Still, if it's true, it lessens my loathing of the film somewhat. The movie is so surrealistically visual though, maybe that's all I could pay attention to. Any nuance was lost on me.

Amen. They have written good songs. A close friend once told me (years ago) scorn Phish-heads but spare Phish.

I'm guessing because he thinks the Dead are the original jam band (which they might be). Further guessing: this makes them cool in his opinion because they did it first, even though he hates the genre. Even further guessing: he thinks that the interviewer will appreciate his appreciating their original…

Lot of hippies and granolas were into them when I was in college in Bozeman, Montana and Bellingham, WA. I was one of them. The frat guys were into them too though. Everyone I knew back then was. Still think they made a couple great albums.

So are you saying that the film is actually exploring the idea of "history is written by the victors"/our popular understanding of the Battle of Thermopylae? That it actually knows what its saying is heavily laced with bullshit and is trying to convey that? And that I missed it? I only saw the movie once, long ago.…

I remember a lot of people liked 300. I really couldn't get away from that opinion. But I hated the frenetic, crowded cartoonishness of it all. Like a Soviet War Era propaganda poster brought to life through pure CGI.

Man. I haven't listened to DMB in years but in my opinion: Under the Table, Remember Two Things and Crash were great, great and really good respectively. Everyone (it seemed) liked DMB in college because they made highly fun and funky, sometimes beautiful and original music (it was totally original to my young…

I mean, it's almost like they made really good music or something!

That's the first time I've ever heard DMB's entire works rattled off. Like, it's something only a true fan could probably do. Don't worry, this is a safe space. I haven't listened to DMB in years but still remember Under the Table and Remember Two Things as wonderfully original and creative albums. Crash was good…

"The manufacturing sector is decimated. Conservatives don't care because this is capitalism. Progressives don't care because this is progress."

In regards to a more progressive tax structure (at least a significantly more progressive one), what Democratic candidate besides Sanders has offered that since the 1980s? And the Dems are only superficially supportive of Unions; that is, they support their right to exist with one hand while decimating their…

That's right. Feudal is a great label for Batman's political/civil philosophy. I can see Ponsonby Britt's point though too. Batman IS the fantasy of many a libertarian who feels that society has failed in protecting them from crime and corruption. BUT, Batman himself is not really libertarian. He doesn't believe…

The Dead played West High too. Way back before my time. Must be the most hallowed High School auditorium in the country. There was nowhere else to play in Anchorage back in the day.

I just had to get it on man, I just had to! (Flicks back long greasy hair before head is smashed into table).

I had a hard time understanding him, but I have had a hard time understanding a couple of southerners before. So I bought it. Not that I know the South for shit though. Really what I bought was his facially telegraphed desperation and self interest. I have been around some socially anxious good ol' boys that…

Because all those things were magic. And magic has no rules. Surviving a nuclear blast by hiding out in a fridge goes against what we (think) we know about science. Maybe the aversion to the fridge/nuclear blast isn't logical, but good stories don't depend upon that. The nuclear element just didn't feel right. Felt…

But still, part of me wants a fifth. I think that's because Indiana is just a (great, super-awesome) re-tread of the "Boys Own" adventure serials that way predate my life. Timeless. But time for another person to take up the whip. Someone with lots of easy, solid charisma and just a teensy bit of irony baked into…

I really like the idea of Colin Farrell as Indiana. I think he would kill it. Like you said, he has the perfect ability to be serious, yet somehow relay that he's not taking it at all seriously. This is usually a fault in dramas, but not in this one. He's great in the right comedy though.

To be fair, DiCaprio's performance in the Revenant wasn't exactly engrossing. But, I don't blame him for that necessarily - his character wasn't developed at all. He was just a guy trying to survive, period. We never learned who he was, just that his wife had been killed and her village destroyed. So we have this…

Truth. It's one of my favorite short-ish stories. And you are right; it's greatness has next to nothing to do with fly fishing. "The river was made from the world's great flood, cutting through rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. And under the rocks are words and some…