Considering they both sold more records in a week than most au courant indie bands sell in a year, (or ever) I'm pretty sure they're OK with being from '94.

I feel like this would be more of a Data East jam.

I dunno, Sufjan squared that circle pretty neatly.

Joan of Arc had their moments. They had a willingness to provoke that made them occasionally more interesting than play-it-safers like the Promise Ring.
And I really like that Miighty Flashlight record! Mike Fellows isn't dead!

Time to finally finish my Toejam and Earl spec script and send it to Seth Rogen!

I'm pretty sure I sold every JT record I ever owned except for Miighty Flashlight.

You should try this one — it's leaner and nastier than "The Seer," with a focus on groove over excess. On par with "Annihilator" and other mid-period gems at least.

He's got a real weird aura these days — sort of serene and joyful, even. Like he went through all his shit and came out the other side, and is now kicking it bodhisattva style.

"Last Days"! That was him, right?

i could drink a peach mar-tear-ni for hours!

"What'd you with the pigs?"
"Locked 'em up!"

It's dumb as nails, but ruthlessly efficient. And refreshingly free of irony. Herzog was just icing on the cake.

He'll have a sweet mouth-cane.

The source material is spotty and would make a crappy TV show. Fuller is true to the spirit and tone of Harris' world, and is inventing what he has to in order to make this a fresh and interesting story, instead of a boring retread of a mythos that's past its expiration date by at least a decade. Brett Ratner's "Red…

Respect for the source material and strict fidelity to it are not the same thing. At this late date, a dutiful adherence to the Harris novels (which, I would argue, get worse and worse as the author's dislike for the Hannibal Industry increased,) would result in a really crappy show.

Also! Jefferson Friedman is an ace composer who has written some really boss string quartets.
And Shudder to Think, while also taking names in the post-hardcore dept., also wrote some terrific through-the-looking-glass pop on the "First Love, Last Rites" soundtrack. So this record should be totally dope.

B.C. takes place in a post-Rapture apocalypse.

"What'd you do with the Dragon?"
"Locked 'em up."

Re: Jawbox and Shudder's move to the majors — I don't think history has been kind to the detractors. Though the bands didn't fare well commercially, the albums they respectively made are both far stranger and ultimately better than anything they could have done on Dischord. Shudder needed the budget to fully indulge…

There are so many songs about the singer looking at people and how he feels about them looking at him or not looking at him; "Invisible" "Ice of Boston" "Ellen and Ben."  All the metaphors about who the singer is "I am a time bomb, I am a spy who came in from the cold," etc.