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Nice! I tried out for College Jeopardy! years ago. I passed the test, and I got to play the mock game, which was fun. The producer lady called me "adorable," so I thought I had a genuine shot, but I didn't do as well as I could have and I never got the call. Of course, the odds of getting on the College version aren't…

Allison Jones! Awesome! I'm sure nobody remembers this or cares, but I specifically requested a Random Roles with her about two years ago. And now my wish has come true.

The only group I can think of seeing more than once at the dollar store is Naughty By Nature.

This film does take me right back to high school even though I've never seen it, because all of my friends in HS were really into it. I never read it
because it seemed like exactly the sort of thing I would hate. Your hate-posts are confirming most of my prejudices about the book/movie, but weirdly they are making me…

Hey, what about "Lightnin' Strikes"?

And I didn't even mention that the first 500 LPs come with a free golf tee!

Thanks for these recommendations. I haven't kept up with Tzadik in a while, but I'll definitely check out some of these releases.

Nice to see someone else repping for Nails.

Lazily reposting my list from the Best of 2013 article—-

I don't remember a show about advertising, but I was, of course, being cheeky. They actually showed a lot of great world cinema. I used to record movies off of TV a lot in that period, and Bravo was a godsend — Aguirre; Blue, White, Red; Rashomon; Amarcord; The Sweet Hereafter — I recorded all of those, among others,…

Back in the fin de siècle period, Bravo used to air this movie constantly. It was pretty much just this movie and episodes of Inside the Actor's Studio on an endless loop.

Henley often had to sing while drumming, so I guess we should cut him some slack. But the drumming is usually the weakest element of any given Eagles song. Henley rarely varies the beat, which gives a lot of their songs — especially the ballads — a kind of plodding, wheel-spinning, very non-dynamic quality. The…

People should most definitely buy that Frisk Frugt record. Though for the squeamish, I will point out that it's streaming on Spotify.

I enjoyed this one. My dad and I stumbled on it on TV, neither of us knowing the central idea. And we couldn't figure out why Allen's performance seemed so strange. He was talking to people without looking at them. It just seemed odd. It probably took about 5 minutes before we realized he was supposed to be blind. I…

Listed in vaguely preferential order, but mostly just in the order I thought of them —

"You and Me," while undeniably a terrible song, is interesting for being the only popular hit of the last decade I can think of written in 3/4 time.

Another Woman is one of Allen's most interesting films. The dialogue is written in a highly artificial style, which I imagine might throw some people off. But it's got a very unique structure, and Rowlands' performance is fantastic.

Can I recommend Jonathan Rosenbaum's fairly lengthy piece on Gertrud? It made me realize how truly magnificent the film is.

I accepted at the outset that the Evil Dead remake was going to be a completely different film than the original. And I enjoyed it. The problem is that it seems to want to be its own movie, but it borrows way too many moments from the original. That said, I liked the gore, which was over the top but still visceral.