I didn't love Act IV at first, but got hooked on "Snakeskin" after near constant radioplay. The rest of the album is growing on me.

Everyone's already said most of my favorite, so no point reiterating. Objectively, Sufjan Stevens is probably my number 1 as "Carrie and Lowel" is an instant classic. But I listened to Father John Misty way more ("I Love You Honeybear" is my favorite song of the year, if only for the line "Mascara, Blood, Ash, and…

I kind of wonder if he's not actually dead. The ending seemed too happy to be true.

Arca reminds me that the FKA Twigs EP should be up there too. Maybe EPs don't count.

Everyone finally realized that Tim Schaefer wasn't some brilliant genius who hasn't been able to make games because he's been kept down by the man for years. Instead, he's an idea man with absolutely no project management skills. Give him 30 million dollars and I still doubt Psychonauts 2 will come in on time and on…

It's a super expensive version of superdickery:

I disagree, but only because I love Kristen Schall so much I wouldn't want to see he shackled to a nightly hosting gig. As much as I like her, I don't think she ever fit on the daily show.

I like bacon on its own, but have always hated bacon flavoring or pieces of bacon in other things. Its flavor is too overpowering and I don't think it mixes well with salads or pasta.

Joan Baez, on the other hand, seems wonderful. I've seen both Baez and Dylan live within the past 5 years. The Baez show was way better than Dylan.

Watching the trailer for attack of the clones it' shocking to me how horrible the actors look in the backgrounds. By today's standards it looks like a bad youtube green screen video or a FMV adventure game from the 90s. It's not a mystery why the performances were so shit if you watch the making of documentaries. …

The hate was mostly just seemed to stem from the Zune's financial failure, which made it into a bit of a punch line. I never got the sense people bashing it ever actually used one. In terms of design and functionality, the Zune was equal to (if not better than) the Ipod ever was. It even had a feature where you…

Yeah, I have the newest model. The button is fine. The only thing that sucks about it is that the scroll wheel around the center button has an odd quirk where one click doesn't always translate to one movement on the screen. When you are scrolling quickly through your collection every dozen or so clicks it skips a…

Yeah, I didn't really get this one nor understand the appeal of the voting.

My Zune just died like 6 months ago. I had it for 8 years and loved it, but it had a mechanical 120 gig hard drive so its death was inevitable at some point. I still like to collect music for a bunch of reasons (I tend to forget albums I used to like if I don't have them sitting on a hard drive, no streaming…

I suspect the awesomeness of "To Pimp a Butterfly" is why Kanye hasn't released his new album yet (despite, by many accounts, the fact that it was mostly finished months ago). He probably got depressed that it didn't measure up and went back to the drawing board.

He's way past it. I still recall this Cracked article fondly, from back when Cracked was funny:

That girl looks so much like Emily Mortimer.

Yeah. I admire him as an artist and he was undeniably an important figure in the field of animation, but I've always found his films kind of dull. I had a different experience in that I heard about them as an adolescent, but didn't have access to most right away. So when I finally saw most of them (later in…

The McGarrigles/Wainwrights are just insanely talented. I don't think absent fathers have anything to do with it.

What does "inexplicably non-voiced by Kristin Chenoweth mean"? That's she's credited, but doesn't talk? That the role is voiced by someone else, but should have been Voiced by Chenoweth? That Chenoweth does the voice, but just uses her own voice rather than affecting a character voice?