Try listening to early Kanye West, specifically All Falls Down: "We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom / We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need em/ Things we buy to cover up what's inside / Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth / That's why shortys hollering "where the…

The best parts of the album are towards the middle - Somewhereinamerica, Heaven, Part II (On the Run).

Have you even listened to the beat on "Heaven"? You'd call that a pop/rap hybrid? It's harder than most anything mainstream or underground for the past  couple of decades.

Magna Carta Holy Grail >>>>> Yeezus. I don't care what kind of dumb narrative you come up with to justify it, the beats on Magna Carta Holy Grail and the songs built on top of them are better than most anything on Kanye's occasional enjoyable experiment for experiment's sake. Magna Carta Holy Grail is actually nearly…

Mel Gibson was 34 when he played Hamlet. Hardly middle-aged.

Kozintsev's take on King Lear is remarkably similar to what Peter Brook did with it, though even bleaker and more grim if I'm remembering correctly. Of course it's in Russian, so there's that. Kozintsev's Hamlet is really excellent, definitely check that one out.

It's pretty, sure, but I found it kind of empty and unsatisfying as a story. I seem to be in the minority on that one though.

I would put this in the middle of pack of the Powell/Pressburger movies I've seen, not quite as transcendently excellent as The Red Shoes or even I Know Where I'm Going, but much more interesting than the weirdly inert Black Narcissus. It's also not as good as Peeping Tom, though Pressburger wasn't involved in that so…

What is this, Entertainment Weekly?

There are three essential people in comedy right: Louis CK, Tim Heidecker, and Hannibal Buress.

"I engage seriously with every aspect of my life," <—-Pretentious

I almost want to get one of those infernal smartphone-type devices just so I can download this app.

When I watched the first episode of House of Cards, it certainly seemed to me to be something for someone to be embarrassed about. The writer of show, mainly, since the script was so fucking bad. The whole show felt like a stupid person's idea of what a sophisticated HBO show is supposed to be like. There were so many…

Didn't Angles come out in 2011?

For me, this will always be a Ron Howard joint.

Phish unquestionably spends too much time bathing in noodle soup. But it's an exaggeration to say they can't write a good song. They have written several good songs. In that sense, they're no different than a lot of middling to slightly above average jazz musicians. The difference is that they have a much larger…

What you need to know…is that it's magic!

I was once like you. Then I grew a brain, a dick, and a heart.

TL DR Bobcat Balls

Because we're all young adults at heart.