Gotta chime in again with love for IDAHO. It's like a book-long murder ballad. Lyrical and beautiful, even when it's describing the truly ugly.

Yeah right with you on the self-righteous bit. THE POWER OF THE DOG and THE CARTEL are so relentlessly unsentimental; I think Winslow perhaps drank the Flavor Aid after hanging with NYPD for too long.

It's pretty great and apparently Mamet is doing the screenplay? However, I do have some minor qualms with the book never really putting the pedal to the floor on Malone's transgressions. There is always an excuse of some sort for everything he does to assuage his level of badness. Just make him bad; we can handle it!…

It takes a lot for a book to make me literally laugh out loud, beyond just an inward chuckle. PRIESTDADDY by Patricia Lockwood not only hit that spot for me many times, but also has passages so quietly profound that I considered getting one tattooed on my person. It's good, y'all.

That is an inspired choice. Not that it matters too much, but I think Ignatius was supposed to be around 30? His mom is so integral that making him older could get hairy when casting her I suppose.

There can only be one Ignatius on screen…you guessed it: the dude who played Roy Biggins on WINGS. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm…

Just here to upvote all the Zevon posts.

Zevon for sure and I'll throw in one that may sound strange to most: Robert Palmer. Go back to his earlier albums and tell me that would not have been a party. Hell, Zevon/Palmer double bill. If you survived the amount of vodka and cocaine from osmosis alone, you'd have an all-timer.

Ugh. Just watch DISORDER; it fucking owns. Yeah, I said it.

I'd like to think it has the BRAZIL ending, but I don't think Spielberg has the balls. I want to rewatch MINORITY and just turn it off after they put Cruise in storage and see how that works.

I prefer THE DEPARTED since it really leans into the ludicrousness of the dramas and becomes some sort of batshit opera. However, the police chief/whatsit death is WAY better in INFERNAL AFFAIRS than Martin Sheen's fall. INFERNAL affairs really shocks the hell out of you with that one, but DEPARTED telegraphs it from…

The hell is this shit? Take a quaint, locked-room mystery and make it look like some Marvel pile of excess? COOL!

True. I think we've been spoiled by PEAK TV to reject the old sitcom template of everything reverting back to the same place by minute 22. Silicon is obviously better than the average sitcom fare, but should advance somewhere soon to avoid a rut. Just make them successful and also the quasi villains for the next up…

I understand this sentiment, but still love the show. It's hard to believe but if you think about it, it took took Walt and Jesse forever to break even, even if they were "Breaking Bad." There were lots of resets that were actually entertaining and not just spinning wheels.

YES on "Rattled by the Rush." Ditto Malkmus's "Out of Reaches."

I may be wrong, but Petty looks legit pissed for once in his life; the solo is indeed sublime but I think Prince was stepping on some toes…which just makes it all the more fun.

Marc Ribot on "Jockey Full of Bourbon." Absolutely

Jumpers is just unreal. Sounds like a full-on panic attack.

Which solo? Lmao

Circa 2:40 here, but you need to listen all the way up for that build, man. https://www.youtube.com/wat…