It was a draw! And apes don't read philosophy.

So, what say you all? Danaerys's plan must be to sail away with the 8000 unsullied then, say, to call the dragon telepathically to herself and rely on its powers to bust itself loose, right?

@avclub-022199896b1f52952c180b60caa681bd:disqus James Smith who plays Glenn on TTOI reappears as the peripheral figure in ITL (Michael someone I think) who's (i) been playing classical music throughout, (ii) tries to do something noble (Spartacus-like) by volunteering to take the blame for a leak, (iii) is turned into…

@avclub-39dd889e0ab668280dbd73c93917e652:disqus  In The Loop is perfectly watchable without knowing TTOI and in some ways it's even preferable to treat ITL as its own thing (e.g., the overlap between the casts isn't complete and Gina McKee's a definite upgrade for the film, and ITL's arc strongly suggests a suicide…

Well, I like Raindrops a lot, but how consensus awesome were the next six #1s?
I Want You Back
Venus
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Let It Be
ABC

John Williams did his own somewhat disco-ish version of the Close Encounters theme (the single was a freebee with the soundtrack album), and it's pretty great: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

That Numb is only so-so didn't stop Muse apeing it (w/ 'Madness') on their recent album.

Yes, it's pretty bad, but the final scene where MTM has to choose between Elvis and The Lord and sort of equates them *has* to be seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Well we talked and talked, as you do, mainly about Grotowski, who's still very fat but also continues, quite unbelievably, to levitate while he thinks. Not furiously mind you, for what really is the rush? People rush everywhere these days, don't you think? These people who eat each other. At any rate, it evens out,…

Foot Stompin' Music FTW:
http://youtu.be/R_qtzlneaBA

The album Laid is a bit same-y I find, but if you just dip into it for 4-5 songs at a time it's great.

Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon….

Fair enough, but unlike say Phil Collins or Meg White, I think it's fair to say that we don't have a sense of Karen Carpenter's drumming being part of The Carpenters sound. On the contrary, at least on all the key singles, it's the rock-solidness and continuity of the backing tracks with all the other great Calif…

Well, there is the slight problem that Hal Blaine and other Wrecking Crew guys drummed on all Carpenters records.

I thought that most people (who've given the matter a moment's thought) preferred OTW over Thriller (the slightly less electronic sound is just more timeless I find). And the kitschy (tho' fun) duet with McCartney is on Thriller (The Girl Is Mine); OTW just has an ultra-lightweight number written by McCartney…

Actually it's not just the lack of bass/bottom end that opened a few outsiders' ears at the time, it's that AJFA has a very dry/reverbless sound that sounded fresh and un-pompous. Metallica's One even even sounded pretty lefty and thoughtful compared to, say, Def Leppard's Gods of War. We're talking the brief moment…

'It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a…

This point is often overlooked now, but the strange, near bass-less sound of ….And Justice For All made it a good gateway at the time for people who'd always been turned off by metal's macho-ness. I know that it sounds crazy to say it now, but AJFA sounded a little Prince-y and the impact was that a lot of people who…

'Happy New Year''s melody is indeed awesome, and those lyrics are so brilliantly depressing, and the moments when Frida's backing vox crash through the verses… perfect. Abba's (roughly) 40th best song is so much better written and arranged than the norm in the charts then and now….All this late period Abba needs is:
htt…

@avclub-b0221b0f49d4249158f04fcc993dbe26:disqus I think most critics would place at least Pulp Fiction, Heavenly Creatures, Exotica, Ed Wood,some part of Three Colours, and Satantango solidly ahead of Quiz Show. Personally, I'd further give the edge to Once Were Warriors, Muriel's Wedding, Eat Man Drink Woman, and…