'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.