It's strangely common. In the liner notes to Black Sabbath's reunion CD, they deny ever having taken any drugs or referencing Satan in their songs. They claim that Sweet Leaf is about a brand of cigarettes and that N.I.B. is a humorous reference to a goatee one of them grew and they all called the "nib." They have to…

I wonder why they didn't go the other direction. The standards have shifted and the classy end of porn is no longer still nudes, it's professionally shot hardcore videos with gorgeous models and terrible music. X-Art , that sort of thing. Why not try to compete in that arena? Perhaps it's tough to monetize free…

You can certainly have Green Day and Blink-182. Please, take them.

I know! He was obviously the villain just from the in-costume production stills. He's supposed to be a Golden God, the last guy you would ever suspect of villainy, not Loki.

I read it. It's not for the squeamish, but it is an incredible piece of work. If the idea of classic fairy tale tropes reconfigured with their psycho-sexual subtext laid bare (completely, explicitly bare), combined with a running thread contrasting sex and war (the outbreak of World War One is going on in the…

Though I'm sure there have been examples of rich people pushing poor people out of places throughout history, the current gentrification issue is part of a specific historical timeline. After WWII the increased availability of cars allowed the white and successful to largely abandoned their formerly desirable…

If we're all on the path of Perfect Objective Aesthetic Appreciation, fair enough. But we're human. We form associations. Sometimes working to shed those associations so we can appreciate one more pop song a bit better just isn't worth the effort. It's enough for me if people can admit that their reasons are…

He got bored with the lyrics after a while, and his very silly, most well-known songs are among his weakest. However, there's some pretty serious wit and satire on display there too, especially early on. Ultimately, though, I agree that his chief talents were composition and instrumentalism.

Free market economists use The Wealth of Nations the way fundamentalist Christians use the Bible: they cherry pick to justify the things they wanted to believe anyway. Adam Smith also argues for 100% unionization of the work force.

Then may I humbly propose that we stop putting tigers in cribs with our babies?

I just hope Big Pharma isn't able to sacrifice this shitstain and go on with business as usual. The entire sector needs to be gutted.

I suppose it was too much to hope that this was something that pertained only to the classic series. Damn that Baker-era Tardis still and its false promises!

I seem to have done you a disservice. I interpreted the sense of your comment more as "while some people might try to defend double negatives, surely we can agree that a triple negative is beyond the pale." Now that I see what you meant, I find it to be an apt and pithy remark.

Little late to the party, but I see him as a Theon Greyjoy. He's a little shit who deserves some comeuppance but his flaws come from a human and relatable place and his punishment is so vastly out of proportion with his crimes that we can't help but feel for him.

Fear the Walking Dead just used this song too. I really feel like it should be off-limits after Trainspotting.

I don't disagree with anything you said, but I think if we're going to accept the premise of Sweeney Todd as a feature film with non-singers it was about as good as it could have been, a few caveats such as the CGI aside. Burton's narrative instincts are not his long suit so he's always best when working from strong…

She's using her incredible talent and training in order to sing in character as Mrs. Lovett, who is rough and low-class. That's an entirely different animal than simply not being that great a singer like Depp and Carter.

Yeah, we're coached to see her as a castrating bitch at the beginning of the show. Then as Walt goes further down the rabbit hole his extraordinary crimes against her come to greatly exceed the fairly mundane indignities she put him through, and our sympathies begin to switch. It's great stuff dramatically speaking,…

Since they were allowed in Middle English and were only prohibited in a misguided effort to make English more closely resemble Latin, yes I think we can all agree that triple negatives are perfectly acceptable.

The techniques can be tested on languages that are still around for us to verify the results. Once that's been done, they can be applied to dead languages, giving us a reasonable approximation of their likely pronunciation. This is how we arrived at a standard pronunciation for Latin, among others. Of course you are…