I've been pretty obsessed with the album "Feast of Wire" by Calexico lately.

"Someone who can think about all the different components of film at once
and play with them together is doing a lot more experimenting than
someone who just throws stuff together willy nilly."
I 100% agree, that's why I prefer 2001 to Un Chien Andalou, but I recognize that the latter is a more radical and unique use…

"If that were true then a show that just contains 30 minutes of unrelated
shots and ideas would be the most experimental thing possible since it
would alienate everybody."
Yes! That's exactly what I'm saying! I'm not making any kind of argument about which show is better at experimenting, I'm arguing over which one is m…

Oh I'm not arguing that it's more impressive; again, that's a subjective opinion. And I'm not talking about Adventure Time's story or drama. It certainly took that to a new level, but that stuff has been in kid's shows since the DCAU. I just mean in terms of pure experimentation, pure screwing with the form, I think…

I kinda like the title track from Magical Mystery Tour. It's not Across the Universe or anything, but it's a fun pop song. It feel almost like a Monkees song.

"Smartest" is subjective, but I'll challenge the notion that Gumball has been the most experimental kids' show recently. I think even the folks who jumped off the bandwagon would admit that's still Adventure Time, regardless of whether the experiments work or not.

Of course I did; it's one of my favorite things ever. But as practically perfect in every way as OTGW was, because it was a miniseries, it won't be the same kind of ongoing cultural phenomena that Steven Universe and Gravity Falls currently are, or that Adventure Time was before it turned into an serialized animated…

Well, fuckin', we're doing that.

I'm going to miss Christie. He's essentially turned into Winston Wolfe: you know he's a bad guy (In fact he's probably actually a criminal), but his level-headed frustration with all the incompetence surrounding him is just so satisfying that you don't care.

Stephen Merchant is becoming like a rare species of deer which is only ever seen occasionally for a brief moment, before disappearing back into nowhere.

I really want that movie to claim flatulence humor as an arthouse thing, and have all the Sandlers and Kevin Jameses stop using it so they don't seem pretentious, and it will only show up in little indie comedies made by people who know how to wield it.

I think Gumball has been going too long to suddenly capture that crowd's imagination the way the others have. It seems to have pretty solidly figured out what it's doing by now; as you pointed out, world-building, story, and character development are what the people demand, and I think it's a little late in Gumball's…

See, I can't disagree with any of that. The film's craft, referring to both the quality of the acting and animation and to the emotional effectiveness of the script, were nearly flawless. But that extraordinary craft was put in the service of a story which isn't really any more insightful than one of those Seinfeld…

Remember, P.T. Anderson loves Adam Sandler movies too.

Sometimes I really wonder if the people who make things like that really are the same species as me. Speciation tends to be defined by physical differences, but it seems that the mental process by which someone would arrive at the conclusion that they should definitely right now devout most of their day to making some…

That seems like one of those shows like "Gotham" where the writers went "Hey, have an awesome premise", but it was totally not an awesome premise.
And also, in both instances, the writers happen to be even worse at every other aspect of writing a television show besides coming up with a premise.

So, fellow CZ animation geeks, what show do you think will take Gravity Fall's spot in the children's show obsessive spotlight after it's over? There seem to always be two shows that everyone loves for a while, before they retreat back to their smaller fanbases. First there was Regular Show and Adventure Time, then…

I'm about halfway through season 1, and you do not yet know what adorableness means.

That's a tough question. If you mean "What sounds like the end of the world?", then it's hard to beat "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven", or "Bone Machine". However, in actuality, should the end of the world occur, I'm getting in a car, throwing on "Arthur" by The Kinks, and driving as far as I can…

The main thing I took away from the superbowl is that the fact that Janelle Monae fucking rules is not brought up nearly often enough.