"Ecce Homo" has one of the greatest album-opening lyrics ever.

Bruce Springsteen - Jackson Cage
Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)
The Faint - Let the Poison Spill From Your Throat
Ugly Casanova - Things I Don't Remember
The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill

Yeah that was one of the most addictive watches I've engaged in recently. Finished the whole thing in like 2 days. Half-hour dramas should be a thing.

Oh shit someone else with Moonface and Siinai! Awesome.

I actually hadn't and still haven't heard Viet Cong but I was lured into this by one of my all-time favorites Dan Boeckner doing a guest spot on the song "Memory," which immediately won me over.

Yeah it doesn't seem to be getting a ton of love on these lists either, I think it's pretty good though. Incredible live show too.

I didn't listen to a lot of new music and nothing really blew me away as an album of the year or even as like a top 5 but here's some shit I liked.

If this isn't the title everyone should be fired

Haha, that's fantastic

Yes, we're about to have literal Nazis in the halls of power and the president-elect says internment camps weren't so bad, but it doesn't get more evil than a vapid celebrity being a vapid celebrity. Love to be online.

Best non-2016 book I read this year was The Pale King. Hard to call a clearly unfinished book with very little discernible plot a masterpiece but I thought it kind of was. I was trying to explain to someone how a 30-page section of a guy being stuck in a traffic jam on a road to an exurban office park was one of the…

It's amazing how quick of a read JS&MN is. I'm a slow reader and I just burned through it in a couple weeks, especially the last third or so.

You should read Cannery Row. It's my favorite of his books and can be read in like a long afternoon.

I loved Grapes of Wrath when I read it but every time I contemplate a re-read I seem to remember like 100 pages worth of intricate details on car repairs.

Umm this kind of owns

I can confirm it was 2 hours

That scene was such a rollercoaster. At first I was thinking "They're not seriously going to have the fucking goat talk, are they?" and then he started talking and it was chilling and terrifying and then you see a hand on her shoulder and I almost wanted to cover my eyes.

It's kind of crazy how "That's a bold move, Cotton, let's see if it pays off for them" has endured so much.

I had to stop and collect myself after this bit last night.

About a third of the way through an Infinite Jest re-read. Just finished the Eschaton chapter, one of my favorite things ever written.