I didn’t hate F&L precisely, but I was incredibly underwhelmed by it. Ironically considering the history of that project, I think it’s pretty similar to Watchmen in that it’s an adaption so slavish that it managed to bring almost nothing of value to the project.

...at least a decade past the moment where Gilliam shed the last iota of his critical or personal good-will. (And I say this as someone who’s probably seen Brazil north of a hundred times, with Time Bandits close behind.)

Oh for sure! I’ll totally be checking it out when it happens.

If you like hip-hop or R&B at all, you should really check out “The College Dropout”. He hadn’t turned into an omnipresent cultural annoyance yet, and whatever else you can say about the man he was an insanely talented producer and songwriter.

I dunno. I don’t think any of his later stuff is bad per se, and parts of Watch the Throne are semi-guilty pleasures (mostly the bits with Frank Ocean), but if I’m gonna spin a Kanye album because I’m in the mood for it, it’s pretty much guaranteed to be one of the first two. YMMV.

If we’re gonna do this, let’s do it all the way:

OK Dirty Computer Mindcrime of the End of the 21st Century Schizoid Man on the Moon would be the ultimate Radiohead/Prince/Janelle Monae/Queensryche/Ramones/Supertramp/King Crimson/R.E.M. mashup album.

Scrolling down to comment before I even read the interview:

To do this properly, you need to recruit a former business executive turned homeless gourmet chef, and prepare it by sneaking into someone else’s kitchen while avoiding a security guard.

I dunno. Of the three of them only Cobain self-destructed, and that seemed to largely be because of them he was the one with the least desire to actually be famous. I always got the impression that he’d’ve been happier being a moderately-popular local act.

Has there ever been an artist with a more worrying ratio of “drive to become world famous” versus “ability to cope with being world famous” than Kanye? (Okay, Michael Jackson, but in his case the drive was mostly his abusive dad’s and he was world-famous well before he actually arrived as an artist.)

The dirty secret of these heavily hyped ensemble sagas is that they’re usually pretty underwhelming

Or Philly. I know she’s never really been a touring musician but this seems like a pretty short tour — I hope they’ll be adding more dates later.

We have, to be clear, exactly zero idea what his wishes were w/r/t his unreleased material. If he’d wanted to ensure that it never saw the light of day, he had two options:

Oh cool, didn’t realize he was involved in that. It’s based on a Neil Gaiman story, so it’ll either be extremely good or unbearably twee.

A combination of the magic of capitalism, law enforcement priorities (legal risk is assessed by weight, not potency, so if you’re moving freight you want the highest-test stuff that can be divided into sub-felony lots as quickly as possible) and good old fashioned american ingenuity has led to strains of pot that are,…

Oh! I’m never going to see this movie, but thank you for resolving a mystery for me: I’d been browsing Fandango recently and had been wondering why the 2000 Steven Soderbergh movie based on the 1989 UK Channel 4 miniseries was suddenly getting a re-release.

Youtube monetization was a dreadful mistake. Shut the whole thing down and let pinheads like this go back to entertaining an audience of one.

Lee’s stunt double Chad Stahelski.

It’s a pity that Hedwig remains pretty much the peak of JCM’s career. I’m an apologist for Shortbus, but pretty obviously it’s a film that treasures its own niche audience. And since then... apparently he’s on something called “Mozart in the Jungle” that’s been going on for four years and I’ve literally never heard of…