The pieces are definitely in place for Born Again - we've got a vengeful Kingpin, Nuke, a lot of foreshadowing about Murdock's two lives colliding, and now Maggie.

A lot of these action scenes really don't work for me - if you're cutting between three different shots every second, it doesn't work at a kinetic level, it's just disjointed. A lot of fun character moments. Fuckin' glad to be rid of Stick and his hoary, hokey cliches.

Oh, definitely! At the same time, art that resonates with your alienation and lets you feel less alone can be exactly what alienation calls for. I cherish those books now.

Not a sports show! I WAS MISLEAD.

There was also some stuff involving the Simon Necronomicon and carving occult sigils into my arm with a razor blade, but truthfully, that wasn't a reading thing. It just seemed funny at the time.

I spent a lot of last year in this weird place where I was convinced that if I could tear apart most of my life, rid myself of basic human emotion, and get fucked up enough, I could become something better. During this time I was also disgusted with anything and everything biological and fetishized the idea of being a…

But Public Enemy, as a group people look up to, is involved with the violence. Chuck D is the one who pushes the button and blows up the governor's office.

CornedBeef#Tag?

I haven't seen Raising Arizona in a hot minute, but… hm. Maybe! I got a surprising amount of mileage comparing it to Having Fun On Stage With Elvis.

Honestly, this would be more interesting if Chuck E. Cheese was eulogizing Father John Misty.

I'm gonna knoc- nope not finishing that

He's like the world's shittiest ouroboros.

Wild At Heart is really good, and its one of those rare instances where Nicolas Cage is cast perfectly. Also, Harry Dean Stanton is in it.

Wait, shit, I might have to do this.

Niggaz Wit Attorneys

Ha! I'm going to start doing that.

It's not difficult to get, I just have a hard time explaining the appeal without giving away too many jokes or plot points.

Gibson was ultimately better at judging cultural advances (albeit smaller ones) than technological ones. It just doesn't show up that much in the Sprawl trilogy. Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, and Spook Country were prescient and still relevant today. it's probably not limited to that, and I…

It gets off to a slow start, jumps all over the place in a way that doesn't really make any sense until a few hundred pages in, and most of its charms come from either prolonged exposure to its characters or the breathtakingly acrobatic quality of DFW's prose. It didn't really click for me until around the 200 page…

Thanks! I don't know that it holds up as a description for their later stuff, though. I think they present an interesting proposition genre-wise - rap music that twists rock to suit its own needs (essentially an inversion of the wretched 90s rap-rock/nu-metal formula.) Given how many offshoots there are of punk and…