Everything but the choruses sounds the same in “Creep” and “The Air I Breathe.” The first verses are nearly identical (vocals, guitar, and drums). Those two songs are much more similar to each other than this and “Creep.”

Bingo. This comment gets everything right. 40% is generous.

Excellent movie, especially the second and third acts. It just does so much well. But I was flabbergasted by how tedious and soporific the first act was, and why no one in the editing dept said, “All right, that’s enough of this. Let’s get to the action. It’s a movie, after all.” If they reduce that first act from 45…

Good lord, nothing gets the A.V. Club revved up like a fucking Wye Oak album.

“The foreword is by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, because of course it is.”
—Clayton Purdom, Dec. 22nd

“If you were wondering “is the foreword written by Joe Arpiao,” well of course it is.”
—The Warax, Dec. 20th

This is the best movie of the year.

Patrick’s response to this is so sensational, disingenuous, and engineered as clickbait, it makes me doubt this letter is even real.

Don’t know what prude means, do ya?

“...when they inevitably realize this Nazi shit isn’t going to get them laid either.” Bing-fucking-go. Nailed ’em dead to rights in a subordinate clause. 

Oil is not the biggest industry in the world (#4). The food and alcohol industries tower over it, and in some years, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and insurance beat it too.

Excellently put. There is a great deal of nuance in this case, that no one (not me, not Katie Rife) knows.

“Basically, it sounds like he considered himself untouchable, and is very annoyed to be facing consequences for his actions.”

No, it doesn’t sound like this at all, as can be seen by the quotes attributed to him directly above this disingenuous dismissal.

The worst thing to happen to Eminem was enjambment. Even more than the dogmatic structure of forced pathos that defines every song he releases now (angry, “cathartic” scream-rap about making it, offset by an angelic chorus to the same effect)—even more than that, somewhere about three or four albums ago he decided to…

Noun. devoration (countable and uncountable, plural devorations) (OBSOLETE, PRETENTIOUS) The act of devouring.

I have read both the original texts (it was a long convalescence), and suffice to say, the authors are as different as can be. Neil Strauss is a thoughtful, considerate discoverer who is as baffled at his entry into the pick-up artist world as the potential reader is, and his book serves as a fish-out-of-water memoir…

Well eulogized, Will’m.

a *harking back. To harken is to listen or give close attention to. There is no such phrase as “harken back.”

Meaning, if he wanted the non-business-end strike to have any impact at all, he would’ve had to hold the bat BY the business end.

Did anyone else find this episode just plain hard to see? It was shot so durn dark! I turned up the brightness on the teevee but it was still barely visible.