"Walk on Gilded Splinters" is the soundtrack in my head to the season 2 of True Detective Season 1 that we never got.

Laura Benanti is a national treasure and I'm glad she's finally gone sort of mainstream after years of big musicals and tiny TV shows.

Songs that should have been in the film:
The Who- The Real Me ("Can ya see the real me/Doctor? Whooooaaaa Doctor!")
Devo- Doctor Detroit (Gigolo Mix)
Black Sabbath- The Wizard
Pink Floyd- Cymbeline ("And Doctor Strange is always changing size…")

Try the first five Genesis albums. Their song "The Musical Box" is a great little prog-baroque-metal epic, with a self-contained storyline like one of the spookier New Who episodes.

I'll… make cheese for you.

You'll be back.
Soon you'll see.

Everything I know about mermaids I learned from that documentary Disney produced: they're jailbait, they're naturally great singers, and they want to bang humans.

I read Mizerock as Dick Cavett and Lupin as Glenn Shadix from that table conversation in "Beetlejuice."

The only thing of this sort I've ever seen that I worried might be going a little too far is the play "Pippin." At the end of the play, the cast all try to convince Pippin (and, blurring the lines between the show and reality) the actor playing Pippin to give up striving for purpose in life and kill himself. He…

But a deltoid, and a bicep, a hot groin and a tricep?

Bits and pieces of that have shown up again and again in different forms: the project essentially crystalized in its purest form (albeit sans Peter Pan trappings), with Hook as the Dracula analogue Krolock in "Tanz der Vampire." If you listen to the German recording, the music of the descent into Krolock's crypt is an…

Have you ever read the shooting script for the finale? It's even weirder, and contains Windom Earle doing an elaborate musical number, as opposed to the Jazz Singer appearing to sing "Sycamore Trees."

Seriously, what's better? "Bohemian Rhapsody," or this looped eleven seconds of Nicki Minaj's "Cum on a Cone?"

I have a similar story- back in high school, I did the musical "Bat Boy," and the end of Act 1 contains a climactic song in which one of the characters is revealed to be a serial killer and commits their first murder. It's a very tense scene- the killer sneaks into the hospital, where one of the other characters is…

I worked in a paint factory. Just me, down in the cavernous, wet darkness of the factory basement, with my gas mask and my rubber acid-reflecting smock, and my iPod Classic full of audio drama for nine hours a day, five days a week.

Fun-ish fact: horror comedy "League of Gentlemen" from the BBC features a lowlife obsessed with finding the most violent horror film ever made. His name? Henry Portrait.

Maybe they'll get David Spade for Season 2 (or is that Season 4?).

Well, it's pretty strongly associated with Bechdel for obvious reasons (in fact, I read Raina's appearance as a heavily stylized homage to Eldest Alison in "Fun Home"); but "Strangers in Paradise" also indulges in a lot of similar material during the less genre-bending, plot-heavy sections of narrative, if I recall.…

I actually pictured Jennifer Garner, the last time I read it.

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