I'm getting really nervous that this is just irrevocably how he is now and we're never going to see anything resembling Original Coop again. Lynch is one of my favorite artists and I have a vast amount of patience and respect for him doing him, but I've got to draw a red line there.

I can't speak to the stats, but as far as one person's opinion goes, much of the immediate post-Palmer era is a veritable treasure trove of cringe - Little Nicky, the Great Pine Weasel Riot, Evelyn Marsh. "Just You and I" is silly and sappy and always makes me chuckle, but at least it comes from a place of (arguably…

Far more disturbing to me than the marginalized, misinformed rubes are soulless mercenaries like Conway, McEnany et al. who clearly know exactly what they're doing and what they are and have no compunction in aiding and abetting the disintegration of the Republic for a hefty payday. Hell, even white nationalist…

There is a crack in everything…

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If you hadn't displayed so much antagonism, I'd suspect you might be getting some sort of action from plugging this thing. Just checked it out and it's not unlistenable, but I can't imagine remembering anything about it ten minutes later, much less rushing to puff it up. At least the Macarena was catchy. Different…

By way of steering things back on topic, I'll just say you better let somebody love you (let somebody loooove you) before it's too late.

I waaaaant it in wriiiiiting

XO truly is a masterwork of arrangement, composition, instrumentation… he was just a virtuoso on all fronts. I do enjoy Basement's forays into roughness and dissonance, and the weird little touches (the spoken word bits spliced into "Coast to Coast," the accidental inclusion of "Ostriches and Chirping" - pretty sure…

Funny, I was listening to Waltz #2 right as I scrolled over this comment. Great picks in general, but that album is phenomenal. He knew how to put that big studio budget in service of the songs. Those harmonies, the plunging strings… damn.

By "it," do you mean the original run as well, or did you go into the revival cold? I'm curious because I know of several people who started watching this new series with no prior knowledge and somehow ended up loving it. I don't understand it, but I'm all for it!

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Surprised to see no mention of Paris, Texas (EDIT: oh, at least one person did). That's a film close to my heart, due in no small part to Shepard's beautiful script (narrative/emotional climax warning to the unfamiliar): https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Except premium cable has bestowed upon her a mouth worthy of The Mooch. I'm all in with this R-rated revival, but it's a little jarring to see characters I know and love from the ABC incarnation dropping F-bombs with aplomb (less dissonance when it comes to the new folks, especially in the out of town segments). Kind…

Are we still doing username/comment synergy?

Yeah, for the dyed in the wool cultists, I've had to come to terms with the realization that they delight in the perversity and there genuinely is no line. I was of the "we have to understand them!" mentality for a brief period following the election before I had to stop gazing into the abyss for the sake of my sanity.

Oh hell, they're serious about passing that thing? I was hoping it was just a death rattle. Fuck me…

Ben + Leslie were certainly more consistently lovable. Once the "will they or won't they" pining was out of the picture, Pam + Jim got insufferably smug pretty quick.

My condolences - been there! If it's any consolation, I've been quite hungover all day and wouldn't have been in great shape to read it anyhow. Thanks all the same for the time and effort.

Point taken about 1A (although - and this isn't directed at you - the right to spew bigoted vitriol seems like an odd hill to die on when it comes to free speech), but