I like Sunshine a ton. It has its issues, mostly that it can be sorta buggy with its physics and camera, but it's among the most distinctive Mario games with a great locale and atmosphere. Plus, FLUDD offers some nice variation from the typical platforming fare. Galaxy may be a better-made game, but I also find it to…

So many of his lyrics strike me as someone trying very hard to be clever and funny and provocative and missing the mark, something borne out for me by the many "joke songs" and interviews he gives. Occasionally there will be a quip that lands, but the album often feels full of very trite observations about how we live…

Oh it hasn't just been lately.

Yeah, it's just three half-hours.

Hell yeah. I love this song, and listened to it so many times around when it came out, and it feels even more relevant now. I haven't thrown on w h o k i l l in a while; I should remedy that.

Britta was also revealed to come from a pretty well-off family, but she was just rejecting their help her whole life. She was "poor" in that she mostly never held down a job other than a few bartending gigs, and had trouble making rent on her own, but she wasn't truly impoverished in the way many are.

Even the seemingly arbitrary design choices like the rocket ship felt evocative and not unlike the natural/unnatural dichotomy of a sculpture garden, so I always enjoyed all of that in Myst.

Totally. Their early EP and A Storm In Heaven for sure play with shoegaze with something spacier and woozier.

Yeah the vast majority of the Verve's discography is loud, psychedelic space jams. Even their ballads are sweeping and epic. Wouldn't call it soft. Soft rock is sort of a bad term for all those bands really, but especially the Verve.

It came out on iTunes the day after its Tidal release and a physical release is planned for a week later.

Yeah, same. Try as I might, I can't get into Gentlemen the way I get into 1965. It's a great album. The fact that I hardly hear that album brought up at all, even in discussion of the Whigs, is weird to me.

It was so weird, I can't believe it was the first real sketch of the night instead of the last. That said, I thought it was one of the funniest sketches of the night because it was so genuinely odd.

Yeah it felt dicey, but when real Corey was revealed, he at least asked Jasmin if he could kiss her and she agreed before they kissed. So she was at least consenting to the real Corey too. Still a little weird though.

I assumed they didn't go straight there and waited until the middle of the night to make sure no one would be around anyway.

It was weird for me. Early on, when I figured what the episode was gonna be like, I expected it to be my favorite episode of the series. It's the sort of episode I typically like: ambitious and structurally different, focusing on characters rather than plot. And while I do think it's a solid episode, it actually ended…

I saw a screening of this on Tuesday, and I agree wholeheartedly with the review. There are a few scenes of great unsettling power and long, languid scenes that mount a thick layer of dread, and the bits of dry humor here and there add a nice counterpoint. (Gregg's performance also really makes it seem like the guy is…

It was just boys being boys

Though I do admit that, although this one seems more fitting to this season, I found that first season title sequence to be pretty moving. I'm a sucker for Max Richter

Iris DeMent baby!

Yeah I liked how all these bits of personality added to it. Being that we share a hometown, I was thrilled to see Jon nod to our town on the globe at the beginning. (I tried posting this last night, but I guess AV Club doesn't like Imgur?): http://i.imgur.com/7W9QSvD.png