Whilst I always enjoy reading analysis of the Coens' work, I found this article's hypothesis to be arbitrary at best; despite a lot of words being spent, I just don't buy the pairings theory posited.

well said.
it's a lazy trend.
whatever happened to championing the underdog?
or breaking a new act?
now it's all just re-enforcing the top-of-the-tree mega-acts that are already over-exposed as fuck.

People proclaiming his genius clearly have fuck-all clue as to what genius actually is.
you wanna listen to something pretty amazingly ground-breaking, try Death Grips, they make West sound like the boring, middle-of-the-road talent that he is.
I don't even *love* Death Grips, but they are/were clearly staking out new…

speaking of which, LD failing to adequately guard the door while Cheryl was doing *something* in the bathroom in one of the early seasons *neeearly* counts for this list ..

ah, she had nothing to complain about, he took her to a Jose Feliciano

yeah, she's still just Jenny from the Block; totally relatable ..

I think of The Time, the band the Revolution *should've* been ..

U-Turn is the only thing I've seen her in where she was remotely enjoyable ..

He probably has a dozen other movies that can give him that Barton Fink feeling ..

you ask Stan Grossman, he'll tell ya the same thing.

waddaya need, a road map!?

I used to think you were a swell guy. Well, to be honest, I thought you were an imbecile. But then I figured out you WERE a swell guy… A little slow, maybe, but a swell guy.
Well, maybe you're not so slow, But you're not so swell either. And it looks like you're an imbecile after all!

I bet you think you raised hell..

Correct.

I know, but *honey*

it's fucking great, totally agree, I would put it in my top 3-4 Coens films without a doubt ..

Open it. Let it breathe. Ten minutes. Letting it breathe; so important.

culture clash?

If you would like to sleep in a coffin, it would be all right.

…on account of somethin' went wrong with my se-men