You wanna play blind man, go walk with the shepherd, but me, my eyes are wide-focused-open.

The message is really muddled. The "too awkward to be taken seriously" definitely holds up in most of them, but I don't know what to make of it when it goes for legitimately problematic lyrics. I feel like they're just kinda throwing the conceit at the wall and it's funny when it's funny and it's socially conscious…

Also came down here to say Dan Wilson. Also Butch Walker (Marvelous 3, as well as a formerly-middling-recently-phenomenal solo career), who co-wrote for Pink, Avril, Fall Out Boy, and the only SR-71 song anyone remembers. There must be something about being the frontman in a 90's powerpop one-hit-wonder band that…

But… but… Boondocks!

"Oh, no, I was ordering a drink called a 'rough night'. It's tequila with a nicotine patch."

I actually kinda like a guy in eyeliner. Some artful application can be a nice way to throw the gender norms to the wind and actually look damn good if the guy can pull it off.

I'm not, but I've taken a few classes in music business. This is going to be a very simplified version of it, but basically when you co-write a song with someone else—unless certain contracts and the like come into play (e.g., work for hire, certain agreements between big labels and novice Nashville songwriters)—both…

Does fair use/parody even come into play here? It's an ad; no matter how noble you try to paint it, the primary use is still to hawk their wares. It opens up a precedent for "No, see, the original message Cracker was trying to convey was that his lady makes him feel low, but we've totally subverted it and made it…

No, you don't have be a "Tumblr Anglophile" to get into it. You are just a person that doesn't enjoy a show that other people like, many of them passionately. It doesn't mean you're missing anything, and it sure as shit doesn't mean the people who do like it must all belong to some weird cultish subculture that…

I haven't given the topic enough thought to pick a definitive All-Time Favorite, but the Hold Steady's Lord I'm Discouraged immediately jumps to mind as having a pretty tasty solo.

How openly she treated those folks as poor consolation prizes to the Doctor is kind of a separate issue I have with Rose, but it did help sell the tragedy of her situation.

I think the only reason we're even having this discussion is because of how well the show fared on both sides of the transition. Usually, a show survives that handoff by trying to parrot the first showrunner's style. Granted, DW has such a long, diverse and celebrated history that it lends itself to different spins…

I dunno, man, that was one realistic-looking fez explosion.

Americaner? Really? They're aiming for that? Isn't that what they went for with the TV movie? We all know how that shit played out. This show got big in America on its own very-British merits. I sudden feel, as a Yank watching this show, the need to quietly sit down and say "Oh, no, don't mind us. Just keep doing what…

I thought it was just me. I didn't wanna come across as wanting to hold Moffat to run the show as RTD, 'cause that's not really fair (and I acknowledged the end of Davies' run got realllllly callback-heavy so I understood if he wanted to give that a rest for awhile), but I'm cool with the new style, I'm cool with the…

There are "let's talk about our favorite episodes and character development" sects of fandoms, and then there are "I called in an actual bomb threat to that awful triple-Hitler who shipped Ten and Martha" sects of fandoms.

I'm nearing the end of Season 7 and although I've never disliked Moffat—it was more like the show went from 4.5-star territory to 4 in some respects—I'm feeling a slight bit of that burnout. I think a lot of it is that he can't reveal too much about Clara on account of her being a season-related mystery arc (although,…

The thing RTD did in addition to the romance angle (though possibly made even more warped because of it) is he made the Doctor into an unwitting cult leader for his companions. Rose just plumb refuses to live without the Doctor, not just as the man she loves, but as the lifestyle she once led. Martha was never as…

Also, Catherine Tate in the last season. Trippy.

It felt a touch too cruel to leave Rose alone in that universe, but at least it was poetically satisfying. God, that "here's a clone, and he's human, you two have fun [wink]" end was stuff I expect to see in shipping-minded fanfiction more than actual television.