I will agree that Gosling is not a gifted singer by any stretch of the imagination, but I think Stone is very adept. I also don't recall having the same impressions as you concerning the scene in the street. Alas, one scene out of several (especially when this particular scene is hardly as momentous to the movie as…

I'm sorry, I just cannot submit to an argument that La La Land is bad because it is contrived. By definition, musicals have to be a bit contrived (SURPRISE: breaking out in song and dance numbers is not a customary part of everyday life in reality). Also, the acting was tremendously done, and the set design and…

me too

I actually thought it was kinda bad. The last forty five minutes were largely unnecessary, and introducing some random dutch fella in the last 15 minutes of the movie with absolutely no character exposition was a huge head scratcher for me

counterpoint: La La Land is a FAR better movie than Titanic, and any attempt to compare the two really doesn't make much sense.

1. Kid A
2. Sound of Silver
3. The Getty Address
4. You Forgot It in People
5. Since I Left You
6. In Rainbows
7. Discovery
8. Fleet Foxes
9. For Emma
10. Hail to the Thief

Sound of Silver?

blimey! you really are an insufferable crank!

cocaine's a helluva drug

I do think that this past season was much better than the previous three. Maybe because it had just a ton of "great scenes" relative to past installments. But I do agree. When you give this show your full attention, you realize how little it truly amounts to.

I mean, I agree with you. But the fact remains, A LOT of people buy into his bullshit because of the incessant exposure.

¡holyfuck!

Query - what is worse: the profound petulance that is Donald Trump, or every media outlets' insistence on parading around every insane thing he says or does with the consequence that his reach grows even further?

After hours janitor at the Knight of Diamonds in Miami

I aspire to finally read Tolstoy's gargantuan classics (W&P, Karenina). I have been putting them off for years, and 2017 might be a tough year to do it (beginning a career in a profession that is notoriously exhausting), but I remain optimistic.

Yeah. Super frustrating when, on Fallout 4, you're doing the run-up to a major quest and you're promptly told you need to scour the Wasteland in order to find twenty pieces of aluminum or whatever.

Underworld by Don Delillo (somewhere north of 800 pages)

Sleeping Lessons, too!

I will say that my favorite Shins song ever is on Wincing. That song is, of course, Sleeping Lessons.

Counter to your counterpoint: Wincing the Night Away is supremely underrated, but is not even in the same universe as Chutes.