Yeah, no matter how subtle they start off they almost always end extremely over the top. The Russian Sleep Experiment comes to mind. Like they start off going for some element of realism, but throw it all away for the payoff.

The New Yorker is a great magazine for most of their content, but they always seem to hire the most miserable critics. Which is nice if I want to see someone rip into a film I hated, but that's about it.

I actually like Take It Easy, mostly because Jackson Browne wrote it.

Well I mean, this is a guy who basically sued actual eagles.

Chuck's anxiety attack before the meeting was a great piece of characterization. It's nice to see that his anxiety disorder is more nuanced, it's not something I see tackled much in fiction (or at least not sympathetically - thinking of Harold in Twin Peaks).

Satellite Skin mostly just made me nostalgic for the emo-tinged stuff they started with, since it came out so long after they otherwise stopped writing music I enjoyed. It feels like a more upbeat take on something like Custom Concern, which is maybe my favorite song of theirs.

My friend opened for them recently and he's in a psychedelic prog metal band. Whoever sets up Pinback's shows doesn't know what they're doing.

Tomb Raider 2 let you save anywhere, including while falling to your death. The menu was a laggy 3D display so, if you were constantly reloading after failing the same platforming section over and over again, you were basically navigating it by memory. Click one arrow key too many times and you're saving instead of…

There does definitely seem to be a disconnect between how people are responding to Bill Cosby's accusations and those against Woody Allen, or Michael Jackson, or of course Roman Polanski.

He owes it to us after that awful Wing Commander movie.

If every Phil Hartman movie gets a sequel maybe he'll come back to life

Not sure about the huge CD reissue, but the original vinyl version is expensive (probably gonna run you over $100 for a copy in good condition), it's in mono (whether that's good or bad is up to you) & a bit of a collectors item. So I imagine a lot of people who want that might appreciate the reissue.