No embedded music in the article? You mean I have to go to YouTube and find this shit myself?

He spoke a lot about suicide being his eventual end, to the point where his friends staged interventions at various times.
The words in the song are, "I can't prepare for death any more than I already have/All you can do now is watch the shells/
The game looks easy that's why it sells." This is where I get the…

I would add King's Crossing, which is the drug-addicted Elliot Smith talking about his inevitable end. Also Coast to Coast just because it's a great song that rocks more than the usual ES song. I really like Last Call too.

Wacko: "Do you like candy?"
Teacher: "Well, yes, I gue…"
Wacko: "Do you have some?"

I don't think the line, "They're gonna put a Walmart here," has to be taken in the context that Alston puts it in.It may be that somone needed to put a Walmart there. It doesn't mean that it isn't also sad that it had to happen.

I think a good behind the scenes look at MTV would be interesting, but I really didn't like "I Want My MTV." I don't think that books written in that "oral history" style work that well.

It's a movie series and not a show, and I didn't quit watching, but I hated how the girlfriend got killed off at the beginning of the second Bourne movie. It didn't seem like they put any thought into it, they just wanted her out of the story as quickly as possible.

Ethan Hawke, who resembles me, and Linklater directing.

Can it be Joe versus the Volcano?

Shoot to Kill was pretty cool back in the days of VHS. It'll probably come across as a Lifetime movie nowadays.

The Bernard Hermann score to Psycho, the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack, and the Vision Quest soundtrack. There is a video of the Inception soundtrack being played live and it's great.

For Star Wars talk check out Full of Sith. It can be dull when they have a guest like a sci-fi author on, but it's interesting to hear them take different points of view and see how deep they can get on the Star Wars universe.

The AV Club review said the plot was just like A New Hope and there was too much fan service. Well, they were right but it was awesome anyway. It swept you into the story right away and kept things moving enough that the obvious callbacks to the original movies didn't derail it too much. My one complaint would be the…

The description of the protracted scene reminds me of Tarantino's section of Four Rooms. It was a simple set-up, but the scene runs so long that you let your guard down and then, "Wham!" and it's over.

After that last piece of shit, I'm waiting for the DVD on this one.

For a great SNL-related autobiography I'd recommend "Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss" by Tom Davis. I finally took a shot at "Infinite Jest" but bailed after a few weeks. It seemed more like doing homework than reading something I enjoyed. I'll try again someday, though.

Every time I see shrimp on the menu at a restaurant, I have to muster my best Taye Diggs, "Don't eat those shrimp."

Great list. No Code is well represented, and there are also a couple of good picks from Binaural. I think both of those albums were considered disappointments at the time because they didn't have the hits of the album that came before them, but they're both solid in hindsight. Insignificance is sooo good.

In my house there has long been a Ten Minute Rule. If we're watching a movie and someone doesn't like it they call the ten minute rule. If it doesn't get better in ten minutes, we turn it off. Most of the time it ends up getting turned off, but it makes you really stop and pay attention to those next ten minutes so…

That meth-head woman from Winter's Bone is terrifying. I recently saw that actress in Justified and she looks like she's about to beat someone's ass in every scene I've ever seen her in. Don't even get me started on the last scene of that movie where they're in the boat with the chainsaw.