Slightly after the teaser came out I realized that Miranda Richardson would have been my first choice to play Thatcher.

There are certain so-and-so is like such-in-such arguments that just don't really make sense to me. I guess I'd have to squint. The Lindsey Lohan/Emma Stone comparison is one of them. So is Jesse Eisenberg/Michael Cera is another.

Part of me agrees with you, but she is two years older than Laura Marling who has a much different relationship with her music.

Thanks for the link. It is creepy. Part of me wants to chalk it up to age, like with more experience she'll develop more distance between herself and her stage persona. That interview is not promising.

Wow, that is some creepy stuff. It totally goes with this earlier Jez article.

I think a lot of "love" songs are really creepy, self involved, self pitying. Especially post break up ones. And I am skeeved out a bit by how unconscious of it Adele is (for comparison, Tegan and Sara have some much more overtly manipulative/stalkery lyrics, but I tend to feel that they know they are being…

Have you heard the re-recoded version of "This Woman's Work" for The Director's Cut? So many ways to break your heart.

I want to give her an excuse because of her age... but that isn't even an excuse I believe in.

It is grand and sad and everything... and its become a cliche because so many people uses it to show how grand and sad they are!

Not that I know of.

I think there were some tribes in Tibet. In those cases they tended to be literally brothers, living in high risk environments and needing to make sure the family takes care of its own.

Alright. I've said my piece.

I've never seen her, but I did see St Vincent a little over a week ago. St. Vincent's music touches me in a deeply troublesome place, but it doesn't offer the cathartic cry like Basia's.

I sort of want to start a backlash against Adele. I don't dislike her, I have a copy of 21, it's just so omnipresent. Fours songs of hers get used in advertising every movie and tv show. I always end up annoyed with musicians after that. Also she's not that great. Part of the reason her songs are so popular is…

Recently, Basia Bulat's "Once More for the Dollhouse" and Kathleen Edwards's "Copied Keys". I recommend them highly.

I'm unfamiliar with the Epic of Sundiata (I always thought it was based on Hamlet) but they did a shit job of sidestepping whitewashing. A lot of people were upset that one of the physical characteristics that defined Scar as bad was having darker fur, and the hyenas were seen to embody a lot of racial stereotypes.

The best way around it would be to go to non-eurocentic versions. Get more of them produced. Maybe then we could also get rid of some of the more problematic parts of the stories like the sexism.

Sometimes, but most of the translations I've heard just don't scan.

I sort of think of Alejandra Guzman as the Mexican Courtney Love, only much more prolific and with a movie star mother (who worked with Buñuel!) That last part is why I should never think of any one as the (fill in the blank) version of anyone else. Anyway I could never really get into her.

Okay, Good to know. I am just as she is my favorite top 40 pop princess ever, and I think she gets some shit from people just wanting to hate.