Please continue posting. I know people are too intimidated to respond to your narrative, but you are a terrific voice.

I'll give it a shot, I liked his performance on Colbert.

The only cat that deserved a lucrative career was the cat with two faces! David Lynch could have used it in a movie and it would have become as iconic as the ear! But no, we just had to let two face cat die.

I'd gladly do that, since my mother guilted me into watching this with her because it had been so long since we "shared a show together," because I grew up and my tastes became idiosyncratic. So I have to watch this show with emotional black mail and with a person who thinks this is the best piece of television she's…

Biggest part of why her character mattered so very little. The actor had zero chemistry with Daryl, and I'd argue none of the actors particularly work well with one another, and her side-story killed the momentum of what could have been a good season of the Walking Dead. Something that will probably never happen,…

"Shake it Off" is much the same way, Americans just gravitate towards emotionally simplistic sentiments.

The show could still swing back around to the PFT levels, but unless the actual guest is willing to put some real effort into the concept it's going to keep falling flat. There are plenty of great comedians that could tackle the concept well, but for some reason Lapkus hasn't gotten around to them yet.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is a great confection of an album. I don't know how they lost all of their buzz so quickly, but they are really the modern equivalent to Prefab Sprout. They make sickly pop songs that are healing as opposed to causing you to feel queasy.

NPR's list has a lot of Latin music on it, which I found rather interesting. There used to be more music from Sweden and Iceland getting coverage but that scene boomed and fizzled out quickly. Of course there's still the world of electronic Korean and Japanese pop music (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu), but other than that most…

Books: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice so they can get a full movie & novel experience, and maybe convert them to become followers of the Pynchon word jazz.
Still far behind on my contemporary lit consumption, but I'm sure the new Murakami and John Darnielle's debut novel are worth investigating.
Music: Grouper's Ruins.…

Off-topic: Did anyone see this week's episode of the Eric Andre Show? Probably the best of the year, and the first truly inventive episode of an enjoyable, but not exactly progressive third season.
It's shameful that the show is ignored and barely promoted, Andre & Buress are doing something truly special that is an…

Coming around to think that Boyhood was not as miraculous as I thought it was walking out of the theater.
The mother's story arc just really bums me out, her character just ends up through one abusive relationship after another, while the mystical dead-beat dad turns into a redneck yuppie. Then again I guess there is…

Animal Collective, because waiting for Merriweather Post Pavilion to leak on the Internet was one of the only times I have felt truly excited about an album.

Rap has only been popular for a relatively short time, but the artists seem to age out of the spotlight rapidly. Most other forms of popular music is still kind to middle aged men, but the rap game seems to be exclusively for the young.

As much as I like Parks & Rec, I am more excited for all the potential CBB episodes. Amy Pohler, Adam Scott, Nick Offerman, Retta and surprisingly Jim O'Hair all have made great contributions to Earwolf podcasts.

I like the concept of an older artist being paired off with younger artists. R.E.M.'s last tour involved The National & Modest Mouse, but both of those bands are relatively close to one another age-wise.
Robert Smtih & Alice Glass
Kate Bush & pretty much any art modern arty pop musician, I think she's had the biggest…

Fuck drugs and booze (except for pot). They take all of the best artists away from us, and the ones they decide to keep around have to be the most insufferable artists imaginable. We live in a world where Bret Easton Ellis walks among us, while David Foster Wallace is dead.
Artistic people tend to abuse substances,…

Push The Sky Away is probably my favorite record Nick Cave has ever released.

But can Swift play Joni Mitchell's black face jazz-man persona?

That Simpsons marathon was an ironic death knell for the series. Prior to the marathon I had always known that the show plummeted in quality, but I think I was sort of in denial about how jarring that plunge was (because I am only 21). That marathon was the TV marathon equivalent of that classic time-lapsed footage of…