Listen to WWJBD: The new album is pretty incredible.

No mention of Don Pendleton? There are 800+ books in his "Mack Bolan is The Executioner in…" series and its spin-offs, and he only wrote about 40 of them. Not bad considering he did that all in about a decade. Some day I might even read one of them. Anyone know if they're worth it?

Yep. They were the other 2/3 of Gobble Gobble/Born Gold, which to my mind is some of the best pop music of the last… while.

So he's like those credit sequences in Police Squad? And listeners are like the one crook who notices they're not really frozen, and that it's just some weird joke?

@avclub-c6b1d6884d5bb1c71a2f5f9871c2f57f:disqus It's been pretty well established that Lannisters always repay their debts. This would be a pretty major one. I have a feeling they'd hold up to the agreement.

I liked this comment better before I realized there was a link.

I really like that take on season 6. Makes the end of season 5 a little easier to take.
Just a little, though.

I saw Danny Michel (a Canadian singer-songwriter who sounds kinda generic on record but has a ridiculous amount of charisma live) do an impromptu cover of Whip It once, and somehow it ended up being one of my favourite concert moments ever. Up to then, he usually performed solo with a loop pedal, which made it easier…

Menswear.

That is one of the lyrics, yes.

That would be goddamned incredible.

And, like all Canadian bands, one of the members ended up in Broken Social Scene.

It's weird to me that a show that uses its narration to over-explain pretty much every one of it's main characters' motivations would somehow forget to do that in a moment that seems to redefine him as a person. Because there's nothing in the way it plays out that makes the Russo murder seem like a mercy killing—it's…

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I agree with that ninja. The mercy thing comes up exactly once, in the first scene of the series, and there isn't a single other moment where Underwood acts for anything other than selfish reasons. Which is why he's way less interesting than Walter White or Vic Mackey—there's no sliding scale of…

It's not just that Russo's the only character with morals, he's pretty much the only one with a satisfying arc (up til the murder, I mean). His character grows, regresses, and ends up somewhere entirely different than when he started. That's what drama's about. 
Underwood is the same guy start to finish, Zoe seems to…

Does Bran Van 3000's "Drinking in LA" count? They had at least two hits, but only in Canada, so they only count as half each.

That album, despite being called The Chinese Album, is actually a really good bit of glam/power pop. And it has a duet with Michael Stipe, so, y'know, credibility.

It's a fair question. I think part of it is that no matter what scale you're using (stars, letter grades, percentages), you're still distilling things to good vs. bad, which'll never be enough to cover aesthetic experiences. Comparison is a lot more useful, but it's pretty much impossible to find something universal…

Which is where the reviews themselves come in handy.

And now that I think about it, a Dan Savage-approved GGG movie theatre might be a hell of a place.