If you want some nightmares, google them. It's like a vampire and an eel had scary scary babies.
I mean, who sees a lamprey and then thinks - hey, I bet this tastes AWESOME.

NASA likes to let it be known that the fact the shuttles were, well, comparatively crap (i.e., super-expensive to launch and not actually that useful) is the fault of the US military. Apparently the original concept was that the shuttles would share civilian and military uses, but the forces guys leant so hard on NASA…

Couldn't agree more. There's some truly excellent song craft in there, and surely one of the best examples of a rock song that you could tell was about sexy times without any lyrics at all. That baseline… Just outrageous. I want to use words like "lithe" and "muscular" to describe it. And the way what you assume is…

I admit, I came here expecting that to suck. But no, it was indeed delightful.

That solo album is just great. Still in my regular rotation.

My favorite thing about this song has always been the awesome bridge into Med Blodnasir that follows it. The songs are thematically linked ("Nosebleed" arises from the line in Hoppi that translates something like "I hit my nose (ow!)"), and the latter song is build out of samples, sounds and ideas reassembled from the…

Goo monster you say? Set at the poles? Exploring scientists?

Low Winter Sun, you say? I feel like I've heard about this show somewhere before. Can't quite put my finger on it.

I owned that T-shirt! I loved it so. And so did a surprising large number of complete strangers.

…directed by Shane Meadows.

It's the horribly burned Albanian boy!

I have always suspected that "my dad likes it"-syndrome for this show is brought on by the high cleavage:runtime ratio.

@avclub-817fde73cb35d91a2cb63520835563f9:disqus Recently moved from Virginia to Colorado. Nearly wet myself with excitement on entering supermarket this week to find an actual car-sized mound of these bad boys just sitting right by the entrance.

For the tragedy to work for me, Walt needs to escape his drug problems, but then die alone, of cancer, with his reputation destroyed. He needs to realize at the end that his victory has cost him everything.

That's crack, surely.

…and particularly the fantastic editing out of "O Stella".

For a minute there, I was thinking "Why is Neil deGrasse Tyson standing in The War Room?"

This was actually meant less critically than it read! I actually thought it was great. But look past the guitar distortion, and you could be listening to Agaetis Byrjun. (Not that the distortion isn't awesome.)

Best apparent change of direction while actually making an album totally in keeping with previous output: Sigur Ros, Kveikur

YES. THIS NEEDS TO EXIST.