I didn't hear Junta until it was probably about a decade old, but I think it's a solid album with fun, peculiar songs. I still like it quite a lot. It might be their only one that I really like, though. Their endless live noodling that extends already long songs into half hour ditties isn't really my thing, though.…

They're the same song, though, aren't they? I don't like to play the "all their songs sound the same" card, but those two songs are so similar that I don't see how someone could detest one and like the other.

No way. Jake Hard from Angel Devoid. The titular character's name is a close runner up.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Yeah, I mean, it was much better than random chance that people were able to determine that it wasn't a real person. You could have everyone flip a coin when they encountered a candidate and the outcome would have been considerably better. Maybe the real humans were expected to be confused with computers 30% of the…

Hey-yey.

Wow. I had always assumed that I was mishearing it, but work as verb and forces as noun snaps everything into place. (I had always thought "forces" was the verb as thought the people who are being forced by work are the same ones who burn crosses, and it didn't make sense.)

It's awesome; that's what.

I get the impulse to want to be an outsider; but while I was listening, I was really struck by what a position of privilege it is to envy those in the minority. It reminded me of the South Park episode where some of the kids go to Somalia to become pirates. Butters and Ike are challenged and somewhat berated by a…

There have been a few where the guest has gotten closer to technical or theoretical reasons to dislike a song. Too many, however, boil down to "I heard this song a lot on the radio and now I hate it." It's hard to prevent that from happening, but it's not hard to realize that's why it's happening. The ones that seem…

I was at work while someone had Green Day Radio playing on Pandora, and that "I wanna be the minority!" song came on and it actually made me angry. The reasons are summed up toward the end of this entry— suburban white kids trying to identify with or, worse yet, yearning to be oppressed minorities is really obnoxious.

Fucking A it is. I wish I'd known about it when it was in the theaters. It was almost perfect. The perpetual scowl was hilarious (in a good way). I want to watch it again now!

*lighter hands over wallet, keys.*

You encouraged me to JJ these images up a bit.

In the smaller version of the image on the front page, I thought the weird peddler suit-puppet guy was barfing up sand. I'm disappointed.

That sounds so fun and interesting. I really hope people try to use that gamepad in innovated ways. Some evil bastard pointed me to the Nintendo store that sells refurbished WiiU systems with 12 month warranties for 200 bucks. That is so damn tempting!

I would love the hell out of that movie.

I don't think he sucked; I think that if he had been there from the outset instead of one of the other "wacky" characters, he would have fit in nicely. He was too close to Beth and Matthew in his oddballness and threw the whole thing out of balance— like if someone had taken a blade off of your ceiling fan and shoved…

Exxon is setting insanely high record profits! That is something, right? I have a feeling that we're going to have to learn to be thrilled for private companies doing things from here on out. The notion of our government, our representative proxy, doing anything significant has been made obsolete because that's…

Goddamn it. I just watched a video about netflix on the WiiU and that does look pretty slick. This was cruel information that you should have kept to yourself!