I hear Peter Sarsgaard is some kind of a Sven-jolly.

edit: never mind.

I'm not a particularly big fan of hillbilly, redneck and a cappella music, which are continuous sources of inspiration in the indie rock crowd. That's a taste thing, just like how i find the band boring as hell without a single compelling idea floating in a sea of unstructured "experimentation."  If I wanted virtuoso…

Insults from punk fans hurt indie rock fans' feelings because punk has the reputation of being the best music ever in indie circles, the ultimate source of their own music. Even if most of indie rock sounds like progressive rock or soft rock played by incompetent (or just overeaching) musicians, and most indie rockers…

Never mind.

So it's basically a boring, shitty version of Showgirls with no awesomely alienating sex scenes.

You could follow the book fairly closely and still make a pretty well-structured horror/sci-fi film, obviously cutting the first-person narrative (unless you wanted to bookend it with scenes back in the world, but why bother?). Spoily spoilers:

The race stuff in this episode doesn't bother me much, but some of the racial portrayals in later episodes, especially in the episode with the Japanese guy and the Jamaican pretending to be Italian directors (an episode that also features a lot of blackface and African "savages") and the Chinese in the bicycle tour,…

That's some amazing extrapolation given that the first five minutes just about covers the protagonist drunkenly acting out in the police station. And somehow that got you to the nasty secret and the back story? You should seriously consider opening your own holistic detective agency.

And herpa derp to you too sir.

Wow, and here I thought that art was under no obligation to address only the most pressing issues of our time, or present only the viewpoints of designation classes of people. How dare they make a movie about thirty-something white people?!  Only films about underprivileged people having IMPORTANT conversations about…

So goth and riot girrrl are now synonymous? Good to know.

I'm mildly optimistic. I'm hoping the creators understand that the original series wasn't just about space. It was about the philosophy of science and what made it distinct from other explanatory systems, and the cosmos on every level from atoms on up—it wasn't just about how cool space was. It was also about the…

Oh, and black metal/metalcore shrieks somehow broke through. I'm not sure how that happened. Again, I can see someone making an exception for Alcest or A Forest of Stars, but the new Deafheaven? I find it bizarre, but I guess that's the nature of visibility.

I more or less agree. Alcest, Lantlos, Les Discrets, Cold Body Radiation, Fen, etc. are all fantastic, but no one really gives a shit about them because they're not marketed, widely distributed or raved about on Pitchfork (in fairness, availability is kind of an important factor in this as people can't like what they…

I hate the ever-living shit out of that song, and I'm generally okay with REM. It's maudlin garbage. Depressed teens don't need wimpy cry-cries. They need the raw power of heavy metal to see them through. Cue "Heavy Metal Will Never Die." (but seriously, "Everybody Hurts" sucks)

I wouldn't really call his role in Django Unchained ironic exactly.

You're completely right. I was just being a grouchy naysayer.

Garm was interviewed very briefly (like for 30 seconds to a minute), and came off rather well, though obviously somewhat removed. He seemed to find the whole early "black metal mafia" days kind of surreal in retrospect. At least that's how I remember it. The only other Ulver reference in it was a later Ulver track as…

Yeah, it's a shitty documentary. My own review: http://avantgarde-metal.com…