I caught the last half of their set at a festival at the beginning of this year (well before anything from this album was afoot), and it was probably the most enjoyable thing I saw that day (a day which contained a lot of enjoyable things).

I think that the final season of Lost was an attempt to synthesise all of the different kinds of stories they'd been telling (mostly the science/faith, sci-fi/fantasy, plot/character dichotomies) into one story, and I'm inclined to say they did a pretty good job. (The Desmond thing you raise is an example of that kind…

Anything Else is on Quentin Tarantino's list of the best movies of all time.

Very true. As someone educated on the subject almost entirely by Tumblr, I can attest to the importance of resisting the impulse to go nuclear on someone for phrasing or terminology even when they fundamentally agree with you/your point.

I don't like to be that guy, and I don't know if this will get seen at this stage, but I believe the proper term is "transgender", rather than "transgendered". I guess the idea is to express a gender identity rather than imply (as with "transgenderED") the subject of some kind of process, but I'm far from an expert on…

As someone who was terrified by Kill List, and who has good will towards Alice Lowe from Darkplace, I really fricken hated this movie, pretty much for the same reasons as I found Kill List so effective. Kill List's nastiness and unpredictability was part of its "charm", but Sightseers so openly detests all its…

I thought you said Left Brain there for a minute, and I was mighty worried for your well-being.

I thought you said Left Brain there for a minute, and I was mighty worried for your well-being.