Oh man, now that I think of it, I had a handful of friends who were at that show as well.  They told me the band talked to the audience in between songs for extended periods about current events.  They made it sound almost as interesting as the music itself, which is saying something.

Wait, after Dawes?  Dammit @avclub-20f4f2cc6aa2571698eba0d9da789586:disqus!  We talked about this!

This is literally what I'm feeling.

That album is brilliant.  If you like the way they sound there, you should check out Lift Your Skinny Fists as well.  I usually put those two albums in the same pocket- especially the tracks "Static" and "Sleep."

This thread is for sincere anticipation of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, rather than metaposts about Dawes.  As such: oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh, this is going to be so bleak that I can't even STAND it!

Conor Oberst is one of those people who I categorize as the kind of person I don't see anything remarkable about but who I've had like a thousand conversations about.  Other notable examples include Belle and Sebastian, Of Montreal, and the Dirty Projectors.

I don't even know that I hear that.  Rage was more of a hard 70s sounding rock/hip hop fusion with meters set up to be rapped over, whereas At the Drive-In was always more melodic (despite being every bit as heavy) and had vocals doing melodies.  Which is to say nothing of how different their song structures and…

Looks like they were.  It's still going to be the length of about a third of a season, which isn't that remarkable.  So much for that.

This is exciting news, but Omar and Cedric have spent the last decade fermenting their song writing talents in their own pretense.  I'd love for more At the Drive In records (they broke up at their high point in my opinion) but I doubt they'll pick up at the point they left off.

It just dawned on me that each season was made up of ten 10-minute episodes, right?  And the movie would be a minimum of 90 minutes, meaning this is about the quantity of almost an entire season of the show.  I wonder how they're going to format the movie?  It seems impossible to set the movie at one catering event…

@avclub-32b63dd70d870580128d83e930199e1c:disqus Oh god, that never even occurred to me. According to her IMDB, the acterss who played Cramsy is named Beth Dover, and is a regular on Children's Hospital, but she also guest starred Whitney, so there's that.

Yeah, Party Down was one of the few shows where the premise allowed members of the core cast to come and go without disrupting everything.  Mullally was great, and her relationship with Escapade was so hilariously depressing.

Oh, it turned into that Nazi thing again!

I wish I'd gotten this news like two weeks ago.  I just rewatched the whole series, and unlike the first two times I'd watched Party Down start to finish, I felt satisfied enough with the last episode that I didn't want more of it. 

"SPELLS: AN INTRODUCTION"
"WITCHCRAFT: A READER"

Baudrillard didn't coin the phrase simulacrum, did he?

But what will scholars from U of C blanket apply Foucauldian philosophy to now?  Oh, still everything else?  Will they at least invite Rabin?

Actually, the real shrieking horror of My Little Pony can be found here: https://twitter.com/#!/Towy…

On the subject of post grunge, there's actually been sort of a small movement of bands that have been playing fairly grungy music this and last year.  I know post grunge is usually used as a pejorative to talk about this generation's awful synthesis of dude rock and the boring-est elements of grunge, but I've actually…

Girl Elvis Syndrome (GES)