I moved to Georgia around the same time (from Chicago) and library trips are definitely less exciting.
There are video stores here, though! Not many, but they exist.

I think "Strange Mercy" is a good album to start with. It's her third, and her best, but more importantly it opens with songs like "Cruel" and "Cheerleader" that are both some of her best and most accessible songs.
If you just want to look up songs:
Jesus Saves, I Spend
Laughing with a Mouth of Blood
Marrow
Cruel
Cheerleade…

The Royal Tenenbaums
Moonrise Kingdom
Rushmore
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Grand Budapest Hotel
Life Aquatic
Bottle Rocket
Darjeeling Limited

I've seen almost all of his movies and definitely know the feeling. The films that helped me best understand Jarmusch were Down By Law, Coffee and Cigarettes, and Broken Flowers. Coffee and Cigarettes especially, because it contains almost all of Jarmusch's obsessions in one more instantly-satisfying package.

I actually made it a point to listen to all of Beck's albums before this album came out, only to realize that I still missed two of them by looking at these lists. Goddamnit.

I love going back to the first two albums to find hints of what her music has become. It makes songs like "Marrow" even more impressive, because they sound even ahead of St. Vincent's time.

In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, "Au revoir, Harold Ramis."

Condescending to someone's pop culture criticism on a website about pop culture criticism is not unlike one rapper criticizing another rapper's Instagram behavior, really.

The cringe-worthy lines on Yeezus are self-deprecating though, and pretty funny.

He is the Nicholas Sparks of rappers.

I understand the intent, but I still don't agree with it. I'd argue that creating a public media discussion that is centered around the assumption that either someone is a lying child molester or their ex-wife is a conniving brain-washer reduces the debate to something resembling high school drama (albeit, very dark…

But I thought we were accusing Allen of being a pedont?

I definitely disagree with giving Dylan shit over this, except I also disagree with the general idea that this needs to be a public debate handled through print mediums. What happened is between Allen, Farrow, Dylan, and the law. I don't like the idea of bringing Allen's artistic collaborators or audience into this.

It looks like Amy Adams is set on being this generation's Meryl Streep. She makes a lot of the same choices young Streep did.

I don't necessarily disagree with your premise, but the contemporaries you list don't make any sense to me.
The actress that consistently threatens Streep's title, for me, is Tilda Swinton. She's almost the anti-Streep in that her performances are incredibly physical and rely on minute subtleties, where as Streep…

Yeah I definitely don't see where you're coming from. Her big performances are always in the service of big characters, and she gives appropriately subtle performances when called upon.

Produced by T. Bone Burnett?

You sound like a lot of fun.

But his worst crime was the Pinto!
Amirite, fellas?

He sneezed on cocaine, that's at least half-illegal.