There are no Spanish people in Ibiza.  Just tourists.  It's the Daytona Beach of Europe.

Wow.  How did Peter Dinklage not get submitted for Lead in S2?

Man if Emilia Clarke is a "supporting actress" on GoT, is there anyone who could ever qualify as a leading role?

Sweet, new Torche.  I really dig 'Songs for Singles" and "Harmonicraft."

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Even HE "putts from the rough"?

Today we learn how "Big Bird" got his name!

Isn't the Miike plot kind of the reverse of that terrible movie "SWAT," where the prisoner offers $10 million dollars to anyone who breaks him out of prison?  And pretty similar to the Mel Gibson movie "Ransom" where he takes the amount demanded by the kidnappers and offers it to anyone who brings them in? I guess…

But you need to look backward, not forward.

@avclub-2c17d58e6b2242a9b8928ee5eb500a90:disqus You're presuming that the public should only pay for things it wants.  But part of governing is imposing things on the public that maybe it doesn't want, but needs anyway.  I'm not saying all public art rises to that level of necessity - but I do think it's possible to…

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus Yes, but ownership of art was a non-profit enterprise back then.  The reason Zach Braff isn't offering an actual stake in his movie (or whatever he's funding) is because he expects there to be profits associated with those stakes.  If the profitability of mechanical…

A lot of what we consider to be "great artists" of the past centuries - composers, painters, sculptors, writers - were financially supported by patrons drawn from the aristocratic classes.  There wasn't a "business model" as we think of it today because there was no mechanical reproduction of art works.  It seems to…

I think this idea is at the root of almost all horror, certainly for me.  As kids we get scared of stuff for irrational reasons that we "grow out of" - we accept that the world is basically normal and run by rules that you can learn and rely on, and while there may be scary real things like serial killers and their…

This is hilarious.  I was an 80's kid, but my parents had the same system (it must have been in some parenting pamphlet to set your kids up with a password).  I haven't thought about that probably since I was 8 or 9 years old, but I too still remember the password: "pancakes."  (My favorite Saturday-morning-cartoon…

What the hell kind of gun is the older man carrying in that picture anyway?  It looks like a sawed-off .22, which seems pretty useless.

You would probably have noticed it if I could figure out how to bold the title like everyone else seems to be able to do.

Metal Thread.

I kind of love it.  It's clear from his insane reaction shot after hearing Alex singing in the bathroom that he's had some kind of psychotic break.  I like the idea that he's so utterly contorted with rage that he's rendered unable to speak like a normal human being.

I'm looking for info on a new album online and all I can find is a tweet from the band saying they were recording on April 15.  Are you connected that you got a copy already?  Or am I missing an announcement somewhere?