Lynch addressed this in some interview. He said it makes him happy to cast people with disabilities/infirmities, because it brings everyone together and is a wonderful feeling (not a quote but he used some of those words). The Farrelly Brothers seem to have a similar approach and have faced some criticism for it too.

I'm actually a Snyder fan (I don't like all his movies, but he's a talented visual artist and most current comic book movie directors aren't), but I'd say the main problem with his Watchmen, which I do think is an odd and interesting movie, is that while it is a pretty faithful translation, what stands out about the…

Will maybe be paid off. $5000 at most. Hollywood is evil.

Fuck "the narrative." Fire Walk With Me is a trip to hell. I only wish it starred a real teenager to feel more like the darkest teen film ever, but you can't recast Laura Palmer, I suppose. Rob Zombie basically remade it with Halloween 2, but I still think he got the teen element wrong.

Blinking lights are a Lynch trope. I just took it as a director in-joke that it was now happening with a flashlight.

She annoys me slightly less than she used to when otherwise smart people thought she was good. Actually, compared to a lot of pop stars over the past couple years, she now seems like a wizened veteran. But yeah, her material has seemed opportunistic/disingenuous since "I Kissed a Girl."

People keep saying a big part of the appeal of this band is their stance on social issues. But reading these statements, they sound like social and moral idiots, completely concerned with how ideology makes them LOOK, to the point that they're willing to hand rope to their hangmen.

Yeah, this is insane. First of all (from earlier in the statement) "the power of call-out culture"?? What, did Ben pledge allegiance to call-out culture or something? It has its problems.

A lot of it is just how the music makes you feel. Like I agree with those who said Nirvana had a unique sound, but it wasn't something I really felt the need to walk around with in my head, while so many Soundgarden songs sounded like they were blasting open the universe. Every member of that band was so talented.

It's pretty shocking. On one hand, there is A LOT of suicide imagery in Cornell's lyrics, but I always took it as just an artist extrapolating/being highly empathetic. Especially in his later years, he gave the illusion of really being content.

Higher Truth is an incredible album that almost nobody listened to. It takes a few listens to settle in, and maybe no one has that patience with music these days.

Down on the Upside is a masterpiece (adventurous, weird as hell, with a winding structure), and pretty much every rock album has disappointed me since, because I'm always like, "Why can't you be more like this?"

Exactly. Blue Velvet has less material trying to be shocking, but is a far more disturbing movie because it's honest.

I like Dune. More than Wild at Heart. Shrug.

I think it's Lynch's worst movie, because it's the one time it feels like he's consciously trying to make "A David Lynch Film," and top his grotesquerie. It feels affected, and his other stuff doesn't.

It doesn't make any sense why anyone would want to do this. "Just summarize the first two chapters of this book, because I only feel like reading chapter three."

From my view (as someone above the nerd fray, but still with nerd interests), this is mostly accurate. Nerds don't see themselves as having any social power, and for the most part, they don't have any. So the constant griping about the toxicity of nerd-culture (like it amounts to a substantial threat) just comes…

Wow. I thought the second book was kind of weak, but the first and third were really solid. My worry is that (reading his new one Borne), Vandermeer MAY have peaked just prior to the mainstream discovering him with Southern Reach.

This specific tribalistic era began the day the "Blurred Lines" video came out.

I had the same response to it. "Was this being sold as a kids' book?"