Comfort Eagle was one of the first CDs I ever bought, and indeed I often wonder if its influence is to blame for this pervasive theme in my otherwise fairly idiosyncratic musical taste. The Velvet Underground, Dire Straights, Talking Heads, Pavement, and Gorillaz are also favorites.

In all seriousness, speak-singing is my JAM.

Can’t believe no one’s quoted, “I asked you if you wanted eggs. You said, ‘I fucking hate eggs. That was fun.’ And then you made the Black Power fist and left” yet.

If this series ends with Rhonda getting a record deal on a rap label, I won’t be surprised.

David Fincher’s subsequent 2011 adaptation improved upon the 2009 original in almost every way

IME as a fellow female-identified Midwesterner, “softspoken white boy nonsense that literally nobody with any other identity could get away with” is definitely a thing. It’s closely related to the whole nerd entitlement shtick—i.e., presenting/embodying harmful/oppressive mainstream norms/beliefs in ostensibly…

Right. Because the best way to shame someone for actively participating in the continued marginalization of a historically oppressed demographic group is to point out that person’s membership in a different historically oppressed and marginalized group.

I dunno...the stakes just feel so much higher when what you’re disrupting is a political paradigm as opposed to an artistic one. (Not to dismiss the latter or suggest the two aren’t connected in very real ways...)

It would kind of tie in with the whole, “thinks he’s woke (see Ta-Nehisi Coates book in premiere), but conveniently oblivious to sexism when it suits him” storyline they’ve got going this season, although I doubt it’s anything that self-conscious...

Allow me to recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_Red

They can replace Denzel as far as I’m concerned, as long as they keep Don Cheadle as Mouse. But they’re both old.

If that’s what you’re into, just go watch Ravenous.

When reading the original article, my thoughts were somewhat along the same line as the author’s: “Focusing on the minority of people who formerly identified as trans and then de-transitioned, despite the fact that they make up a minority of patients by the article’s own admission, without contextualizing their…

The larger part of Araby (drolly indicated by a title card that comes more than 20 minutes into the movie) represents the text of his spiral-bound notebook, scribbled for some kind of creative writing class.

For the life of me I can’t tell if this and similar comments failed to recognize the (Jezebel) author was being facetious or if they’re responding in the same over-the-top spirit.

I don’t know what to say other than I’m sorry. I went though a similar thing last year and unfortunately I am still living with my dad since I haven’t been able to find full time work with benefits. My dog is the one thing keeping me (relatively) sane—I don’t know what I’d do with out her!

That’s my specialism.

This was also my experience (and reaction).

Honestly, I think AH’s reputation has been tarnished retroactively by the type of people who consider themselves her fans (see Rick and Morty, The Art of War, Fight Club, probably everything created since the inception of the Internet, etc.) For me, it’s less about whether or not I actually like Audrey Hephburn and…

I realize that this response is way late, but since it took me some serious sleuthing to find out what actually happened in this movie without seeing it (pretty much all the reviewers are being similarly cagey about the plot), here it is for all my fellow lurkers: http://culturecrypt.com/movie-reviews/hereditary-2018…