Die Hard

...is not a Christmas movie. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, we can commence discussing this legendary 1988 action flick. Set in a five-hundred-foot skyscraper called the Nakatomi Plaza, terrorists take over...wait, wait. I can't simply leave it at that, can I? It's true that lots of folks...

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Stop Making Sense (and a List of My Favorite Talking Heads Songs)

There's a perfectly eccentric start to the concert, a concert that would be part of Talking Heads' final tour, with frontman David Byrne strolling onto the stage to the sound of adoring fans as he gently places a portable cassette tape on the ground. "Hi," he says. "I've got a tape I want to play,"...

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