Self-satisfied and difficult to stay awake through for extended periods? Absolutely!

Ahh, he’s a Blue Velvet fan, I see!

This is a fantastic read and is exactly the kind of thing that got me coming to this site in the first place. Thank you!

You hit on something valuable here with Gibson, in that you can’t cancel someone who doesn’t give a shit. You can’t meaningfully cancel Jeff Bezos or even Donald Trump. Is Mel Gibson even on Twitter? Are they audience who would give a shit going to see Mel Gibson movies? Does Mel Gibson still make movies or is he just…

I think that’s true of the right, and hell, maybe even some “normies” who’ve bought into the right-driven discourse, but I don’t think that’s fair towards someone like Mark Fisher, who’s excellent and sensitive essay “Exiting the Vampire’s Castle” seems to have been forgotten in recent discussions about “cancel…

Eh, I don’t. Gaiman seems to have his heart in the right place, but he’s so self consciously and affectively the “gentle writer guy”, I want to shove him in a locker and unravel his Strawberry Switchblade tapes. This is definitely one of those things that’s a “me” problem, though.

I’m not sure if it’s worse if they actually believe it (which is possible if they exist in professional-managerial class bubbles where things that happen on Twitter feel important) or if they think *we* believe and write accordingly.

I’ve tried to articulate this before, but I think cancelling encompasses a bunch of behaviours from people correctly getting dunked on or losing opportunities due to shitty opinions or behaviour (which is fine, good and often very funny), online subcultures organising to oust toxicity where the authorities won’t (also…

Yeah, I don’t think the film was any great shakes, and Phillips is an ass, but it did obviously resonate and not in the way the smug shitlibs thought it would. It’s not the only, best or most eloquent film about the alienation of shit jobs and failing systems, but it is a film about shit jobs and failing systems that…

If he’s doing a chronological rip-off, he needs to stop by mid-nineties post-modern cool crime movies before he hits sad white boy movies.

I don't think people flee on foot if they feel safe. 

The Thing and even Scott Pilgrim vs The World had action elements too. And she was in one of the late period Die Hard movies if I recall correctly. It’s not a huge leap where she’s only done rom-coms or something.

Well, I’m glad for them and the people who still listen to Weezer, but I can’t think of much less musically appetising than 80's hair metal revival, something that low-key has just kind of been around for at least twenty years with the likes of The Darkness or Steel Panther, who weren’t funny even when I drank.

Any conversation about “cancel culture” (a term I really dislike, as it’s become something of a conservative dog-whistle) seems to result in at least two, but often more, groups talking at cross-purposes.

The first group (a) is alt-righters/conservatives/Danzig talking about how you can’t say anything any more and…

Yeah, this. A decade and a half ago, we would mostly have been saying the same about movies based on comic books.

I think there was also a long period of Hollywood having little respect for people who enjoy video games, similar to how it had very little respect for people who enjoy horror for a lot of the 90s into the…

Yeah, I’m a Brit and I think American punk eventually course corrected with post-hardcore and indie-rock, but there was that weird period where UK punks got really smart and adventurous and US punks just doubled-down on the worst shit (with a couple of exceptions). It would be like if Sham 69 took the place in the…

It takes a real idiot, and I mean a world-champion fucking moron, to interpret “think for yourself” as “the opposite of popular consensus must be true.” That’s not rebellion, it’s contrarianism. It’s the stance of someone without any moral stance of their own. Someone who can’t apply any critical thought to the basic…

“What’s worst thing I can think of. I know! Enjoying music made by a black woman! How gauche!”

You’ve kind of hit on why so much “modern” (by which I mean since the genre’s revival in the early 2000s) sucks so bad. I actually quite like Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, the opening in particular is a subgenre high, but somewhere between then and now, zombies became a pretty frightening libertarian wank-fantasy…

Not sure why you’re being super-rude and trying to invalidate my experiences because you want to show goths are cool and immune to toxicity because ???