It’s unfortunate that we live in a world where I had to review your comment history before upvoting you for this.

To be fair, in the alternate timeline where Clinton won, progressive activists got James Gunn fired for these tweets.

...then you have clearly become unstuck in time.  Try not to change history or shoegaze might not exist at all in the prime timeline!

That sounds like an interesting group of people.  Also, I really, really want to see This Is Not This Heat, bummed that their current incursion in to North America is so limited.

Who among us could claim the hipster clarity to divine what truly, IS shoegaze, and what is dream-pop? You will find no person yet alive with Converses or Vans on their feet who can tell you.

Meh.

We’re the MTV generation.  We feel neither highs nor lows.

Two things on Clayton’s entry:

You say that, but Steve Jobs.

Sean, I hope you find some truly great shit out in the abyss. Your snark has been exemplary and your music recommendations have had a higher batting average than many of your peers. Thanks for having us on this wild journey we call reasonable discourse. Dazzle Ships still rules.

Now there was a Monty Python sketch with a Pepperpot named Mrs. N****rbaiter, but I'm told it was done possibly to ridicule Ian Smith? The 70's were strange.

This band's logo is a dick wrench.

I loved this movie, but watching it more recently, it just doesn’t hold up. I think he hit it on the head with the “dumb-joke-killing-smart-jokes” thing. That happens all the time through the movie.

Egg salad.  Loaded with cholesterol.  The wife won’t even let him eat it.  But that doesn’t seem to matter now.

There’s also this:

I mean, it’s kind of hard to straight-faced say “Well he was angry at the newspaper, sure, but it was HIS choice to use violence, I’m sure the guys in charge of the country encouraging violence against the media had nothing to do with his decision.”

And PG movies, before “PG-13" was a thing!

And YOU sir, just ripped off Method Man’s short story collection “I’m Gonna Sew Your Asshole Shut And Keep Feeding You and Other Tales of Shaolin”

reed meca is good albm

Don’t listen to the other stuff the Drinks peeps do, but I dig the sound of Hippo Lite. Reminds me of The Raincoats or Red Crayola.  Glad someone else is diggin’ on it.