Free Falling gets to me and I'm not ashamed to sing along too loud when it comes on at work

The Chvrches cover of Arctic Monkeys' Do I Wanna Know. I like both groups (especially Chvrches) but love this cover more than anything else by either.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…

The actual history of this guy with rape aside, the fact that a women's rape is used as an inciting incident for a story centered around a man is gross. It was gross in Braveheart, it sounds gross here, it is never not gross. Stop using rape as a plot device.

I almost googled Bilzerian, but then realized I was crossing a line between curiosity and masochism and chose not to.

I love this movie and agree with everything basically concerning Ebert's review. I saw it for the first time when I was 17 in 2007, 40 years removed from its initial release, and far from finding it moldy, was excited by it! I was desperate to talk about it, and annoyed my parents (because who else would I talk to…

While I don't disagree that OTGW didn't do anything fundamentally groundbreaking, I think it's existence is in a way even more unbelievable than say Bojack Horseman's. It's absolutely gorgeous, with its music and art so steeped in Americana esthetic as well as the fairytales brought by immigrants from The Old Country,…

I believe it's a reference to Ben Wyatt and his stated ambivalence towards Jackson's interpretation (after Tom said something about going on a nerd vacation to New Zealand for an LotR
tour).

In seventh grade I had the entirety of Albuquerque memorized and trust me it annoyed people, so success.
I actually was born in Albuquerque (thus my particular fondness for it, in addition to the complete bizarreness so perfectly suited to the middle school mind) although I was raised and living in So Flo. This was…

Two days dead, but I need to get my Mad Men thoughts out

The involuntary hysterectomy- which it definitely was because he said the bit about removing the temptation- was pretty… Oof. Even as someone who's known they don't want children since puberty, the idea of someone basically stealing my ovaries sounds nightmarish. I mean, even more nightmarish then your run of the mill…

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
We Have Always Live in this Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Magicians series (predicting I equally enjoy the third coming out in August) by Lev Grossman
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
There's a Monster at the End of this Book by Sesame Street (I loved that fucking book when I was a kid)

I'm not drawing a line. There are no lines. There's something of a continuum and it's subjective. Shit needs to be discussed. The violence should be discussed, and it is discussed. Rape in media, as a pervasive and invisible crime, especially needs to discussed. Part of the reason the discussion becomes as loud as it…

1) these are all problematic things about which numerous concerns have been expressed many times and many places and prompted by many forms of media. Deflecting the concerns by bringing up this argument both ignored the concerns at hand as is a case of straw manning.

Most forms of bigotry including misogyny are subconscious and unwitting because we inevitably internalize from the surrounding culture. If someone doesn't think they have ever or could ever do or say or think something racist, sexist, etc, and they weren't raised in some mythical land where this doesn't exist, I can…

The Boomers grew up to be boring corporate and slavish while being a source of major cultural disruption during their youth; the X-ers reveled in their cynicism and apathy during their youth, a reaction to the disappointments of the Boomers. It's definitely a timeless trend that any generation will resent the one that…

My personal take is that it's in part a reaction against the dull bitterness and apathy of the Xers, and that so much about the society we're inheriting is fucked up because of our elder's negligence - we need to put on an attitude of joyful optimism to cope, and maybe actually make things a little better (optimism!)

I would watch that - hell, I would cohost it.

I don't know, I've spent a lot of time on the internet freaking out over the latest Mad Men and lamenting that more people I know don't watch it so I can talk about it with them.
But I also found TWD incredibly boring and would only want to talk about it in order to complain about the shitty character development and…

Gab Men!

I knew it was premiering, but I only found that out the day before and I had to double check because it felt like there was very little hype anticipation as compared to last time. But that might just be because I have more going on in my life right now then last year.