Don Gately in Infinite Jest is a great example of that. Some of the most moving segments of the book are when he refuses pain meds in the hospital, and has fever dreams about relapsing against his will and his AA sponsor turning his back on him.

Yeah thats a really good point, it does a great of balancing being a genuinely mature action blockbuster, that is still not pretentious, with great crackerjack entertainment (Han and Leia bantering, the asteroid chase sequence, crazy bounty hunters.)

FUCK YEAH MORE PETER GABRIELE!

A New Hope is certainly flawed (I'll admit that my 100% love of it is based on nostalgia) but it still holds up as an extremely entertaining, well plotted movie. Empire completely holds up, though. I'm shocked that the article opened by saying the OT hasn't aged well.

Also, the dude loves to smoke a shit ton of pot and watch cartoons, which isn't exactly a recipe for productivity.

I can see where your coming from on early El-P, but even then I'd say he's pretty far off from the off beat flows of Anticon guys like Doseone. He's really become a much better straight ahead rapper in the past few years too, he was on top of his game when I saw Run the Jewels last year.

According to a sample list I read somewhere, "America's Most Blunted" has a sample of "Nub" by The Jesus Lizard on it. Those are two songs, by two of my favorite artists of all time, that I've listened to countless times, and yet I have no idea where the sample in the song is.

Got a light, naw a Bud Light
Early in the morning, face crud from like a mud fight

I saw them a few years back when they were touring their first record and they put on a great show. I was a bit nervous because they have such a laid back sound but they really impressed me. I can only imagine they'd be even better now, seeing as their sound has grown and they've got a couple years of touring under…

Also whats happening with that Visit From the Goon Squad adaptation they announced? I have no idea how it'd work, but its certainly more filmable than Cloud Atlas, as far as densely interconnected separate stories forming a novel go, and I liked that movie just fine. Stop jerking me around HBO!

I've only seen a couple episodes of the first season of Justified (I enjoyed them a lot, been meaning to properly watch the show for a while) but from what I could tell the whole show is based on the idea of Seth Bullock being dropped into the 21st century.

He did the really funny "Outer. Space." parts in the "Please Mr. Kennedy," and when Llewyn stayed at his place he found a crate of records under his couch same as Llewyn had at his place.

All I could think of when that thing popped up, besides that it was the coolest and we've somehow regressed as a society since the 80s, was a scene in a sci fi movie (I think it was Robocop or Total Recall) where a goofy cleaning robot keeps telling everybody to stop making a mess in the middle of a gunfight or…

My jaw had already dropped at that, but then when the son came back from the pool… That was one of the saddest scenes I've seen on television in recent memory, like Walt Jr. finding out who his dad is, except his dad has been brutally murdered with the rest of his family, and all in a couple seconds.

Damn, lucky guy! I don't think I can watch this show out of jealousy for him now…

I loved the Len Wiseman impression, especially because PFT's vocal tone/inflection reminded me a ton of James Adomian's Merril Schindler impression.

Never mind the fact that its a fucking podcatst. Its not like all us straight guys are even watching said attractive women play against their attractiveness (which, once again how do you do in an audio format?)

Mexico has "Mexico," "Mexicana" and "Mexicanas" in their top ten, hows that for national pride!

I agree that Tim Meadows might not be the best comic out there, but the podcast boom has been great for him. He kills it on Improv4Humans, and he was hilarious on a Comedy Bang Bang episode last year. Plus, he was great Mean Girls!

I'd say their decision to stop picking up shows like Parks and Rec and Community, which build small but very loyal audiences that, while not lighting up the nielsons, certainly do some decent business for NBC (especially Parks and Rec, which I'm guessing will do gangbusters in syndication) and start picking up a ton…