El-P vs Justin Bieber
Pretty sure El-P did a remix of Bieber's "Baby" a month or two ago that was half joke/half amazing:

Re: Don Cheadle

I'm pretty sure Johnson from Peep Show (Paterson Joseph) was a serious consideration in the running for Doctor Who, until Matt Smith got the role.

I just finished "The Mystic Arts…" a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed it. It never struck me as a TV series, though, but you could do a lot worse than adapting a Charlie Huston book.

Friend of mine out here in L.A. went to the album release party for the first of the Medicine Show series. In addition to the CD, they were also giving (empty) Medicine Show prescription bottles. Which read:

I don't know if he also spurns computers in production, but for some reason this anecdote reminded me of Count Bass D. He also makes beats (and raps) and is a classically-trained musician (piano, saxophone, drums…) and that sound comes through in his music as well. And is also known to sample obscure movies, and has…

Have to agree with wailing fungus here. Speaking from personal experience, The Unseen is a perfect gateway album. It was the first Madlib I'd heard, was immediately hooked, and it prepared me for more of his esoteric, experimental output. I think it's… not easier, but maybe a smoother transition to go from The Unseen…

David Simon's HOMICIDE: A YEAR ON THE KILLING STREETS is as incredible as it is heartbreaking, both as a work of true crime and of journalism. Even though it's noted as the direct inspiration for HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS, particularly the show's first season, it's even more interesting as a source of characters,…

*abundant applause*

Could have sworn I saw a teaser of this during a recent episode of Breaking Bad, and if I recall correctly there was a man in a suit… walking on air?

@Skippy: In spite of its second half, which admittedly some have liked, "Fortress of Solitude" is well worth a read. If you enjoy it enough that you want some more Lethem to read, I also wholeheartedly recommend "Motherless Brooklyn" about a private investigator with Tourette's (and told in the first-person) is…

Excellent. Thanks for the insight, Dan. I'll be sure to pick up the first volume next trip to the comic shop.

Thanks for this, Dan (and Noel). I've read a few volumes of Astro City, and had read about "The Dark Age" but never gave it a shot. I, too, was a big fan of the first half of Lethem's "The Fortress of Solitude," while the second half honestly left me wondering if I was even reading the same book. If "The Dark Age"…

Everybody Hates (Jesus) Chris?

Saul was firing on all cylinders in this episode. Could be my favorite Goodman episode thus far.

What I liked about Skyler in this episode is that as Donna hinted at above, this is a natural progression for her own breaking bad. While it began in many ways with her affair with Ted Benake, the defining moment was her realization of what the bag full of money in Walt's closet could bring—and what it meant when it…

If memory serves, the original Swedish title for the first book translates as "Men Who Hate Women", which is a far more accurate description of the events of that novel. However, I believe the translators (or more likely the publishers) wanted to tie the series together with the theme of "The Girl (fill in the blank)".

Agreed. I saw it last year at a free bare-bones screening here in L.A. (no Donald Glover, but the rest of the cast was in attendance) and then saw it again a few months ago. It deserves to gain a following, it's smart, it's funny and it's eminently quotable.

The very mention of Grave of the Fireflies elicits a tearful, Pavlovian response in me.