That's what I hear about her. I like her newest record the best, but I just took a long bus ride and listened to some of her previous stuff and… I mean, my head didn't explode, but it wasn't connecting with me.

It's hard, because people feel really connected to their taste in things, and feel like they need to defend it when it's challenged. Happens to me all the time. But I'm trying to get to a place where I can accept that not everyone has to like the same thing, and that's ok. I mean, my boyfriend doesn't like 70s David…

I know… I know…

Like calling anybody anything for expressing an honest opinion, yeah.

Generally speaking, whenever something is described as "Hard Listening" I'm immediately not that interested. I'm fine with music sometimes taking a little while to sink in, but I don't want to have to actively work at it.

Regardless of what you think of 'The National Anthem' or Radiohead as a whole, the point he's making here is a good one: we too often conflate someone's taste with worth. Like, nobody has any business correcting someone for their taste in anything, because it's all subjective. There's a tyranny of cool that exists…

Great episode, great to see Trixie back, great to see Latrice, great to see Pearl win (even though it's increasingly notable that Pearl only ever wins with the help of another queen, first Max and now Trixie… and I love Pearl.)

Tempest isn't so much a bad luck charm as Jaidynn was just up to three lip-syncs (in a row!) and, Jujubee excepted, nobody comes back from that.

Jorah returns from his banishment, saves Dany in the fighting pits and dies doing so, redeeming himself.

Ciaran Hinds' interview with Vulture seems to kind of allude to some kind of transference, whether it's just a symbolic passing of leadership to Tormund or some version of the metamorphosis that happens in the book. I'd rather they just went with the former; most of the magic in the books works best when the reader…

When Lady Stoneheart was introduced in the books it really felt like she had potential to be an important part of the story. Sure, she pops in and out, and doesn't really accomplish much other than capture Brienne and Pod and then apparently set them free to do her dastardly bidding, but just the fact that suddenly we…

I don't have a problem with movies that have multiple possible interpretations; I've made several people watch Lost Highway in hopes of lively discussion afterwards. But there's something about The Master that infuriates me. If anything, I don't really know what it is, and I guess that's part of why I spend so much…

Sure, The Master focuses on the relationship between Freddie and Dodd, but what is their relationship? Dodd likes Freddie, wants him around, defends him and tries to help him, puts him various Cause exercises to cure him, but why? That's never made clear. What is it about Freddie, specifically, that captures Dodd's…

Loved There Will Be Blood, hated The Master. Daniel Plainview was a horrible person, but he was a compelling character, and I wanted to watch him regardless. The Master felt like a slog toward incoherent nothing and I didn't have any feeling about the characters whatsoever. Yeah, it's possible.

I think Skyfall gets a lot of attention because it had great cinematography (like, seriously, some of the compositions during the final, firelit chase scene were astonishingly good) and because it was light-years betters than "Magnum of Champagne", or whatever that one was before it. Top tier Bond, yes. Not…

Yeah, but I prefer my time traveling Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys.

Do we really look to Bond movies for their progressive treatment of women? I'm not defending it, but we should all kind of know what we're in for when we sit down.

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't like it. Coming out against The Master was to 2012 as coming out against The Tree of Life was to 2011.

Exactly. If the time travel is supposed to be fun it doesn't need to be perfectly logical. But if you're really going to get into it, like make the mechanics a huge deal, you better have it all figured out beyond reproach. Plus the mini-Akira ending did fall totally flat, and kind of arrived out of nowhere. Like, Hey,…

I really didn't like Looper. I think I went in with my expectations far too high; my friends had been telling me how much I would love it for weeks, and when I finally saw it, I was let down. Time travel movies have to be so perfectly constructed or otherwise all I can do is pick apart all the little inconsistencies,…