You crazy nut!  Why are you so crazy!

I was about 6 when original BSG came on, and I absolutely loved it. There were some images from that run that have been stuck forever in my doughy brain.  Like when they encountered some kind of "angel" spaceship, and their uniforms turned snow-white when they were inside it.  Or the basestar throne room with the…

Re: Watchtower.  If I recall correctly, the idea is that the song All Along the Watchtower is some kind of concept built into the essence of the universe, and the cylons and Bob Dylan simply tapped into it.  A song written by BSG's God, and a way for God to connect to his chosen cylons.

I'm trying to make a Steve Brule joke, but I can't quite remember what he says about hunks.  He doesn't like them, that much was clear.  Hmmm.

Yes, I just meant an in-joke from the showrunners.

Someone's a Herzog fan…

A lot of shots in Marbeley reminded me a lot of Marble Hornets, particularly where the camera taking the shot starts to get all static-y when the weirdness is about to kick in.

That's right, Innkeepers right below the Shining; suck it up. It's pretty funny you make that argument when plenty of people level nearly identical accusations against the Shining.  You're splitting a hair and calling it a chasm.

Of Ti West's movies, I've only seen House of the Devil and the Innkeepers, but they are both goddamn works of art.  I'd easily put them on the same level as the Haunting and maybe one step below Kubrick's the Shining.  West's work with atmosphere and pacing is a marvel to behold.  Can't wait to see what he does with…

If it helps, I've used floop on various message boards since 1999, way before Spy Kids came out.

I've seen the show.  There's no way any one cares about it enough to actually try to find secret rooms at the real Alcatraz.  I call PR flunky shenanigans.

If "average volume" means time-averaged volume, I think that will do the trick, because uncompressed TV audio should have a lot of quiet in it.  I know that previous legislation had a volume ceiling instead of an average volume, which would lead to… well, the same insane compression commercials have now. 

My understanding of dubstep is that the drums play a very slow beat, like half-time on a kick drum with skittery snare hits, while a very loud, fast, wobbly low-frequency synth bass line carries the tempo and defines the structure of the song.  So, yes, underwater whippets is pretty dead-on.

Apparently the agreed-upon abbreviation is tkol, which just makes me think of a Hungarian chemical company.  You're right, though- a coffee maker's grindy whine would fit right in on a Kings of Leon album.  From random words comes secret truth!!

So I haven't really been following this King of Limbs stuff.I thought the album was underbaked and I stopped paying attention there.  Is this slow-release another experiment in making/selling albums in a post-album post-record store world?   At some point are we going to just start finding randomly placed KoL-branded…

That was an odd one.  Bucher and Stein clearly thought Simmons was full of shit.  I couldn't blame them; Simmons seemed to be discussing a lockout storyline that existed only inside his head.   But instead of pushing him like Klosterman does (man, I could go for a Simmons-Klosterman podcast), they just sound bitchy…

You might want to check that "Think Tank" link, though if it's accurate, it's the most fascinating album Blur's ever put out.

Just to add, I recall him saying once that he didn't like John Leckie's wall-of-sound production, because RH had planned on a spartan, minimalistic sound.  Of course, that's the same reason Respect is my second-favorite RH album, after Element of Light.

Swervedriver, swervedriver, swervedriver.

The hell…?  Obviously I didn't see @avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus's post. So there's a 8 minute lag time on this system?