In 1995 Alanis Morissette emerged on the pop-music scene with a distinctively gritty, raw, impassioned, and honest—even confessional—style. Her breakout album was Jagged Little Pill, and one of its songs, in particular, swept through the airwaves and into the hearts of listeners across the country: “You Oughta Know.” The premise of the song is simple: a woman has lost her lover, who has since entered another relationship and forgotten her. Despite this…

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones in my childhood. I must have watched Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade a dozen times or more. But once was enough when it came to The Temple of Doom! This movie is the apotheosis of bizarre grossness, pumped up with successive hits of cringe-inducing shocks. It certainly appealed to a little boy’s dark side, but the spiritual hangover afterward—like a…