I've read many times - likely on this VERY site - that TV is a writer's/show runner's medium to film's director's medium. Directors of individual TV shows are almost always supposed to be invisible and let the show be itself. Which makes sense; they're hired guns.

" Unlike Inland Empire, which I think is a delightful (and ultimately, completely cohesive)"

Bar Rescue is such a stupid fucking show and I love it so much. I love the pseudo science they throw into every episode, with the infographics and animated blueprints and the narrator spouting some nonsense about how 60% of all bar patrons prefer beer taps slightly to their left. I love how every bar turns into…

Look out for hypothermia. Look out for daddy's beatings.

singling out Daria is especially funny because it's not like she was supposed to be the standard of beauty.

I'm with you on almost all of this. It sounds like we're about the same age; I witnessed many friends "discover" Neutral Milk Hotel and go absolutely apeshit over Aeroplane. When I actually heard the record, I basically felt like "this is good, but am I missing something?" I don't think I was.

It certainly does on this show.

snakelike guitar
jittery rhythms
elliptical and abstract
nervy soundscapes
hypnotically entrancing
moody meanderings
soulful, searching
Philip Glass-like
swirling synths
snaky, pulsing beats

The only time I get annoyed when someone criticizes art I like is when it's a critic being overly dismissive of something that deserves more measured thought behind it. Think Pitchfork's early 0.0 reviews.

I always appreciate when a comedian can make me laugh by making fun of something I really love, like Paul F Tomkin's bit about jazz. This one didn't work for me though. Not because Marvin Gaye is above any reproach, but there was just nothing interesting here.

Mike not being able to adopt was actually pretty heartbreaking. Matt Walsh played that extremely well.

I got the drum break stuck in my head recently and could not for the life of me remember what song it was from. Turns out you can't google a drum break. I even called several friends. I knew it was new jack swing, went through several Janet Jackson songs. No one had a good answer for me until the next morning when the…

If you got "trying to be mature and serious" from my post I'm not really sure what to tell you.

The more I accept how fucking stupid this show is, the more I can enjoy it. Because it really is a profoundly silly, over-the-top violent soap opera. This season is the most ridiculous so far. We have the crippled kid living in a tree with a fucking tree dude who literally says "you think I LIKE living in a dang…

Killing the child was total fanservice

"The album is titled A Moon Shaped Pool, with its lack of a hyphen suggesting that it’s about a thing named Pool that was shaped by a moon (as opposed to a pool shaped like a moon), "

Was there recently a mandate that newswires have to be a certain length? Because there is a hell of a lot of padding in most of what's posted lately.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that it followed In Rainbows which was this warm, gorgeous record that mixed elements of everything Radiohead had done up to that point in such a way that it could please almost any fan.

Yeah I get that and I'm sure that was their intent but I always felt like it was too long for an album that was so short.

oh totally. you can't really write off ANY live version of a RH song, they are masters at arranging for a live setting.