I was lucky enough to get tickets to the screening on Saturday and the Hugo I saw is not the same film that is being advertised. It is way better than it looks.

Wait. Did I say Penney's or Woolworth's? Better make it Sears.

In Rainbows is ridiculously good. Probably their third best album after OKC and Kid A.

The flight attendant was very good at her job. She made sure everything was properly stowed.

They shoot horses, don't they?

Vinyl is definitely my thing.

You're right, we should let children make all of our superhero movies. I'm sure they'd have no problem with the complexities of professional filmmaking.

Great film. Reminded me of Roman Polanski and Kelly Reichardt.

We can only hope. Zenyatta Mondatta rules.

The band got too popular too fast and it went to their heads. They started trying to be the "biggest band in the world." If they were as popular as, say, Travis, they could just release albums every couple years, enjoy modest success and avoid the constant derision.

That story is effective, to say the least. In college we used to pass it around (I think it was published in Playboy) and watch each other's reactions. No one passed out but there was definitely some dry heaving.

I like this song. *ducks*

Aaron Paul.

The game is beautiful. When I'm not trying to avert city wide catastrophe, I'll take Bats up to a high perch and just hang out and watch the snow fall and the cape flutter in the wind (seriously, the cape animation looks amazing).

I'm sympathetic to your "no Conroy, no deal" position. However, I think the filmmakers' reasoning was that Year One Bats should NOT sound like a 55-year-old man.

"Oh, my God. He's killed the original Alfalfa!"

Yeah, my only criticism is that some of the stuff that worked so well on the page doesn't translate to the screen.

So, it was "Guts" from Haunted then.

The best thing an artist can do (if they want to avoid these kinds of comparisons) is eschew distinctive highs and lows and instead release consistent albums that gradually advance the "plot." Spoon is a good example of this. Forwards or backwards the trajectory of their career looks the same.

Weird. Adams' cover of "Wonderwall" started playing on iTunes right as I clicked this story.