God I hate this meme, but you nailed it.

Yeah, Dig Your Own Hole is where it's at for me, and also the next album (Surrender?) with Star Guitar, Let Forever Be, etc. Chemical Brothers are such a great gateway to more beat-heavy music.

Yeah both this and Crooklyn are pretty good. Though in all fairness, his greater known works like Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X are also great. I think it was right at the end of the 90s where his creative genius more or less dried up, unfortunately though.

This might be one of my favorite Lee films, though he had a good streak in the 90s, so there are serious competitors.

Well on paper, Pay it Forward should have been oscar bait for him. So I'm not sure if it was just a string of bad luck for him, or if he didn't read the scripts well enough before accepting.

Sonic games were all about the visuals and music to me. The gameplay was either mindless (gotta go fast woo) or tedious (fuck you, underwater section!)

YES! I played this and the first one pretty extensively back then. They were pretty much the PC gamer's equivalent of Myst for awhile (except with a sense of humor)

See: almost every other great work of literature.

Agreed… I don't really care what Scott's grand vision was (frankly, he's a pretty hit or miss director). The Director's Cut is the definitive version to me, and the movie is so good it actually transcends whatever he was trying to do on an artistic level (for example, I'm pretty sure a lot of the "tears in rain"…

Can confirm! I've actually just started reading Quixote now, though, and it's fucking marvelous.

Welcome to Hollywood.

Pictures in motion across a screen, accompanied by sound! A real treat!

Yeah I've always seen Empire Records as a movie about people who like the idea of music more than music itself. And by extension, fans of the movie as well.

Great point… the internet seems to be the perfect environment for cultivating hyperbole. Which is fine when the conversation is relegated to something like Twitter that is easy to ignore. But when it seeps out into the real world, it starts to make productive discourse a lot harder.

Well yeah because in Hannibal all the death and dismemberment is tastefully done.

God just reading that final panel, divorced of everything that preceded it, made me tear up at work and run to find a tissue box. God damn it.

I actually find Roose fairly likable for how terrible a person he is. He's the kind of bad guy you love to hate, unlike Ramsay who you just hate.

The thing is, even if you took all the the Beatles biggest hits and burned them in a fire, you could just go back and make a 2nd greatest hits better than almost any other band's output. And a 3rd and a 4th etc. Some of these deeper greatest hits are even more rewarding.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but I absolutely adore every granny music song Paul did with the Beatles. Favorite is probably Honey Pie.

Hold Me Tight is definitely one of my favorites from their first two albums. Really, most of those tracks are completely solid, but their appeal isn't very deep.