or if Will Forte names fake blues musicians for what seems like a full hour that i never wanted to end

definitely. even just after the first episode i think it totally takes off. i think maybe it played it too straight in the first episode, because in the very next one Dazzle is leaving the police department to go do some Hearts of Darkness shit in the desert for a year and that's basically where the absurdity level…

i'm not gonna judge this before watching it, but this getting two seasons before even airing and Moonbeam City getting cancelled after only one really stings

i've got no problem with the change in direction, i just feel like they just do it so much weaker than other bands in the same genre. their recent shit sounds so overproduced to me, that new song sounds like it was recorded at Katy Perry's studio or something. it's got no OOMPH. when you've got visceral, filthy…

oh yeah, they're excellent. i even like more than the first few, i like most of it. didn't think much of that new song though, and they've been in decline for a while now i think.

yeah that's her, i think she was basically an extra in all the episodes of the show, uncredited. john witherspoon too, who i believe can be seen in some cheetah-print overalls with no shirt in the clip

you joke, but…

just posting cause it's the rare story where my username is relevant. well, like half relevant. it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Basil Rathbone at first glance

he's the sole credited writer and director of the pilot, so far. i think it's "created by" him also. maybe showrunner, that ever-popular vague designation

very true. with the right touch, a good director & editor can pull off a musical choice that under different circumstances would seem like total hackwork. Linklater does it well and i mentioned Boogie Nights as being guilty of obvious choices a little but i think it pulls off those choices as well, i.e. the Sister…

i think you're on to something. maybe also the opening chords of Turn, Turn, Turn or All Along The Watchtower (the famous Jimi Hendrix song, written by Jimi Hendrix)

yeah, that's great, that's the way to do it. give it the right vibe without being thuddingly obvious. PTA is good at that. Boogie Nights is guilty of it a little maybe, but even then they redeem themselves by digging out some weirdly perfect unexpected cuts like The Touch

you're almost certainly right. i just gotta knock those fatcat music supervisors down a peg once in a while

hahaha. i know i'll see Suicide Squad eventually but i'm not looking forward to it. my favorite (to hate) usage of Sympathy For The Devil is in Flight when affable cocaine dealer John Goodman Scorsese-walks into the picture

"our film is set between 1967 and 1970 so i guess the only question is: White Rabbit or For What It's Worth?"

he pulled the biggest F Is For Fake-style con on all of us and disappeared long enough to come back and indulge in what was his true passion all along… scandinavian garage rock

i dunno, seems pretty spot on

i got a Public Enemy notification for this?!

this guy is an auditory dead ringer for the vocalist of Weakling

i love the ending, i hate the middle. the monkey man chase sequence is soooooo bad. total stain on the film. chop that 15-20(?) minutes out and you're gold, i think