I knew a guy in college who LOVED Hum until he saw them live and they were drinking beer on stage. He then made it his mission to tell all his friends what bad guys Hum were.
Anyway, hi Ray, it's been a while!

Downward is gorgeous, but nothing on it clicked with me the way "I'd Like Your Hair Long" did. Seeing Hum play that live on 120 Minutes (along with Sunny Day Real Estate doing "In Circles" and Radiohead doing "Just") was a huge turning point for my musical tastes in high school.

RIP John Popper

"Meet our new replacement guitarist! His face paint represents his character, which is The Guy Who Accepted 17% Less On His Contract Than the Last Guy!"

At least, not in the terrible trailer that aired before Jungle Book!



ETA it's more like they took the dopey cook from Ratatouille, shipwrecked him, and got a bunch of Madagascar reject animals to collectively be his "Remy." Minus the Pixar magic, plus extra "haha the animal bit the pirate's butt" type humor.

The new version is about the silly talking animals who live on the island where he crashes. And then there are pirates, and the silly talking animals help Crusoe fight the pirates.

I thought the movie was well made, but for a family night out I consider it a loss when 0 out of 4 family members leave the theater going "that was really good."


My wife and 7yo disliked how intense it was & thought we were going to see a "funny talking animal" movie. My 5yo was pretty bored by it. I thought it was…

I didn't even know it was her. It was an interesting way to change the story (put his "origin" in a flashback / hypnosis sequence), but yeah, a pro voice actor who can knock "wicked snake" out of the park would have improved the scene.

The movie is pretty intense, and really only has a few "goofy" moments. The middle section where the kid and the bear meet is the one time the intensity lays off for long, and Bill Murray makes a good lazy bullshitting bear. I didn't know anything about it going in with my family, and overall they did a good job of…

I thought the kid was fine. He hit all the emotional beats that he needed to. Plus, he occasionally did the same dopey stiff-legged walk that the cartoon Mowgli did in the 60s cartoon, which seemed like an odd thing to reference, but it was subtle.

My kids are excited about Pets. My wife offered to take them so that I don't have to find out how terrible it is.
Crusoe looks so bad that I'm glad my kids don't seem interested.

Sometimes, part of the fun is imagining what fun you're about to have.

Donald Sutherland always looks like he's thinking about getting you alone in a broom closet.
James Woods always looks like he's thinking about the order in which to saw apart your still alive body.

"We're here! We're queer! You are NOT going to want to go in there for a while!"

It's cool. We all know you only stick around for the monologue in case they're doing one of those monologues where the character of "Lorne Michaels" is just "off stage" so that he can "react to what the guest host is doing during the monologue when they're supposed to be monologing."

"Everyone's got to chase their own dream. You find the 'R that you want to git done, and you git to it. When you love your work, 'R is never truly done."

"At least, that's what the suits at NBC told me. I just went along with it. I'm not one to argue."

Who knows why they do what they do. I'm still trying to figure out why they eliminated the "Not interested" option.

Please answer in the form of a "You might be a redneck if" joke.

You might be a redneck if you read @disqus_KdAtzlPck1:disqus post and no, you can't think of anything better.