Same, with regards to my background and experiences. The singers I’ve worked with who went to school to train their voices were still educated in the Music department, not Communications. What a weird take.

I’ve played musical instruments for the last 30 years of my life and have always considered singers to be musicians. The voice is an instrument, singing is music. 

Musicians are sad and play guitar and appeal to a male-oriented audience. Non-musicians are everyone else.

How is a singer not a musician? 

Most of these are notorious stinkers and/or ill-conceived artistic missteps, sure. Night in the Ruts is a weird selection, though. It’s a decent, though decidedly B-tier, Aerosmith album. It’s quite a bit better than the one that followed it (Rock in a Hard Place) and I would argue a lot more enjoyable than all the…

It was always “woke”, you just weren’t radicalized into culture war idiocy back then.

This isn’t terribly difficult, right?

Believe it or not, you can have a comedian that doesn’t embellish their child being exposed to anthrax for sympathy AND that comedian also doesn’t rape people. Weird, I know!

I’m not sure the parasocial angle is nearly as important as the political/cultural angle. It seems to me that this Minhaj guy was trading in the slightly-more-left-wing version of the borderline outrage/comedy pandering that those right-wing clowns do. He was making himself out to be the victim constantly in perfectly…

You have to consider the purpose of the rating system in the context of how movies were seen when the rating system was created in 1968. Back then, movies were seen in theaters. Any movie that eventually turned up on TV was going to cut to the equivalent of a G rating or shown late at night. There was no cable, no…

And Samhain is one of the duller, dumber examples. Dude’s barely “useful idiot” grade.

Maybe read something independently, you dull fuck.

Nope. Not in the film, which has zero Q bullshit in it. It’s a middle of the road, milquetoast thriller, the end. And Jim’s beliefs aren’t any kookier than Tom Cruise’s. Scientology has actually killed and kidnapped people.

They've absolutely gone after day care centers so please stfu if you don't know how litigious Disney can and has been https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/daycare-center-murals/

Ron, Disney Lawyers go after preschools for daring to have a mural featuring Disney characters. You declared open war on the corporation. At what point did you think this was wise? Disney Lawyers don’t believe in mercy, the mafia is kinder then an angry Disney Lawyer.  Enjoy!

would be incredibly offensive if it weren’t so stupid

If Snyder had been born a generation or two earlier he would have had an amazing career as a propaganda film maker. His films are just pulpy as hell and straight to the point. That being said it works better in some than other. I think 300 is stupid fun even if it got maybe not the best take on the Persians. I…

Yeah, I totally get hating Snyder’s weird toxic fanbase, but he personally doesn’t deserve the extreme snark and hate that most AVC articles and 90% of commenters provide. He’s a visually interesting filmmaker whose storytelling style is stilted and divisive, but who treats his cast and crew with extreme respect and…

You must be new to the concept of enjoying things.

I think you’re being very naive here. He couched it by using “healthy” boundary setting language, but what he was asking for was extremely toxic. If you’ve ever encountered someone like that, you know these demands only came after a period of love bombing that got her invested in the relationship, making it hard for…