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spacejam asked: "I Want You Back" or "Don't Want You Back"?

Easy peasy.

Our questions for each other are getting harder and harder to answer; this was legitimately agonizing. Out of the pure Backstreet Boys love in my heart that remains after thirteen years, I wanted to say “Don’t Want You Back” just out of principal, but then I remembered “I Want You Back” is easily my favorite *NSYNC tune.

Only for you, Reks: I listened to them both. Several times. And they’re both great. But

1. “Don’t Want You Back” is a much more self-assured title.
2. I still feel bad that “Don’t Want You Back” didn’t win that Choose-the-Single contest on TRL that Nick Carter sort of rigged.
3. “I Want You Back” has weaker lyrics.
4. “Don’t Want You Back” has nice follow-up references to “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).”

So I chose the BSB.

(Spacejam and I have a history of fighting for solos. Do you also want to discuss 1999-era pop music with me? Ask away.)

Anonymous asked: Do you have any love for the films of Larry Clark? He's much like Gus Van Sant, in his worship of adolescents and pubescence, but this difference is Larry Clark's films are much more dangerous. Like if Chuck Palahniuk wrote The Perks of Being A Wallflower (or dare I see in these times, Catcher in the Rye) Larry Clark would direct the adaptation. The queer lovechild of Martin Scorcese and Norman Mailer.

The most I’ve seen of a Larry Clark film is the first fifteen minutes of Kids, which I then had to stop watching because the video would force-stop there. This is pretty much up to the part where the girls are talking about sex and the one chick is saying it’s like “boom boom boom.” For some reason, even though I did enjoy up til then, I’ve never attempted to rewatch. But I should, because now I have Netflix, which solves all problems.

(You can also ask me about things I know almost nothing about.)