Yep, but unfortunately it's 2016 and I'm on the internet, so I can only have one single irreconcilable opinion and not hold two, three, even four (imagine!) things close to my heart.

Yep. Finale was December 14, 2015.

Some hero needs to accept and then embarrass Trump.

I haven't seen it yet either, but it's funny how Chazelle can go from "Wunderkind Outsider! Get outta here Birdman!" to "Fuck that crusty white MF, Hollywood fellating itself again…" in two years.

Fargo was last year.

It's more on the recent side of things, but Abattoir Blues & The Lyre of Orpheus is a great, sprawling introduction to Cave's beautiful, dangerous, eclectic genius.

Where's the "Screaming about The Americans" thread and can I be the mayor of it?

The new version is sung (and arranged) by a hopelessly bloke who doesn't actually believe in lollipops and crisps.

Favourite song thoughts:

Fav Records (In order? Maybe?):

Hot take: The old version was perfect and this one is boring and devoid of emotion (yes I realize that's part of the point, that doesn't mean it's good).

Yeah there's a whole paragraph's worth of comparing Atlanta to other shows and it's like he's talking around the obvious, if reductive, "it's the Black Louie".

please stop this

They need to rastafy this by about 10 percent.

Beyonce is pretty great—but I think in that Einstein analogy, she's the handwriting?

See, I do the exact opposite. I leave January-March for the best stuff from the past year, then try to alternate classic/contemporary* for the rest of the year.

Amy Sherman-Palladino is developing a gritty, sci-fi reboot of Jerry Springer for the Oprah Winfrey Network!

I found Dorne very exciting, probably because it was one of the first truly unadapted parts of the novels. A "Holy shit, this is new!" thrill that I hadn't been getting from the first three books.

I dunno, I'd put Slaughterhouse-Five up against any book, any time (and it's a stronger example of a quote-unquote Post-War Novel than Meridian).

Finally figured I dive in and read ASOIAF; I have few hundred pages left in Dragons. The series is pretty good! Absolutely some of the magic was lost in having seen watched the show, but it was fun to pick out GRRM's carefully hidden clues (Roose Bolton throwing the Battle of The Green Fork was a real treat), and the…