Oh I call things bad all the time - just because it's new or hyped doesn't mean I have to like it. My issue is more about writing contemporary art off as inaccessible and weird in popular culture.

This may just be because I'm working on a master's in contemporary art, but all the stuff at the gallery and the general art based subplot really annoyed me. I hate being nitpicky, but one of my pop cultural pet peeves is when characters go to a gallery or museum and shit all over art and act like it's just garbage…

Even though it is patently absurd to include a 17 minute song on a 60 minute list, "Elegia" has been my obsession this summer. Such an amazing instrumental track.

White Russians are far from an acquired taste, but I can usually only do one before I have to switch to something with less milk

Since book was an option, I have to go with any of the asides from Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events. This has stuck with me since I first read the books in 5th grade:

Yes, my dad is white but kind of has a perma-tan from running so the patches on his arms and legs are pretty consistently white but the patches on his face get very pink. I actually don't know anyone else in our family who has it, but I've also met very few people from his side as he was an only child and I think his…

My dad has vitiligo, too, and has recently started growing a beard to cover it up on his face because he noticed shaving agitated his skin and made it more pronounced. It's really hard to get a read on how he feels about having it, but I get kind of sad when he talks about wanting it covered because I barely even…

I'm really enjoying this show, I was almost surprised at how much I was looking forward to it after only one episode.

Let's talk about season 4 when he got a haircut and suddenly the true potential of his beauty could be reached.

I haven't watched past this episode, but I just had to comment to say the Antony and the Johnsons version of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" used in the Lito montage is such a killer choice, every time I hear it in various media it affects me in a way that the original just doesn't. It's haunting.

Real talk I am 98% sure EJ is in my workout class, or at least his twin with a killer Céline bag is…this is now my claim to fame

My bad, I wasn't exactly doing in depth research for this AV Club comment because that is EXACTLY the same as a thesis. Also, don't call me sonny, thanks.

Shows like The OC, Gossip Girl and Grey's Anatomy (and FNL but she didn't do that one) turned me on to SO MANY amazing bands when I was in high school, I seriously should have build a shrine to this woman. I used to say this was my dream job, but it probably just came from watching a ton of TV and having a metric…

So I'm getting my masters in Contemporary Art and currently writing my thesis about the myth of the artist beginning with Van Gogh as a romanticized character and working up through the modern period. Namely, I'm discussing what characteristics of "the artist" from the Van Gogh paradigm we still look for today as a…

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this, but then again I also watched 2 hours of The Bachelorette immediately beforehand in which a contestant decides he's not into the bachelorette but wants a rose so he can keep hanging out with the guys in the house. I think this kind of behind the scenes-esque show is long…

I'm really not sure this show was ever supposed to be "trashy fun"…this may just be me but I never saw this show as trash tv in any way so to really surprises me to see that term bandied about

I work at a gallery and I literally have seen my boss like agonizing over an email from an artist telling her they want different representation. Also if she has a show coming up then there are already offers and press releases being made up and sent out, it would just be impractical to cancel.

I think my podcast obsessiveness is also what has me down on squarespace. I know they have some tv commercials but like 90% of their presence for me is through alllllll the podcasts

I feel him, I recently had to accept that I wanted to intentionally seek out a Pitbull song for the sole purpose of dancing around my apartment. Sometimes shitty pop music is just more fun to like, and I say this as a massive Radiohead fan.

I like the 1970s version better, just for the scene where the grandmother slaps the little boy and an OBVIOUS doll falls to the ground