On second thought, I think he's looking at the lights.

Look behind you, it's the remains of SkyLab.
I like the look on Bale's face in the photo here. It looks like he's thinking, "For fuck's sake, man, this future is amateur."

I think it also makes for a fairly solid lead-in to "That's what she said."

Best actual critical blurb for this movie:

Shit, you beat me to the joke.

Episode 89: Streethawk! A Serenade.
The fact that these books are not focused around the obscure musical adventures of Dan Bejar and his magical cape of bones is disappointing to me.

Honestly? My initial reaction when hearing the premise for this movie was "Oh, a serious movie about comedians. You mean like Punchline. Because that is something you want to emulate." I'll still see this in the theater, and as with my usually grudging expectations going into Apatow movies, I'll probably come out…

Don't worry, guys. I'm sure he can bounce back from this. All he needs is to just stare at us with his arms raised in a challenging gesture, screaming with disdain that we can't handle how "real" he is.

Firefly fans ("Browncoats", which sounds more like an awful sexual maneuver) at one point started a fundraising drive to amass the 30-odd millions of dollars it would take to produce a second season of the show. I think you have your winner right there.

Oh wow
Matt and Kim finally managed to write another 4 songs. And then stretch them out to 11 tracks. Maybe now they'll be able to shake up their live act a bit, instead of playing the same set list from the last 3 years.

ATTENTION THE FLAMING LIPS:
jesus christ just give it a rest already

Oh man, a hammy actor from an overrated nerd show? Sign me up!

I thought you said you were a writer.
We'll be hearing from that crazy wrestler. And I don't mean a postcard."

Smile was actually something of a miraculous exception, where he went back to his old perfectionist standards of getting take after take to make the vocals work. But on albums like "Gettin In Over My Head" and his "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" rerecordings, it seems he was settling for what he could get after…

The Brian Wilson story continues to be a damn shame.
As long as I live I will probably feel an intense emotional connection with all the heavy psychological complexities that Wilson conveys through his compositions. But his lyrics always seem to drag that down a notch. He never really got past the simplistic pop…

What a bunch of schmucks you are.
So the impression I'm getting from the reviewer is "this isn't the kind of music I wanted to be listening to at the time I was supposed to be reviewing an album on its actual merits." Which I guess is totally professional by AV Club standards?

If my walkman fades…
Have fun at San Diego Comic-Con, internet nerds! I hope you never come back.

hey, terrific
Hey, does that mean they finally announced the River-To-River schedule for this year? The shows at the Seaport and Battery Park were like all I did last summer.

A correction:
FYI, the "As made famous by" line in Rock Band doesn't mean they couldn't get the rights to the original recording - at least, not always. Most often it's because the original recording masters aren't possible to split into separate vocal, guitar, bass and drum tracks for the gameplay. Either the masters…

Except Costa would have been 15 in 1997.