Believe it or not, discussion of art tends to be fluid and goes in many directions.

I'm not completely against the notion that lyrics could be poetry, but it'd have to actually be written as poetry, with accompanying music working around the structure of the poem and mimicking the internal music of the poem itself. All of which is irrelevant to the fact that Darnielle isn't in the league of great…

Indeed. Charles Wright is a fantastic poet.

You misunderstand. I'm saying the person chosen for Poet Laureate should be an actual fucking poet who has written something of genuine poetic worth and therefore somewhat of an authority, not a lyricist who hasn't written any poetry that in any way matches the best of poetry in America.

Of course there was. He doesn't have a notable body of poetry and if you wanna sit back and claim that his lyrics in any way read the same as the best historical poetry, then my claim that you're a hyperbolic fanboy is only proven further. He hasn't written anything approachable to the best historical poetry nor has…

Golly, a bit of an overreaction. Darnielle's a talented dude no doubt, so I'm not shitting on your like overall, I just have low tolerance for such overbearing statements. Poetry in America isn't at its strongest era historically, and overrating people who don't even have a body of notable poetry is surely not…

Which makes your silly statement even worse. Oh well, enjoy what you enjoy and all that.

Lol. That's fine. Your opinion was stupid and you clearly have no idea about poetry in the slightest. Try not to be rabid fanboy in future, if you wanna make statements about art.

No, he should definitely not be the National Poet Laureate.

Notorious: Classic Hitch fun. Wouldn't quite have it with his top echelon of films, but it's still pretty bloody great. Some iconic Hitch shots though, especially the great camera movement down the stairs as it finally reaches Ingrid Bergman's hand holding the key in the close-up. Hitchcock is a master, and all of his…

"It’s also gross, though it couldn’t hurt for viewers to examine why the same culture that finds menstrual blood icky bestows an Oscar nomination on Leonardo DiCaprio for playing a character who gets anally penetrated by a lit candle for pleasure"

Wonderful, wonderful book. Sancho and Don are just two of the greatest of all of literature's characters. Sancho has the honour of inspiring my username too.

M*A*S*H* is one of my all-time favourite shows, that absolutely nailed elements of the hang-out comedy idea, but it's got so many other elements going for it as well.

Nah.

Only someone with little to no knowledge of television history could ever claim that Friends essentially invented the hang-out comedy.

George Washington, directed by David Gordon Green - Solid movie. Beautifully shot, understatedly written, and there was a vulnerability in the unprofessional actors that worked well for the film. Quite moving.

What exactly is your point? Biblical art has been a mainstay of western society for a couple thousands years. What is it about this year that particularly bothers you? Especially considering the films you mention are all supremely different, what exactly is the problem?

David Gordon Green's is the only one that really interests me there.

The Collected Poetry of Petrarch (Trans. David Young) - The great Italian master, one of the greatest and most influential poets of all time.

I don't negatively judge Franco's poetry because it's come from an actor, nor his prose writing. I negatively judge his poetry because it's fucking terrible.