I was a conservatory grad and one of my non-musician friends texted me after he saw whiplash asking me if that was accurate.

Exactly. There was nothing it brought to the table that any decent Doris Day picture didn’t (forget masterpieces like Singin’ in the Rain).

La La Land is that movie that everyone tries to make excuses for as a way to discredit people who didn’t think it was all that special.

Check out the Opera while you’re at it. It’s an absolute riot and the music is phenomenal:

They’re pretty sadistic, methodical predators, though. And a big reason why so few attacks on humans in the wild are recorded is because it’s so rare that humans will actually be ‘in their space,’ as it were. They like deep, cold water, which isn’t where humans usually swim. In contrast to, say, bull sharks, who love…

These edibles today are something different. Effortlessly so; you don’t even have to take that much for it to turn you into Jodie Foster’s character in NELL for about two hours.

It warms my cold, dead heart that so few people know who Jackie Evancho is.

He’s trained as far as I know, he just isn’t terribly good, and the instrument itself is, when you take away the microphones, pretty below-average. It’s pretty! But it has very little resonance (which is exacerbated by the technical problems).

She’s never actually done it (that is, sung classical repertoire acoustically) so there is no way of knowing if she is legit, but there’s a voice there and technically she’s, like, ‘promising but unfinished conservatory undergrad’ level.

It’s defined, in a nutshell, as the ability to sing acoustically over an orchestra. He can’t. He sings with microphones. The handful of times that he has sung, un-amplified, alongside legit classical singers didn’t go well. For instance, he sang at the Richard Tucker Gala last year with Renee Fleming and you simply…

I like Shake Shack but I think Brgr is better (a bit more expensive, but better. especially if you ask for it rare).

What a loser.

#teamnobody

Who the fuck rights ‘BTW’ in a pre-massacre screed? Can you please take yourself a little more seriously when carrying out Holy War?

The facts of the story are that he has been charged with vehicular homicide; not manslaughter. What he may or may not have said before he allegedly murdered the kids is pretty damn immaterial to the fact that there was apparent probable cause to charge him with murder.

I’m not an anti-intellectual; all of those accomplishments are heavily asterisked by the fact that he was the child of a celebrity. It has as much to do with access as it does to actual talent and merit.

He’s a cocky know-it-all with a whiff of narcissism. Yes, I do believe he is Allen’s son.

He only looks like Frank Sinatra because Frank Sinatra is a very ordinary looking person.

Everyone’s bringing up The Shining but I want to put a quick word in for Shelley’s brilliant cameo in Annie Hall where she plays, to perfection, That Girl Everyone Has Met in The Village.

Said the same exact thing today. The Obamas were too good for us. Ultimately we got what we deserved.