This is going to be a stupid question, but what is Australia like, generally? For some reason, I've been thinking about the place a lot lately. From the geographical position that I've spent my entire life in, it looks very bizarre to have an English-speaking nation flung so far away from Europe and America. Plus, I…

I think Born To Run is an album for teenagers. Being as how I still am a teenager, I still put it on every once in a while and begin to suspect very strongly that if I got into a car with no roof next to a girl in cut-off jeans and drove west down the highway as fast as I could I would eventually reach Heaven, but I…

This may seem random, but could you recommend me some music? The particular way you praised Stevens and NMH in this comment really reflects my own enthusiasm for those artists. You just strike me as someone not only with similar taste to me, but with a similar kind of passion for that taste. I would appreciate knowing…

It's been about 70F here in Georgia (The state, not the country) all week. I was able to comfortably sit on a porch barefoot in a T shirt on Christmas eve. Which, on the one hand, awesome. But on the other, we have a man running for president right now who thinks that global warming is a hoax invented by China to…

So, leaving this comment got me to go listen to Darkness again, and I somehow forgot how unbelievable "Racing In The Street" is. "She sits on the porch of her Daddy's house/But all her pretty dreams are torn,/She stares off alone into the night/With the eyes of one who hates for just being born." Holy shit.

Probably the Boss's best album, overall. It just feels so achieved, in a way even Born To Run never quite reaches, despite its greatness. Darkness On The Edge Of Town is a gritty, lonely vision of rock n' roll which is completely realized, unimpeded by adolescent desires for sex or coolness. It has that huge,…

Speaking as someone whose favorite show is Adventure Time…if you only have a week, go with Steven Universe. It's like asking "While I'm on vacation, should I commit to reading one Bradbury novel, or the complete works of Tolkien?" It's not that either is better, but one of them requires a lot more effort and…

Back in November, I first heard FloriDada on this very website, and I enjoyed it quite a bit, while finding it a bit lightweight compared to earlier AC stuff. But I've kept coming back to it over and over again; it never leaves my brain, and after many, many repeat listens I have come to the conclusion that it is a…

That Ben Mendelsohn was particularly wonderful. Glad to see it here.

Holy shit, me too. That's spot-on.

I have never seen It's A Wonderful Life. I have never seen Die Hard. I plan to watch one of them the night following Christmas Eve, and the other the night following Christmas. Which film should I watch when?

Thing is, I love iZombie. I don't have any of those problems with iZombie, so I'm not opposed to the CW in general.

Yeah, comics are definitely his standard for storytelling. Which means that when something holds to that standard fairly well (Like JLU), he's good at reviewing it. But when he's writing about something like Adventure Time, which pretty much makes up its own rules in terms off pacing, plotting, approach to thematic…

So, having finished Jessica Jones, and desiring some lighter super-hero fare, I decided to finally check out that Arrow show I keep hearing about, so I watched the pilot.
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Does it get better? Is the show that everyone loves the same one I just got a taste of? Because that was fucking awful. Awful. Awful. Overwrought,…

What's not fun about infant tuberculosis and influenza?

Fun fact: that weird direction was death. There actually were six Marx brothers, but one of them died before the other five went into show business.

I was dragged to Minions by my family; you don't see me talking shit about Sandra Bullock, John Hamm, or Michael Keaton, despite the fact that they were all annoying as shit in that movie.

Why does everyone hate Ryan Reynolds so much? I'm not the biggest fan in the world, but he seems like a fine actor. So many people have this unbridled loathing for the guy, and the only explanation I ever see is "He was in some bad movies" and "He can be kinda smug". That could apply to literally every actor in…

A few weeks back, I was conversing with someone over an internet forum, and I was presenting my hypothesis on the deeper meaning of a children's cartoon, and I ended my piece with "Or it could just be a joke." Another fellow responded, "A joke—like life." Now, it was after 3 AM, and I become rather long-winded when…

That's a reasonable opinion; it was very divisive. Adventure Time's fanbase has always been less united than Steven Universe's or Gravity Falls', because it does so many different things that it's entirely possible for an aspect of the show which is loved by many to also be hated by just as many. And because its tone…