Little Creatures, on the other hand, is the group's best post-Eno album.

What is the point of your hat?
Also, was anyone who read last week's Harmony Korine interview reminded of "Destroy, She Said"? I didn't make any notes to myself, but Korine and Duras seem to share a similar point of view toward art. There's the use of debased/minimalist form that is at least as important as whatever…

Last Year at Marienbad
By chance, I saw "Last Year at Marienbad" on a Saturday and read "Destroy, She Said" the following Thursday, so the movie was still fresh in my mind as I read the book. I had come to "Marienbad" expecting a dull but beautiful film filled with portentous, pretentious speechifying. I was…

@Wallet Inspector

Tugginmypudha
At least Ben Kingsley got a name that tried to be a double entendre. John Oliver got stuck with "Dick Pants."

On hold, she said
Good to hear "Destroy She Said" is only 80 pages long. I've been on the waiting list for three weeks, yet the NY Public Library website says there's a copy on the shelf and a copy on hold (for someone else, I guess). I may trek up there this weekend and try to breeze through the "Use in Library"…

Didn't Mary J. Blige have a song called "No More Bio-dramas?"

My first job too! I didn't have to wear the uniform that Sean's talking about either - just my own white button-up and black pants. Oh, and I had a "Two Towers" T-shirt when the movie came out on DVD. The one I worked at closed several years ago, though it's just now been transformed into a beauty parlor.

"The Fall"
Sad to see Mark E. Smith didn't take the bait and name his new album "Norah Jones."

"What can 'Yellow' do for you?"

Isn't "Hemorrhage" the song that quotes Elton John (or Bernie Taupin, I guess)?

Does no one remember "(You're) Having My Baby"?

@Weenus: I had the same reaction as you, and I ended up bailing after about 40 or 50 pages. I respected the idea behind Hoban using the invented language, but I thought it was a little overdone. Emily says she's a slow reader, but she clocked three pages per minute? I think of myself as a somewhat fast reader, and I…

Attitude
I'm from Baton Rouge, so I'm very familiar with the New Orleans condescending attitude Tobias is discussing. The funny thing is, though, that the people with this attitude are almost never actual New Orleans natives. They're non-Louisianians (and usually non-Southerners), but they think they know what the…

I think Smith's making a conscious decision here to echo some of Tennant's style as a transitional technique. Even over the course of the past two episodes, Smith seems to gradually be coming into his own as both more weirdly alien and more temperamental. Much as it took the end of Smith's first episode for the…

I agree with skinny malinky about the production, but the main thing for me is the songs. There isn't a single bad song on Tigermilk, Sinister or Arab Strap, and the Jeepster/Matador EPs are uniformly terrific. I do like a lot of the material on Dear Catastrophe Waitress and The Life Pursuit, but B&S just aren't…

I'm always intrigued by how Stuart Murdoch's weakest period dovetailed with Stevie Jackson's best songwriting - "The Wrong Girl," "Jonathan David," "Travellin' Light," plus he had a big hand in "Legal Man," "Stop, Look and Listen," and some others, I think. Most of those songs got stuck on singles, though.

The best part of the show was Seth Aaron beating Mila at her own two-toned game.

I agree with Starshine. Saying Band X borrows from The Fall is one of the laziest rock crit statements. For God's sake, I've read reviews comparing Franz Ferdinand to The Fall, which is just baffling. I've yet to hear another band that truly sounds like The Fall precisely because Smith has such a distinct and exact…

I liked "The Life Pursuit," but I haven't listened to it top-to-bottom probably since 2006. I mean, there's nothing terrible (I'm not a big fan of "Song for Sunshine"), and I rated it highly at the time, but it just never hit the highest highs of the best Belle & Seb. For the record, "The Boy With the Arab Strap" is…