For about six months, until Bo Burnham released What. at the end of 2013, Ragnarok was my favourite comedy special of all time. Hodgman is so incredible in that. The last 14 minutes, where he drops the act and just sings a song actually made me cry the first time I saw it. Other than What. I don't really feel as…

Music: I am bad at finding current music, so here is some not current music.
Daydream Nation (Deluxe Edition), by Sonic Youth - I'd never really listened to any Sonic Youth before, but I like Noise Rock, Avant-garde, and stuff like that, so when I saw that the deluxe version (20 extra tracks) was incredibly cheap on…

How the fuck can you people just leave out an entire syllable from a word.

On one of his live albums he does the first verse of it in the middle of Hallelujah.

A fundamentalist Christian moron/Fred Durst lookalike called Josh Feurstein is the one who started this. He made a video about how Starbucks is trying to take the Christ out of Christmas, then he "pranked" Starbucks by ordering a cup of coffee and saying that his name was "Merry Christmas", because he believes that…

I released my debut "stand-up" EP (recorded live in my room with no audience). I sent it to two of my favourite comedians (Dylan Brody and Emery Emery) and both of them had incredibly positive things to say about it. Dylan even said that one of my jokes was a "perfect one-liner". I'm always very self-conscious about…

Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
Tom Waits - Book of Moses
Regina Spektor - Blue Lips (live)
Garfunkel and Oates - I Would Never (Have Sex With You)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Teenage Lust (Acoustic Version)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Write Record Release Blues
Tom Waits - Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
The…

Oprah is a bad person who does bad things. I can think of few currently living people who have done so much to spread ignorance, superstition, and pseudoscience.

That sounds weird. I'm glad that the actual performances were good, though.

You lucky bastard.

The Zombies are so fucking good. There are so many good songs on that album. The surviving bandmembers did a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR a few years ago. They still sound amazing.

I'm definitely going to watch all of those things as soon as I can. I'd been meaning to watch some of his stuff for a while and 41st just showed up on Netflix.

Comedy:
I watched Stewart Lee's 41st Best Stand Up Ever. 1 hour and 20 minutes of pure genius. Definitely one of the best specials I've ever seen.

I watched Metropolis for a film class earlier this year. I really enjoyed, although I felt that most of the running in the third act could have been cut.

The Mountain Goats - No I Can't
Weird Al Yankovic - Bedrock Anthem
Gay Kiss - New March
Doug Stanhope - Incentive-Based Eugenics
Amanda Palmer - The Ship Song
Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory - Die Cut Laser Dance
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer - The Winter Gardens
The Lurkers - Freak Show
The Jesus and Mary Chain -…

What about Ayn Rand? She built a pretty successful career on hundreds of pages of straightforward lecturing.

Shellac - Crow

Maybe she could play Liz on the next season of Darkplace, since Madeline Wool is dead in the Eastern Bloc.

Public Image Ltd - Banging the Door
The White Stripes - You're Pretty Good Looking (for a Girl)
Minutemen - '99
Al-Namrood - Madabt Al Audhama
Minutemen - Cohesion
Ben Folds - Hiro's Song
Ramones - Swallow my Pride
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks - In A Coffee House
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Kokoko Me, Baby
The Vaselines -…

From what I heard, the second drummer is sick at the moment, so I missed that.