I literally just started The Leftovers this last Sunday, and am on the second episode of season two. So, I haven’t read this article or any comments, but I am super jazzed to read it at the end of the week.

The one that comes immediately to mind is in Vampire Weekend’s “Horchata,” where Ezra Koenig sings “you shouldn’t have fought it,” that, for an embarrassingly long time I heard it as “you shouldn’t have farted.” And now I can’t unhear it.

You could just, you know, go to your local library. Worst case scenario, they do an inter-library loan, but they are still accessible. 

This has nothing to do with Pixies, which is bullshit. But you couldn’t soundtrack this with a trailer version of “Monkey Goes to Heaven”? This shit’s dead in the water.

As I said elsewhere, it’s not supposed to be some nuanced take on this particular issue. It’s pretty straightforward.

It actually isn’t, because it’s not the point I’m making, nor was it in the original comment. You can’t tell me what my own minute point was. Moreover, what kind of a loaded question is that? Am I happy about people with my same job making less than me? Sure. I’m over the moon about it.

It has practically nothing to do with total equity. It’s the 90% gap. No one I work with who has the same job as me makes a tenth of what I make, nor do I make a tenth of what they make.

There were two seasons of this already? Not even trying to be a smartass. I had no idea this was a thing.

Today, Martin Scorsese was asked, “Hey, what do you think about the MCU?” He responded, “Meh.” And then the whole internet lost its mind. Because that’s the hot button issue that needed serious discussion.

I got the context. I’m not saying Ethan Hawke being paid more, generally speaking, is indefensible; I get the logic of it. I’m saying that making merely 10% of what he made is significantly less justified. It’s not a complicated notion. 

I love Richard Linklater’s work to death, but this is not a great take. Even if no one is being paid much, a tenth of your co-star’s salary could be potentially life changing. If it’s on the low end, that’s probably a disparity of thousands of dollars. Linklater’s so involved with his films that he must’ve known. And…

As a teenager, I worshipped Important Things. Still one of my favorite sketch shows.

That premise sounds an awful lot like Lucky Louie, but maybe this one will have fewer sexual abusers. 

God... Remember when he almost won an Oscar, and everyone was sure he was a lock? Real rough. But still, Oscar or no Oscar, you can’t deny he’s a major tour de force in Norbit.

Man, oh man. Brad Pitt’s gonna have a busy-ass awards season here, crushing it in both Ad Astra and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Way to bust out the big guns early, Brad.

Damn. Good catch.

Wow. I guess “Aliens Exist” was more prophetic than we gave it credit for. What’s this? Enema of the State is retroactively being honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics for “significant milestones in space exploration and interaction with previously unknown intelligent life”??

First, why would we not judge artists based off of their work, especially if their work purports to be autobiographical? Moreover, if the problems I have with Taylor Swift were just at the beginning of her career, that’d be one thing. But they persist throughout her entire career.

“Blank Space” is entirely non-committal, though. In that song, even if she does blame herself, she still drags her romantic partners down with her. They call her crazy, and then says they should’ve known better if they didn’t want an emotionally tumultuous relationship. That’s the opposite of taking responsibility,…

I don’t trust any artist whose entire career is built around them blaming everyone else for their problems. That’s not about Taylor Swift’s relationship with Kanye West, by the way. That’s an evaluation of Swift’s catalog, Her entire thing is positioning herself as the underdog, where boys are always mean to her, and…