Where is
Shirley?

Frankly, I watch this show less for the humor,
and more because it's the best-looking cast on TV.

He kinda looks like if Aimee Mann decided to go
FTM.

What do we think about Weis and Hickman?
Obviously, they're nowhere near as good as GRRM, but I did read the Dragonlance chronicles yearly until I was eighteen, and I thought that the Deathgate septet was complex and awesome. Was it just because I was a teenager, or is there any lasting merit to their work?

any more examples of jazz-metal?

Thanks for the suggestions. Mastodon and BTBAM are the only two bands I know from your lists. When I heard Colors for the first time, I thought BTBAM are going to be the next big thing in metal. I really appreciate that Mike Patton-esque sense of playfulness and genre-bending they bring to the table, but the endless…

The next generation
My favorite metal band is Meshuggah. In the last few years they have become hugely influential, and I hear a lot of young bands trying to imitate them. Alas, they all sound awful and derivative; the drop-F# is there, the weird time-signatures and the technical precision, but without any of the…

As mentioned above, I grew up with Pantera, and in my mind "Far Beyond Driven" still holds up remarkably well. I see no point in crossing swords over musical taste, but I will submit to you that Dimebag Darrell was the greatest metal guitarist of the nineties (if not the past twenty years). Great riffs and a penchant…

my first metal album
was vulgar display of power.

Wait, so what is the University of Toronto in this equation/metaphor?

I am going to watch the shit out of this movie
and by shit, I mean penis.

I blame
Gaga.

Well, I guess that makes me a self-hating Semitic. Ain't exactly the first one, too.

I liked Sibel Kekilli better
when she was hook-nosed. She had this feral quality about her. Now she's too generically beautiful.

Transgender?
I hardly knew her!

Oh, Annie
I would let you do so many sweet, unspeakable things to me.

I'd really like to hear
Tarkovsky's Former AD's thoughts on this.

I once tried to explain to a friend why the Venture Bros.
is "a worthy successor" to the Simpsons in terms of multi-layered-ness and mythology. That did not go down well. I still believe that my argument was sound, but nonetheless it was a very poor marketing strategy. I should have just gone with "you gotta see this…

@ Karla,

Further Reading
I'm looking for fantasy literature that shares ASoIaf's strengths: namely, a focus on socio-political machinations rather than ancient prophecies and the Eternal Struggle between Good and EvilTM, and complex, morally ambiguous characters (more Tyrion and Jaime, less Samwell fucking Tarly). Any…