As far as jazz and classical, or any kind of music for that matter, so much anxiety stems from the pop quizzes hurled at you from the authenticity police that patrol the borders of the listening community. You can bypass that. There's listening to enjoy or listening to participate in an authoritative dialog with…

Yes. Strange Days is so underrated. I've watched it every year since I stumbled on it in '97 and always promote it to people. It had the misfortune to hit its video release and cable airing as that long warless, economic boom started. Until 2001, the idea of near-future dystopia couldn't have felt less relevant. But,…

Ugh. Glad I missed it. It's always been a more or less clumsily plotted and one dimensional show. The production values are beautiful and the actors are great, but those things can only compensate for the awful writing for one season at most. It's just so hilarious watching people's anglophilia try to spin it to seem…

I agree completely. It's incoherent and emotionally one-dimensional. That it has an audience at all is a testament to the blind persistence of Anglophilia. That no one calls out Fellows' poisonous inferences about "the lowers knowing their place" is dumbfounding, since the viewer base is largely those who promote…

Well, since it's on the BBCA, the podcast will retain an amateurish execution and low production values. There's comfort in knowing that the photography will always have the same proportion of face to background as a 19c portrait and never acknowledge that cinema existed.

Well, since it's on the BBCA, the podcast will retain an amateurish execution and low production values. There's comfort in knowing that the photography will always have the same proportion of face to background as a 19c portrait and never acknowledge that cinema existed.

So…Jennifer Lawrence's crime is not being a compatible fantasy for your repressive upper-middle class sensibilities. You see this as equal to other celebs open homophobia and racism. But you chide yourself from expecting conformation to your social classes mores from someone from a part of the country regularly…

So…Jennifer Lawrence's crime is not being a compatible fantasy for your repressive upper-middle class sensibilities. You see this as equal to other celebs open homophobia and racism. But you chide yourself from expecting conformation to your social classes mores from someone from a part of the country regularly…