I'd argue that Cave is less laughable post-2000 than he was before it. Love his stuff prior to, but a lot of the accusations of doing pastiche that dogged him, have seemed to transfer to Tom Waits where they always belonged. But yeah, my respect for him has only grown after purging all the gothic bullshit out of his…

Yeah, if the dude wasn't obese, I can't imagine it'd be cited as a major flaw in his work 1/10th as often as it is.

These guys were a bassist in leather trousers away from greater fame.

Question: how good or bad did this movie look in 2D? I ended up having to go a 3D showing, and it was truly awful. The battle with Smaug (which is probably the best part of the movie otherwise) looked like a bad stage production when it wasn't busy looking like a red incoherent mess.

Second this. Thanks to Ghaleon, I'm in a relatively shallow 3 album Javiera Mena hole I may never get out of.

There are more than a few Nick Cave numbers you could include in this list, which might be why he doesn't warrant inclusion. He does have some good ones though: Green Eyes, More News From Nowhere, The Carny.

I have little to no experience concerning South American music so I decided to check out the 2010 Javiera Mena release. It is fucking great. Any other pop recommendations in a similarish vein would be much appreciated.

Great news. Badalamenti better be doing the score on this thing. I'm a little afraid Lynch is going to be helming the score himself, given his recent history.

I think the production did a real disservice to That's The Way (My Love Is). That song could fit right on Siamese Dream if tweaked a little.

As someone who thought Zeitgeist was most definitely a shitpile, and that EP? afterwards too, I thought Oceania was a welcome surprise. Didn't think it was great, but the production was very tasteful compared to Zeitgeist (no backing chorus of Corgans…) and the 1st half had some strong songs.

No clue if it's remotely cohesive, but if I had to reduce it by 1/2 to 14 songs (and it could definitely use the trimming) I'd go with the following:

Adore is great and probably has Corgan's best vocal performance period. It's a shame that he didn't carry that momentum into Machina as his bleating in the Machina lead-off "The Everlasting Gaze" is the worst. "Ava Adore" is the only thing that doesn't age well and the video was an unfortunate thing that didn't do…

I found Doc Cottle's level of denial around Helo's claims really hard to buy into because it would require him to be a much shittier doctor than he's been shown to be in the rest of the series. Adama's behavior seemed out of sorts too. I give Tigh a pass because they did a decent job explaining why he was being such…

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Maybe I should wait and see how Inherent Vice turns out, but I'd like to see Anderson helm an HBO limited series adaptation of Mason and Dixon.

Wish this guy would get back to making music again.

I was a little underwhelmed by the the first track released from Brill Bruisers, but "War On The East Coast" is amazing. Other than that:

I am pretty easily pleased when it comes to artwork in the comics I read. There's only been a couple instances where I've been blown away by how bad the artwork is. Stroman's stuff definitely joins that short list. Does he continue being involved?

I've been plowing through Peter David's run on X-Factor. I had no prior familiarity with any of these characters, but it's pretty great. Everybody's pretty well-established early on, except for maybe Rictor who spends a bit too much of his time engaged in generic mopery. Just finished the issue involving the birth…

The 90's records are pretty damn spotty. I don't know if I can make an argument for any of those records being great. I love Imperial Wax Solvent and Your Future Our Clutter though. Even liked Ersatz GB. Re-Mit was back to the Reformation Post TLC valley though.