Good call out about the beat. I really love the production on that one.

By this measure, any unlikely event is ironic. Is it ironic anytime a plane crashes just because the chance of dying in a plane crash is small? I think you need a heightened expectation that the plane wouldn't crash for it to be ironic, which I don't think the man being scared to fly meets.

I don't think most of those qualify as ironic, from my understanding. I don't think there's enough of an expectation that there not be rain on your wedding day. Weather is relatively unpredictable. You'd have to plan an outdoor wedding in the desert for the purpose of not having it rain. Then, if it rains, it's ironic.

Has anyone read the new Fosse biography?

28/m/Damascus

Did the Godfather come out this year? I haven't seen anyone mention it, so maybe it was last year. But if so, that's my favorite.

But where's Bean It On: The Musical Fruit?

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All That Jazz is one of my favorite movies of all time, and that opening sequence is indeed fantastic. I was always partial to the finale. It's such a bold choice to end a morbid movie like that, and for me, it works as the perfect culmination to the film: going out with an over the top (the backup dance costumes),…

I don't remember Woody Allen ever playing a Jewish Mother from Hell.

I don't remember Woody Allen ever playing a Jewish Mother from Hell.

The movie was just alright, but I always loved the Ray Charles theme song.

The movie was just alright, but I always loved the Ray Charles theme song.

Hurricanes are a bitch, this year.  Next year they're male names.

Hurricanes are a bitch, this year.  Next year they're male names.

In the Atlantic it's called a Frankenstorm.  In the Pacific it's called a Hurri-zilla.

In the Atlantic it's called a Frankenstorm.  In the Pacific it's called a Hurri-zilla.

@avclub-62812d8eb06386505986efff8b5e43ac:disqus I went to school in North Carolina, and felt that Wolfe's description of the school was a pretty accurate representation of Dook.  Not everything was perfect, but enough of it was right that it worked for me as a setting (the book had problems, but I wouldn't attribute…

@avclub-62812d8eb06386505986efff8b5e43ac:disqus I went to school in North Carolina, and felt that Wolfe's description of the school was a pretty accurate representation of Dook.  Not everything was perfect, but enough of it was right that it worked for me as a setting (the book had problems, but I wouldn't attribute…