Soderbergh: "What Cliff likes to do occasionally is play the music against the image."

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This is too convoluted for me not to love.

One of the following assumptions is correct:

I may not have made it obvious enough that my last sentence was a joke (this is the network that gave us The Sopranos, after all).

That matches my experience with Shutter Island beat for beat.

Specifically, #wrong

That's more or less how Andy Greenwald at Grantland characterized it, although I interpreted it more as a desire to get the project on air rather than wait for HBO proper.

From one random internet stranger to another: Good stuff. I do the same thing every year (although I generally don't share the doc until year's end).

She is extremely badass, live and on record. Somewhere Else is not getting enough attention.

I really loved the I Break Horses LP, actually. Doesn't hurt that they were great when I saw them live.

"As a matter of fact, the latter is indicative of what makes this show
work for me even when it's slow; it's able to provide really great
images that stick in the memory."

I had the same itch the other day. As far as I can tell it never received a physical release. I couldn't find any way to buy it digitally either.

O Lucky Man! definitely shouldn't work, but I prefer it to If…. by miles. O Lucky Man!, for all its insane and equally absurd touches, gets that feeling of early-mid twenties drifting against a broader social backdrop very, very right. I could see any number of reasonable critiques levied against it (particularly…

Looking forward to this one. I've really enjoyed individual tracks from their first two albums ("Red Rocking Chair" in particular has stuck with me).

Something is definitely off in their methodology. I have trouble believing that The Field is less well-known and/or has lower uptake than The Haxan Cloak. Anecdotal, sure, but in reasonably music-centric circles I often hear people express fondness for The Field…I have never heard a human being mention The Haxan…

Yeah, her chops are pretty apparent live. I'd argue they are on the last two records as well if you listen closely, just a bit more veiled without the visual feedback of "oh shit, she's playing ALL of those parts without overdubs."

Yeah, go see her. I'm going to fewer and fewer live shows the last few years (after averaging 2-3 a week from 15-22) because people are fucking annoying, so I get the reluctance. She's worth making an exception.

Just to establish my own tolerance for bad television with an interesting hook, I also watched Persons Unknown in its entirety. I only got through The After because someone (Sepinwall?) suggested an escalating intensity. Turns out the entire thing is dependent on a set of characters I find pretty hard to watch as…

They're right. It's not worth watching.