Some people have a talent for watching both character-driven shows and silly absurdest shows, and appreciating them both for different reasons. I find it bizarre that people can actually make these kinds of arguments, as if Cheers and Seinfeld were competitors or something. Not everything in pop culture has to be an…

Are you talking about China or the Communist Party? China has always been cool and always will be cool regardless of what shitty things the government does.

Don't worry, you're not the target of it.

It's a shit business.

While the jokes in this newswire are generally funny, some of them come pretty close to the kinds of jokes Sinophobes make. Just saying.

No mosh, no core, no trends, no fun.

I will like this comment sir.

Nope, you're just wrong about that. He watched a lot of movies and he reviewed them all fairly. This is a flat out mis-characterization of his writing.

I remember him primarily as a writer, so I don't really get this characterization at all.

Eh, it looks all right, but what's with all those digital landscape zooms? Yeah, we get it, it's a meticulously recreated digital NYC of the jazz age, and looks about as real as Middle Earth at this point. SWOOP, SWEEP, WAWG! Enough already. Why not just use establishing shots of real places? A little phony bologna is…

Kingpin is pretty funny though, one has to admit. It's no Big Lebowski, but it's got some laughs.

Slow down tiger, and just enjoy it like wind through the grass.

To me, krautrock doesn't have a sound at all. It's all electronic, psychedelic, artsy folk, ambient, vaguely or explicitly left-wing popular music that happened in Germany at the time. I would suggest that the best of it, like Faust, combines folk, psychedelia and electronic music to get that weird techno-pastoral…

ReEvolver: Slayer never sounded evil. I'm a big metal fan, and have been since the time of thrash, and they never sounded authentically evil. They were cool sounding, and that's really all that counts. I think "evil" is kind of an odd metric to use, especially when talking about contemporary "extreme" metal which, in…

Anytime I read any of these discussions, I really get the sense no one is actually listening to new metal, or just skimming the surface. Evil or not, contrived or not, there's more going on in metal right now than there ever was in the days of thrash. I don't know what people are actually listening to, but thrash was…

As far as I'm concerned, thrash begins and ends with Coroner.

I like that episode a lot because it's one of those rare ones where Jez has to be the voice of normalcy, explaining to Mark why dressing up as SS and saying racist things are bad. Also, that fucking Super Hans song.

I suspect he may crash and burn, but it's just as likely that he'll transition into a more philosophical/ranting comedian like George Carlin, and hit his true creative apogee.

Hey thanks for the ancient hearsay.

Yeah, I agree with that.