That's a paddlin'.

Do you want new wave or do you want the truth?

I am typically unconcerned with plot and story, so much so that I ignore them almost completely. I view story as a means of accessing a higher or inner truth. The problem I have with Requiem, in particular, is that I see nothing beyond its ability to shock and unsettle. To me, aside from its cinematographic and…

Carrier pigeons.

Sorry, all you're getting is a Kendle.

*chucks old iPad 2 out the car window into oncoming traffic, speeds to Apple Store*

The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel

@avclub-b3998da088b9770eb22501e496b6200e:disqus Now THAT'S the kind of intelligent discourse I usually expect from a fan of Aronofsky.

The first time I saw Pi was in my high school trigonometry class. I still don't know what the fuck that teacher was thinking.

I haven't seen Seconds yet, but Frankenheimer was at the helm of some amazing movies. I think that The Train could be placed as one of the top 10 or 5 greatest action movies ever made.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus  Thank goodness for that. I don't need another Aronofsky fan telling me that I "just don't get it, maaaaaaan." I just tend not to go for things that are all too concerned with how "edgy" and "self serious" they are. If I'm going to watch movies of the style of Requiem,…

I feel like maybe I missed the Aronofsky train because I thought everything up through The Fountain was awful. I especially hated Requiem For A Dream, which I perceived (and still think of) as being a feature-length version of, "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs" and other, similar PSAs. It was just such…

Or the director of George Washington.

Napoleon Dynamite may not be as stupendously awful as Allen Gregory, but at least that show had "stupendously awful" going for it. ND is basically the equivalent of dead airtime.

Oh, like, maybe they ask somebody or something.

Why do you think they had all those spaceships on their album covers? Just because they looked cool!? C'mon, use your head, man!

Hey man, Soul Asylum (pre-"Misery" and the shitty album it was from) are actually good. Don't you be talkin' no sass about Soul Asylum in this thread.

Wikipedia (yeah, I know, not the greatest source of information) says that Purple Rain has sold twenty million copies worldwide. Adele's gotta be approaching ten million by this point, right? Maybe fifteen million? The last album I can remember selling that many copies was Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, and that had the…

Oh my god, if Screaming Trees reunite I will poop my pants. They finally mixed and released their final album, which was shelved around 98 or 99, and it's really, really good. Aside from Dino Jr, I think they were the very best of that later period SST group. Better than Soundgarden, even.

I liked this gimmick first! Stop copying me!