Replica might be my favorite XX song, actually. Love the way the bass drops into every instrumental break (and then again with Oliver singing towards the end)

I didn't get into Interpol until after their hiatus following s/t, but if someone never listened to an Interpol song again after that album I would understand.

I'd say "All I Need" and "Weird Fishes" are too!

I now have the urge to listen to Mouth Moods again

WHAT SHOULD WIN IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE THOSE TWO FILMS DON'T EXIST AND NEITHER DOES MANCHESTER BY THE SEA: Arrival

Meh, needs more burps.

Definitely not a hoopy frood.

Wait, these are pretty solid picks!

Crazy how Darnielle has hundreds and hundreds of songs but hasn't ever written an outright bad one.

He's a pretty competent interviewer (the Laura Jane Grace interview was surprisingly thoughtful)

I finally saw it for the first time a few weeks ago and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Cuomo didn't even include one of Billy's good songs, like Summer Highland Falls or something.

Wait, which ones??

"I'm Talib Kweli

"I'm not losing my audience! Am I losing it?" *crowd cheers*
Seems like that's the most underrated moment of this clip.

Sorry - what I meant by that was that it's been criticized (haven't seen it myself) for not paying tribute to jazz's roots in black culture. So if he directed a Hamilton movie, I imagine there would be quite the uproar.
It's especially bizarre given that Chazelle was relatively careful to be respectful of black culture…

Slightly off topic, but Lindsay Ellis did a brilliant video essay a little while ago about the Rent movie and why it failed miserably, and I strongly suggest looking it up (the cast is only a small part)

Ryan Coogler's a good idea, and he did say around a year ago that he's interested!
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Sincerely? L. Cohen.

But the magic of the movie is that it moves so quickly that you don’t find yourself wondering any of that stuff until at least, say, the sixth viewing.