This is news? "A band played well on TV"??

Also the comparison to a wife taking her husband's last name is incredibly stupid.

It's really just a story of cat-and-mouse played by two horny people at a dance club. It's a culture alien to most AV Clubbers, but that interaction of women playing hard-to-get, both parties advancing and rebuffing each other, has been part of romantic conquest for centuries. Non-consensual sex isn't implied at all…

I actually think my bigger problem isn't about their comedy, but the fact that they're so maudlin.

I want to like the Muppets, but they just aren't funny. Sesame Street is clever, but the actual Muppets "intentionally lame vaudeville gags" routine turns out to be just regular lame.

He has an excellent essay about God creating the housefly. It starts off kinda folksy, as in "ain't houseflies annoyin'? What was the man upstairs thinkin'?!"…then over the course of 2 pages morphs into one of the darkest arguments against theism you're likely to read.

I say good if this means the movie doesn't happen. The Mike Epps casting is absolutely awful.

I agree to some extent; it bugs me when biopics become a showcase for an impression. Ray kind of set the standard that a great performance must include looking and sounding exactly like the subject. In stage productions, much more leeway us given and switching up races and genders is seen as an artistic choice, but…

And isn't Eppes still attached to a biopic of Pryor?? That casting is quite possibly worse than this film's.

"Potatoes are what we eat!"

My parents took my brother and I to rent movies and get pizza every Friday night in the 80s. Moron Movies was a frequent choice for us and when the internet was invented, one of the first things I looked for were people who had heard of it. Nice to finally meet you!

You're totally right…I think I'm talking more about docs on Jazz in general, Ken Burns style. They always talk about Mr Cool and show him in conservative suits, but rarely say, "Holy cow did he go bonkers after that!"

Johnny Deeper: Origins

I'm really bummed that this didn't just focus on the "lost years." What I hate about every Miles Davis book, doc, etc. is the extreme focus on the "Cool" era…I'm way more into his music and story from his later career when critics didn't like him and both his life and the performances were complete chaos.

I'm inclined to agree with him on horns in rock stance, but in DMB the horn guy(s) are actually in the band right? What I don't like is when a bare-bones rock band uses guest horns or even worse strings as the main thrust of the song.

This is correct: they found vintage photographic prints that featured nude children, which were considered artistic curios and not pornography. I beleive there was also some books of fine-art photography that boldly pushed the bounds of good taste, but were not illegal and found to have artistic merit.

On his solo albums other people play the instruments!

Here's a question I often wonder about: people frequently want to say there's no intrinsic masculinity or femininity, but doesn't that contradict what trans people say about feeling wrong or unfit for their body? If you are born a boy but feel/know that you're a girl, must feeling "like a girl" come from somewhere?

This man is one of my musical heroes, sonI feel it's my job to point out that this really isn't the first time he's been in a studio with his own material. He was credited as the sole songwriter on the vast majority of Heavy Vegetable albums, and on every Thing album. He's also self-recorded 5-6 solo releases, so the…

He's an incredible visual and tattoo artist as well. I'm a big fan of his tattoos, but never really delved into Lungfish.