Should've scrolled down. You beat me to it! Spot-on.

Y'all make me feel super old for being well out of college when I first got into LC! Although the youth of their crowds at shows is actually charming, rather than exhausting (as is sometimes the case with Titus).

I think he's quarreling with your description as "guys known for directing TV" as auteurs, seemingly by definition.

ALSO: My sportsalcohol.com buddies and I are recording perhaps our most niche-oriented podcast yet after this Brooklyn show, focusing on Los Campesinos! and their career so far. Any suggestions for topics/questions/etc. we should pose? (To ourselves, not to LC!)

LC! and Titus are also BIG bands, which I think are a lot harder to maintain. If you're the violin player in LC! or Titus, it might not be as fun to go out on tour year after year. You're not writing the songs, maybe you're singing backup, maybe you have your own music (or other stuff) to work on. I know that Amy, the…

HELL YEP (to the last bit. I've really liked the songs I've heard so far).

I'm not at all against thoughtfully negative comments; I just have never understood the compulsion to, yeah, regularly visit a site I think is subpar in order to comment about said suckiness. There are plenty of articles and essays on the internet that I think are stupid, but it doesn't usually occur to me to register…

I've noticed the people who get angriest at AV Club articles tend to put a lot of stock into what the headlines say.

Now imagine someone who complains about a junior high school while hanging out there by choice.

LC! 4 LYF!

With you on that! He did indeed seem to be a nice guy, and wonderful to read some of the stories about him after his passing. It definitely warms my heart when I find out someone whose work I admire is also one of the good ones. Though I imagine Bowie had some unpleasant passages, too, probably in the late '70s.

Norm MacDonald's, despite being mostly made up, is very good. And Silverman has a memoir, which accordingly only deals slightly with SNL but it's worthwhile all the same.

"Plastic bricks" would probably do the trick for describing Legos, would it not? It's not as interchangeable as "tissue" for "Kleenex," but I think most people would get the picture.

They're not fooling you! You can tell that they are actual people who you wouldn't be friends with in real life and are therefore unworthy to make art. ;)

"Lego" isn't really a word either, though, is it? Any more than "Clorox" or "Kleenex"? They're brand names. There's nothing inherently grammatically correct about saying "Legos" rather than "Lego." It's just conforming to some company's branding style.

I'd think if that were really true — that you can't separate a person's talent from their personality — your list there would be much, much longer.

I agree — white male directors get to make middling historical dramas all the time, so I certainly don't begrudge her the opportunity to tell some less-familiar stories. I missed Belle but I wanted to like this one more than I did.

Well, what happened was: the Lego Batman movie is better than Batman v. Superman.

Yeah, I've liked him in other stuff but he didn't make much of an impression in that movie.

I guess, but the people making the toys aren't actually making the movie and the people who release the movie don't actually make money from Lego sales (unless they get a cut, and I tend to assume Lego pays a licensing fee, though I could be wrong about that), so it's all a little less sinister (or at least, more…