Yeah, it’s not purely down to generation. Yi is just slightly older than I am, and there are two things I would never do:

He doesn’t. He has said something to the effect that, sure it’s crap, but that crap paid for my house.

The Leftovers was bullshit. I hated that show. I got the same feeling watching that show as I do when I’m around people who are way too drunk, trying (and failing) to articulate some life-altering something that they can’t really remember what it is but if they just keep yammering maybe it’ll come to them, but it…

In a perfect world, Lindelof would get the first draft of any project he’s tapped to work on. Then it would be handed off to have at least half the twists, story arcs, dream sequences, and quasi-spiritual horseshit pruned away.

I’m a defender of Ricky Gervais, but there’s no defending his stand-up. Fucking awful.

It’s not even really recent anymore (2006?), but “We Shall Overcome: The Pete Seeger Sessions” for me was one of those out-of-nowhere albums that I immediately fell in love with.

I’m at a loss to understand how Wonderful Christmastime is “unfairly maligned.” It is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. It’s one of the worst CHRISTMAS songs I’ve ever heard. Unless, by “unfairly maligned,” they mean the amount of hatred it deserves is beyond the powers of mortal men.

I’m suffering from all of it.

I hope it’s soon, honestly. In the past, my attitude has been that these movies just aren’t made for me, but people enjoy them and that’s fine. There are other movies.

It might not currently be a thing, but it is inevitable. At one point, people would have been just as incredulous about subprime mortgage fatigue, or tech stock fatigue, or Dutch tulip fatigue.

No, the gist is, “All those tourists come here anyway, and as long as they’re here, figure ‘What the hell, Buckingham Palace isn’t that far out of the way.’”

Well said. On a note, one of the strongest emotional reactions I’ve gotten from a book is Slaughterhouse Five, in which the characters do not have free will, and are merely (though sympathetically) observed, like an ant farm.

I’d add DiCaprio to that list. Probably for the same reason as Cruise—he’s good to very good, has his pick of projects and generally takes good ones, but they’re not actors so much as they are movie stars. They’re SO famous, the only times I really lose consciousness of who they are is when they’re playing closest to…

This is similar to charges levied against Kubrick and Hitchcock as well, that they’re visual stylists more than anything, that they lack human feeling, that their characters are just game pieces to be moved around carefully controlled environments.

I view that as pretty much inevitable. 10 years, tops.

Here you go, this should help cheer you up!

“Identifying a Body” is objectively one of the weaker episodes of the show, but Brendon & McGuirk’s road trip to the morgue is a series highlight for me.

If you want some lemonade you gotta start manipulatin’.

I disagree. The kids (and McGuirk) are allowed to grow up a little, you start to see the little cracks of how people grow apart. Class differences will pull Jason away from Melissa and Brendon; intelligence and drive will pull Melissa away from Brendon and Jason; general slacker tendencies will keep Brendon from…