They were thinking the same thing that Zadie Smith was thinking when she wrote a short story for The New Yorker about this: this is a bizarre, fascinating thing.

Does Matthew E. White do the arrangements on those records (that he writes and produces)? Because, even though it's not really my thing, those records sound great. Really lush, really lovely.

Sound of Silver Screens?

That's a good idea: But a really wacked out period piece though.

Thievery Corporation
Prince Paul
Did John Lurie do a whole soundtrack for Jarmusch before?

Right? Do these people actually know what a film soundtrack is? They want John Darnielle's nasally voice and wordy songs cutting in?

This was a very thorough and thoughtful response!

What do you Meno? Oh now I see.

Sprouts and rain water?

I'm currently in the middle of a Dry January. I didn't have a reason to do it (the Contrairess and I are far past the point of impressing each other, and besides, she's a lush), but now that I've started I can't quit without also looking like an alcoholic. Come February 1, I guess I'll resume drinking responsibly.

Those "expensive toys" have a huge market cap on how people spend their time and what they look at though.

I wonder if that's confirmation bias/media filters talking.

Damn, we really should've listened to Socrates when he pointed that out several thousand years ago.

Scripts? "It’s already bought the rights to a half-hour version of James Corden’s 'Carpool Karaoke' segments it plans to stream as a 16-episode series"

You joke but without the luminaries of the silent era, I legit wonder why I'm paying Hulu at all (just kidding; it's for New Girl and Bob's Burgers, and therefore probably too much).

So was, uh, Russian Ark.

Presumably the bad guys get equivalent-but-evil monster trucks and they have some sort of showdown that leads to Creech being what-appears-to-be fatally wounded, but then he's okay and the main character gets mega laid.

I don't always like macaroni and cheese or a warm blanket or petting a friendly dog, but I don't go around bragging about it.

Finally, those of us who aren't idiots have a place to complain about Goonies. Fuck Goonies.

Yeah, but David Cross's schtick for a while there was being an angry Gen Xer who excoriates people for being sell-outs.