Idk whether this is a good place to ask, but will there be a ‘year in bandnames’ this year? A one-off for Kyle Ryan, who apparently left, maybe? (Looking at AVC once in a while and realizing who left is like I assume watching Lost was.)

Blades of Glory is one of my most beloved comedies/films period. While Talladega is great it doesn’t reach the, idk, rounded absurdity on full blast of BOTH leads AND the villains. Stranz and Fairchild forever!

Damn, no newswire about the aborted San Diego Morrissey show yet, so I’ll claim firsties for the song title pun ‘The world is full of stage-crashing bores’ here.

Reek and Symphonies are the classic milestones and I love them but damn if Heartwork isn't a ton of fun, too!

These three examples make for a pretty one-note display of Death Metal (haven’t looked at the full study though, maybe it gets more diverse there?), what about the jazzy/proggy aspects of genre-spawners Death? What about the Latin-rhythmed stylings of Atheist, to talk only about early stuff and not even mention the…

It’s bc of this, maybe, that the Halloween-adjacent Japanese cultural practice developed on Shikoku, not on the otherwise much more likely island Hokkaido.

Concerning the lyrical I-as godlike being-theory I agree and I’d posit the demigod Zuul, Gozer’s gatekeeper, as likely candidate, precisely bc of his gatekeeper-y demeanor.

Now I read your interpretation down-to-earth/upthread, am totally ok with it, but am still unsure whether I can follow your reply?! Close reading is a schoolboy error - why?!

Not saying that author and lyrical I are confused in this article (though the sentence “Later, Cohen ropes Jay-Z, saying the rapper “is not the Dylan of anything.” seems like they are only loosely separated tbh), but the last two lines imply that in this poem Cohen is not speaking through the persona of the lyrical I,…

A truly counterintuitive idea, but maybe it would work a(n evil) charm exactly bc of that. I’d certainly watch him attempt that.

Many good things here, 1) fuck originality, I love the song Thunder Road, 2) this film sounds like my kind of jam, 3) it’s nice to have an IV review here.

”humans kill roughly 100 million sharks every year.”

Looking for dad-jokes? Man, the AVC-commentariat used to be (maybe still is, but I only stop by ever so often nowadays) a hotbed for all kinds of dad-esque jokes, infused with Simpsons-, Futurama- and, more recently, what do I know, I am old, get off my lawn etc., Dadpool- and Fear of the walking dad-joke-references.

“But with the exception of one striking Fritz Lang-ian effect—Mandy’s face lysergically morphing into Jeremiah’s mid-trance—Cosmatos maintains an ironic distance from his simplistic ideas of good and evil.”

Lots of comments on Clutch already, I’ll just add mine. If you go back to the first eps and the first album you’ll find that abrasive noise rock aspect, hoarse shouting and stern HC-esque posturing (all the while bigging up their one-step-from-nonsense slogans that add to their charm) which they’ve strayed from…

Bosse-de-Nage tracks you can already listen to on bandcamp are brilliant, looking forward to that a lot.

Good luck with catching them soon, it's def worth going!

Would prob make a perfect double feature with Green Room.

Saw Chemical Brothers live, which was some serious fun: a ton of huge visuals (vintage Kraftwerkian 3D-humanoids, artsy art school video faculty stuff, strobe + laser in spades) behind the two middle aged dudes’ synth fort + two gigantic robots. Class A show and the music was close to 120 minutes banger, you’d have to…

“Certain places on the high seas have a reputation for swallowing ships whole. The Bermuda Triangle. The treacherous Arctic Sea. The Colorado Desert.”