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I don't know a thing about the Grammy-nominated albums - though I did see a red-carpet picture of the members of Ghost that made me smile, then wonder what they were doing there - but if you want crushing riffs from 2015, can I suggest Chelsea Wolfe's "Abyss"? It's been blowing my mind recently.

I think this is Hepburn's best film, but her best performance (that I've seen, anyway) is "Love In The Afternoon." She rarely had the upper hand in her roles, to me - at best she was the male lead's equal (as a character, mind you, not as a performer). But in "Love In The Afternoon" she wraps both her father and her…

I was just marveling that it's been nearly nine years since There Will Be Blood came out. It feels like yesterday. What a year for film that was.

Both of them are nominated this year, too - Burwell for Carol and Deakins for Sicario. Burwell has no shot; Morricone is going to win, if primarily as a lifetime achievement award. Deakins isn't quite so overmatched, but I'd guess Lubezki or Seale (Revenant and Mad Max, respectively) beat him. Kind of a shame,…

No, they don't target Runts. It's Skittles they're after:

Those little whip-pan line-jumps at 2:06 are fucking awesome.

#OscarsSoEukaryote

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Yeah their earlier albums are just one riff after another. The production quality isn't hot, especially on the s/t, but the music is fucking outstanding.

The new Elder is good, but I think it's a step down from their s/t and "Dead Roots Stirring," which are nigh-on unimpeachable.

I haven't gotten into CoM's earlier stuff, I have to say. It's not bad, but it doesn't hit the same sweet spot that "Thy Kingdom Scum" does. The production on that album is fantastic, and the whole band is just right in the pocket all the way through. You wouldn't think abrasive screaming about serial killers could…

Shit, new Ahab. I am on it!

I would say it's more akin to Yellow/Green than Red/Blue. They have a keyboardist now, which I know some metal fans believe to be the kiss of death. But it's still Baroness; highly melodic without sacrificing the aggression.

So what metal are we listening to lately?

OK, I'll probably get chewed out by the internet at large for saying this, but I'm gonna post it anyway. People are going to argue that I'm just a racist, and having grown up in the lily-white suburbs, I'm in no position to declare myself free of that stain. That shit warps you, and a lifetime of self-examination…

At least some of it was shot in Brooklyn. The scene where he's walking down the street with his friend Amanda, she gets the message about the "meeting," and Dev agrees to mind the kids for a while was shot on East 18th Street between Tennis Court and Church Avenue (you can barely make out the Tennis Court sign behind…

I think the point of the scene is that Jack finds the hotel's horrors attractive. He's losing his ability to see them for what they are. He literally embraces the evil.

I don't think Kubrick's films are emotionless at all. They almost all revolve around the same theme - intellect vs. emotion, head vs. heart, "the duality of man," as Joker says in Full Metal Jacket. Too much of either leads to frustration and madness. Hell, "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" might as well…

Hm, I'm not sure the point of the show is to confront the legacy of slavery. He did an episode with Yo-Yo Ma, for example, that had nothing to do with it. I know Gates is especially interested in the subject, and I don't see why anyone should be particularly perturbed to confront the misdeeds of their forbears. But…