It's at the Banff Centre. They host a ton of international festivals and stuff. It's like Aspen without the high douchebag quota, so people tend to love it there.

The end of Do The Right Thing is fantastic in so many ways, but her reaction to the violence is such a chilling moment. Terrific actress, she will be missed.

Mance Rayder: Comptroller beyond the Wall

Well, Ommegang makes official GoT beer and it's delicious! Expensive, though.

According to the director in the commentary, he was modelled after Downey Jr.'s character in Less Than Zero.

Hooray! My Habs are decent! Decent, I tells ya!

At the Bell Lightbox in Toronto, this is playing alongside Jodorowsky's Dune and both Nymphomaniacs. Thanks, bizarre yet brilliant programming head at TIFF!

I'd like to see someone like Kurt Sutter take on Mr. Poppers Penguins — more violence and semi-coherent storytelling, please!

Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart Show, even Dick Van Dyke Show have this great timeless quality to them that make them very easy to rewatch. Frasier is newer, but also captures that feel.

If you want to go even further than those three, who definitely were enjoyed in popular culture but had pretty strong connections to the "elite" (Schubert especially viewed himself as almost an avant-garde artist), you could go with Verdi and Puccini who were roundly criticized for their crowd-pleasing, populist works.

My Dad is a huge Golden Age of Radio buff, and since even the early days of us using the internet (I think we had an internet-enabled PC in…1994?) there has been a remarkable wealth of shows available online. It's something I've always wanted to get into.

Like, I know Katy Perry and Greg Wells (who I've met and worked with and is an utter delight) don't hate gay people and want them to commit suicide, but those lyrics fill me with dread even when presented in their proper context.

Hey, flutes are…made from metal.

"You're so gay
I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf
While jacking off listening to Mozart."

Holy shit he's from Forest Hill? ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I feel you on the stomping — my upstairs neighbors, who are lovely, sound like a herd of elephants when they come home from work. Unfortunately they are bartenders and get back at 3 AM. I know it's just the floors but it's hard to not get pissed at 3 in the morning.

I hate when people ahead of me get onto the subway and then just stop, blocking the door. What exactly was your game plan, fucker?

Also, I work in one of the richest neighborhoods in Canada (Rosedale/Forest Hill in Toronto), so I often hit the amazing Summerhill liquor store on my way home from work. Unfortunately, the person in front of me is usually buying Lagavullin or a 75 dollar bottle of wine and I end up looking like a hobo with my…

Knob Creek has gone up about 7 dollars for a 750 ml bottle here in the past four or so years, so I haven't bought it lately. I also pronounce it with a hard k sound because I'm HILARIOUS.

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