The Master Review Drinking Game:

This is the only optical illusion I'm aware of where the same image can look dramatically different to different people.

Yep, this is different from any other optical illusion I know of in that different people literally seem to see different things.

I cut and pasted strips into a separate image and the 'black' parts are beige/gold in whatever context I put them in.

You say this as if the review wasn't largely concerned with deconstructing the movie's politics in detail. A movie can be entertaining and well made regardless of its politics. I've seen the movie and this review is on point.

Well the difference there is that they were borrowing his identity for commercial purposes. This is just someone on the internet doing something for fun. They're not trying to make money out of it or pretend that Tom Waits did it himself.

It's not like anyone's demanding money for doing this. In which case how's it different from anyone else covering his songs?

Given their penchant for 24 hour songs etc I'd say their fall from the mainstream was more of an enthusiastic leap.

Because it's not 1962 and most mainstream pop albums aren't made by a few guys going into a room and busking songs into a mic.

I'm not aiming this at you, but I usually find the 'best since Scary Monsters' cliche just a lazy and reductive way to avoid having to form proper opinions on his later catalogue. It's like critics would hear the latest album a couple of times and go "hey, it's not bad. Best since Scary Monsters!", then forget about…

Also The La's, Doledrum:

Both those albums are great but Vanishing Point might just top them. it's like this pitch dark melting pot of garage rock, Krautrock, dub and psyche. I keep hoping they'll end up back in those experimental waters.

It's kind of weird that guy supposedly tired of filmmaking and on the brink of retirement would spend his last stretch knocking out a movie every few months, and pretty successful movies at that. I bet he'll be back in a decade or so.

There's a lot of amazing music on their first two albums and bits of great music scattered across the rest of their output. Their last album was a decent listen.

You seem to be confusing him with some other Thom Yorke that doesn't routinely make his music available for free.

I don't really see what's so remarkable about The Master's cinematography quite frankly. There are some good images in the first third but I found much of the movie quite flatly shot.

I thought The Master was alright. Some good performances and the one-on-ones between Phoenix and Hoffman are great. However it's also overstretched, repetitive and pointlessly opaque. It takes over an hour to tell us everything the trailer more strikingly managed to tell us about Phoenix's character in a couple of…

I thought The Master was alright. Some good performances and the one-on-ones between Phoenix and Hoffman are great. However it's also overstretched, repetitive and pointlessly opaque. It takes over an hour to tell us everything the trailer more strikingly managed to tell us about Phoenix's character in a couple of…

They've really made a lot of gorgeous music - LP5 is one of my all time favourite records. But it's totally abstract, so there's really almost nothing meaningful you can say about it unless you have a synestheistic streak and can say things like "This song sounds really really light blue", like this one does:

They've really made a lot of gorgeous music - LP5 is one of my all time favourite records. But it's totally abstract, so there's really almost nothing meaningful you can say about it unless you have a synestheistic streak and can say things like "This song sounds really really light blue", like this one does: