I like how both this and The Pirate Planet have these over-the-top ranting villains that somehow manage to evoke a little bit of sympathy in the viewer in their last moments. He's just so crushed when his second-in-command is killed!

I like how both this and The Pirate Planet have these over-the-top ranting villains that somehow manage to evoke a little bit of sympathy in the viewer in their last moments. He's just so crushed when his second-in-command is killed!

I'm sure it was, and I wish it had been renewed and not fucked with so much. But looking back at what actually got made, there were maybe 2 or 3 really great episodes, a few solid but flawed ones, and a lot of stupid, cliched plots, characters, etc.

I'm sure it was, and I wish it had been renewed and not fucked with so much. But looking back at what actually got made, there were maybe 2 or 3 really great episodes, a few solid but flawed ones, and a lot of stupid, cliched plots, characters, etc.

the theme song is objectively terrible. the show itself isn't that great either, but this is a good pilot.

the theme song is objectively terrible. the show itself isn't that great either, but this is a good pilot.

YES. And what exactly happened in Gram Parsons' "$1000 Wedding"?

I don't really think of Kim as being depicted as superior due to his whiteness. I think the idea is that as a boy growing up in India without adherence to any particular race or culture, he has learned how to exist within and without all of them. He's able to transcend cultural differences due to his chameleon nature,…

Maybe Charlie Kaufman can write a screenplay that intertwines Hadrian the VII and The Quest for Corvo, it'd be right up his alley.

Or Snufkin -http://candycactus.files.wo…

i was once sitting on a street corner reading The Crying of Lot 49, and a woman stopped and said, 'that's a great book,' and rolled up her sleeve to show me that tattoo on her wrist.

I saw this last summer, it was awesome.

yeah, the first 10 minutes or so are really irritating, but it becomes way better, especially the way it develops the character of the pirate captain.

The Mannie Fresh album owns.

Tim Dog is awesome. Check out his track "Secret Fantasies," in which he elaborates on his fantasy of having sex with En Vogue in their dressing room.

I wish he'd used the Tell Tale Signs version of "Someday Baby," it's miles ahead of the album version, which is like the most generic recent Dylan song imaginable.

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues and It Takes a Lot to Laugh are two of my favorites from the mid-60's era, in part because they aren't played out or talked about to death. Yo La Tengo's cover of the latter is great, I forgot to mention it on last week's thread.

Yep. It's massively depressing much of the time, but it spans such a wide range of depressing topics - old-timey lost love (Withered and Died), apocalyptic defeat (Calvary Cross), poor wretched souls (Down Where the Drunkards Roll), why life is an unending parade of misery (End of the Rainbow), and not being able to…

Calvary Cross fuckin owns. He could release an hour-long album that's only a Calvary Cross jam and I'd buy that shit in a heartbeat.

This was really cool, I had always interpreted "Meet on the Ledge" as having a much more grand and universal theme. Still one of my favorite songs ever.