@avclub-e37d015e5d80348a275284efacdb6db5:disqus I just find myself lately holding the least popular opinion available. I've had the luxury of not having to listen to anybody else's opinion on music lately and I think it's pushed my tastes a bit further out.

@avclub-e37d015e5d80348a275284efacdb6db5:disqus I just find myself lately holding the least popular opinion available. I've had the luxury of not having to listen to anybody else's opinion on music lately and I think it's pushed my tastes a bit further out.

It's like ten thousand spoons all over your apartment from you sitting around doing smack all day when all you need is a knife to slice your chest open.

It's like ten thousand spoons all over your apartment from you sitting around doing smack all day when all you need is a knife to slice your chest open.

Thank you for reminding me of that quote.

Thank you for reminding me of that quote.

Thanks, good to know. I'm really into This Heat and Faust and whatnot, which explains my preference. I'm not a troll (though I find myself saying that so often that I sometimes wonder if I am).

Thanks, good to know. I'm really into This Heat and Faust and whatnot, which explains my preference. I'm not a troll (though I find myself saying that so often that I sometimes wonder if I am).

She's good in this, excellent even; but as you say, regardless of how good she was it was still a weird choice. Saying that, the other choices are so dreary I can sort of imagine her being picked out of desperation.

She's good in this, excellent even; but as you say, regardless of how good she was it was still a weird choice. Saying that, the other choices are so dreary I can sort of imagine her being picked out of desperation.

Am I the only person who thinks they peaked with The Were Wrong, So We Drowned? I respected Drum Not Dead more than liked it, and I've felt pretty lukewarm about everything they've done since.

Am I the only person who thinks they peaked with The Were Wrong, So We Drowned? I respected Drum Not Dead more than liked it, and I've felt pretty lukewarm about everything they've done since.

It's all about Shane Black. Shame his career went of the rails a bit.

It's all about Shane Black. Shame his career went of the rails a bit.

Yeah I'd like to treat her as hostile witness and so forth. As everyone knows, when you're stuck in the mud in Alabama, one wheel spins and the other stays still.

Yeah I'd like to treat her as hostile witness and so forth. As everyone knows, when you're stuck in the mud in Alabama, one wheel spins and the other stays still.

We are over reliant on the myth of a talent that cracks, and
Wilson’s deification is fairly indicative of this. Since the Beach Boys were
writing primarily about the world of beaches and surfing that they knew, as
Wilson’s personality begins to fragment, the listener is drawn into his
endlessly shrinking world. Lines like…

We are over reliant on the myth of a talent that cracks, and
Wilson’s deification is fairly indicative of this. Since the Beach Boys were
writing primarily about the world of beaches and surfing that they knew, as
Wilson’s personality begins to fragment, the listener is drawn into his
endlessly shrinking world. Lines like…

In principle, the voice-over does emphasise the noir roots, and genre critic types are always keen on this aspect because it makes the film fit their pre-existing ideas about it. However, I find in reality Ford sounds like he's reading the voice-over against his will and it the racial epithet thing makes everything…

In principle, the voice-over does emphasise the noir roots, and genre critic types are always keen on this aspect because it makes the film fit their pre-existing ideas about it. However, I find in reality Ford sounds like he's reading the voice-over against his will and it the racial epithet thing makes everything…