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Is that a generally accepted view, that there is crossfit/martial arts overlap? I get the impression (based on people in my actual social circles and those I receive unceasing updates from online) that the people who go for Crossfit are often times people with zero prior athletic involvement who have been bit by a…

I never read that book, but I remember being pretty lost during the first viewing (in a good way). I want to compare it to something LA Confidential, where the villain there is also kind of telegraphed but the investigations on the perimeter are still interesting and engaging. And Gary Oldman is just ridiculously…

Both are pretty sweet but The Raid 2 was just a bit too bloated for me. The drug and crime hierarchy was pretty irrelevant to the first one, just a template for awesome carnage. When the sequel decided to expand that world it lost me a little bit more - there was still a lot of that same awesome carnage, but now it…

Welp, those are pretty emphatic recommendations from everybody and, like I said before, there appears to be a better track record for that with Docs. I'll definitely start giving them a go.

I haven't actually seen any Michael Moore. Not because of a stance against him, simply haven't gotten around to it. Would you say this is the most essential / best entry point?

I think his being left off the Dream Team irks the hell out of him as well.

Documentaries seem, in my experience, to be way more likely to honor a recommendation than other movies. I haven't seen your 1st and 3rd listed, but all the others were recommended as incredible, and they all are. Others, too, like Dear Zachary and Anvil!. Maybe those just genuinely are great, but I feel like…

I was thinking of starting the Up series, since they're all on Netflix, and noticed they get progressively, and significantly, longer. Like, the first one looked to be 30 minutes and then they get up to 2 hours - would you say it's worth the time investment?

One of the main scenes that I remember from watching it years back was during the tournament for either the City title or State, I forget, Arthur's public team wins and gets to play in the next tournament while William's is eliminated, and there was this…not justice, because William didn't deserve to lose or anything,…

My Morning Jacket's "The Way That He Sings" from their Okonokos performance. That guitar interlude before the whole gang picks it up and carries it for several more bars is electric.

Why put a ceiling on him? As a fan of his (or anyone in any art form), I'd love if he/they topped their best work.

Though I feel like they've very much backtracked from that. Both Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl, which might be the duo's best, weren't nominated. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a fear that once that won, those types of scores would become the norm.

I only saw it the once in theaters but I remembered the ending being emotionally devastating in part because Patsy seemed so distraught at Solomon's leaving her.

The music in this episode I'm guessing was supposed to mimic Johnny Greenwood's from PTA's "The Master", right? It was definitely unnerving.

I had the same take. I thought for sure he was infantry based on the first one or two, but he just as easily could have been the PsyOps guy or the Clerk or the Chaplain - speaks to his abilities as well as, as you mentioned, his meticulous research. That list of literary acknowledgements he gives at the end I feel…

Thanks for the recs! I haven't read any of those save for the Vonngeut which yeah, I'm sure I did laugh at some of it. (And this is from someone who really enjoys Vonnegut, I dunno, there's just something about reading where it's hard to have a punchline still make you audibly cackle because you're setting yourself…

I really love PTA and, for the most part, like the Pynchon I've read and though IV was a pleasant enough book. But yeah - wow I did not like Inherent Vice one bit. It will ultimately benefit from additional viewings, but I was so put off from that initial one I'm not sure I want to even give it my time again. It…

On vacation last week I read Phil Klay's "Redeployment" which was amazing. Turning to some cheerier content, I am now in the middle of "A Confederacy of Dunces" which I'm slowly progressing through because I don't want it to end. If anyone has a recommendation for another book that actually makes you laugh out loud…

I liked them quite a bit in college and still listen to the stuff I did then now (alot of Sunlandic Twins, Hissing Fauna, Skeletal Lamping) though I really haven't kept up with them beyond SL. For fans of the later stuff, is there anything you'd say I definitely should check out there?