Seconding the recommendation for Boy Harsher.  I can thank a random YouTube playlist for turning me on to their last album, Yr Body is Nothing, which is about as sultry as coldwave gets.

I’ve never felt a disappointment as crushing as when I excitedly googled “HomestarVR.”

Word. There are a lot of amazing doom bands that probably don’t go well with weed, and thus shouldn’t be in this particular pantheon. I count Bell Witch among them. Fuckin amazing, but sound literally doomed, and not fun, getting-blazed-with-Satan-and-building-a-new-society-in-space doomed.

Sweet christ, the album is so good. By the time I logged in to Third Man, the site issues had apparently been sorted out, too, because I was able to buy it smoothly.

I watched that on Shudder or something a few weeks ago, for the first time in 20 years, and it was awesome.

Unpopular opinion time: Redemption had some really great elements, but had a lot of crap moments, too. That first ride into Mexico is pure magic, and something I’d never seen in a game before. But holy shit, the acting was atrocious. Like GTAIII bad. If this new one is GTAV good, though, I’m in.

So, can I just rock on back to imported articles and shit firsties everywhere? In the interest of not being totally useless, though, I’ll offer an opinion: Synecdoche, NY really needs to start being considered in the top five of movies ever.

Actually, that’s a pretty hilarious first listicle. I appreciate the meta joke.

Rad. Now I just have to stop hating the layout.

Testing it again.

Damnation. My old-ass AV club account wouldn’t let me change the password, so I’d been using my Disqus account. Now I’m stuck in approval hell.

Sup, all y’all.

Still here, it seems.

Those are exquisite, I must say.

I don't know whatever happened to ZMF, but are we expecting him to pick back up on Kinja?

Peace out, guys. Been into AV Club since it was paper. Gonna try to hold on in Kinja land.

"Yep, no bigs."

For what it's worth, I disagree that Tyler is dumb. Made some dumb decisions, to be sure, shit for education no doubt, but I think he'd be smart enough to keep his mouth shut about the mystery gold. But that would suppose that he'd be doing shit like scrounging literal scraps and garbage off of John's property as…

I'm damned near 40, and the Super Mario Bros. theme has been running through my head since I was eight. I feel like there was a long lull a few years back where it almost died out, but now it's back and better (worse) than ever. Sometimes the TV show lyrics get going in there for added annoyance and amusement, too.

What is this crap? I don't need another Plucky Kid and Grumpy Man reluctantly teaming up to save the world. This looks like Jupiter Ascending, except that it smacks of writers' room groupthink (which I guess Jupiter Ascending could have used more of).