Well.. two layers.

I'd settle for just leaving us all alone.

Plus: everything is said at the exact same LOUD volume, with the exact same level of sweaty, overhyped enthusiasm.

If Hardwick was lying right under the slowly decomposing dead moose, I'd watch it.

I think the production kind of ruins that album. They should've never gone to Gil Norton, and stayed with Steve Albini - Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa still sound so vibrant and fresh today.

No, it isn't Frank Black. It's someone the photographer Simon Larbalestier knew.

Their version of Planet of Sound is amazing, a little fifteen-minute epic.

Anybody else listen to/watch the recent Never Not Funny Player's Club episode featuring Jamie Denbo (aka Beverly from Ronna & Beverly)?

Also fun - that dentist is comedian Todd Barry, which completely fits in Soderbergh's love of casting comedians in dramatic roles.

The first season was great, and this season opener is fantastic. Really glad this show is back.

Thanks. I now have that fucking drumbeat rumbling on a loop through my brain.

I completely agree with you on the sexual manipulation point, it's really quite gross, but the 'speaking to a deceased relative one more time'-thing still turned me into a weeping wreck..

I don't know about Doughboys.. I've tried a couple of episodes, and I always find myself sort of enjoying the first half, and then completely losing interest when they start to over-earnestly describe what they ordered.

Gould IS particularly bad for that. He is the perfect example of a comic who cannot let the opportunity to make a joke pass by. In some conversations on his podcast it works, but in a lot of cases it completely kills the flow of conversation.

I liked how Silverman told off the audience for spoiling the games - a scolding case of "I'm not angry.. just very disappointed".

She acted like a petulant teenager with most people (especially her boyfriends, oh my lord), but it hurt more with her parents, who actually seemed like quite likeable people.

Ha! Charmingly sheltered! I instantly lost it with Rory in the first season, when Lane was about to be fucking deported by her own mother, and Rory could barely manage to give a shit. What an asshole!

Yes! I can't stand Lorelai! As you say, she is insufferably self-centered, and basically a collection of annoying quirks and tics.

You should watch the documentary they discuss, Exporting Raymond, where Rosenthal goes to Russia to "advise" on Russia's own version of Everybody Loves Raymond. It's excellent, and Rosenthal is excellent in it.

Is it, though? I just watched that bit on Youtube, and it seemed kind of hacky at best. And it went on for fucking ever.