Answers to your advice-seeking queries from ol’ John Cougar from around 1982 and who is also an ageless shapeshifting demigod.
Brian Boone
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Brian Boone writes about music, pop culture, and other nonsense. He does more of this kind of thing on Twitter and wrote this swell book called "‪Rock Lists For Obsessive Music Connoisseurs, Zealots, and Junkies‬," which you totally want.
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Answers to your advice-seeking queries from ol’ John Cougar from around 1982 and who is also an ageless shapeshifting demigod.
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Unless you watched it during its original run, you’ve probably never seen Cop Rock. Save for the occasional airing on a ”can you believe this ever got made?”-themed marathon on…
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In the annals of TV history, there are a handful of shows held up as the universal examples of shows gone horribly wrong — high-concept shows so preposterous as to…
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It’s so interesting that I was asked to review Now That’s What I Call Halloween, a definitive, all-encompassing compilation of Halloween songs, scary film score highlights, and other soundscapes from…
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Give them as a gift to someone who has as many as two hands, and/or up to 10 fingers. Give them as a gift to a person, literally any person,…
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This may surprise you, but as a boy child growing up in the 1980s, I did not see a lot of My Little Pony. This was the heyday of Clearly…
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Insane Clown Posse’s Literary Classics Reconsidered As anybody down with the clowns knows, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are adherents to the controversial theory that William Shakespeare did not…
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The contestants: Christopher Cross is the undisputed king of ultra laid-back, early 1980s soft rock with songs a working-class man’s man could relate to, such as ”Sailing.” Kris Kross were teenage…
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If’n y’all ain’t familiar with what ol’ John Cougar does round here these parts, go back and read some of my col-umms what with to familiarize yourself with the fact…
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Record Store Day isn’t just in the spring anymore. The annual tradition now happens twice a year, once in the spring, and once on Black Friday. Since you’re already out…
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I’m sure that the story of famed Formula One car-racing man Rushmore ”Rush” Rushingford is an interesting human drama packed with thrilling twists and turns, otherwise an A-list director couldn’t…
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This week marks the release of The Family, another example of Hollywood’s favorite clichÁ© situation: stereotypical Italian-American crime family goes into Witness Protection and they chafe at it. (In reality,…
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I’ve never been to a strip club, not just because they’re degrading to women, but because they’re degrading to everybody. A red-lit room with ”college students” sadly gyrating to a…
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For most major movies, it takes about a year from the time filming begins to opening in theaters as a means to get you to buy corn. But for a…
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This week marks the release of Jobs, which stars Ashton Kutcher, the inventor of prankism, as Steve Jobs, the inventor of the computer and the MP3 who ultimately became the…
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was one of the most popular (and epic) rock albums of the 90s, but it still feels kind of underrated. It was a double-disc,…
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[youtube width=”602″ height=”350″ video_id=”wHV1ZcTVK40″] Everyone knows a few particular things about certain things. Pluto is not a planet. Lincoln and Kennedy had many similarities. And Fridays was that Saturday Night…
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Spin-offs are the new reboot. Big studio movies are usually part of a franchise at this point, and they are going to become even more assembly lines, what with new,…
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So the troubled B-movie-homage-that’s-also-a-B-movie The Canyons is finally coming out this week, starring Lindsay Lohan and James Deen. I think at some point we all thought that porn would lure…
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A lot can happen from the time a script is turned in to a studio to the time the film actually goes into production. Actors are cast and then recast,…
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In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
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This week the ”found footage”-style horror movie fades briefly and unexpectedly into oblivion like a spooky ghost girl in favor of The Conjuring, a horror movie with a traditional narrative…
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The big news surrounding Grown Ups 2, other than the fact that it’s yet another cynically-conceived way for Adam Sandler to hang out with his friends at a waterpark for…
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In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
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A new big-screen version of The Lone Ranger comes out this weekend, starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow as Tonto. It looks less like a faithful adaptation of the…
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As Americans we like our president to be some combination of likable and better than us. Our last two presidents got in this way, albeit in very different ways —…
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In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
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