Funny thing is, I wouldn't have described Cale's demeanor as cranky when I saw him - if anything, he was almost too passive. I guess everyone has to mellow out sometime.

If you ask me, this is some perfect subject/documentarian synergy.

I actually got to see a public talk/Q&A John Cale last year. He basically ignored the interviewer's questions completely to go on lengthy, rambling tangents about things like meeting John Lennon and Yoko Ono and studying under Stockhausen. I dunno if his mind really is like swiss cheese or if he just didn't give a…

To be fair, they probably did think they were great together and were going to make it.

Okay, but speaking from personal experience: you can be autistic and learn to not let your compulsions make you act like an asshole.

I love the AV Club's continual use of the phrase "glowering bread man" to describe Paul Hollywood.

I live in Montreal, so I make a habit of catching a few films at the festival every year. This year I've seen Kedi and Brigsby Bear, which were both heartwarming (albeit in radically different ways), and Turkish Star Wars, which I thought would be hilarious (I was wrong, it was a nightmare). I also have tickets for…

She furiously backpedaled not even an hour later, then got mad when people continued to be mad at her. It was a wild ride.

He influenced industrial rock more than "pure" industrial, though. As far I know, he never did anything that sounds like Throbbing Gristle, that would just b-

Oh jeez, that's… yeah. I can see how that sentiment could have been vaguely transgressive at the time that that was published, but reading that now it just scans as gross and a little pathetic. I guess that either TV forces him to dial that shit back a bit or he's mellowed out slightly with with age (or both).

Enh, count me in the apparent minority who likes Bourdain. Maybe I'm biased because I haven't read a ton of his writing, but I think Parts Unknown is a really well-crafted, entertaining show, and the fact that he has continually spoken up against the seal-hunt ban (a huge problem for inuit communities here in Canada)…

By a few different accounts, he did deepen a wedge between David Byrne and the rest of the band in a way that nearly caused the group to implode. He's not so much a collaborator in the conventional sense as a professional antagonist.

I feel like I remember reading somewhere that Red was the result of Fripp stepping back a bit and letting the remaining two guys have a bit more free rein over the arrangements.

His work on the song Upon This Earth is my dark-horse pick for the best solo he ever played.

That's a great point. The whole work/life boundary that's essential for most people probably gets a lot harder to uphold.

These are genuinely haunting and beautiful. They remind me a lot of William Basinski's art except without all the monsters.

Don't be, it was a really powerful point!

Oof. My heart sank a bit just reading that.

No, but you're still more likely to at least EXPECT tedium and repetition from, say, working a call center rather than being a working artist. I'd imagine watching doing the thing you love turn into just another boring, stressful job is pretty crushing on a certain level, regardless of the material gain.

Stipe seems like a genuinely lovely person. Also a total weirdo.