The "green-screen everything" approach didn't help, either. Just performance-wise, the prequels were doomed before they started.

These are all very astute takes; one would hope p4k would take it as a sign to close up shop. At this point, are they any better than Rolling Stone's "five stars to legacy act albums, 3 stars to anything not boomer-approved, independent of quality"?

Didn't mean to imply that- just speaking generally. I certainly agree that mixing in particular can dramatically change an album. History is littered with artists who were furious with the mixing job done on their album, but control-freakness has its limits, too. Sounds like Grimes has figured that out, so more…

No crime in that BTW- mixing and mastering is its own art, and can be really fucking hard and time-intensive to do while still being on top of everything else.

Derf *did* tell his personal stories as a garbage man in graphical format- http://amzn.com/094315152X

Oh, Ray Wise. It should've gone better than this. It should've gone so much better.

Well, this is a surprisingly reasonable list, I definitely see where they're… GODDAMN YOU NATHIN RABIN! GODDAMN YOU TO HELL!!!

Bah! Don't compare me to a fabricator like O'Reilly- he *never* completed the Mysteries of the Unknown collection.

We got the entire series of Solar System books, and then we got the entire series of Mysteries of the Unknown books (at least in 1989… did they make more? Dear lord, did they make more???). Then in late 1989 we got a phone call from the Time Life marketing department, saying they wanted to send us the first few of…

Yeah, this song may be a warning sign if your partner chooses it for the wedding. The message is about a half a step from "You're okay, I guess. You'll do."

By the time this is all done Akira will be up to 6 movies, one for each volume of the manga, complete with the out of left field Japanese nationalist ending. Yup, that's how it's gonna be *takes giant hit off ravaged moon bong*

As a kid, I thought Paul Williams was Elton John, all because I saw Williams cover "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" on TV, and I never saw Elton John without his wig and giant glasses and peacock feathers (this was in the early 80s). This caused a lot more confusion then you'd think.

I came away from the article with the impression that EVH has severe undiagnosed autism. He is totally in his own universe.

Or, the cable companies will knock the channel selection down to the "big 17" and still charge $125/month. What are you gonna do? Stop watching cable? Huh? Huuuuh?

That ending really bummed me out (maaaan). I guess I saw the series as a battle between Dick Whitman and Don Draper. Dick was the human being, with a sibling, a family history, and a million weaknesses. Don Draper was the autotron ad man 2000 with fuckbot enhancement. It was the inhuman Don that drove Dick's…

Uuugh. I'd rather eat my own vomit, which conveniently I now have in front of me.

That's what I like to see, takin' them names off the board. Gotta keep that clearance rate up.

That is *almost* the plot of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Kind of depends on how you define "robot." And "space wizard" is as good a description of the enemies as anything.

A friend of mine is a professor and author; he's not too familiar with podcasting, but he finds it interesting and is thinking of starting his own. I told him that if he's serious about it, it's time to start talking shit about the post office and noting how hard it is to create a webpage.

I thought it was more arch than funny. Maybe a little ribald. More saucy, less sassy. You know the drill.