you mean kind of like Mr. Bergstrom's reappearance? Don't give Al Jean any ideas.

eh, I liked the final scene in Red State, but it felt so tonally out of place and like a sort of half-assed way of bringing the movie to a close. I also figured John Goodman would be great (and he usually is even in other mediocre projects), but it just didn't work.

Fair enough, though I guess I would say that while the first season isn't as good as later ones, I don't think It's that much worse.

really? I've rewatched season 1 recently and it was stronger than I remember it being. I mean, I've liked it since the beginning, but I recall being wary of it at first; now I'm not really sure why I thought that way.
I mean, season one had Anus Art Crawl…

eh? You seem to have missed out on them finally releasing a new album last year and Kevin's been talking about a follow-up for years even before that album was released.

both the Jefre cantu-Ledesma and Viet Cong albums have already leaked and are quite good.

Low's never made a bad album, but The Invisible Way was kind of dull. I'm still otherwise hopeful for the new album.

… but by the admission of the show's current supporters, the show still has good gags, which implies that is has good individual moments rather than full episodes. So what this says to me is that the quality of the earlier seasons is what's keeping people at all interested in the show, much more than people are saying…

I keep hearing about how Simpsons still has good gags…. but do they still have good episodes? Every now and then yeah, but I'm finding it really hard to believe people are defending a show that only has a few good episodes per season plus a few individual gags here and there. No way is that the quality of even a…

"Defenders of the show have been trotting out the "it still has some good gags" line for quite a while… but when DIRECTLY contrasted to the show's golden era, that argument crumbles pretty damn fast."

I think I would've preferred last season of Parks and Recs to be its last; it certainly played like they were expecting it to be the final season.

oddly enough, this is the first ASMZ album where the vocals don't completely put me off. I still don't quite care for them, but the rough vocals fit the rough music fairly well.

well, they kind of are among some indie circles. Though the recent hype probably has more to do with recent releases that are otherwise on par with their best work.

Alcest's earlier stuff was, or at least Black Metal evenly tempered with Shoegaze. Probably the only band to really mix the two competently.

Seeds is one I was expecting to be disappointed with, but I came away listening to it even less than expected. It starts off good, but once Happy Idiot comes on, it takes a huge dive in quality and just ends up sounding like a half-assed version of TVOTR. It gets better towards the end with the more guitar-heavy…

as a review, the Lateralus review is completely terrible since I get no kind of information as to what the album is about or sounds like.

mines:

judging by the photo: Chris Martin Starr

it's not bad, but it is the very definition of inessential. It plays like a Greatest Hits of sort where moments illicit a reaction of "Hey, that sounds like Run Like Hell" or "Hey, that sounds like One of These Days", etc., but filtered through the lens of being outtakes from an album that was itself completely…

as appropriate as that Jesus and Mary Chain song would be (well, ignoring the sexual implications), I'd really rather not reinforce the idea that the 7th best song on Psychocandy is the band's only song.