Salient points, but the image of R Kelly that the Pitchfork Fest crowd responds to is the insane, ghost-talking, "Trapped in the Closet"-writing nutjob, not so much the one-time pop mainstay. I never said he wasn't good, I just don't understand all the fawning from 21-year-olds.

But headlining the last day of Pitchfork. The guy's a decent singer who had pop hits what, 10 years ago?

Don't get the white hipster fascination with R. Kelly. Or Lil B, for that matter

Friday and Saturday look so damn good: Bjork, Joanna Newsom, and Wire all on the same day? Did you read my dream journals?

Fuck off

Both the glove and the Reeboks were callbacks to earlier episodes, which this one contained a lot of. Even in the closet, with those "Mordecai and the Rigbys" shirts

I like this album a whole damn lot and I can't decide whether it's more like Dookie or Nevermind. Williams is becoming just a really good punk songwriter.

Respectfully disagree! "Let the Groove Get In" is like a fucking awesome outtake from early 90s Michael Jackson extended over 7 minutes.

It's one of the more unique productions from Timbaland. Very quiet, jazzy, and intimate.

I think there's less of an idea since the internet pushed mass culture to the very edge of its apex that artists and music "age" or that styles get phased out. 20 years passed between 1945 and 1965 and music leapt in such large bounds in that time that it would have been inconceivable that the Andrews Sisters charted…

and dealing with sexists is also really fun, lot of those

There was that time everything smelled like piss and there was garbage everywhere. And I really had a lot of fun when there was literally liquid shit on the bathroom floor. And dealing with that one guy who kept trying to mosh when nobody wanted to during every show was super fun, especially when he was really drunk…

The problem most pop critics have — especially in the internet age — is that they cannot capably discuss issues of form and aesthetics. This is a conversation that hinges heavily on both, and neither is really talked about.

Documentaries are wildly, incredibly diverse things. A film like Chronos can be considered a documentary right alongside Sherman's March, as can the Stan Brakhage experimental films and something like Haxan: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Bride of Chucky > Seed of Chucky

whoever downvoted this has never seen Sealab 2021, the fucking dork

hopefully everyone will die at the end. of both episodes.

@avclub-911f90ac0e48768fec246c09605362a5:disqus Cosmopolis was highly marginalized (didn't play in Milwaukee) and I've only seen it thanks to the magic of torrents. (Have subsequently bought it.) And I have no idea why it was critically dismissed.

Hard to think of any films that consciously engage with the recession. Take Shelter and Cosmopolis (a great film) are two of the few.

Take Shelter (2011)
Melancholia (2011)
4:44: Last Day on Earth (2011)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
It's a Disaster (2013)