Some- people call me space cowboy

for Pollard solo albums, I'd say Waved Out and From A Compound Eye are the ones to check out, but they're also the only ones I'm fully familiar with, so maybe there's a great one I don't really know

Agree with this review about how the band takes an influence from Mercury Rev, Elephant 6, etc., but they also keep a lot of the more old school influences in tow. Aesthetically, so much of this is straight from the type of skewed Americana that Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Van Dyke Parks specialized in. And yeah,…

The Terror, their last "proper" album, seemed to have been met with the same amount of shrugs as this one. And judging from the singles, deservedly so. It's not terrible, it's just pretty boring.

yes

There was the episode of Bored To Death where he played himself

Is this a PFFR production? Glaser seems to be at his best when they're behind the camera

I'm wondering the same for 1 and 3, but for 2 the episode still definitely could have happened, Kenny would have just needed to download the malware himself. His sister taking his laptop was a way to establish his paranoia

This was a B- episode of Black Mirror but like a B/B+ little horror short. It didn't really do much in terms of alternate universe building or satire, which every other episode of Black Mirror has to an extent (even an episode like The Waldo Moment, which takes place in a world not far removed from ours, shows how a…

yeah. where does it mention this at all?

Haven't seen T5 but Thor 2's direction was pretty shitty too. When people talk about the MCU production cycle being machine like they are talking about Thor 2. Most other MCU movies at least have some sort of unique identifying factor, but it just felt like a 2-hour pilot from 2004

you might even say there's a list of them!
Anyways, that movie looks laughably awful. Only a few steps away from being an SNL spoof of YA dystopia

I haven't seen any filmed operas (judging my knowledge off of other filmed plays) to my knowledge, so correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a few key differences I think. For concert films, the time and the place is very important to the narrative of the story (who the band is at the time of recording, etc.) whereas a…

I think in the loosest sense of documentary being a movie that captures a real event, Stop Making Sense is very much a documentary. Swimming To Cambodia is much less a documentary

This could definitely a good show, but this seems pretty cruel considering how hard it is for Charlie Kaufman to get a movie made. If you're gonna make money off of something he made, maybe pay him to write a new movie? Doesn't Universal have the rights to Slaughterhouse Five and Guillermo Del Toro wanted to direct…

I'm not mad at anyone? Does making a joke have to be predicated on being mad?

With the mention of transphobia last week, Jake calling the US "a broken country" after buying the guns, and their using the sheriff's homophobia against him, this season is definitely on a leftward streak so far. I wonder how far it'll go. Maybe the Vulture will kill an unarmed person of color and the nine-nine has…

This was such a weird season, but I mostly liked it. I feel like this is simultaneously the most mainstream thing McBride/Hill have done and also their darkest (okay, maybe not Observe & Report levels yet, but it can get there). It felt so at odds with itself throughout the season, but it landed in the past two…

Yeah that's my problem with Tyler's stuff. Even the old Odd Future stuff has promise but it has the attitude of a pissed-off 16 year old that he still has and even though only ~5 years has passed since their prime, has aged pretty poorly. He's grown up musically just fine, if only his attitude and restraint joined him.
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Earl is probably the only artist aside from Frank who has been able to shirk his Odd Future origins and go his own way. His newer stuff is worth checking out