I don't have strong opinions about the guy, but praising him as a feminist just because he puts women in main roles has always seemed like a participation trophy for doing the bare minimum.

Twin Peaks was this way for me for a while since so much of its appeal is in how it straddles different genres and atmospheres. It's funny, but the humor only really works when you can't tell if it's supposed to be funny, and it's usually dramatic at the same time in a way that's over-the-top but also genuinely…

Sausage Party is proof that you can make a movie with almost no human characters and still rely almost entirely on racial humor.

I don't see anyone mentioning Emperor, but Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk is probably the gold standard for symphonic black metal. Which is a pretty goofy genre, but so was a lot of 90s music.

I understand how these talking head shows are popular I guess but it's always weird to me how long they are. I can't imagine wanting to listening to much of anything for three hours a day every day.

I'm sure it's been done before but I would love to see someone choose Jungleland at a bar for karaoke, watch everyone groan because most Springsteen songs are long and rambling and really hard to sing, then pick up a surprise saxophone and nail the solo.

Indian food usually uses clarified butter which has almost no lactose. Pizza is enough to make lactose intolerant people sick if they have more than one slice, I can say from personal experience, unless it's made with blue or hard cheeses.

I wouldn't blame lactose intolerance for it considering that pizza is still our go to delivery food. Also, as a person with a strong lactose sensitivity, ghee and yogurt which are both common in Indian foods don't really bother me much. Clarified butter has very little lactose, and the probiotics in yogurt seem to…

I live in San Francisco and it's extremely common. Chinese, Thai, and Japanese are more common, but not excessively so.

I really like that movie, but even worse than the rushed running time was how they took a story that takes place over a year and made it span maybe a month. The story doesn't make as much sense when they seem like relative strangers who have been on a few dates. Scott's cockiness and asshole tendencies are also a lot…

If those kids were supposed to be Leland and Sarah Palmer then the casting seems really off.

Night in the Woods was beautiful. The main character is naive and childish but also relentlessly self reliant in the way you'd expect a 19 year old to be. Got me stuck in the past.

Considering how obvious it was that they changed 10 Cloverfield Lane to make it fit into the series, and how clumsy the ending was, could they maybe not?

I only just now got the connection between Josie being trapped in wood and Margaret Lanterman's husband (most likely) communicating through her log.

I don't see how people don't understand that the statement "Hillary Clinton was more likely to win" is still true, even though she lost. Unlikely things happen all the time, that's the whole reason gambling exists. We don't rewrite the odds of poker hands every time someone gets dealt a royal flush.

George Clinton seems like he's perpetually touring with Parliament-Funkadelic but I'd give anything to see them back when Eddie Hazel was still alive & playing with them. Everyone loves Maggot Brain but I think the energy on his more upbeat songs - like pretty much all of Standing on the Verge of Getting It On - is…

When my parents got a DVD player in 1998 it came with the Matthew Broderick Godzilla movie. It had a music video of the Wallflowers covering Heroes (while Godzilla destroys everything around them) that I must have watched 100 times.

but acronyms don't work that way, when we say SCUBA we don't pronounce the vowels the same as the words they begin

If you want to show purgatory, the suburbs of Las Vegas are a pretty great choice.

The Roadhouse is getting some big name acts for such a small town. I'm curious to see what other bands show up.