I think the contempt is in some cases triggered by imagined pain, but in others (such as mine) triggered by the question of why he did it in the first place. Let's say nobody got hurt—okay. Jimmy Page didn't know that she wouldn't get hurt, and the likelihood that should would have is very high. And why was this a…

It's possible that she grew up okay and he still did something wrong and disgusting.

I could not handle that—both shows rip me apart. But they're so good!!

oh my god…

I think of Titus as Shakespeare's "vulgar auterist" play, and I think it has a lot going on, just not the stuff that's going on in the rest of his plays. In particular, it edits bodies according to the rules of language, but then looks at the gruesome results when bodies are treated as such.

I think it fits the source material without commenting on or expanding it in any significant way. I definitely admire a lot of aspects of it—mostly as a design showcase—but I think it falters as an actual adaptation. Too geared toward its own transgressions w/r/t to the stuffy Shakespeare canon, not geared enough to…

The world needs a really good Titus adaptation and Taymor's…really isn't it.

trying to decide my fave between "(spoiler: nothing)" and updating Robert Christgau's best line, "Another thing that interests me about the Eagles is that I hate them."

Weird, I had the opposite reaction, I thought it stumbled once it switched to color and had something resembling a narrative. Been a while though.

Wow, I didn't know about that, that's frustrating.

Really excited for this, less because I know anything about the Quay Brothers than that Jan Svankmajer is great and this review is great.

How's McGuigan's wallpaper game holding up?

I do too, and as I recall it's better than a lot of the hate it gets . . . it's also been years.

I don't care if you hate him or not, I'm just pointing out a thing that happened and that it didn't affect people's willingness to work with Bowie.

I had read that line aloud to my friend. A+

Honestly, I go with MTm-presenting right now. I'm only out to my family and close friends, and only present not as m when I'm sure no one from work will see me. I doesn't feel right to make binary claims yet.

I'm down with everything you just said and sorry I was so prickly. I get prickly.

I had the pleasure of re-stumbling upon his review of "The Other Woman" last night. He's an absolute keeper.

I mean I thought Curry was pretty hot in RHPS, but he also wasn't everyone's cup of sexual tea. But he's a popular character, is what I meant, and not traditionally attractive in anyway. Honestly, at this point, I might just be objecting to The Danish Girl for being beholden to conventions of middlebrow taste…

I think my response might be your avatar.