Uh, what the hell are you talking about? Check any dictionary and like the second definition will be "the capacity, condition, or state of acting or exerting power." And like, the first thing that shows up on google for a search of agency is an entire wikipedia page dedicated to the concept in the sense the reviewer…

One of the things I missed as this season progressed were those horrifically awkward date scenes Tom had to endure. Imagine my delight when their tone of "am I really hearing a human being saying these things?" was transferred beautifully to Tom's special-room encounter with Al. His under-breath commentary to Al's…

Given the general lack of awareness of the extent to which Mozart's Requiem is Sussmayr's (at least that I've observed from my classical music enjoying friends), and how records don't usually advertise this fact, I'd say it's not a totally inapt comparison.

This isn't a question restricted to literature. There are a lot of important works of classical music that might not have seen the light of day had it not been for some party picking up the pen after the death of the composer. Mozart's Requiem, Puccini's Turandot, Mahler's 10th, Elgar's 3rd, etc.

It's not just AVC — it seems like a lot of the internet's more thoughtful film people are not pleased with MoS. This is spoken as someone who hasn't seen MoS and has no dog in the fight.

Actually, the little 3 chord progression right before 2:00 (gb-f-gb) TOTALLY IS a motif from Goldsmith's ST:TMP score.

They used the 1997 "Victory Celebration" instead of "YUB NUB" to conclude it. Heresy!!!

I should add, I say this as someone with positively zero personal interest in any metal, which runs pretty much directly against my own musical sensibilities. But I also say this as someone who knows the sting of having people blanket dismiss your work because it's "pretentious" or isn't something  that is normally…

I don't understand — why would the study of one musical idiom or another be pretentious? Isn't it more pretentious to stick to the same damn hyper-canonized musical styles and eras that have remained more or less fixed in musicology up until the past two decades or so? Who's to say it's not time for this influential…

Agreed.

Best reply ever!

Watch Inland Empire.

I love how so many people seem to share my own experience of Inland Empire, of that scene being the single scariest thing ever put to celluloid. It's not just the faces, it's the agonizing build up.

Personal order of Lynchie-greatness

…"a dirty HODOR"

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTT!

HOLYYYYYYYYY……..

Shouldn't you be off advertently spoiling newbies, idiotking?

Agree. This constant, predictable critique about the scatteredness of a given episode…oy.

My wife and I just spent a good 15 minutes laughing as she read this interview out loud to me. Utter inanity, inarticulately expressed, but with the air of deep profundity!