Moor Mother, Fetish Bones, political, poetic, noisy, angry, intensively emotional and incredibly well-crafted tracks like a non-drug-crazed, news-reading Death Grips.
Cymbals Eat Guitars, Pretty Years could have been inserted into a couple of slots that the other stupid-three-word-bandname-starting-with-C (read: Car…

Absolutely, H&P was so damn good, real highlight of the year.

Cumbug

To me, a brandy is/feels restricted to being made from grapes/wine. So that would be Brandy, Cognac, German Weinbrand etc. (So, also not the stuff made from the rest of the grapes after extracting the juice for wine, the most famous of which is grappa.)
Everything else, be it from apple, pear or other fruit is what…

Yay Spanish brandy (or Iberian - never tried a Portuguese one, though)!
ETA: And do try a Calvados straight once, there is good stuff out there, quite close to Cognac actually and not sweet at all.

Spain has a pretty broad selection of Brandys, including the Veterano brand which every bar seems as legally obliged to stock as to hang an Iberian ham over the counter (not for the worse of Spanish bars, which are often just the best).

That will probably have been plum, most eastern European countries have a variant of Sliwowicz (spelling varies), that many families are proud to make at home/a local distillery with fruit from their own orchard and pass on/pour to neighbours/friends/bypassing strangers whenever opportunity arises.

This sounds like a 2016 rewrite of Hemingway's short story A Day's Wait.
(Life stranger than fiction trope etc…)

The trick is to keep breathing - This is the second time in a week somebody mentions a title from the reading list of the Scot Lit course I was in a frigging ton of years ago (the other being The Gowk Storm). (Which is good, because I'm always happy to be reminded of my year in Glasgow). I liked The trick … well…

December is a great music discovery time for me, because by way of all the “This year’s best … albums”-lists I go through I check or re-check out stuff I ignored the first time around or that didn’t hit me then. Discovered great stuff:

December is a great music discovery time for me, because by way of all the “This year’s best … albums”-lists I go through I check or re-check out stuff I ignored the first time around or that didn’t hit me then. Discovered great stuff:

Just talked about Inglorious Basterds below/upthread - QT really is capable of strong emotional scenes. (Shoshana after Landa has left her with the Strudel dessert.)
And the shootouts are incredible - the one in the tavern in the French village Nadine and the one in Django Unchained is really eye-popping.
Kill Bill is…

Just re-watched a good hour of Inglorious Basterds yesterday because it was on when I was on the stepper. I agree, that there is A LOT OF TALKING, but I came away thinking that the talking thing you mention here is a defining if not crucial aspect of Tarantino, and I love how he keeps working with this, evolving it…

Many happy returns, narrator!

Many happy returns, narrator!

Thank you! I will not be able to read anything in its Portuguese original, sadly, but I'll check out the English Amazon samples and see if it hits me.

I heard of this, and actually looked up some recipes to check how it's done a while ago, but never made them.
A mistake that will have to be remedied. They must be utterly delicious, with a cold beer or white wine.

Let’s do it doggy style so we can both watch X-Files 'Unsolved Mysteries'

What's your best takeaway from Best album/music/song-lists on pop culture media you frequent?-Thread

I love that TvZ track - far from understanding the card game intricacies of the story I am totally transfixed by it and the way Townes tells/sings it.