There Are a Lot of Things About Hollywood I Don't Know Anything About.
Things I wouldn't understand. Things I couldn't understand. Things I shouldn't understand. But I understand that Judd Apatow and his cronies have just resurrected the two most artistically promising properties of the 70s and 80s, and I pity the…

I haven't heard Ethiopium, but I can definitely vouch for Beat Konducta in Africa. It might be Madlib's most psychedelic instrumental album in its overall effect; I think the best word for it is transportive.

There's definitely a lot of both in Flying Lotus's sound, but he has his own aesthetic. There's more trance in Lotus's work, more overt psychedelia (though Madlib is often psychedelic), and more glitch. He straddles the lign between hip-hop and electronic music.

That's not to mention his jazz records. Or his production on single tracks. Or his work with Dudley Perkins. Or any of his many records I still haven't heard.

A List of Some Essential Madlib, In Order of Accessibility
Madvillainy- Madvillain
Champion Sound- Jaylib
WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip
OJ Simpson- Guilty Simpson
The Unseen- Quasimoto
The Further Adventures of Lord Quas- Quasimoto
Perseverance- Percee P
Madvillainy 2- Madvillain
Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2
Soundpieces: Da Antidote-…

Yesterday's Universe is a hell of an album…

He brought it hardcore like a fingerbang.

Party Down is PERFECT for IFC. But why air something brilliant when you could just make more Whitest Kids U Know?

Freaks & Geeks is one of the shows that, like Homicide, I loved back in the 90s and haven't caught up with yet on DVD.

Hey, Hey, My, My.
Lizzy Caplan never dies! And TV is all the better for it.

Holy fucking shit.

They buried $150 million in the Forks, Washington rain like Steve Buscemi in goddamn Fargo.

Transylmania, Bitter? If that's the one, I'm pretty sure it came out and got an F a while ago. Unless this is ANOTHER one…

Adjustment Bureau has one of the dumbest trailers I've ever seen. It takes paranoia well beyond the levels of The X-Files and the classic thrillers of the 70s, to lizard people-like levels.

If a movie has a 0% Tomatometer, that means even the peanut gallery, sub-AICN critics didn't even kind of like it. That means no one is going to like it. That means it's going to be a ginormous flop.

What, so this is Paramount's loss? Sucks to be them, I guess.

Either he was a zombie all along and his brain just died slowly due to the magic that brought him forth from the cold, cold Earth or his ego slowly transformed him into a soulless, walking smug grin.

Scott definitely holds the series together. He's its Jason Bateman. But I trust they could've figured out a way around his absence.

So Is This It?
Are we about to watch a prominent Hollywood auteur burn himself alive in public? If this movie flops, I don't expect Shyamalan to get another chance from a major studio. He's going down with this one. I don't think this has really happened to any filmmakers since the 80s. It's depressing and slightly…

"You saw Dingleberries?"
"They're sun eggs!"
"I fucking hate Steve Guttenberg."
"Two guys on one chick, you're a perineum away from kissing dick."
"Temperate deciduous fever? Fjord fever?"
Smoking pot at Pepper McMasters' senior seminar
"It'll be like a movie! You can score one for the losers!"…