Immortal Beyloved

This is one of the best songs on a standout album. When my daughter turned one, I made a brief video of her first year to the tune. It worked perfectly. Facebook wouldn't let me share it, but my wife and kids (also TMBG fans) dug it.

Here comes Dick in the Box
He's wearing a skirt

Speaking of the 20s, burning through Dos Passos' The Big Money for the second time. Has to be the swiftest-moving classic novel out there.

It's worth your time. The Miscavige stuff in horrifying.

Maybe. John Doe said she was misdiagnosed.

I'm a huge fan of the 1st X album — strong, punchy lyrics and tight playing. The second one has good moments, but the production isn't as strong (weird, considering Ray Manzarek did both) and there seems to be less inspiration overall.

The only reason Keith Richards survived is because a time traveler "who wanted to see what the Stones would be like if Keith lived" prevented the three overdoses that killed him in the alternate 1970s.

2000 Light Years From Home (Lost at the Mall)

Counterpoint: The media critiques are the most cynical, most out-of-date portions of Dark Lnight Returns. They reflect Miller's right-wing paranoia about reporting — and finding an easy group to blame for world's ills — and in a deeply atomized culture, look like dispatches from another time.

This is the Marine Todd meme, right?

Gods Not Dead 2: Marduk's Revenge

On Catholic school retreats, there was inevitably a young, hip friendly guy who would get you to relax and then start demanding obedience to the church.

Hey! It works!

God's Not An Opiate

Clarke argued (not altogether convincingly) that the books represented separate universes with the same characters. But they're so tied up with one another that it's a hard point to make.

Definitely not that one, unless comedy involves yelling pieties at someone. But mainly the ending of Bulworth pissed me off. Just manipulative and absurd.

Old Yeller's Not Dead 2: Whoops, I Misspoke Again

It is a great film and one that deserves greater recognition. But it's a little odd that the director who made a film with this amount of nuance and timelessness could make Bulworth — a didactic, overblown and ridiculous film that was cringeworthy even at the time of its release.

Eh. It's sympathetic to Reed and Bryant but wary at best about the Soviet system. Their tragedy is that the execution of their ideals turns horribly wrong, but it's not their ideals that are the problem.