"I think that, a) you have an act, and that, b) not having an act is your act."

Re-watched Singles this weekend. After 15 years (!), it’s still a good movie, but now some of the fun is how much it feels likes a time capsule: look, no cell phones! No Starbucks! Video dating instead of Lavalife! Albums! Doc Marten boots with shorts! And where the hell did Jim True (Steve’s friend Dave) go after Singles and before "The Wire"?

Like any Cameron Crowe movie, there are a number of different cameos to watch for:

• ·Musicians specific to the setting: a pile of musicians from the 1990 Seattle music scene appear, including most of Pearl Jam (a young looking Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Eddie Vedder) as Cliff’s (Matt Dillon) bandmates in Citizen Dick, Chris Cornell as a bystander during the car stereo fiasco, and Alice & Chains and Soundgarden both play during club scenes).
• ·The Cameron Crowe repertory players: Jeremy Piven as the store clerk praising Steve’s DJ-ing, and Eric Stoltz as the angry mime. It's easy to imagine John Cusack playing "Steve", but Campbell Scott really makes the most of that role.
• ·“Holy crap it’s that guy who got famous!”: I noticed for the first time that Paul Giamatti (Sideways) pops up as the rocker making out with his date during Steve (Campbell Scott) and Linda’s (Kyra Sedgwick) first date, and Victor Garber (Alias) as the father who Debbie (Sheila Kelley) falls for.
• ·Also watch for Tim Burton as the video dating director and the director/writer of Singles, Cameron Crowe, as a reporter interviewing Matt Dillon at the club.