Minstrel is a pretty boss album, though.

Probably my favorite thing I've ever read about Mars Volta lyrics was in Something Awful's review of Francis the Mute in which the author writes, "I think I just heard him say the words 'handjob' and 'sarcophagus.' So I’ll give him some credit for giving me the mental image of a guy in a pith helmet jerking off a…

Pretty much all prog rock ever. ELP's "Karn Evil 9: Third Impression" comes to mind immediately.

Outlander certainly isn't the first show to receive a seemingly left-field comparison to Downton Abbey.

That movie rules.

"We'll never stop / We'll never quit / 'Cause we're Metallica!"

I always got the impression that he preferred the term "laser sword" because it has that Flash Gordon-y sound, but that he felt the movie itself needed a more "dignified" name for the thing.

Huh. It seems kind of tame when compared to the likes of Hannibal or The Walking Dead.

I'll upvote that even though I love Clara.

I just took that as him wanting to do something to spite RATM because he hates their song, not any explicit reference to Paul Ryan.

"Hold Me Thrill Me…" should have been a Bond theme.

I'm talking purely about the combat system, not the encounter design. Design-wise, there's a lot about that game that should have been better. (For instance, they could have bothered not using the same dungeons over and over again.) But looking just at the way the combat plays, I think it's much faster and intuitive…

Almost. It's too bad the last act turned into a generic slasher movie.

You forgot the TING TING TING TING TING TING TING TING that comes in.

I get that it was "lighthearted banter," but c'mon, Purefoy, you're on The Following for fuck's sake! You don't have the right to be judgey about Game of Thrones.

I've only read the first book so far, and I'm kind of on the fence. I thought it was good, but at the same time, I wasn't entirely on board with Erickson's method of pretty much saying, "Here's this incredibly complicated fantasy world about which I'm just going to write as if you already know the ins and outs. Have…

Dragon Age II combat > Dragon Age: Origins combat.

One of the things I always loved about Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell's harmonizing is the way that it was often difficult to tell which one of them was singing the main melody, and it could sometimes switch from one bar to the next. I suppose that might be inherent to the fact that the harmony was in fourths instead…

I remember season five pretty well because I consider it to be far and away the best of the series. It was the only time I felt the writers had actually sat down and planned out the entire thing before they started shooting.

Quick bit of pedantry, Tony didn't die in the season five opening; it was David Palmer who was the other person to be assassinated. Tony was seemingly killed by Peter Weller towards the end of the season.