Having seen Thomas off-screen and considering he’s the Ultimate Attention Seeking Theater Nerd, I don’t know if it’s possible for him to NOT be funny. 

I don’t think that a climactic battle being set during an appropriately dramatic time (night/middle of a storm) is a surefire indication that they have a lack of confidence in the CGI—especially since the scripting and shooting precede the CGI by a whole lot.

Can you expand on that?

It goes without saying, but The Americans finished strong and cemented itself as the best show of the 2010s, bar none. And that finale? My god, the garage, the train, the call to Henry, the long dread of that final drive—absolute perfection.

You’re doing yourself a major disservice by not finishing the Americans. I’ve never seen a show that so accurately reflects how people weigh options, make decisions, and are forced to reconcile with those very human, very understandable decisions. It’s been a while since I watched the first season, but at that point…

I wasn’t responding to his list, I was responding to his comment that zines are the last bastion of reputable opinion re: ‘authentic’ punk music. 

Not what I said—more that I remember when one took their caring more about things as a sign of immediate and objective superiority and then felt the need to rub that in everyone’s faces.

Ah yes I remember when I was young and spent all my time thinking about 7” my local Midwest basement punks put out. All conversation was hyperbole and intense tunnel vision, where the record the friends of the zine put out that almost no one had heard was “the best powerviolence album of this year, maybe of all time!”…

Probably more alt/indie rock at this point. Jeff is a basement DIY a dude but that doesn’t automatically make him punk.

Yeah I really miss the several months back in 1977 when punk wasn’t a genre observed, respected, and defined by commercial publications.

I loved Brutalism, but the new Idles record is borderline insufferable.

If by personable well-informed man of science you mean “asshole on the internet who belittles and denigrates people who either have limited understandings OR understand things through different lenses (eg a modern philosophical perspective that actively deals with ontological issues and the explicit and troubling limit…

I’m gonna be real; regardless of this situation, you can do better than NDT as your personal hero. 

Damn, what? Suspiria was easily Yorke’s best ever solo work and the song-songs are among some of his best non-Radiohead work. The more soundtrack-y cuts were otherworldly and frightening and repurposed Yorke’s gift for dour moods to great ends. What was there to dislike?

Play it some more and it will become like meditation. Nothing brings me peace like gliding through DS3 for the sixth time. 

Saw the Suspiria remake last night. I understand where a lot of the criticism comes from (at one point, the film almost literally grabs you by the collar and shakes you while shouting “LOOK AT ALL THE LACAN WE’VE READ”) but I absolutely loved it. The artsy impulses worked very well in establishing a different kind of…

Because a remixed version of a show isn’t some burden or obligation put on you. Saying it killed the show for you is like saying you decided not to talk to someone anymore because you thought it was rude they invited you to an event you didn’t want to go to.

We have a lot of those, why would we want more? 

Damn, this is really a bad take top to bottom. 

If you’re looking for Kid A era experimentation, this soundtrack is a good place to start. It’s very songy (there’s probably a solid 40 minutes of traditional songwriting here) and it’s often very desolate and alienating like the best moments of that particular record.