i dunno what it says about my expectations that this looked super-plausible at a glance

LOL "JUST-OKAY THE WOODS" LOL

i really want to read those, but i can tell you WITHOUT reading them that they should shove the martian right off this list.

i love some of murakami's stuff, but his recent string of duds has put me off him for life. this new one couldn't get twenty pages w/o lovingly describing two of two female characters' tits, and i know there's more of his old-dude-peering-through-sorority-window-with-hand-in-pants approach to sex scenes in store.

i despised the constant glib narration, and the awful stuff on earth - scientists talking to each other like three-year-olds, just every dusty cliche about dialogue rolled into one - is not much better. plus, for a book set on mars, there is approximately ZERO scene-setting. everything is just a stream of THIS BROKE.…

i'm surprised to find myself agreeing w/ dowd over d'angelo, but here we are. i'm still marvelling at kent's razor-sharp technique.

so good!

debussy's clair de lune from 'the evil within' is a recent slice of perfection — evokes that sweet typewriter room salve from REmake.

at this point, anyone. just throw the thing on the ground.

dario, honey…just pass off the torch. it's ok to retire.

i was actually just wondering how their fourth record was coming along. also, headline is correct: seen a few like "alice glass leaves crystal castles" … can you really "leave" a two-piece. can you.

i would like one of these supercuts to delve into WHY any of these directors do the thing they're doing? like, give me something to chew on beyond "i can recognize visual patterns!"

seriously…nothing "queasy" at all about pitchfork's Content Strategy. but the U2 album - that's where they're drawing the line!!!

"as it breaks he grabs his nuts"

woof. this was super-messy and truncated, but i'm intrigued. could've stretched out a bit and spread it over two hours, but i'll call it "necessary setup" - optimism!

"I could use a worse word."

hey…you guys wanna smoke on some weed?

ANGEL OF DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEATH

i. . . didn't write it? i mean i linked it, but that's hardly something to crow about

crucial context: http://4thletter.net/2014/0…