I was wondering when you guys’d get to this.

Bravo

I am a huge sci fi nerd, but never really did superhero comics. I loved season 1 of Heroes, I love the X Files, I loved Fringe, and I think Arrow and The Flash are amazing, but SHIELD is as dull as dishwater, just like Gotham. I don’t really care about anyone on either show.

You mean the Radiohead song? Because yeah, that was a billion times better.

She isn’t a household name, but she is a Mercury prize winner and extremely well known in arts circles. That’s not even close to unknown.

Skyfall was a return to form for Bond songs, but I’ve never seen the Oscars award the best song. I mean, Elliott Smith lost to Celine Dion. Total farce.

Hmmm, war journalist doesn’t want to name her fellow journalists and activists from countries that arrest and torture journalists and activists....

Hahaha, I meant that a specific subset of Communists I’m familiar with were really really into psychoanalysis and I saw cites to Capitalism and Schizophrenia everywhere for a while. (You know, the kind of people who wish they wrote for Jacobin)

It’s just SO WEIRD seeing something I most associate with Communist theorybros being referenced in a goddamn Gucci show.

like a Spiritualized concert, all light show and dissonance.

IIRC, I remember that she sold out and did boring alternapop because she was broke and wanted to better take care of her daughter. I remember a lot of people being upset on LJ at the time.

Is early Liz Phair any good?

Island in the Sun is such a great little song.

I just remember Mansion of Cardboard being awesome, and all the boardies (what we called ourselves on the official weezer dot com forums back in the day) flipping out.

Oh god I am so sorry, that is super fucking gross.

Make her read the essay “Rivers Cuomo Messes You Up Forever” in The Awl sometime!

It’s exactly 20 years!

To be fair, The Green Album is okay and not nearly as creepy as Pinkerton so I’d want to keep that along with the pre-Maladroit demos and then torch everything else. That could be my nostalgia talking, though.

I was really into the Weezer fandom in the early-aughts when I was in high school. I probably can still sing Pinkerton from front to back... but now that I’m not 15 I’m so grossed out by all his misogyny and yellow fever (in the songs themselves!) I can’t even listen to it.

We can still make fun of Rivers Cuomo right???? Because he posted this on twitter recently