It was also the only album of The Streets I liked (I do like scattered individual songs from other records). It’s a great story that leans way into Skinner’s storytelling abilities, which are considerable and mostly separate from his musical skill.

Listening to the new Of Montreal (comes out 3/9) in preparation for reviewing it. I really enjoyed 2016's Innocence Reaches, a kind of smorgasbord that combined the band’s great mid-00's run with stuff Kevin Barnes has done since then. Sadly, White is Relic/Irrealis Mood finds Barnes back in experimental mode, with…

Don’t forget the brilliant smash cut in Game of Thrones from Sam excising Jorah’s greyscale to someone taking a bite of a pie.

I had a similar nervousness about West Oaks, but nothing ever happened to my car there. Fortunately. Mason Park is a sucky theater as well (from back when the local Drafthouse franchisee repurposed old multiplexes instead of building new theaters) but at least it’ll close when the La Senterra location opens. There’s…

Hey, I’m still pissed my Drafthouse closed because the shopping center that recruited them to open up there in the first place raised the rent too high for the Drafthouse to continue operating. Technically I still have one left in Houston, but it’s an hour away instead of 10 minutes.

*Tiger mascot dunks*

He didn’t say “tour”, he said a “25th Anniversary Celebration.” Sounds like he’s tentatively planning a Lollapalooza-style transition to a single site festival to me. I suppose his brand name is bigger than the already extant Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas or the various iterations of Riot Fest.

I see Coheed pretty much every time they come through town, and they hit Houston on almost every U.S. tour, which means I’ve seen them at least a dozen times over the years. They’re great every time.

Everything Will Be All Right in the End and the White Album are Weezer’s best albums since the early 00's (Green and Maladroit look at lot better these days when compared to Weezer’s run from Make Believe through Death to False Metal), so they definitely do not get more obnoxious with every release.

Space Jail gave me everything I wanted from an unauthorized, non-John Carpenter take on John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s idea for <i>Escape From Earth</i>. Besson’s loss in that court case was about as justified as Robin Thicke’s loss for “Blurred Lines.” Which is to say, “Yeah, I can see it but it’s probably not…

Expendables 2 is...just fine. The only thing really wrong with it is how bad Chuck Norris is in his two scenes.

Oh, like when Judd Apatow let Eric Bana play an Australian in <i>Funny People</i> and Eric Bana was suddenly likable? Or when Martin McDonagh let Colin Farrell play an Irishman in <i>In Bruges</i> after years of mediocre performances as an American and it revived his career?

Clearly Matt Wallace needs to go back to producing albums for 80's and 90's rock bands like The Replacements and Faith No More.

I stopped watching The Mindy Project before it even moved to Hulu but Weeks was always the weakest link on the show. It’s like they never knew what to do with him. Maybe this explains why, but it certainly doesn’t excuse it.

Yes, if these companies really wanted to help, they’d be matching people’s donations to the Red Cross with donations to either the Houston Food Bank or the official Harvey relief fund. Because that money will actually get to people who need it.

Yeah, we’ll see if it happens now that the rain has finally stopped. Apparently my school is dry but the kids who attend? Maybe not. Plus I teach in Cy-Fair which is massive and definitely has some schools in the areas of the reservoirs.

Great piece, Kyle. I didn’t grow up here but I know the feelings you’re describing now.

I moved to Houston in 2006, and this is the fourth major flood I’ve been through in those 11 years. Fortunately my home has never been impacted. I lived in a second floor apartment until 2010 and went through Hurricane Ike mostly…

They also showed up in the opening scene of the Season 7 premiere. With all these appearances they’re gonna have to get some cool battle scene deaths next year.

That’s fair. I have a bunch of Roots albums and after the first few months after the initial release I usually only feel the need to go back to individual songs. Except for <i>Phrenology</i>; maybe not coincidentally their most soul-rock oriented album.