I completely agree. 7 just feels... off. I think it’s because the album seems to be less overall cohesive in its sound and themes and a little more spread out, which I also found to be the case with Thank Your Lucky Stars to some degree (felt like a set of songs rather than a song cycle with through lines on sound and…

The Avengers shall never defeat the dreaded Baron Zima

Yeah, I really enjoyed the Rey/Luke/Ren stuff, but the ship chase plot and casino planet plots were just... bad and very very slow/unexciting. A movie can’t really be great if I hate half or slightly more than half of it.

Does anybody have any like... recent metal albums celebrating pagan or non-Christian holidays? I’ve tried looking, but I just see shitty hair metal covers of actual Chrismas songs. I want some recent experimental stuff focusing on sun festivals or whatever so that I can force my office to add it to the inclusive…

I have enjoyed the starts of even many of his recent runs, but he can’t stick a landing to save his life, and his books always stretch out into these weird phases of just killing time before he leaves. Probably the most consistent thing he did in the last few years was his Guardians, which actually wrapped up pretty…

I can’t help but see this as a sign of the flagging comics industry. Bendis probably is itching to write DC characters, Marvel was probably tired of paying him whatever they pay him for declining sales, and DC was probably looking for the draw of having Bendis, but I can’t really imagine Bendis writing the quieter,…

On one hand this show is still struggling to accomplish the basic mechanical task of having the supporting characters feel like they’re even in the same show. On the other hand, they pulled Chekhov’s gun twice in ridiculous, hilarious ways, so I continue to be on board and hope that by the halfway point of the season…

I did not know that Aykroyd bit, but I will definitely read up on it.

Also, somebody PLEASE ungrey me!

You’d think Hammond’s past struggles would signal that this would be difficult for him.

Tilda Swinton is right there

I didn’t want to go through the hassle of creating yet another gmail burner to risk forgetting log in info for.

These guys did their album launch show on a riverboat last weekend with a bunch of other post-punk influenced acts, and I missed it in part because I was at a happy hour, in part because I wasn’t sure I could make it in time, and in part because I’m terrified of boats.

Yeah I’ve been running through Brooklyn 99 the last few nights, and each night every episode starts with the same ad for whatever the biggest premiere of the night is (This is Us was last night, something else was the night before, and now I’m getting ads for that show about the TV writer whose life becomes her…

I had no problem with the commercials for a long time, but they recently increased to 90 seconds each break, and there seem to be more breaks during the shows now. It’s starting to grate a bit.

This is how the networks should be doing streaming; licensing their existing content under Hulu (which I believe is still a joint venture between NBC/Comcast/Universal, FOX, and ABC). This gives them a repository where they stand to continuously profit off their back catalog, at a pricepoint and with a breadth of…

Convicted Felon Tim Allen.