Great interview. I appreciate his level-headedness - he seems like a thoughtful, engaged guy.

Why is there a folder called "Black Ops" on that computer? Was "My Secret Shit" already taken?

I fucking love The Jesus Lizard. They were an absolute firestorm of a live band - I saw them in Cincinnati in the late 90s and they slayed. David Yow lost more and more clothes as the show went on, and he spent as much time in the crowd as on the stage. Plus, Denison is a godlike guitarist - he sheds classic riffs…

This was the best movie I saw in 2015. So good. As she notes in the interview, the tension comes primarily from character development (or misdirection), which is a rare feat in genre cinema.

This was the best movie I saw in 2015 - it's a fantastic film, with exceptional acting and nuanced characters. It's one of those rare horror movies that would be great even without the genre elements.

I like this. Everyone's a hipster!

Wait… going to a corner cafe or a coffee shop makes you a hipster? That word has lost all meaning by this point.

…and yet, when given the option to get out of her contract by denying her claims, she refused. I guess we have two options: 1) She's playing some sort of truly diabolical long game that only MRAs can discern, or 2) MRAs are full of shit

I'd say that the distinction between "on purpose" and "on accident" involves discerning the thoughts of the accused - isn't that what "on purpose" means?

So… you have a problem with the distinction between voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter? The idea of malice aforethought is kind of central to our jurisprudence.

When done well, non-origin superhero stories can be a lot more than just battles, eg: Spiderman 2 (the Raimi one), X2, Iron Man 3 (my favorite Marvel movie so far), The Wolverine (underrated!), etc.

There's generally little correlation between the popularity of a given comic book character and the quality of the resulting movie (see eg Ant Man on one hand and Objectivist Superman v Speed-Ramped Batman on the other). Plus, James Wan is very good at making movies AND this won't be yet another goddamn origin story.…

Yes. I'm really excited for this album.

Yeah. I began watching Green Inferno as a fan of Eli Roth and ended it thoroughly embarrassed for ever having defended him. It's like he took every criticism of his movies and doubled down on all of them. Plus, fuck that "people who care about social justice are the REAL villains" bullshit.

This movie is pretty good, and definitely better than the dreck Roth has been making. It's been out in the UK for a while, in fact. Watts made it prior to directing Cop Car.

Goddamn this EP is so good, and it proves that you can make a classic album that's under 20 minutes long - no filler, just 5 of the best indie rock songs of all time back to back. (Now if only the underrated All The Nation's Airports could get some love….)

This is absolutely true, and something I've thought a lot about. I got deep into indie rock starting in the early 90s, and in retrospect it's incredible how separated the metal and indie rock worlds were, despite having a lot in common both stylistically and culturally. I would have loved, say, the second wave of…

I thought this movie was well-made but underwhelming - the buildup to the titular wave is great, but it hits in the middle of the movie. After that, the back half of the movie is devoted to post-catastrophe family drama played out on waterlogged sets, which completely deflates the tension of the excellent first half.

In a just world, Lansdale would have his stories adopted into film & TV series as frequently as Stephen King (holy shit a TV series of The Drive-In would be amazing), but this is a good start.

I might be a genre pedant, but maybe the issue is that The Witch (which I thought was excellent) is more of a dark fantasy than a horror movie. Most movies that are actually dark fantasy get lumped in with horror, which does both genres a disservice.