Sunrise has its teeth - that scene where Delpy breaks down in the car on the way to her apartment, it's a harsh moment. Always brings tears to my eyes.

I do policy writing and charity grant application writing - clarity is key. The opposite, however…in the immortal words of Calvin, " I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity."

It's not quite Janelle in style, it's more Erykah in the New Amerykah Part 1, but more out there (Prince's "If I Was Your Girlfriend" and other weird jams, P-Funk, etc).

This band falls exactly in a place I want music to fall - weirdly experimental music that distills the smooth beauty of Erykah Badu, sci-fi intensity of Janelle Monae, and oddness of P-Funk at its most off the wall.

Well, songs are like tattoos. I'm kinda happier I kept Joni, though.

I lost Townes van Zandt in the shuffle after a relationship. Not only was the voice too similar to my ex's singing voice, or that the music was incredibly sad, but that I couldn't unravel the two, one from the other. We're amicable, and I've actually ruined Joni Mitchell for him, so at least we both have our own…

I think it's pulling from Buffy - a show that doesn't have an easy point of comparison, it's comedy and horror and fantasy in one fell swoop. Add to that a show concerned with the ownership of a woman's body, and the power a woman has to control her own body, and you get two very uniquely (and thematically) similar…

Literacy is my final frontier.

Oooops. Well, all together now.
"Math is hard. Let's go shopping."

This was such a phenomenal analysis of the narrative - I've been consuming a ton of Alice Munro and John Cheever short stories ever since I found them out (just the most sad, heartbreaking things, those) and this analysis kind of make me think Marge's plight - and tragedy - fits well with the kind of story you'd read…

I'd say Silver Age is head and shoulders above anything. Hell, maybe 1-6 are the Platinum Age, and then 7-9 are the Golden Years.

Ah Andy Capp, you wife beating drunk!