20-year break is misleading, unless people just mean "20 year break from directing an American film." During that time he wrote many screenplays, scripts, and adaptations, as well as reportedly doing a lot of shooting for what was basically his life project (what would eventually be Tree of Life).

Both films were somewhat autobiographical. Tree of Life extremely so (of his childhood), and To the Wonder being less so (of his romantic history, meeting his second wife in Paris, later involvement with a woman he went to high school with).

Not sure how either of those things could be true. He studied philosophy, not film, and his father and brothers were classically trained musicians.

I imagine he's been under some pressure to appear more professional since Vice News blew up.

It was a really dark and surprising album. I mean, it still had some light-hearted moments like "Smooth Sailing," but for much of the album the devil-may-care attitude was gone. I liked it a lot, actually.

Well, and the Herman Cain one, but that didn't go over so well…

I think it just bothers people because it emphasizes that the vast majority of our dialogue 'choices' now are just deciding on the tone of our reactive commentary.

There are reportedly several quite good fan edits of the trilogy, the shortest of which clocks in at around two and a half hours.

Imagine the police attempting a rescue operation with people OTHER than the actual murderers firing weapons from every direction in a crowded concert hall.

Hmmm. I thought I had read that the song was about the distance that had come between them (they were not just friends, but former lovers), and that she found out the news of his death on the day she was recording the studio vocals for the track, not writing the lyrics.

I want his bat party to begin with "How it feels to chew 5 Gum."

How can that be the case? Unless you're talking about the comic instead of the show, or using 'same place' to describe locations that are states apart.

How can Juliette Binoche's character's boyfriend have taken photographs of atrocities in Kosovo when Noam Chomsky and Michael Parenti assure us there weren't any? No one told me this was science fiction! (/s)

Some have enjoyed a second life (Queen, mostly), but the majority of bands that specialized in that kind of music now just play state fairs and cruise ships (i.e., they know their target demographic is no longer under 40).

The only good thing to ever come out of RHCP was Cliff Martinez, and he got the fuck out after like two albums.

Power ballads and arena rock are no longer rock at all—they now seem to be the exclusive domain of modern mainstream country.

With the help of the Sparrow King, no doubt.

One of my favorites as well. The only other one from the era I love as much is My Man Godfrey.

I liked this a lot.

We pathologize religious violence (and rightfully so), but hand-wave and normalize political and strategic violence to let ourselves off the hook. In the US, within the lifetime of anyone over 50, political leaders were able to gain public approval while preaching a doctrine of nuclear brinkmanship and mutual nuclear…