Fair enough, it probably came off sounding more surly than was intended. I've just always been fascinated by the devotion this band has maintained over the years, especially since most of that time I've read nothing but "I'm so disappointed." I mean, when bands I liked in the past started to go south, and they all do,…

So, Weezer is essentially the "90s kids" version of KISS, right? People clinging to memories of what once was, and pretending that the new stuff is "vintage sounding"? I mean, I get it, but just reading the comments, it seems like people are twisting themselves into all sort of shapes to convince themselves this stuff…

It's basically critical shorthand for "It sounds like when you used to like them".

I'd never heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I do think they'd have a much harder time in the tv climate of today; there's more channels than ever, yet none of them (USA aside) really wants anything to do with it. It may have ended up like roller derby.

Yeah, I definitely think Trump has the potential to crater. The GOP field, as a whole, just wasn't strong; people often worried about Rubio or even Kasich, but I never really saw the huge potential in them as candidates. However this election season goes, both parties are really shy of compelling candidates for the…

Could be true. It's hard to know. Cruz would keep more Republicans in the fold, I suppose, whereas I know there are many who would bail on Trump, and the more moderate (fiscal conservative, socially moderate, anyway) would likely break for Clinton, as they did for Obama in '08.
I still am of the mind that Trump gets…

Cruz and Trump would do just as well against Sanders, if not more so, once the right-wing pundits/groups put their foot on the pedal instead of quietly hoping he gets the nomination. I'd guess the oppo research on him is stacked pretty high in the offices of Reince Preibus. But they've been told to stay quiet, just in…

Agree. I was thinking more in terms of "Monument Men".

Cruz would do fine. There's a lot of states in this country which will go Republican no matter what. I'm not saying he would win, because I don't think he would, but that's more to do with him being a fairly off-putting figure on the stump. But these notions that it'll be some landslide for the Dem nominee, whether…

I mean, give it a listen and see what you think, but it strikes me as a novelty act, and nothing more. I've heard some pretty great metal the last few years (or at least "heavy rock"), but it depends on where your tastes are leaning. I like doom and stoner, so there's always something afoot. But I'm not a real expert,…

Agree with a lot of that, but will say that, where I worked, the film was very popular with the customers (who skewed older, and like the sentimentalist stuff), and, if it was something they wanted to watch, subtitles were never an issue. The market for foreign films, at least ones not in English, has always been…

What I've heard/seen just seems like a total put-on. Which is fine, metal certainly doesn't need to be dour despite what others may think, but I was just rolling my eyes at it. But, whatever. All our lives will continue on the same paths one way or the other.

Love this movie, it played to Rockwell's strengths, and there's some great humor in it. I also thought Clooney, Roberts, Barrymore et al were very good, Clooney & Roberts showing some solid comic ability, and Barrymore never more appealing. Also the least sour Kaufman script we've seen on screen, so that's a positive.…

I thought it was ok, but fairly thin gruel. But as a lark, which I think it was all it was intended to be, it was fine. I've already completely forgotten about it, though.

It's all good. I was 10 in '77, and the only things I can really remember were the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, Debbie Boone, Abba, Fleetwood Mac and Peter Frampton, maybe? My first notion of punk music was seeing an article about the Sex Pistols coming to the US in my folks' copy of Time magazine. Time was…

You can really only write so many variations of Jesse Pinkman to keep him busy.

Yes. Although he was better than that dodgy Andrew Scott that they originally cast!

It's "ironic", and is the type of thing people who disdain metal would listen to and send gifs of the band to friends.

Yeah, it was hard for me to argue it was for health reasons as I drank beer and smoked all the time, while eating a lot of cheese. I was a piss poor "vegetarian", it was more a case of I just didn't eat meat for a few years.