What are you getting out of this?

He's 35. I know you didn't mean literally but, you know, for the record.

Also, he just seems to be going after the briefest and most dismissive comments instead of engaging with some of the more nuanced critiques of his article, which makes it seem especially petty.

god damn it

Agreed. I would have been totally content if he'd just continued to make just-okay albums with one or two knockout tracks, so having him put out something as good as Beat The Champ this late in his career makes me feel like I've been spoiled.

In that case, do yourself a favor and never, ever listen to #SundayFunday by Magic! (Their hashtag and exclamation point, not mine)

Those three albums are remarkable for how many of their songs feel like all-time classics, and to think that they all came out within the same five-year span (which also included the not-as-great-but-still-respectable We Shall All Be Healed) is just extraordinary. Darnielle was on fire in the early '00s.

That's…

I'm listening to scary late-period Scott Walker albums because fuck it.

Wait, never mind. The "how can you be upset about this but not care about (______)" statuses have started.

Mine doesn't seem to be, but I've also unfollowed a whole bunch of people.

Oh no, I don't think it's a total failure, but I do think it succeeds on completely different terms than what the script was going for. Any remake that stuck closer to the original script would, by definition, be a completely different film.

Someone mentioned having Tarantino helm his own version of Natural Born Killers a few comments down, but given that he wrote the damn thing, I started musing as to whether there was another director who would know how to make stylishly violent, big-budget films that also function as darkly satirical meta-commentaries…

Who makes Steve Guttenberg
A star?

Wait… is that the comic that I th- OH GOD OH GOD NO NO NO NO NO FUCK YOU, NO

Oh wow, I didn't even pick up on that. That would have been so easy to not fuck up.

FUCK YES

The Lager Lady

I am and I am.

I'm in the very small minority that prefers Lost Highway. The fact that it's less clear-cut in terms of which parts constitute the "real" events of the film and which parts are pure fantasy make it feel a lot more open-ended to me, and the way the protagonist seems to constantly be trying to frame himself as a badass…