Oh it's definitely on the parents! I'm sure there are tons of pre-emptive strategies parents have for monitoring kids' viewing…I'm speaking with the benefit if 20 years of hindsight.

Great piece!
Cartman was the "funny one," and kids want to be the funny one at their school, not the socially-aware one or sensitive one. Trey and Matt love acting like Stan and Kyle are the center of the show, but all the kids were coming to school repeating what they heard Cartman say. As a teacher, I can't tell you…

Trump may be a stretch, but I'm with on his overrated artistic merit. Santa Sangre is a truly good movie, Holy Mountain has some great visuals (and some super-70s ugly ones as well), and El Topo is just boring nonsense. He can't seem to pair trippy images with a coherent story, which I think would be way more…

I'm skeptical of the story too, but it's pretty bad that he's bragging/lying about a rape to show what a gonzo artiste he fancies himself to be.

I would like for Shane Carruth to meet up with a billionaire benefactor as well.

I've liked the Dougie stuff way more than I thought I would, but I can't see how fans of the show aren't disappointed that Kyle MacLauchlan has essentially been recast as a nonverbal clown.

It's amazing how the passage of time and the nature of an artist's core fan base alters the course of their legacy. This introspective, mature letter was wriiten while doing time for sexual assault, and we are able to compartmentalize the man's complicated nature. A member queer punk band gets accused of a sexual…

I think a lot of people also don't like the idea that they have to "play along." In the abstract, they are okay with that person, way over there, calling himself or herself whatever they please. But when they themselves have to adjust and say "he" instead of "she" or learn a new term entirely, they feel super put-out…

Rainman is at least somewhat based on a real person, Kim Peek. The mannerisms in the movie aren't a dead-on Peek impression or anything, but I find it odd for a person to watch Hofman's performance and say, "That's not TRUE autism!"

A punk band formed in 1977 that never really matured beyond that…that's 40 fucking years ago! Think of the era in which they formed as a band… this is the equivalent of a man getting on stage in the 70s and spouting out social mores and quips from the 1930's. Times change, old man, and this behavior makes you look…

That's a great way to look at it. The mystery of the cursed film shoot was just getting good when it went off the rails a little too hard and for too long.

I'm with you! For people who wanted Lynch to do at least one more film, this is a fantasy situation.
I think what may be getting me hung up is the editing. Lynch seems to earnest a dude to be an outright "troll," but front-loading the series with basically 2 hours of surrealism, then introducing an interesting mystery…

It's also odd to me that people are raving about this series when it seems very much a follow-up to Inland Empire, which from what I understood was universally seen as a disappointment. Is Inland Empire getting the re-eval that FWWM eventually got? IE had some cool ideas and images but dragged on forever into pure…

I'm digging this show as the new epic film project of David Lynch, but it's not feeling like Twin Peaks to me. TP evoked a very specific feeling of the mystery of the Pacific Northwest wildnerness. Vaguely Native American imagery, and an evil that Harry Truman said lives "in the woods" that the Bookhouse Boys have…

Plenty have, but do they all HAVE TO? Is diversity of viewpoint a requirement of being an artist? If so, in any and all media? And will the artist get called out for cultural appropriation if they include, say, African or African-Anerican music and musicians into their works (as people have done to Sting and Paul…

Laura Dern is definitely that in Jurassic Park. If you're not bound by whatever the definition if "lead" is, I'd say she seems to be on equal footing with Sam Neil's character.

Too emo?? I never thought I'd hear that as a criticism. Fire up their album Loose Jewels on Spotify. It's pure punk/hard rock. (Is it off-topic to get into this here? Sorry!)

I agree with this. I think he's following the basic template of Sam Harris but doesn't have the skill has a speaker to make it sound convincing. Even Sam trips up on this front sometimes, but he attacks Islam with excerpts from the text that sound much less ad hominim than Maher's speechifying.

This isn't ehat I'm saying at all. I know Bill Maher as basically a guy I agree with on a fair amount of stuff, and who gives airtime to people like Cornell West, but is "friends" with Ann Coulter. I am open to the fact that ge's made racist jokes, I just hadn't heard enough to see a pattern. I'm totally open to.…

True, Islam is a set of beliefs, though, which is open to criticism in a way that ethnicity isn't. His statements do probably line up with America's redneck uncle population in a lot of ways.