Scott Walker and Nicole Dollanganger. I also delved much deeper into Bowie's discography than I had before. Very rewarding.

I got invested in all of them, honestly. I was looking forward to seeing how they developed in future movies, but from an artistic standpoint it ended the right way.

Yeah, everybody applauded when I saw it too. I'm glad people seem to like it as much as they do.

It made total sense for them all to die at the end. It's the most uncompromising movie in the series, and I respect the hell out of them for not pulling some kind of fake-out.

I really, really liked this movie. I enjoyed The Force Awakens a lot, but Rogue One was even better.

I'd disagree about Rowling. The whole Harry Potter series is remarkably consistent.

It's not really an issue of forgiveness for me, as it's becoming increasingly clear that he's genuinely ill and just too rich and famous for anybody to tell him no anymore. I just hope this is the worst of it.

Monster is in their top 3 best albums.

REM? Really? They had a pretty abrupt commercial decline but irrelevant isn't the right word. Monster and New Adventures were deliberately strange albums that hold up amazingly well today. They weren't aiming for the mainstream with them.

it's a matter of knowing which rappers are really going to put the effort in. Like, Childish Gambino puts on an insanely energetic live show with a live backing band and holographic visuals. Glover's need to go over the top has hurt him before, but it makes his concerts incredible.

Shooting yourself often results in death.

I put him firmly in the category of "unfairly maligned good guy" until this year, so I think it's the opposite.

Boo, Fantastic Beasts was fun.

I kind of wonder if there's another, better album in his vaults somewhere that "All Day" and "Only One" were on.

I still love 808s. It's about as great a winter album as you can ask for!

At the time I thought it was some sort of grand ploy to gradually reveal the "true album" over the course of a few weeks as each song was updated and embellished, since I knew he had some really ambitious ideas about what albums could be. But it turned out that he really just hadn't finished it, and that was when I…

I think it will probably have more value as a picture of what his mental state was like during that time period than as a stand-alone album.

I know some people resent it because it turned "Layla" into easy-listening music, but my dad used to play it for me a lot when I was a kid, so I have fond memories of it.

I think Yeezus has the sort of improvised, chaotic feeling of TLOP, but it's been trimmed of all its fat, thus keeping it from being the self-indulgent mess that TLOP was. It feels like that was the last gasp of his ability to use restraint.

I realize this is the boring obvious answer, but Nirvana's is still basically unmatched. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is up there with Johnny Cash's "Hurt" and Bowie's "Lazarus" in terms of all-time great farewell songs from dying artists.