what did i tell you? that's two strikes. don't make me use your full name now. and if you must, please respond with something that's at least somewhat grounded in reality.
based on your supersaturation of this thread about kevin james and a dead giraffe, i am inclined to ask you how you define "spare time." or, more to the point, shouldn't you be doing some proofreading?
to be fair (read: nicer), i agree with you in principle that it should be james', but i don't think using james's is any less grammatically correct, just different aesthetic preference. moreover, i think quibbling with something like this really takes away from the greatness of this post, which i grawl lawl lawled at on multiple occasions.
back in the u.s.s.r., ob-la-di, ob-la-da, and glass onion are clearly three of their worst post-help! songs. i mean, glass onion is a song about the songs that make up magical mystery tour.
and your mother should know is one of their more underrated songs. it's quite lovely.
i just don't understand why you've decided to present yourself this way. i don't know. someone earlier said there's a reason we don't say too much about ourselves. and ultimately, it's because we don't have to. it doesn't matter who you are in real life. these people have worked up reputations with their wit, their ability to type, and their ability to navigate the internet. those are the skills required to, what?, fit in in a forum like this: be under twenty-five or have otherwise acquired computer skills somewhere and be able to express, in writing, consequential things that pertain to a certain conversation begun by some particular post. it's almost selfish, what you've done. you're using videogum to gain attention, to try to be someone somewhere. and that's cool and all, but you're going about doing it in such a heartbreaking way.
i dono. i love wonderwall. it's weird that there's multiple comments like this one, as nobody (up to this point) has said anything negative about oasis' music. their singles off of what's the story (morning glory)? are pretty integral in what got me hooked on alternative radio in the fifth grade, and, therefore, fairly influential in the music i listen to today, though they themselves may be not-so-conspicuously missing from it. so, i don't know. i guess what i'm trying to say is, tone it down?
"I started to post as him as if I was posting as my own middle school self; confused and just trying very hard to be liked"
your middle school self, you say?
i wouldn't really call that nerdy. it's more just common sense. you've neglected to mention plenty of shows, but i see one glaring omission.
seinfeld was a show set in nineties new york that revolved around four thirty-something assholes that hung out in a coffee shop.
it's always sunny in philadelphia is a show set in (i don't know) aughts philadelphia that revolves around four twenty-something assholes that hang out at a bar.
it's a format that works and, in either case, best when you forget that danny devito exists.
i don't think it's necessarily that george and jerry and cosmo and elaine are reuniting in this pseudo-episode of seinfeld that is so terribly exciting about this.
what i think makes this interesting is the reunion of the actors (and comedian) - of jason alexander and julia louis-dreyfuss and michael richards (and jerry seinfeld) - with larry david, and what it means for the direction that curb is going to take this season. i'm not that resolute a fan of the producers, but the season of curb that revolved around larry david as the star of its reincarnation on broadway, that featured david schwimmer and ben stiller and mel brooks et cetera as themselves, was quite refreshing.
i think larry david is at his best when he's got a broad concept to work with. like his last season of seinfeld, where jerry and george make the pact to do something meaningful with their lives in the first episode, all leading up to susan dying from licking too many toxic envelopes.
and seinfeld ended horrendously, in case you forgot. that show would have ended better had it just been canceled. it deserves a proper sendoff, and larry david deserves to be an integral part of it.
hey man. just because you're out of touch with or disillusioned by or ambivalent about or uninterested or SOMETHING in american pop culture, and you don't get some of the jokes doesn't mean that it itself is an unworthy blog. gabe has a head on his shoulders and i find him to be a pretty witty, savvy person and, moreover, a pretty good writer. he does the blog better than, oh i don't know, 99.99(9?) percent of the blogs that exist. stereogum and videogum are both havens for hipsters that have an interest for all things americana, and that is a great thing, and it makes perfect sense to me why they're joined together, and why they advertise one another. so the side that agrees with the opinions like the one you (continue to) state is always going to fall in the minority. so stop it. get over yourself. you do not, will not, cannot win.
anyhow. a will sheff/norah jones collaboration, i don't think, can be anything besides absolutely beautiful.
i mean, this is purely speculation. there's no need to get all heart-on-sleeve emotionally needy about it.
i'm as excited as the next person about all of the noise radiohead's been making in my music-related news intake of late, but if nothing happens on monday, i think i'll go about my monday like i've spent mondays for the last twenty months of my life: not disappointed in radiohead, and content with their mass quantity of musical output.
who really wants to be disappointed in something they love?
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