I think one simple reason is that Avengers was seen by more people, and seen multiple times by more people than Captain America 1. Repetition is super important for remembering music. Also, the Captain America stuff is solid but sort of generic “Patriotic march” music, which makes it more forgettable. FInally, the…

I think Iron Man 1 and Captain America Civil War both have good scores that happen to not be memorable outside the movie. They don’t have great fanfares/overtures, whatever you want to call them. But, for example, the music for the scene in Iron Man 1 where he takes the first test flight is great for the moment in…

Here’s an idea. How about taking a moment to wonder to yourself, “Why do I value the lives of the soldiers who died for our country, but not the lives of American citizens who died because of institutional racism?”

I have yet to run across a form of protest sufficiently bland and comforting that it doesn’t upset someone, that’s the point of protest. The flag is a symbol of principles. When people start thinking the symbol is more important than the underlying principles, they’ve gone astray. The flag doesn’t belong to the…

All foundations run by celebrities leverage the fame of the person they’re named after. The question is, did Clinton meet with people she shouldn’t have met with or do anything she shouldn’t have done in return for donations? The answer, after her shit has been gone through with a fine toothed comb, is no.

You clearly have an ax to grind, and I don’t care about that. My only point is that it’s clear they were extremely close friends before there was any “drama” to take advantage of.

Stuff like this: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/…

Enh, it’s been well documented that they’ve been very very close friends for years, long before anyone knew she was sick. People watching them have suspected or assumed this long ago.

I’m a black guy as well, and I watched it for a while, but eventually Shoshana’s funniness couldn’t overcome the repetitive self absorption of the rest of it.

The flag and the anthem mean something to the millions of blacks and other minorities that get discriminated against systematically in this country, then get told to shut up and get out when they want to start a dialogue about what’s going wrong and how to fix it.

To be fair, the level of interest Girls holds for most black people (particularly black men) is pretty low. It is physically and sociopolitically an extremely white show.

I’ve heard a fair amount of rumors that Josh Groban is a creepy asshole in his personal dealings with women.

Well, in the couple of times in my life that I’ve had to take on and defend views I didn’t believe in for show (I’m not an actor, but you know, a school play here and there, some roleplaying scenarios for classes, debate teams, etc), it’s really exhausting, and you feel like garbage, and sooner or later you start…

That doesn’t actually say that much about the liberalism of the state. Trump is a fucking madman, but in terms of social issues he was actually nominally more liberal than most of the rest of the Republican field at the time.

Can someone help me out? I’m looking for a band/video that I thought got linked here a while back. Sadly I don’t know the name of the band or the song...all I can remember is the sound was...art pop or jazzy maybe? With an Asian woman on drums, but part of me wants to say she/the band was Asian-American (there are a…

“Many high performance cars are stick-only, but even in slower cars you’ll be rewarded with better fuel economy, greater reliability, improved performance and enhanced control over the vehicle.”

Knowing the proper place to put the jack is legitimately a bit of a thing.

Oh no, you have to explain to an 11 year old that a handful of elite athletes care enough about inequality to make a peaceful political statement about it despite the fact that it makes mindless superpatriots angry.

Megan Rapinoe is lesbian. She isn’t black, but she knows a little about discrimination. Her supporting Kaepernick makes perfect sense.

Yeah, codified by the “National Americanism Commission” of the American Legion, in the 20's and 30's, a committee aimed at “combating all anti-American tendencies, activities and propaganda” and “To fight communist and radical pacifist propaganda, by giving the citizens of your community true facts concerning these…