"more well made" is usually a minus when it comes to Waters, I mean, what's the point?

Serial Mom
Is actually really good, it's definitely my favorite of his more mainstream pictures.

Probably the best dog shit eating movie is history, although I'd be happy to be proven wrong!

OK SO
I read Kavalier and Clay from Chabron but it felt a bit too gimmicky to me, with the Orson Welles and Salvidor Dali cameos and all, but I got through it quickly and liked the prose well enough, how would I feel about The Mysteries of Pittsburgh?

In like 50 years everyone is going to be going "remember google? EVERYONE used google! What happaned to that sense of solidarity as a nation, when you could talk about google around the water cooler and everyone knew what you were talking about?"

I always associate the 90s with Grunge and Tupac. But I think that part of nostalgia is an idea of innocence deferred. Neither of those fits into any narrative of that kind. You do nostalgia to have fun, thus it's disco and hair metal that gets picked up rather than other genres. So if there's really going to be a…

You had crazy Christain fanatics who decried Elvis and The Beatles too, but that doesn't mean that they aren't now considered the very definition of a "monocultural experience." I'm not a Harry Potter fan by any means, but it's obvious that it's become a cultural touchstone.

I was about to say the same thing as DYH, Strait is actually legit talented.

I agree with you Jorobot, I believe with every change that something is ultimately lost, but that doesn't mean that something else isn't gained. There are positive and negative consequences to "the long tail" and neither side seems willing to engage with the other, instead either unthinkingly decrying or embracing it.

I think that everyone's being stupid about "the death of monoculture" thing. I mean, Lester Bangs wrote basically the exact same thing about Elvis that most people wrote about Michael, and I don't think that this is the last of it. You'll probably hear it again after, I don't know, Eminem dies.

OK, I admit it, that was kinda mean of me. No album should be compared to The Wall.

I mean, I was really into The Wall when I was twelve, but that doesn't mean I don't realize that it was self-obsessed bullshit by the time I got out of High School.

I live in Bumfuck, Ohio, so that' s gonna be an issue.

Man, I'd even chug Natty Ice by the bucketful if it meant that I could have an extra 40 bucks to spend on this movie! I really want to see this movie and I will chug the beers and get really drunk and them just kinda space out and observe the immaculate beauty of famed europeon art film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du…

Oh my god this movie looks so awesome I wish I had money to buy it with because it's gonna be three hours of inghypnotic nothing and I'll pump my fist when it is over and go "this…this was a masterpiece."

I'm still wondering what kind of strange artless world you have to live in to consider fucking TOMMY the "greatest piece of art ever made"

Funny
I just read an article about how monoculture was becoming more and more likely, and this was a cause for great distress.

It's nice to know that Pete Townshend thinks that he made the greatest piece of art of all time. I always suspected as much.

It's okay, I hate you too.

OH MAN
Wanna see this flick so bad. I'm gonna watch it and it'll be awesome and I'll sit there three hours and once it's over I'll be like "hell yeah"