This kid is destined to be his generation's Robert Plant. I'll be able to prove I knew it before anybody by linking to this post. Ultimate hipster cred.

Is coffee retro yet? It's basically an old-fashioned energy drink – Red Bull for old people.

Detective Sterne: You're going to burn for this, Angel.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "Hangover" (1962). Tony Randall plays an alcoholic who is forced to be a detective to deduce his own behavior that he can't remember due to drunken blackouts. It ends badly for him.

Watched Life win IEM Taipei. That kid is freakishly talented.

I buy CDs all the time and they leave the case once.

Agreed, starting from digital masters seems to fatally undermine the rationale behind vinyl releases. It's not a faithful replication of the analog experience if it starts with digital source material.

HDtracks sells 96kHz/24bit samples and they claim that CD samples (44.1kHz/16bit) are grossly insufficient to capture all the information on an analog master. Of course HDtracks has a financial motivation to make that claim, but that doesn't mean it can't be true. I can't find an authoritative ruling on the matter. …

Is there a discernible advantage to going beyond CD sample rate and bit depth? CDs are 44.1kHz/16bit, but it's now possible to purchase music in 96kHz/24bit format sampled from the original analog masters. My sound card can handle that with a tweak of settings. All the classic Black Sabbath records are available…

It recently occurred to me that Karen Carpenter's voice always sounds like a vinyl record, even on CD. CDs would be fine if everybody sang like her.

Very impressed. I may have finally found the indie Karen Carpenter I've always dreamed of. This is emotive pop music that is slick and polished in the best possible way.

Discovered Incredible String Band's debut record, which is great. More ISB is on order from Amazon. Started The Wire, Season 2.

I think I get it. If you invert the map of Europe by flipping it on a horizontal axis, Norway is where Italy was and Italy is where Norway was. Norway is the anti-Italy, and Meadow's embrace of angry Norwegian music represents rebellion against her Italian Mafia family.

Confederate flags and Spuds MacKenzie posters are the foundation of interior decorating teenstyle. Everything else is accessorizing.

It was that relentless "everything is a remake" vibe that drove me away from cinema. I'm also old enough that achieving suspension of disbelief is far more difficult than it used to be. The only new movie I'm interested in seeing at the moment is Citizen Four, which is a documentary. I can't work up any enthusiasm…

I haven't watched a new fictional movie in the last few years. I had reached a point where every new movie I was seeing had started to feel like a pastiche of things I had already seen long ago. I left every movie thinking I had already seen it. My interest in movies gradually waned until one day I realized it had…

I was a hardcore sci-fi/fantasy geek in the early 80's and it wasn't uncommon in those days to watch a new fantasy movie and have it be unexpectedly and hilariously awful. I enjoyed those as much as the good movies. Krull was neither. Krull was just bad.

Doing this in CGI is the dumbest fucking idea ever. Why bother making this a Thunderbirds project at all? Create something new.

Krull isn't truly awful, and that's the problem. It's not bad enough to be campy, but it does suck, and it sucks in unoriginal ways. It needed to be a lot better or a lot worse. At least that's how I remember it. It's been a very long time since I saw it.

I remember flipping past Krull on HBO. It was on a lot. On rare occasions I'd watch a minute or two, despite having bad memories of buying a theater ticket for it.