Exactly what I was gonna say. Punk Rock became safe for them when they started worrying about only playing “big venues”.

It’s totally punk rock to complain about not playing "big venues". On another note, that joke might've worked if he hadn't added that lame kicker. 

Mutations is an A+ album.

This week I’ve been listening to the new EPs from Yuno and Protomartyr. Both are great! I’ve been a Protomartyr fan for a while so that was a no brainer, but I only heard Yuno a few weeks ago. Great, fun, Summer-y indie pop/rock that reminds me a lot of what I listened to in college a decade ago.

Nah this is Wayne Brady level cold.

“Could you have been born, Richardson, and not egg-hatched, as I have always assumed?

I started a Deadwood re-watch (following along with Todd’s old reviews, for old times’ take), and it really is an astonishing show. Ian McShane gives the best performance I think I’ve ever seen in anything, for one of the best written characters I’ve ever encountered. The fact that he steals the show on a show that’s…

What if it turns out though time space trickery, it’s your own grave??! WHAT A TWIST, GET ME M. NIGHT!

I’m totally a nerd but there is this subset of nerd culture that will violently rage against anything or anyone that they think is ruining the pop culture thing they are obsessed with.

Spending this morning with 1980/81 vintage David Byrne - Remain in Light, The Catherine Wheel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Also, Bob’s belief in his inherent specialness and his insistence that he work alone is presented as his character’s principal weakness, which both turns Syndrome into a villain and allows Bob to fall into his trap. And it’s resolved in his final-act realization that the reason he embraced that philosophy is because…

Has Bird ever publicly claimed to be an objectivist? Because looking at his films, the claim looks pretty damn spurious. Not every elitist is an objectivist. The nastiness of Rand’s philosophy isn’t so much the elitism as its ennobling of selfishness.

It’s almost as if you don’t think Mr. Mom was fucking awesome or something

The Incredibles is still has some of the best action of any superhero film. Even compared to todays. The speed set pieces with Dash are really superior to anything done with film versions of Quicksilver and Flash.

Back then they hadn’t even developed Pacifst, the app that periodically reminds you not to violently assault someone. What was he to do?

He probably should still be in jail

To be fair to Hirsch, he did this back in 2015, when we didn’t know it was wrong to choke a woman out at a party and never apologize for it. Is it fair to judge historical figures by present-day standards?

This week gave me a good opportunity to finish working through the Iceage album— which I ended up liking quite a bit. Definite ‘Walkmen’ vibes creeping in. I also finally got around to listening to the new Neko Case, which is good; ‘Oracle of the Maritimes’ is spectacular in particular.

No, Roseanne is the doctor’s name.

cmon now we all know who was born for this role