"I'd Rather Be Sailing" is already a standard. For a period in the 2000s it was on basically every "Broadway person does an album" album there was. Even Debbie Gibson covered it.

I really like "The Light Princess." The most impressive thing about it is how seriously Amos took the task of writing a musical. Whatever you think of the show, she actually tried to write a musical rather than just a bunch of pop songs. When most pop musicians decide to write a musical they just write a bunch of…

I haven't gotten around to listening to Hamilton yet (I will at some point). I'm primed for backlash, though, given that I hated "In the Heights." It was a lot of pretty good music attached to a terrible sitcom plot.

There's a really good stop motion short version of "A Junkies Christmas" that IFC used to show every Christmas in the 90s. Narrated by Burroughs:

Not really. Prince shits out an album like 4 times a year and they are rarely worth listening to.

I just saw "Pirates of the Caribbean" flicking through the channels, and holy shit is that an aggressively ugly film. There is an entire period in the 2000s post digital color correction where movies all look like they were projected through a filter of piss.

I'd say a young Roger Ebert.

Yeah, this one was an event, but I didn't laugh at it as much as I did previous episodes.

Corey did consent to playing along and kissing some girl he doesn't know, though. I don't blame him as I don't know what the TV crew told him that we didn't see, but I'm not sure that's something that's entirely on the up and up.

Really creepy, though. Like, I imagine it must have fucked Corey's life up when the episode aired and found out he's a fraud. Why isn't anyone talking about the ethical implications? The girl ended up kissing Corey under completely false pretenses, which is kind of gross. If I was her I'd instantly dump Corey…

I've heard interviews with Nathan. He's not at all social awkward and seems oblivious to some of the more ethically queasy stuff his show does.

I loathe pretty much all the characters on this show. So much that I can't watch it anymore as I just hated them all more and more as season 1 progressed. It's just an orgy of awfulness. I'm not one that has to like characters for a show to be interesting, but the characters on this show are an especially shrill…

I think he started out great, but has gotten way too self-indulgent with his dialog.

Yeah, I really liked it too. It did something completely different and I wish it would have been more rewarded for it.

She gets really small roles in things. I last saw her in "Getting On."

The bigger worry is Liza Minelli. She's not getting any younger and the last season ended with a cliffhanger that heavily involved her. I know Walter is older, but Minelli just seems more fragile.

I liked it. Apart from just being funny, I thought the narration specualting on Hanzee's motivation (the early one that speculates on the moment he turned on the Gerharts and shows him as a kid) was necessary. After last week, I thought it was kind of random that a loyal character would just go off the grid and…

If the writers put the whole flying saucer thread into this season just for the pay off of Peggy non-chalantly delivering the line, "It's just a flying saucer, Ed. We gotta go" I think they would be justified.

My comments dropped drastically after the shift to Disqus and they've definitely dropped in quality. I spend way less time writing them now as it's kind of pointless when they will all disappear into the ether in 10 minutes. I imagine commenting overall increased as Disqus brings people from outside, but it also…

I downloaded the Mountain Goats' entire catalog ages ago, but finally got around to listening to it this year. It's a daunting task, but I think I'm making good headway. Started with "All Hail West Texas" and am working my way forward.