whole movie, except for the last few scenes, maybe. Narratively it’s a difficult problem to get around since Clementime gets her memories wiped of the relationship before the events of the movie, but a remake/prequel from Clementime’s perspective would a solid premise (whose execution I’d be wary…

That’s the most unforgivable part of CK for me. Having already made the mistakes he did, he knew this day was coming, but made the conscious, ruthless decision to stretch his benefit of the doubt as far as it would go. He just had to squeeze every drop of goodwill he could get out of his career, and “ruthless” is the…

Clearly you haven't watched a little show called WEINERVILLE.

Ansari’s problems were minor, but the impression I get from him is that he had absolutely no self-awareness about his misguided attitudes towards women, whereas Louis C.K.’s problems were (relatively) major, but he was aware of them and actively trying to work on them (albeit while still making mistakes and after it…

A moment in A.V. Club history: Jon Lovitz’s Random Roles interview. He is asked about NewsRadio. https://film.avclub.com/jon-lovitz-1798223402

Well get ready, because you’re our lucky winner! That’s right, you and a guest will fly round trip to Los Angeles to get your asses beat to shit by John Krasinski! You’ll stay six days, seven nights at the world famous Southern California Hospital in beautiful Culver City during your convalescence, whose medium-spaciou…

Woah, calm down a second there A.V. Club. Let’s get one thing straight:  Nobody should be fucking this guy.

Am I the only one a little underwhelmed by the Nothing album? It gets a bit samey in parts, save for a few oddball power-pop numbers.  Maybe it just needs another listen or two to sink in?

The context, as I understand it, is that the song is one of Southern pride — “where the skies are so blue” after all — but at the same time recognizes that the South’s a place with deep-rooted problems that need to be solved.

Yeah, but The Big Lebowski has one thing Rushmore doesn’t... a bored cop playing with The Dude’s drug paraphernalia. 

On the Modern Rock chart only — they use Billboard 200.

I’m personally a huge fan of Scarlet’s Walk. The worst thing about it is the concept, but as a “back to basics” album, it works better than Choirgirl Hotel, IMO.

There’s plenty of good stuff released in ‘98 that did hit the charts they didn’t mention in the intro — apart from Mezzanine, there’s Beck’s Mutations, Liz…

Great list. 1998 was a great year looking back on it — The Shape of Punk to Come is an essential album, as is Moon Safari. Happiest that someone’s showing Mark Hollis’s album some love — it makes a satisfying trilogy with Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock. I would have picked “The Daily Planet” as my favorite song…

Deserter’s Songs is pretty great, somehow. That kind of music holds very little appeal for me (never got why the Flaming Lips were supposed to be so great), and for a while I kept going back to Deserter’s Songs, expecting to find it’d aged poorly. Nope — still incredible, every time.

I’ve worked with pesticides a bit in my time. Glyphosate might be the least scary pesticide.

basically it’s Karen Carpenter, Arethra, three guys from Sha Na Na, and then Mýa.

Music as we know it in 2018 doesn’t exist without Arethra.  R.I.P.

Worse TV Dads than Red Foreman:

Hey there Honky Tango Foxtrot!  We’ll pass around the survey and get it back to you sometime in the next 20 years.  Thanks for your interest in progressivism!

I honestly don’t think anyone could assail the technical skill of anyone in Weezer, except for Rivers’ vocals, which are good enough but aren’t professional-studio-musician quality.