It's Bobby's time to shine!

I saw part of it on a smallish TV screen in a hotel years after it came out, and I found it ugly and boring. I don't think I went into it with an open mind, so maybe my opinion isn't worth that much.

I had no idea.

Or Wilfred Hyde White?

I was going to make a joke about how this looks like a job for Jai Courtney, but now I can't remember if he was actually in the God damned thing.

How about Dune?

The Abyss was garbage and it's all been downhill from there.

I've been calling him a delusional hack for years.

She was no worse, or better, than Mark Hamill, and a fair sight better than Carrie Fisher, were in the originals. Take that for what you will.

Extraordinarily so.

That's what I thought, but I wanted confirmation from someone in the field.

Do hipsters still exist?

Give it to Noah Hawley.

I would have figured he'd been called it often enough that he would have looked it up at some point.

I'd go with Slow Dazzle, which was his next album and is very similar in style.

I've continued the John Cale deep dive I started over the weekend with some of his later albums: (both versions of) Music For A New Society, Songs For The Dying, Fragments Of A Rainy Season, and his charming and slightly menacing collaboration with Brian Eno, Wrong Way Up.

As someone who named himself after a character in a different JG Ballard novel, I am pleased to see Crash on this list.

I found something like this for free years ago.
Free.
Years ago.

I'm still holding out hope that Justice League and Infinity War will both tank. The first is sort of a given.

There's one last layer: the figure is of a fictional character, identifiable on his own, displaying as an Other fictional character.