A few additional disappointments: Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Cloverfield Paradox, Fahrenheit 451, and A Wrinkle in Time.

There are a number of scenes from Sorry to Bother You that come to mind, particularly the ending-- but I think Tessa Thompson’s art gallery performance sticks with me the most.

I bolted upright out of my seat in the theater.

It’s a tie for me: Janelle Monae and Brandi Carlile both gave gorgeous, life-affirming shows this year supporting their newest albums.

I would very much like to hear any unfinished SDRE material. Grohl rerecording Goldsmith’s parts for TCATS without telling him is definitely shitty, although I always felt the uneven tempos on Diary hurt the record overall, and I think TCATS is an incredibly tight record with Grohl on drums and guitar.

Some of my favorite books this year include Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists, about the lives of four siblings who learn their exact (and varied) death dates as children; Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation, a YA historical fiction novel where a zombie uprising interrupts the Civil War and African-American girls are…

I remember taking my band to a Chick-Fil-A in 2004 while we were on tour in South Carolina; I hadn’t been to one in a couple years, and I liked the food enough to drag three other people there.

“Dinner Party”, the season 4 episode that is maybe the series’ pinnacle for cringe comedy, is one of my favorites, maybe because it’s all of these people genuinely being horrible to each other as the veneer of passive-aggressiveness dissolves completely over the course of a few hours at Michael and Jan’s condo.

I liked Octopath Traveler because every one of its battles feels fresh. Despite the clockwork nature of the game’s main quests — Honest Game Trailers wasn’t lying when they said you travel to a town, watch some cut scenes, visit a labyrinth, defeat a boss, and repeat up to 32 times — I was always primed for the next…

Most of the record stores I go to still sell new CDs -- I like Newbury Comics in Boston and Waterloo in Austin.  Also, I have an $80 Audio-Technica turntable with RCA and USB outputs and it suits me just fine.

Saw them in Boston last month; they played 50+ songs, including a bunch of tunes from these upcoming releases.

Uncle Bob loves to futz with his album plans. Zeppelin Over China seems to be sticking to its February release date; Warp and Woof was originally planned for fall 2019, months after the 7" EPs came out, but is now bumped up to April; and Street Party has been rechristened as Rise of the Ants and has been bumped up…

Didn’t Winslet say she would never work with Cameron again after her experience on Titanic?  And wasn’t it specifically because of the shit he put her through filming in water?

I still, to this day, get this song stuck in my head unbidden.

The Wii VC was the best experience, I thought. Tons of content, updated frequently, non-Nintendo systems too. $5-10 for a game I once paid $30-80 for didn’t seem so bad, either.

Obviously it’s time for a crossover series! In season 2/6 of Silicon Barry, our favorite hitman leaves LA to do regional theater in San Francisco, but finds himself tempted when Gavin Belson offers him a starring role in Hooli: The Movie in exchange for taking out Jeff Bezos.

This whole story sort of reminds me of the European tour that Anvil embarks on at the beginning of their documentary.

That’s not too crazy— I’ve seen bands at the 100-200 capacity level do routes like NYC -> Philly -> Boston -> DC, etc. Mostly has to do with what nights are available in what cities and how much time you’re willing to backtrack to fill a tour schedule. Of course, those are bands with actual fans...

So do we think this means Toy Story 4 will be released exclusively to Disney+, or co-released with theaters, etc.?  Certainly sounds like it will be less of an event than the previous 3 (which, given its tales of development hell, might be fitting).

In 2002, a delayed flight from Boston to Salt Lake City left me with a scant four minutes to get to my connection to San Diego. Not only did they hold the plane for me, but a concierge for the airline grabbed my carry-on and ran along with me to the next gate. It’s my only SLC airport experience, but it was a good one.