I'm in the middle of it now.  Its a fun enough read if you like the subject matter, but its pretty poorly written and poorly plotted.  The villians especially come off as ridiculously implausible.  In terms of literary value, its nowhere close to a Snow Crash.

I won't be looking this up or anything, but I think Tim Robbins is well over 6'

Uma Thurman looks like a good-looking fish.  There, I said it.

Oh well. I go through this same shit whenever Pearl Jam are mentioned around here—-its 3 pages of how they are the worst band in history. Strange to me.

They got popular and so their fans changed; I'm sure their shows are filled with annoying frat guys now, and that is a shame. But I saw them live in Aha Shake Heartbreak era, and the fans were decidedly granola.

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the only person who reads AV Club and also like the Kings of Leon.

I regret not buying certain stocks, or making certain Super Bowl bets. It would have been hard for me not to Biff-out given the opportunity.

right, that one

This is random, but there was an episode of Burn Notice last year where the gang was making their getaway in some weird car, like a Ford Fusion. And the dialog included all these BS about how well the car handles. It was a horrifyingly ugly scene.

Everything assumes anything

Spin the Black Circle, Not for You, Better Man, Corduroy, Immortality. But yeah, the others are a little out there.

Of course, it quickly turns into Calvinball when you want to get your band to qualify.

Yeah, I would say five is a big enough number that they shouldn't have to be consecutive, so long as there aren't two duds in a row, which would indicate a funk. One could just be overreach.

I assumed that was because it was sold without a jewel case, and people thought that was a bridge too far

Except, for me at least, Midnite Vultures. I've never heard One Foot in the Grave. Of course, Sea Change is good enough on its own to count for two great albums

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I would argue for pearl jam, from Ten to Yield. This just misses the disliked Binaural (though I love it too).

Don't forget, "Gotta pocket full of rubbers and my homeys do too"

Agreed. They shouldn't get a "pass" for being kids, but if they wrote all those songs themselves they were pretty damned good for a bunch of 14 year olds. I thought Frogstomp was pretty damned strong myself, I guess you had to like that grungy thing to begin with though. Much better than Candlebox and others in…

I haven't followed Silverchair even a little bit since Frogstomp (which I remember quite liking, but I was young), but I did somehow come across a more contemporary song of theirs called "Across the Night", which I like quite a bit.

I tried watching 24, and couldn't make it through the 1st season. It wasn't about right wingedness—-not sure that had started by this point in the show—-but simply that I thought 24 episodes was far too many for the plotline. It seemed that they kept arriving at natural end points only to spin it back around because…