But, b-b-but, but, he’s not saying from the very border of Texass! He’s somewhere in the grand golden centre!

Boy, is that headline a big dumb falsehood.

This is the AV Club list I’ve been waiting for my whole life.

Phosphorescent released a superb album in a career of superb albums this week, and he deserves a dang mention!

I mean, “Mona Lisa” is the album standout, streets ahead of any other song and possibly his best song ever.

Okay, I’ll check one of those out. What’s your take on 1Q84? That’s one of the ones I started and could not get far into.

Eloquently put. Thank you.

Same question, to another fan: What’s there to like or love about him? What do you find yourself enjoying? I just do not get it. But if I’m missing something, I’d like to know what it is! I find his writing fine, but also flat, colorless, and sterile.

While i don’t doubt Murakami to be capable of writing a bad book

It’s the former.

Saved You a Click: No.

My goodness, what a great show. What terrific writing and acting. Jimmy’s interview and his and Kim’s confrontation thereafter are some of the best scenes this show has had, and gave me goosebumps like the best Breaking Bad moments. Just amazing work. Imagine sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and being told to…

Saulnier violence is uniquely good in that it is absolutely never forecasted. It happens as suddenly, thrillingly, and horrifyingly as real life. He has a mastery of that verisimilitude. I don’t know any other directors who do.

...that said, uh, some of the violence in Hold the Dark is forecasted...but it’s still…

Murder Party is just so damn far below the other three. In a vacuum, or compared against other directors’ work, it has some charm, but compared against Saulnier’s other work it doesn’t hold a candle. It’s like Player Piano or Pablo Honey--the debut best left forgotten, before the artist mastered their craft.

Human or robit, I enjoyed the mangling of Burger King (“Burglar King”, “Burger Thing,” “Barger King”).

It’s more about the obnoxiousness of the overused, trendy, unimaginative phrasing that disserves legitimate issues by associating them with disingenuous, derivative Internet snark.

The episode should’ve ended with “Let’s do it again.”

We’re, uh, we’re talking about Alex Jones here.

Well: See also Baked Alaska, who ranted in an In-N-Out parking lot for hours and hours on end.

Well, I guess I can see what you’re saying. It’d take a clairvoyance no human has ever possessed to be able to foresee this, but there’s a Domino effect, the likes of which does indeed lead to the bitterly just and ironic death of Gus. Fair point.