Yeah, they've always been the slightly smug, complacent upper-middle-class establishment paper, but what else are you gonna read?

Aren't most of Lynch's tighter movies (like Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive) co-written with someone else? And IE is not?

"It's amazing how a particular album I adore is given a harsh review/grade by these pompous, biased turds."

It is tolerable and I don't hate it!

Subconscious Sam Champion reference there.

I'm just mystified as to how there is money in it. If decent blogs actually struggle to collect enough pageclicks, how does it make sense to spend money trying to get suckers to click on "refinery29" or "orls110"?

Selfies are fine, the word itself is fine, but everybody's weird obsession with the concept is just bizarre. So somebody held out a phone and took a self-portrait - who gives a shit. Especially since the media now calls everything a selfie, even portraits that are clearly shot by somebody else.

The most memorable part was them driving and listening to tunes - it resonated with me as a real way that music interacts with life and creates intimacy. (I have never, OTOH, picked up somebody at a show.)

Well, the real scandals would be letting the military make hundreds of drone strikes on nebulous targets and the NSA being a bunch of technologically ambitious extralegal shitbags. But those are both pretty much in line with what conservatives would do anyway, except they'd make it part of their campaign platform to…

Oh I'm worse than him, though I wouldn't be doing it if this whole issue hadn't rared it's ugly head in the first place.

What, that's the expression. Strip the idea down to it's bare essence so you can see it for what it is, which is invariably something fake that you can ignore.

Because telling people they should give a shit about something is offensive.

Working "every job in the food business" would probably teach you that people are horrible and you hate them all, especially the public.

Huh, that's all my facebook friends ever write. I assumed it was one of those meme things.

Well you should also bare in mind that from the point of view of anorexic people anorexia is not real and they are basically just really successful people who are making themselves happy, and so the people being outraged and running the whole outrage machine and social justice warrioranizing are doing it on someone…

The specific act of thievery that broke my heart is the "Come As You Are" riff, lifted from Killing Joke. I loved that bass line, man, it was my favorite Nirvana detail, by far.

Yeah, I think you are underestimating how unique this combination of textural elements is. Combination of simple elements is what gets you instant complexity. For example, there only 12 tones in an octave, but 248,832 ways to slap five notes together. If you imagine that you might stretch beyond an octave (to, say,…

…and you could argue that this intro is as iconic as any melody, using evidence of how celebrated it is in pop culture, how quickly fans cheer at concerts when they hear it, etc. You could ask people "what does Stairway to Heaven sound like?" and count how many people try to do that intro, vs. how many people sing…

Heh, a different key is most definitely something that would not make a difference. I can't take your song and perform it in a different key and say it's mine, now.

There is still time for it to not end well.