Boogie Nights isn't just the best movie of 97, it's the best movie of the 90s.

I'd disagree. He definitely takes his work seriously (and for good reason), but he's pretty lax about his persona. i.e. Anchorman 2 cameo, 'I Love Kanye', that crazy mouth spasm at the end of the Ultralight Beam SNL performance, etc.

FWWM is Lynch's best movie

As a musician, many, but as a songwriter, a couple at the most.

I have no interest in listening to a track that "is not meant to be a good song." Makes zero sense to me.

What disappoints me most is how generic it is. Even the Kendrick tracks I'm not that into (mostly off of GKMC) are at least somewhat ambitious or interesting, at the very least unique. Humble could have been written by almost any rapper on soundcloud, the lyrics are totally vapid and the beat is forgettable at best.…

Cool video, terrible song

It's clearly sarcasm…

Contemporary literature depresses me to no end.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is about as perfect a pop album as there's ever been. And as freaking amazing as this song is, it's not even in my top five favourite tracks on the record. It's one of those albums that feels like it was blessed by the art gods to be as good as it is.

I respect Donald Glover a lot, but I just don't get the love for Atlanta. I thought it was fine, competent enough but nothing special.

I actually liked Shrek Forever After a lot

I'd love that too, but I don't think Brion's hyper-melodic scores would work with PTA's style nowadays. Greenwood's moodier, tone-heavy stuff seems to better fit his newer, more cerebral approach to filmmaking. That being said, I would be interested to see PTA return to the warmer style of storytelling he used to do…

…I guess? I don't know. He is a white person who loves jazz and wants to run a club. Pretty innocuous to me. Most of the jazz players we see playing in the jazz sequences are black, John Legend (who's the real 'jazz saviour' of the movie) is black. And besides, why does race need to factor in? I get that minority…

Am I the only one who loved Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's voices in this movie?? Not because they're "grounded", but because they're good, lovely voices? I've always preferred sincere, sweet-sounding singers to the perfect-tone, powerhouse ones- give me Elliott Smith over Bono, Nico over Adele any day.

"[Gosling's] character is guilty of “mansplaining” jazz to Stone’s neophyte"

Midnight Special was steaming doo-doo.

They re-published John Williams' Stoner after like four decades of discontinuation, which I am eternally grateful for. I read it for the first time last year, and dammit if it's not my all-time favourite novel.

I had the opposite response to HIMYM, actually. The awfulness of the finale came as no surprise to me after the endless cringe of seasons 8 and 9.

That's funny, I had almost the opposite experience with it. First heartbreak I ever had (I was about 15), I spent the few months following listening to Pinkerton every day. It just had the perfect rawness, both lyrical and sonic, that I needed to hear at that time.