I'm not really feeling this one. I loved Beast Rest Forth Mouth for its atmospheric My Bloody Valentine-isms, but this seems to be stretching for some sort of 80s callback (like M83), but lacks the style and strong vocalist to pull it off. I'll give it some more listens and maybe it'll grow on me, and regardless,…

Good idea! Given the choice, it's always smart to judge a band on looks, rather than the exceptionally positive review they received.

'Eternally adequate' is how my wife described me in our marriage vows!

Well, I was as surprised as you were to see that huge car chase at the end of Paint Drying in the Sudan.

Yes, more needs to be said. HE NEVER EXPLAINED WHY EGG PRODUCTION IS MYSTERIOUS.
But yeah, that's when I got into him too. Armchair Apocrypha's my favourite, but this new one's pretty nice as well. I prefer it to Noble Beast.

Peanut butter and pickle (bread and butter or gherkin) is a common staple of my Panicky household. Peanut butter and onion was the weirdest one I heard, but peanut butter and mayonnaise may take the cake (although I am oddly intrigued to try it).

This sounds like it might be my type of thing. Their past releases were alright, but a bit slight and unmemorable for my tastes. Still, they were good enough to keep me intrigued, and the review makes it seem like a nice evolution from their previous efforts.

Not necessarily, @avclub-cda1202b5c09f5d13b67241e56e01a20:disqus. I think White Rabbits have a lot to offer besides Spoon 2.0, but in that comparison, I'd say that It's Frightening was Kill the Moonlight (minimal, propulsive), and this is Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (lusher, catchier). I agree with you that I prefer Spoon 2.0 to…

Huh. My Black Forest Gateux has booze in it. I briefly thought I was making it incorrectly, but then I decided that you're the one who's making it incorrectly.

How in the hell is a chocolate shake the highest calorie single item? And even more ominously, why is it so only in the Louisville region?

"Just another elderly man with a dog, watching the world go by".

"By the time their spree is done, they’ve killed nearly a dozen people, and stuffed some of the corpses into acid-filled barrels".
"A sense of overfamiliarity drags…"
IS THERE SOMETHING YOU AREN'T TELLING US NOEL

I think I saw Rainer Werner Fassbinder's penis in a film recently. It was about some guy with nymphomania who was stuck, in a somewhat Freudian manner, in an old cave. There was an overly portentous voiceover, I remember. Or, maybe I'm thinking of some other film.
PS - Sorry to hijack your actually quite erudite post,…

I killed a Bonobo once. I didn't mean to, but the sunglasses set me off.

I like how half the commenters think that people with interviews/features always get great reviews, and the other half think that people with interviews/features always get terrible reviews. If I was a stupider man, I'd almost say that the AV Club reviews things based on merit, rather than based on whether or not they…

It really depends on the context, @avclub-997c221538094d134659141cf61d51e3:disqus. I mean, most times it is a terribly one-sided battle between a man fighting for pure entertainment and an innocent animal. But this one time this bull tried to feel up my girlfriend in a bar, when I was standing right next to her, and I…

Fuck, you're not angry at all. Is there nothing right and true left in this world?

In your head! Zombie! Zombie! Zombie! Eh! Eh! Eh! Oh!

Thanks everyone for the input, and it sounds like it's a good choice for him. Just to clarify my point: 14-year-old boys aren't always the best at rational thinking, and whether we like it or not, they may not read something if they don't think it's cool. I want to get him to read, so it wouldn't be much good if these…

I've heard good things about this and was going to buy the trilogy for my nephew for his 14th birthday. Can anybody tell me if that's a good idea or not? I want to get him reading more, but is this too 'girly' (in the mind of a 14-year-old boy)? If so, can anybody recommend something else in a similar vein? He has an…