Well, I haven't.  Should I have been siding with Arcade Fire and Beck all along in the great Indie Wars?

I had "See You Around" playing in one tab and Japandroid's Celebration Rock playing in another, and THERE WASN'T ANY DIFFERENCE.  OOOHHH.

I had "See You Around" playing in one tab and Japandroid's Celebration Rock playing in another, and THERE WASN'T ANY DIFFERENCE.  OOOHHH.

If the showrunners don't use this as an opportunity to change the name to Cougarton Abbey, they'll never forgive themselves.

I thought giving him Katy Perry *was* our way of quarantining Brand.  "Look, you two are the nadirs of our current popular culture, so why don't you just keep each other busy and stay the hell away from us."

One, Poochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Poochie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Poochie"? Three—

Indeed.  I imagine the actual quote is "I believe GOD… gave HIM a SPAAARK of GEN-I-US!  and QUENCHED it… in MISERY!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

When did the Hangover become the gold standard for the current era?  It's the comedy equivalent of Katy Perry- made a lot of money in a short period of time, but who gives a shit?

Yes, but back then, Bon Jovi was considered an actual, unironic cultural force.  He was a mulleted anchor dragging us further down into Reagan's hollow plastic America dreamworld.  Now he's just some irrelevant guy who wrote a couple of cheezy pop songs, little dated time capsules of an era we managed to survive, and…

I do feel for Simon a little.  Nobody watched the Wire while it was on, but everything he does now is judged as "not as good as the Wire."   It's one thing to be a victim of success, but he's a victim of… not-success.

"The main problem isn’t Jovanovic’s claim—his argument has been made by others, sometimes even convincingly. It’s that Seeing The Light substitutes overstatement and oversimplification for the qualities it glaringly lacks: authority, access, and depth."

Agree with Riot Act as the first clunker, but I have to admit Binaural is pretty inaccessible, the music equivalent of a block of granite.  I love "Sleight of Hand" but I can imagine it sounding like a churning fog of chords to most folks.

And indeed, there it is.  One day I'll get the handle of this reading+commenting thing.  Still, from our privileged position in the future, it's funny how Garland makes Hastings sound like an omniscient entertainment industry string-puller, and not the bumbling knucklehead he was viewed as post-retraction.

Completely agree with everything here.  When netflix threatened to split, I cancelled by streaming account and still get only-dvds now.  My dvd queue had 100 movies I was at least curious about.  My streaming queue had about 10 movies and tv episodes that I had put there just to have something streamable handy, but I…

Watched Odd Future's Rella video 10 times in a row.  I can now see through time (which makes it hard to type).  That Hodgy Beats "What?" break kills me every time.

@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus Great question.  I'm assuming that they didn't try to implant Red Fauxlivia's memories in Amberlivia.  If they did then right now she'd have *three* alternative Olivia's swimming around in her noggin, which, holy crap.  Though I bet Anna Torv could pull it off.  She is…

She shot him right through the damn neck, so she didn't seem that disoriented.  I also believe Peter had a gun he picked up off of the goon (Spivey?).  And neither one have had problems working under pressure in the past; I'd saying making those kinds of calls is a defining characteristic of both characters.  It was a…

I was actually waiting for her to shoot the portal device while he was halfway through it, once again slicing him up between worlds.  That they didn't think to hit the device was distracting, but I think it's a credit to this show that a minor plot convenience stood out like that.

I had the idle thought last night that they should just strip it down to Dwight, Jim, and Stanley going to different soulless cities for corporate meet-ups and havin' adventures.  Like an early 21st century answer to Fear and Loathing.   The rest of the cast is being wasted; it's sad to see how much difficulty they've…

Mind: blown.