Homage commented on How To Navigate Through Next Week's Glutted Release Schedule: Let's Play A Game Of Buy/Download/Kill, at 2:40 AM on Nov 23 I wish to announce that I had no idea I had been listening to ChiDem for two whole days while you folks were waiting. [nz] more »

Homage commented on What Album Would You Like To Write A Book About?, at 3:36 PM on Nov 3 I would write a book about Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, with the overarching thesis question being, "have the Smashing Pumpkins always been ridiculous crap, or were they once genuinely the best band in the land; and are these two mutually exclusive?" more »

Homage commented on What Are Your Jukebox Staples?, at 10:25 PM on Oct 24 "Whiter Shade of Pale", "Losing My Religion", "Because the Night", "November Rain", and some sort of trend-bucking device involving black people and the post-1980s, two things you'll be hard-pressed to find on a jukebox round these parts. more »

Homage commented on "Marmite Artists" Make Everyone Pucker Their Lips And Get In The Mood For A Row, at 2:47 AM on Oct 15 I get very Marmite responses whenever I mention to people that I like the Smashing Pumpkins. more »

Homage commented on Buzz Ballads 2: Scraping The Barrel To Sell You The Drama, at 4:04 PM on Oct 6 @amyk: I also voted for the Everclear song for the same basic reasons as you, except that for me, everything Art Alexakis ever does reminds me of that universal douchebag whom you have described. Arms Wide Open is one of the worse Creed songs, but I think if you're gonna be terrible alt-rock, you might as well be Creed. more »

Homage commented on "Rolling Stone" Puts Its Horns Up One More Time, at 2:55 PM on Sep 24 My favourite Metallica is the one what done Mama Said and Until it Sleeps, and y'all can suck my d. more »

Homage commented on Uncannily Palinesque President to Be Assassinated in New NBC Miniseries, at 2:35 AM on Sep 18 By this token, I am now going to rewatch every episode of Battlestar Galactica for moments when the prim, family-values, anti-abortion, sometimes-fascist female President who got promoted after the guy above her died does something controversial. more » [defamer]

Homage commented on Will The Dark Knight Return?, at 11:14 PM on Aug 10 It's a perfectly good comic already. more » [io9]

Homage commented on Tiny Handlers In Eddie Murphy's Head Prevent Him From Attending 'Meet Dave' Premiere, at 4:26 PM on Jul 9 "Eddie, he'll never admit it, but he loves to work. more » [defamer]

Homage commented on Why No One Cares That Video Games Have Sex In Them, at 4:45 PM on Jun 26 What you just did was issue a sensible and deserved beatdown to the oft-ridiculousness of the legal furore surrounding objectionable content in games (rare in itself), but the fact that you did it without once shoehorning in some clunky-ass "hur hur look what clever nerds we all are" reference to that one particular lawyer who nerds will never shut up about ever just makes you the legends of the Internet. more » [fleshbot]

Homage commented on Josh Homme Speaks To The Peanut Gallery, at 12:35 AM on Jun 21 Much more self-lionising PC-bashing and Hick-invocation and I'd be convinced I was back in the mid 1990s giving a shit. more »

Homage commented on Diddy, Did You Change Your Name?, at 4:39 PM on Jun 11 For a couple seconds toward the end there, he totally stares into an existential abyss such as that gazed upon by Karl Pilkington on a regular basis. more »

Homage commented on Watching Shows Through Other Peoples' Viewfinders: It Really, Really Sucks, at 6:18 PM on Jun 10 I was going to point out that your concerns re: mediated existence and reluctance to experience the moment as it happens were concerns expressed as far back as Neal Stephenson wrote nerd-transcendence manifesto In The Beginning Was The Command Line, but then I got to the other fellow's argument and my eyes filled with blood and steam shot out my ears. more »

Homage commented on Open-Ish Thread, at 4:18 AM on Jun 7 Third, about a week after it told me to. more »

Homage commented on Anti-Feministing: Debunking The Argument Against GTA IV, at 11:54 PM on Jun 3 Bingo! more » [kotaku]

Homage commented on Anti-Feministing: Debunking The Argument Against GTA IV, at 7:24 PM on Jun 3 @devilcry2k6: I am so sick of this two-way out that lazy defenders of videogaming give themselves. more » [kotaku]

Homage commented on 'Ellen' Assistant Quits Job To Ride Rollercoasters, at 4:23 PM on May 28 The billboard (just to digress from discussion of Delbert's fate for a sec) is because people in New Zealand really, really likes they some Kill Bill and it's about to air on free television (and presumably the Government-owned network wanted to reassure people that some semblance of bloodiness may be preserved). more » [defamer]

Homage commented on Paramount Preps, Fanboys Revolt as Box Office Waits for 'Indy' Windfall, at 5:55 AM on May 22 Hang on, since when do nerds do anything about Spiderman 3 that isn't ceaselessly and tiresomely bitching about it? more » [defamer]