Werkmeister needs defending?

I think your use of the term "burdensome" is wise, and that, for me at least, the long take in Birdman even becomes somewhat oppressive. First, once I copped on to what was going on, I marveled at the audacity of it (hadn't a clue going in), but then I found it increasingly - well, not annoying, because I loved the…

Oh, but I am sort of friends with Nathan Johnson, and once published some of his "found poems" about drumming in lit mag I used to work for. You can find a few of them here: http://www.pilvaxmag.com/wp…

I don't know these guys too well, but man did I play the hell out of Hold Me Up back in the day. When I finally got to see the Goo Goo Dolls in concert (they were, um, opening for Bush), I had some sort of radio station meet and greet tickets, I was really excited about. Then, they didn't play a single freakin song…

It's a good point. Rock n Roll (and all it's offspring) obviously has massive blues roots, but the role of Appalachian music and other streams of Scots-Irish music in formulating not only the blues, but country music (which rock also took a lot from) and country blues and so on, often gets overlooked in these…

Um, do you see the comment where the titles all have "dance" changed to "chance"?

I think @gryffle:disqus made my fuckup clear enough. But thanks, though.

yeah, I seem to recall him having been pretty cool about the Red Hot Chili Peppers "accidentally" ripping off Last Chance for Mary Jane, too.

Also, all the weirdness of the room contributes to the half-awake, half-asleep dream-like nature of the whole thing, to me anyway (my kid just likes trying to find the mouse).

Really like The Good Girl a lot. As the review says, she's pretty great in Friends with Money, too. And I recently saw the so-so Elmore Leonard flick, Life of Crime, and she's pretty good there, too, again with a weak script.

All of it?

It's a one-in-a-million role, for sure (currently re-watching Buffy, and here work is amazing and keeps getting better. She's not alone, but damn).

I don't think he slams the door (been a while), but yeah, it's sort of dickish. I think he gives him a faux sympathetic/better-luck-next-time sort of look and then, buh-bye! In fact, as touching and happy as a lot of the ep is, most of the characters have hit the dreariness re-set button by the end.

Dude, I'm far too old to be a hipster and I've never worn contrarianism very comfortably.

Hell, I'm sure I missed half the jokes or more and much of the structural nuance of Lebowski the first time I watched it, too.

I didn't have to watch it over and over to find it funny (that's why the "again" part was in parentheses!). I laughed the first time though AND I enjoyed the way its structure messed with my expectations - oh my, at the same time! But like all the previous seasons - perhaps more so in this case - S4 rewards…

Agreed! Loved S4, mainly because of the way the structure makes you learn to watch it as you go (and go again).

Yeah, I think if it had lasted longer, this ep would likely be higher on the list. Like I mentioned in another post, every ep is a gem. However, I'm really happy Guttenberg's birthday made it.

The Gute's birthday . . . made it!

Would love to see Party Down on there. Every ep is a gem, but (don't know titles) The High School Reunion ep and the one with Steve Guttenberg's birthday are sitcom magic.