I don't get the 'professionalism detracts from genuine feeling' way of thinking at all, even though I hear it from people a lot more than the opposite.

I like more of Louie's stuff than I dislike, but there's this odd feeling I have about him…like, 50 years from now, people are going to wonder why a grumpy misanthrope spilling his guts about how much he hates his wife and daughters was seen as (relatively) harmless fun.

Yeah, there's still a whole lot of space between "Least favorite Talking Heads album" and "bad".

Offer him some gold, that'll change his mind.

I think I may be the only Talking Heads fan whose least favorite album is Remain in Light, and I generally like their 80's stuff because, yes, it's more fun to listen to. (although Life During Wartime is still the GOAT.)

Adams got much darker overall, to the benefit of his stories. Not that dark = good, but Pratchett had the opposite problem. I like plenty of individual lines and quotes, etc., but they've never added up to a worthwhile whole for me.

Well, you're in good company: http://mentalfloss.com/arti…

I do my best to stay away from that sort of thinking, for obvious reasons. That said: if you can read the entire Calvin & Hobbes oeuvre without liking at least a few strips, I will be forced to assume you are a robot spy who can't understand joy.

This is a terrible thing to assume about people, but I can't help but think that lots of Americans who love being super-conspicuous about how much they follow the European leagues are just using them as an I'm-more-enlightened-than-you status symbol, mainly because of all the other such status symbols they flaunt.

Well, I like the Clash because they transcended most of punk's up-its-own-ass bullshit.

I dunno. We need some way to distinguish between left-wing social activists who want to help people and to improve the world and ones who just want a cover for being assholes*, and SJW is right there for the taking. And I think its use has gotten more legitimized, not less, over the last few years.

Also, Terry Pratchett, don't think he's been mentioned yet. That one hurts because I actively wanted and tried to like him, for a long time, but just couldn't do it. It's the same problem a lot of people have with Joss Whedon; fun in small doses, but the pathological witty-banter overuse paradoxically makes things…

It's more than a feeling, that's for sure. But what do I know, I'm just a small-town girl, living in a lonely world.

My "what does everyone else see that I don't" music list would stock most people's hall of fame: Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Pixies, Big Star, Pavement, Radiohead, most 50s/60s era jazz, Kanye…meanwhile I tear up during about half the 80's power ballads out there. I've never emerged from a music discussion with my…

I'm kinda impressed.

I don't think he could ever live up to the hype, no matter how good he was.

That was actually kind of a letdown after "Who". "Hey, the internet really distorts your sense of self!" Yeah, no shit.

I blame Dunkaroos.

I hear when he cums he goes "YAYYYYYYYY!"

I've heard that described as "the logic is fine, but the premises are crazy". Like, if you're possessed by a demon, then yes, you need an exorcism. It's the first part that's hard to prove.