Axe just left---they got a new guy now, supposedly a little more loose like Lopez used to be.

Criterion Channel is amazing. They also have a lot of turnover. Stuff will be there for a month or two, then be gone. This has its downside, since you have to hurry up and watch stuff, but the advantage is that there is constantly good stuff to watch. They may not have any Tarkovsky right now, but maybe June will be…

Here in LA there’s been a resurgence of the video store. I go to one weekly and Vidiots is about to reopen. I can only hope other places get hip to this and we get back to the good ol days.

You mean Criterion Channel? It’s fantastic. Also, Criterion has the majority of Bergman’s filmography (not necessarily on the Channel, but in the physical media collection). What Tarkovsky is hard to find?

I feel like this is yet another way that they’re just telling people, “Hey, you know what? You should just pirate more.”

It’s not too late to resurrect Quickster!

That reminds me. I’ve been holding on to the first two discs of “Picard: Season 1" for over 18 months. I should probably return those at some point.

Also of note—-part of “To Live is To Die” is the entire reason Mikael Akerfeldt was inspired to start making metal music. Or so he says.

I’ve been exposed to Choe’s art and Choe as a personality since he started appearing in and collaborating with Giant Robot way back when, and while I’ve been entertained by his performance in Beef, he’s always rubbed me the wrong way. It’s not because I know he’s a rapist (I don’t), but because I’ve always seen him to…

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) not making this list at all is criminal.

Yeah, that’s a top 5 song on my list for sure...

What a truly terrible, half-assed, ill-informed write-up.

I can’t be the only of whom this is true, right?

Creeping Death is certainly a great Metallica tune, but I agree that ranking it ahead of MoP is laughable. I get the impression you’re also a big Metallica fan. If you met someone who had never heard a single note of Metallica’s music before, what song would you use to introduce them? It’s easily MoP. It pretty much…

I wasn’t a big fan of the black album either, but has grown on me over the years...especially after attempting to listen to the albums that came after. I vividly recall trying to stomach my way through Load and Re-Load when they came out during high school years.

Putting anything on this last past the Black Album is laughable.

Even the most hardcore Metallica fan will admit the drop in quality was abysmal after the black album.

Not much love in general for Metallica’s arguably best or second best album, AJFA. My rank would be MoP, AJFA, RDL, KeA the black album. The remaining albums are mostly unforgettable garbage.

As someone that decries metal gatekeepers, I'd still probably have almost exclusively tracks from their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums, with one or two tracks from the 1st and 5th. And then nothing. I won't say they stopped being good when the songs simplified, but I personally think they stopped being interesting or…

Honestly, at this point I don’t even care anymore that Waymo is testing on public roads. My issue is that the cities that are affected by it are apparently too much of a pushover to do anything about it. Yesterday I saw a Tiktok of 10 Waymo Jags stopped completely blocking a street in downtown Phoenix, and cops were…