Huge props to John Semley, especially for pointing out how the Nick Cave song is a mise en abyme! But, seriously, even though less integral to the plot, Crime and the City Solution in that movie look even cooler. I will never get tired of that sequence.

Second the praise for You Can't Fight What You Can't See. I loved that album in college! Glad to hear the new EP is also good.

Agreed. Destruction Unit is awful.

I had no idea about this, thank you! (I never thought I would say such a thing about a Chris Rock vehicle…)

Wait, didn't Ben Affleck already have to take over a role Christian Bale passed on in To the Wonder? And that movie, as much as I love Terrence Mallick, was terrible, with the brooding Affleck being particularly distracting.

Thanks for mentioning the Rain Parade! I'm a late convert; got into them only through the Dream Syndicate, whom I only found out about thanks to the props Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500/Luna) gave them in his autobiography. Still, there was a stretch three years ago or so when I would just listen to "Kaleidoscope"…

I loved these two episodes. Nonetheless, to pick up a recurrent thread… Queen B. caught some flack a few weeks back for its blanket stereotype of Asians, but little better is George Michael's clearly Puerto Rican lover in "Spain." She even uses "coger" as slang for sex, an americanism. Props, though, for getting the…