They're OK but they're a distant fourth, behind piano recitals, kabuki, and shadow puppetry.

The survivors will still have an Oscars ceremony, though; they'll make little statues out of scavenged tinfoil and stuff.

I think that was actually The Hostel, the John Malkovich, His Dab and Its Face/Off.

NAOMIE WAS ROBBED! (OK I didn't actually see Fences but still - Naomie Harris was just so fucking good in Moonlight.)

MORE MASSIVE SPOILERS WHY ARE YOU EVEN READING THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU????

I think I saw Hostel Meets Being John Malkovich with a Dab of Face/Off when I was a kid… was that the one with Bobcat Goldthwait and the talking horse?

Definite Basquiat influence; a lot of young artists get bitten by the Basquiat bug, which makes sense - Basquiat was a genuinely brilliant painter, as well as pretty much the coolest guy to ever walk the Earth. And, as with various tragic rock stars, he died young, so all of his work - and every image of him - is…

I don't know if this is still true, but I've heard that the Vatican gift shop used to sell a shapeless women's nightgown with a crotch hole, emblazoned with the words "I do this not for pleasure, but for the greater glory of God."

Conversations I've seen online:

I literally LOL'd

Bigoted morons tend to be pretty scared of change, as well.

That's interesting, because this morning I woke up thinking, "Today, I hope I learn something new about Justin Bieber's dick."

Ugh that line of argument sucks so bad. Even if you accept the idea that revolution is a good thing that we should be working towards, it's still dumb. I wanna rant about it…

Yeah but I heard he was racist

This stuff gives me hope. It really does. But remember: progressives tend to suck at actually participating in midterm elections, so if the US isn't a smoldering crater by 2018, be sure to go out and fuckin' vote.

I used to get a guilty-pleasure kick out of this show - basically because it's fun watching as fools get laid low by an intelligent lady - but I really thought of it as being part of a late-90s/early-2000s reality/daytime-TV moment; I had no idea it was still on the air after 21 (!?!) seasons.

Also I think in the second season the writers weren't trying to recreate Lynch's style so much as just throw a bunch of random weirdness together in hopes that something would stick.

Why not just Shut Up, Lambs?

Yeah this. 3 Women (my favorite movie ever), Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter, In the Bedroom - all such compelling performances. No need to discuss The Ring Two, though.

Genuine thread suggestion: recommend some bands/music that you like that could reasonably be considered 'goth' (I feel like it's a somewhat tricky category). I'll start with some underrated bands: