‘It’s like George Harrison going undercover and nobody recognizing him because he’s only the quiet Beatle.’

george harrison would make a fantastic secret agent. nobody would expect him to show up snooping around

being the right type of alcoholic can be charming and lucrative for a time, under the right circumstances. long term though? it always comes off the rails

‘It was an attempt, and maybe a doomed one, at making an anti-nostalgia Star Wars.’

the obvious issue is that part 2 of 3 (when you didn’t do part 1 and wont be doing part 3) is not the time to try and do that. its particularly odd since they had the stand alone star wars films sitting right there, ready to be handed…

‘Unless you were lucky enough to have cool parents who owned it on vinyl, it was very tough to actually get ahold of the record’

i’m just going off of what the article says, but it sounds like they would have been relatively hard pressed to find the thing, let alone play it in college. i’ve seen some wild stuff in a…

‘Just hearing the name Captain Beefheart likely triggers college memories of stoned friends rambling about how much Trout Mask Replica changed their lives’

i would not have guessed the staff and reader demographics for the AV club were people in their early to mid 70's

‘Your minor long winded grievance is annoying.’

i know its nitpicking. so what? i find it jarring when a show chooses an obscure location and then doesn’t try and actually make it seem like its taking place in that location. i had a similar issue with fringe, which was ostensibly taking place in all of the contemporary boston neighborhoods, sub and ex-burbs that i…

It seems like they someone saw the story about the whitesboro town seal controversy, spent a few minutes on wikipedia and then called it a day in terms of researching the setting and the people. the setting appears to be mohawk river valley... ish. the casino is maybe turning stone if you squint? but the really small…

i couldn’t get over the hump of it being set where i grew up, featuring people that are ostensibly the people i grew up with, but was clearly written by people who’d never been there and filmed thousands of miles away.

it was kind of like watching something where the sound is just a little bit off of the picture and…

also, they’re an invasive species that escaped from some rich weirdo’s farm. they only exist there because humans had killed off anything that might have tried to eat them already and people feed them during lean times

it makes sense, since those bands first albums just arrived in new zealand

so the author of cat person is the villian from a 1990's mid budget psychological thriller? Maybe the local authorities should swing by her place, just see if there’s been a bunch of gardening done or perhaps a new concrete floor underneath a shed or outbuilding. maybe bring a dog. maybe you happen to take a list of…

well, there doesn’t seem to be a ‘root for someone else’ option being presented and most (if not all) of the stories of rasputin (both good and bad) are at best highly exagerated by very biased sources and more often appear to be made up out of whole cloth.

for a great example of that look at the epic story of his…

so they want me to side against rasputin, a peasant guy who used his charisma and giant brass balls to get drunk and bone and offend his way through russian high society for several years and instead sympathize with a bunch of ww1 era british aristocrats, who are apparently taking a holiday from ruthless imperialism…

to be fair, they don’t pay the workers at home depot enough to go over to the people doing some sort of religious incantation in an aisle full of makeshit weapons and figure out if they are the ‘eh, just some harmless kids fucking around’ types or the ‘oh, these people are legit crazy and now they have a claw hammer…

i watched the first season and i felt like it very much couldn’t decide what it wanted to be- black comedy or mostly serious crime drama. And thus it swung wildly from one tone to the other, to the detriment of both.

‘Babylon will explore the rise and fall of prominent Hollywood figures during the movie industry’s transition from silent films to talkies’

stealth remake of singing in the rain

which is odd, because its about 20 minutes from downtown boston. there’s probably a target just behind one of those bushes

yeah, but you need something to go to court on. The US has extremely difficult to prove slander or libel laws. That is why Swift was able to become well known for writing songs going after all of her old boyfriends without any of them being able to sue her for libel or slander. dealing with someone with that history…

i can’t imagine why you might want that clause when you are dealing with a person who built a significant part of the rise of their musical career on the concept of bad mouthing their ex-partners.