A girl threw her bra at Win Butler during Arcade Fire's show at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Regine, of course, was furious. But when did band-flashing become acceptable behavior at indie shows? Certain audience members at Titus Andronicus's show at Southgate House acted like animals. It seems that the growing…

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Over the course of the last two years, Kyp Malone has collaborated with a handful of undersung singer/songwriters, Tunde Adebimpe has appeared in a Jonathan Demme film singing Neil Young and sung on a Massive Attack record, and Dave Sitek has gone full electro. What the hell will this sound like?

Saw them open for Arcade Fire in 2007. That was a great show. If I was made of money, I would be in the front row for this, probably sweating pennies or something.

"The Twilight's Last Reaming":
At which point seven million Stephanie Meyer obsessives simultaneously wet themselves.

I remember when "Gethsemene" aired. I was about fourteen and had only seen a handful of episodes of the series, but found it more compelling than anything on television. But at the end of the episode I was struck with the sheer stupidity of its cliffhanger:

Love is an intense emotion. Peter's control of the machine is subconscious, and emotions are subconscious. Therefore, it seems likely that Peter's unconscious feelings for an individual could determine the effect he has on the machine.

There's definitely a chronological discrepancy there. The episode was written by Matthew Pitts and Graham Roland, both of whom should have been with the show long enough to get the timeline straight. One can only assume that Walter misremembered his motivation for ending Simon's part in the Cortexiphan trials. This is…

Dark American TV? You haven't seen The Wire, have you? Or Mad Men? Or The Sopranos? Or Breaking Bad, whose protagonist manufactures methamphetamine? As was mentioned above, "Belonging," from Dollhouse, is just about as dark as anything TV has ever given us. This is fairly nasty, but nothing like that.

Dan Hedaya was in approximately every movie released between 1995 and 2000, so probably him.

Her praise was probably too effusive, but it is a fantastic film, and Schneider does fine work in it. Her signature character imparted on her an image of such vitality that I find it difficult to conceive of her death. She will, of course, be missed.

Movies of all kinds gain from a theatrical viewing experience. I Am Love, for example, though a microbudget foreign independent film, was a truly spectacular experience in a theater. I have watched it at home, and while the film is just as good, the theatrical experience can't be replicated. The same is true of films…

Okay, why the hell do people pay full price to rent On Demand movies, anyway? Sure, going to a cinema is expensive- I dropped $18.00 last night on tickets and a goddamn bottle of water, even with Tuesday discount price- but $5.00 for a rental is ridiculous in the age of Netflix and Redbox. Vudu offers some movies for…

I'm quite fond of both, actually. They're very understated pieces of work that use the absence of expression as a means of communication, and gain power by doing so.

The fact is that many, if not most, good artists are assholes. Vincent Moon, with his hipster police complaint about the band not being sufficiently "indie" and complete denunciation of Western pop music, is an asshole. Win Butler, as depicted in Miroir Noir, as seen on stage when a guitar string broke, and as…

They don't really fit in with the central mytharc; they're more like a throwback to season one or two. But that makes them stronger as individual episodes. Of course, that only makes the central mytharc less coherent, but since when have we expected coherence from this show's mythology?

People LOVE weird stuff! How else could you explain the popularity of a conceptual clusterfuck like Donnie Darko, or the success of series like Lost and The X-Files? The previews for next week's X-Files that used to run on Fox would always play up the strangest or most potentially disturbing aspect of the show. That…

I don't think Peter is evil. I do think he will struggle with the machine throughout the rest of the season, though. This may be the most potentially rewarding manifestation of the show's ongoing theme of people made unwilling test subjects.

His guest-starring role in that episode is one of the best one-off performances in any TV episode I've seen, and makes the episode one of the series' high points. Of course, The X-Files know how to use character actors- Brad Dourif, Bryan Cranston, and Peter Boyle also did fantastic work on the show.

I'm fairly certain that My Morning Jacket recorded At Dawn's vocals in the same grain silo used for parts of It Still Moves. The sound of that album is cavernous; it's unlike any other record I've ever heard. I consider it the best production I've heard on any album.

Eh, the Breaking Bad pilot could do without the flashy meth-making montages. But the show's creative staff was smart enough to ditch those immediately afterward.