@Preparation Heche: I agree with a lot of what you're saying but a Parent-Child Inventory was just too good an opportunity to pass up as a chance for Freudian inquiry. I don't know if I take his ideas "seriously" but I do find them more interesting than Marxism or Feminism because there is no politics or history to…

Psychoanalysis is valid as a form of critical analysis just as the auteur theory or feminism is used in criticism, especially when studying parent-child narratives, I think it would be foolish not to comment on Freud in some fashion because a lot of these works in the inventory are influenced by his ideas in some form…

@Mr. God: Suicide is never a reasonable choice. Suicide, as Camus has shown. is a failure to embrace one's freedom. "One must imagine Sophie happy…"

It's All Freud To Me
The birth of children is a representative struggle between the id and ego, the drive to create and infuse life against the will to maintain control of one's system. Children are an existential burden on a person who must surrender to the biological needs of another. In science fiction, rape is the…

Tyler, I think at this point is much better at creating beats than writing lyrics, and the group is hurt by not having their best member around, Earl Sweatshirt, but I still think they offer something that is hard to find in hip-hop these days and that is a post-modern sense of "play" or playfulness. And I have to…

@ Oh, That Knife… Here's the entire interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Approaching the sublime
What Odd Future does collectively is present a look inside the horrors of the suburban existence. These kids procure the horror of middle class life and present it through music as cathartic release. I don't think it's fair to criticize the lyrics without analyzing the music. The sound of…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the bands listed above consist of all female members whereas groups like Throwing Muses contained male members (no pun intended) which might deem them as not "true" riot grrrl acts which is an idea I have hopefully debunked in my tome above.

Ladyhawke is seriously a beautifully shot movie even if it is a little sappy. And if you don't like the soundtrack, just re-score it!
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I tried writing the entire thing as one long sentence only to have it end on a

Watching Requiem again is like posting to old AV Club threads, never as good as the first time, a feeling of being late to the party, hungover, crying out to an empty room, etc, etc…

A Linda Hunt Rock Canon
I consider Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders and even Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to be Riot Grrrl as it's not really a musical genre but an attitude and ideal as is most punk music. What is interesting about Riot Grrrl though is that it co-opts the sound of extreme aggression and noise into a…

These guys are great because
they reveal how media and politics are just another form of performance, a manipulation of sound bites and video clips that Auto-Tune takes into hyperbole exposing the "artfulness" or artificiality behind all of it . Really needs to be considered some of the most important musical…

Pleasing both sides
Times New Viking is my favorite band from this current century so I feel the need share my thoughts. I think this album, like all their others, is a perfect mix of pop DIY and punk romanticism. This album does contain their best pop songs with their sound fully matured and since the band has said…

Obviously, it's easy to blame it on not enough good actors, but there are 300 million people in this country, I think we could find some tough guys/gals to fill in the spots. I really just think it might be the culture we live in that rejects anything that might be offensive and that looks toward the common…

His films aren't all westerns because
not all westerns are outside of social control, mainly westerns made before the 1960's where the U.S. military/government had a strong presence, think John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy. What his films do have in common is a certain nihilistic, existential worldview. Take Hard Times or…

Where have all the bad ass auteurs gone?
Peckinpah, Hill, Melville, Kurosowa, Leone, William Wyler, Sam Fuller, Raoul Walsh. These guys made tough films and their type seem to have disappeared. Has the film industry become too PC? Has TV/HBO become the new forum for tackling heavy issues? Can we have someone who was…

Yeah, Austin Powers pretty much killed Bond so I'm not saying there's no way to recover but it will be pretty difficult. They don't necessarily have to be campy again but Dr. No, From Russia With Love, or You Only Live Twice offer a pleasant escapism while not taking themselves to seriously. I think these Daniel…

Bond needs a name change
Bond has become the Uberman action hero that is indistinguishable from any other action star. Connery and Moore brought a certain reckless, overconfidence to the role that forced them to get out of situations that were sometimes of their own making. Bond had flaws and an ego that allowed the…

Green Day presents a punk pastoralization, revolution lite scenario. All Americans are idiots in the confirmation of our dominant status, or our being FIRST in the world. As the international leaders, we are a target for canceraids attacks from all sides. Green Day is the pop escapism from the firsty warmongering and…