That looks awesome! I hope it plays in the U.S. I was thinking before I even saw the name of the film at the end that it looked a bit like a reverse perspective on The French Connection.

I was noting similarities to John Malkovich. I think it's the hair.

That's good by me. Most Notorious Gangster to ever come outta Southy?

Yeah, 'cause they never make gangster films in other countries.

"The most notorious gangster in U.S. History?" Let's not get crazy here. Still. Nice to see there's a person under all that Johnny Depp make-up.

Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney said recently in one of many many interviews I've seen that she identifies S-K's signature sound as Power. She particularly liked the remastered versions of the earlier records that went onto "Stand Together" because she felt that they were able to infuse even more of that strength into…

Is there some documentation of this we can look at?

My understanding is that the records carried by bands to the show have been purchased at wholesale price and if they are marked up to their normal consumer price, then the band gets to keep every cent between the two prices. (Maybe they have to pay the guy at the merch table? I'm not sure. Half the time, I see the…

I like that summary of the problem.

Dude, I don't have to see it. I'm not arguing if the quality of the performance would have improved with more or less blipping. But I am saying that leaning on the silence button is not "censorship" And that putting your tunes in a position where they have to be silenced at all is a sort of artistic compromise that…

I appreciate that Tidal claims to pay the highest royalty for a play of any streaming service. What just looks bad, is how Jay-Z, Jack White and others have put themselves into an ownership class with Tidal's distribution so that they get a percentage of every play as well and that the door to this ownership class was…

See, I dunno about the dictionary definition. And I'm not in a position to argue exactly what happened with the silence button in this performance. I didn't see it, but it sounds like whoever's finger on the button was sloppy and maybe over-careful (but then this is ABC. That one time they let a nipple slip by onto…

I was thinking more along the lines of not writing the lyrics chock full of expletives in the first place, or choosing a different song. Lots of artists record "radio edits" of their music and don't call that censorship too. Ultimately, I basically agree that West shouldn't be forced to do anything to his music that…

There might be an argument here that somebody just did a bad job on the blip button, but that's not censorship, that's just sloppy quality control of the blip button. Besides, I know it's an old-fashioned idea, but if you don't want your words to be blipped out, why not try language that can be aired on a major…

I think they may be trying too hard to avoid the appearance of spandex. But I thought they had the coloring pretty right on. I'm gonna have to reserve judgement on the new suit til we get to see him move in it a bit more. We didn't get a very clean look at it in that one fight and it needs to let Matt have every bit…

I think the first season had to have a definite villain in order to succeed. Maybe someone other than the Kingpin? I dunno. I like so much if what they did with him. A superhero isn't complete without a proper villain. But I agree very much that the end of the series felt rushed. There were a lot of balls in the air…

Re: lack of diversity in the story. I just don't think that's a key issue for the storytellers at this point of the season. I think they are reducing the extraneous strands of the first season to leave a concentrate of the players who matter the most: and those players were always going to be Matt Murdock, his close…

Maan, I went to festivals when I was in the demographic for them and they were still more endurance tests than anything else.

Hmm… I kinda agree with Morrissey's p.o.v. about having to crowdsource a record. There's not a lot of bands that I think I could support like that. And I think crowdsourcing would get old fast it it became in any way widespread.

Yah, I remember it the way you describe, with the hints of doubt. I liked the adaptation because they externalized all of that. It's maybe plainer with less subtext, but it hits all the same beats. Instead of hesitating and changing his mind about the mode of execution. He gets to pause that moment when Slynt finally…