Thirded. :(

I'd be way more interested in this if they had hired Gareth Evans, instead.

I think my favorite Cooper roles are his stint on Alias (which, frankly, also sucked for a long while but was redeemed by "1 in 5, bitch!") and Midnight Meat Train, which is a really great and underrated, even among horror fans.

Even worse than Phish's "Time Turns Elastic" is Anastasio's 28-minute orchestral version of the piece. I mean, I think the Phish song is at least decent, but man, the orchestra arrangement is so bad.

Technically The Voice has already supplanted Idol, which we'll see when the former returns post-Olympics to go head to head with the latter.

And they have Gotham and Hieroglyph already ordered to series for next year.

Well, Brooklyn Nine-Nine moved to its post-New Girl time slot last week, so behold the lack of power of New Girl, I guess?

Yeah, I've seen them 4-5 times over the years (they play Houston a lot, though not this time) and had a good time at every show. Although I skipped a couple of concerts after Paralytic Stalks because I didn't really want to hear that material live, and also because the whole indie rock circus conceit began to get…

Skeletal Lamping mostly makes me sad. It has all those great hooks that could've made awesome songs going to waste in 30-40 second snippets and whiplashing into something aggravating and/or crappy, which whiplashes again into something else completely unrelated. "An Eluardian Instance" is probably the standout track…

Well, Exorcismic Breeding Knife casts an unlistenable pall over the whole album for me, and Wintered Debts doesn't help much either. There is decent material on the record, yes, especially on the front half.

Meanwhile, FLAG rolls happily along, giving the people a quality nostalgia product without all the controversy. Which is probably less punk than Ginn's ongoing clusterfuck, but likely more entertaining.

Still better than Skeletal Lamping or Paralytic Stalks, though.

Well, if I ever go back to the original Mega Man (and with a 7-year old daughter, I just might), I will remember that.

Well, with this new round of tour dates we're not expecting that New Pornographers album until midsummer, then.

Catherine Phillips hasn't written anything for the AV Club since shortly after that review ran. Actually, the last thing she wrote was a "Hear This" about how great Mike Doughty's rearranged versions of Soul Coughing songs, "Unmarked Helicopters" in particular, were. This was also a factually wrong statement.

I was there, too. That was great. I was also amused at audience members giving her sympathy for things like not getting nominated for or being at the Grammys and whining "ohhh" when she made a joke about exploding, and she wasn't having any of it. It's like a portion of her audience somehow thinks she's a fragile…

I'm still not convinced it's possible to beat the rock boss at the end of Wily's first stage in Mega Man without resorting to the pause/Elecbeam technique.

I don't understand how comparing one civil rights movement to another makes Macklemore kinda racist. I find that accusation perplexing. Sort of like if a singer in the early 60's had said, "Hey, women, don't be against civil rights because it's the same fight you went through with suffrage" was somehow accused of…

I suppose that's true now, since Cartoon Network is technically a separate network called Adult Swim overnight, similar to how Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite used to work. But let's not forget that Toonami predates [AS] and it was the success of the 12-1am late night Toonami block that led to the creation of [AS] in the…

Yeah, I generally like PDN and his reviews and I've never quite understood the hate he gets from commenters. But this piece is pretty lacking.