Why do pop music fans always feel the need to belittle everything else to make their music seem more "intelligent"? It's okay to like pop and see deep value in it but poptimists always tend to put down music they see as pretentious in doing so.

I totally forgot about that, this really has been a fascinating as fuck time to be alive.

That's definitely the least interesting but we got some minimal internet drama out of it nonetheless.

So late 2016-early 2017 is going to be remembered as the 11th hour upset season. The election, the Super Bowl, the Grammy's (to certain camps but not as big as the others), the Oscar's. What's next?

I feel like way too much mercy is being given to the abyssmal editing in BvS. That whole double dream sequence with Batman fighting parademons and The Flash telling him he was right about events that hadn't even happened yet was disgustingly bad. It served no narrative purpose other than a tacky teaser for a possible…

It blows my mind that he's only 43, he's spent a very significant portion of his life on this "globalist chemtrail nwo" bullshit. If his overreacting isn't entirely theatrics, this man is going to give himself a heart attack on air.

This looks exactly like my ranking (minus i haven't heard Sick Scenes yet). Hello Sadness and No Blues kinda soured me on this band after how much I loved Romance is Boring hut I'm willingly to give Sick Scenes a fair shot.

Anyone remember that Breitbart Spicer interview from a few weeks ago with the really awful production qualities? At this rate, that's going to be what Trump's "real news" is going to look like. All political press conferences will have the quality of a Tim & Eric sketch.

I read Jeff Lemire's Complete Essex County yesterday after having a copy of it for over a year. I wish I hadn't waited. The second story in particular I found hauntingly beautiful. It was one of those works that reminds me why i treasure this medium and I plan to pick up anything else I can by him soon.

I always find it odd when people write off We Were Dead as Modest Mouse's weakest effort when "Spitting Venom" and "Parting of the Sensory" are two of the best songs in their canon. I quite like "People as Places as People" as well. I'm not huge on "Dashboard" either but that seems to always be the breaking track.

People who call "Fitter, Happier" a filler track are the worst sorts of people.

There was a period of time when I'd listen to Let Down on repeat while doing absolutely nothing to feel pure and utter catharsis. That's the definitive Radiohead experience to me.

I actually heard that version before the studio versions and the album version of the title track, while still gorgeous, doesn't hold a lick to the demo, imo.

Yeah but it's misleading when journalists use it like that. It gives the illusion of a pretty different article than what you're actually about to get.

Quick question if you don't mind, I haven't read Gibson but I'm planning to this year. Is it possible to read the books in his trilogies as standalone works or do I absolutely need to read Virtual Light to get the most out of Idoru? Basically, are his trilogies more related in terms of narrative or conceptual? Thanks…

The headline had me thinking this was going to be something like Gorillaz or Genki Rockets, you can't really say a human being is literally created with internet data since you know…he's not literally actual data. Sure, his entire image and concept are but that's not as interesting as what the headline prompts.

No arguments there, the first and third segments are just whatever. I just like the second part for being Mamoru Hosoda's start as a film director and leading to Summer Wars.

I borrowed a copy of Link's Awakening DX from my best friend at the time when we were both about 8 or 9, it was my first real experience with the series and as a result, I've never been able to really enjoy the more traditional Zelda titles like A Link to the Past as much as some others.

I find the second part of the movie to be decent (and many of the ideas from it eventually got reused by the same director in his own original work, Summer Wars, which was a pretty good film), the biggest problem is that it was three entirely unrelated segments cobbled together with a weird overarching plot that only…

Didn't seem like a bad guy all things considered but I honestly forgot he existed for about a decade before reading this. The only "liberal" pundit and personality to be more irrelevant than Bill Maher.