Yeah, I thought it was sort of anticlimatic to read that whole screed about the season constantly fighting to not go off the rails and ultimately losing and get to the bottom and see "B-."

Sorry, bud. Scrawler's married.

I'd kinda be OK with that.

"cleaver"

FUCK.

@avclub-7105f7f2eff89eb19fc9014f6baa257a:disqus Very true.
But I still don't think hip hop is in any way subversive these days (at least the genre as a whole and particularly not the music of Jay-Z). I don't intend that as a qualitative judgement, though.

Moby Dick is great, so all's fair.

Benjy's love drives him to a crazed state where he, drunkenly, forces himself onto a neighbor girl. Her father beats him, permanently damaging his brain, but in his mind he knows he must be castrated because his love of Caddy is a sin and caused him to act into Sin. Thus he becomes extra tragic as he accepts his…

Luhrman reads it and thinks "Whoa! What a great, tragic love story between a brother and his sister! I can see it now! The sights, the sounds, the love!"

@avclub-d80ecbbbef6ab40a4e53d1ad2c3fc1b2:disqus I realize I just got the entire order of that wrong. I feel deeply, deeply ashamed.

@avclub-d80ecbbbef6ab40a4e53d1ad2c3fc1b2:disqus https://www.youtube.com/wat…

@avclub-02c1dd6ad234773aeffd7f7067784d58:disqus Oh no no no. I meant it bothered me that no one else was doing it while he was killing it.

Eh, I feel pretty good not having to hate any new Faulkner adaptations, so I'd rather they didn't.

You have my axe.

@avclub-ca6cb47da12090ffd2470daf51f71be1:disqus

Gotta set up that sequel somehow.

Gravity's Rainbow. Though Moby Dick is definitely a contender.

And then it just plays the "day after the bite/getting the powers" montage from Spider-man.

God that fucking film. That. Fucking. Film.

And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.