You're assuming there's something wrong with juvenile. I find your assumption lacking as it invalidates 95 percent of rock music, including many of the classics, dear Mr. Dooshbaghe. Now, good day to you!

Good call on Hawkwind. That album is singular in its genre. Of course at that time, Hawkwind really was their own genre. No one had that combo of heavy metal/punk and space rock. And certainly no one did it was well thereafter.

Hugo is a good movie, god damn it.

Or Blut Aus Nord.

The NES "Exodus" is hit and miss, but the NES "Quest of the Avatar" is one of the better versions of it (even if the admittedly catchy music is insanely repetitious).

Frightened Rabbit sounds like the kind of band name a metal band name would kill and consume.

That's the Solstafir Candle.

Which wouldn't have been that bad if she had literally nursed him with her teat.

I'd hate to say it, but I wouldn't want to look at a model or "hot" actress naked all the time either. It's like the Seinfeld episode where they contemplated the dark side of having a woman naked in your apartment all the time—there's nothing appealing about a naked body engaged in mundane activities. Nothing wrong…

Anne is one of my favorite characters. It's true that they never give her good story, but I can't imagine the show without her. She's often a moderating voice of sanity, and brings a kind of moral earnestness to the show despite her obvious (and very human) failings. She's just incredibly charming, easy on the eyes…

Dustin Hoffman is one of the few old-school method actors that's still around that hasn't descended into total self parody. Mad props all around.

I like the Princess Bride soundtrack. I find it very charming. However, the Ladyhawk soundtrack, holy shit, is it inappropriate. If they had used a more conventional symphonic or quasi-period soundtrack, it would be a stone cold classic rather than a diamond-in-the-rough cult movie. And let me be clear it has nothing…

I like the utter awkwardness of his character in Existenz, especially with Jennifer Jason Leigh at her coyest and sexiest showing him around Cronenberg Land.

It is funny how common that guy with "serious technical knowledge and questionable taste" is. They're everywhere. As for his album, I like it so far and I think it's a grower. Definitely wouldn't want to issue a snap judgement on it. It's a bit too subtle for that. I have noticed that it doesn't have as many…

Well Texass, I've been writing about music for about 15 years, and while I don't give my own opinions or writing all that much credit (I'm strictly average), I wouldn't call myself some random jagoff with an uninformed opinion, at least with respect to writing about music. The whole point of my post was to suggest…

I'm not really sure what "professional reviewer" even means really, other than the paycheck. What is the qualification for it? Do most popular music critics actually hold degrees related to music, do they understand the technical aspects of it? Because as far as I can tell most professional music critics these days…

Well, that's going for a naturalistic look. Miami Vice wasn't, I think, unless normal Americans wore Italian suits and loafers and drove around in Ferraris. My assumption is that it featured unusually sleazy looks, a disproportionate degree of New Wave style and quite a bit of haute couture.

Comedown Machine? That's a really inspired and original rock album title there, yessir.

I dunno, I love Miami Vice, and part of that love is the New Wave aesthetic that permeates every level of it. Maybe that's because it's actually heightened and aesthetic versus showing people as they actually looked. Anyone who remembers the 1980s better than me (was 12 in 1990) want to chime in on this? How…

Herzog has been directing documentaries and feature films since the early 1970s. I don't think liking him has anything to do with hipster credibility or branding. Believe it or not, there are actually people over forty years of age who were into him before hipsterdom or NPR had the pop culture cachet they have now. I…