• Ajax

  • Joined: June 4, 2009
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  • “Entangled Bank”

    My mistake!  I'm leaving the ughs in place though, since Alanis has more than earned them based on her actual oeuvre.

    May 20, 2013 - 7:57 AM

  • “Entangled Bank”

    1) Ugh two times to Alanis Morrissette.  Ugh.  I guess they needed an extra Canadian Content check this week or something. 2) I don't love the cop stuff but I think if we got a chance to get to ...

    May 19, 2013 - 5:26 PM

  • “Entangled Bank”

    Only for Catholics.  (It's technically masturbation.)

    May 19, 2013 - 5:20 PM

  • “Bone To Be Wild”/“Family Ties”

    I just love Crichton's message to his dad, especially the many emotional shades of the score underlying it.  It goes through melancholy, defiance, and wonder, each in its turn.  I was already hooked on the show long before that ...

    May 19, 2013 - 1:05 PM

  • A fan and a newbie catch up on the first season of The Venture Bros.

    You think?  To me, it's pure "grinding resentment of beta males toward alpha males and their effortless dominance."  Dean has never been more his father's son than at the moment he's being told to run along and ...

    May 17, 2013 - 11:29 AM

  • How The Office became one of the greatest television series about the American dream

    Honestly, the part of the final season tension that never made sense to me was Pam's initial reluctance to leave Scranton.  Even Joe Biden left Scranton! Maybe I'm just a deracinated Northern liberal who doesn't understand being ...

    May 17, 2013 - 11:07 AM

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