Yeah, timewise he left a few months back. I'm not too bummed, since he gave us the culmination of everything he was trying to do on the show back in "The Comet", and with this episode and "The Mountain" completed the arcs of his two most beloved characters. I'll miss him, but judging by how much everybody has been…

This was Jesse Moynihan's last episode. Magic Man was always his favorite character, so it's really perfect that the last episode he worked on would be the one to finally give that character some closure. And it worked in all of Moynihan's tags: the Mars cast, the crazy designs for the mountain, the dynamic between…

I know that the show's creator said that's why he doesn't have irises or visible nostrils.

Mystery Inc, the show before the current dumb reboot, was absolutely spectacular and easily the pinnacle of the entire franchise.

"When we break, we'll wait for our miracle. God is a place where some holy spectacle lies. When we break we'll wait for our miracle. God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life."

I absolutely agree. I'm sorry that this particular work doesn't speak to you that way; I know that feeling when suddenly the music you're listening to isn't just electrical signals coming through speakers and vibrating your eardrums, but something higher, something that lifts you into another place and existence…

I actually know John Fernandes a bit. He's sold me a few records from Wuxtry.

See, this is why so many of this album's listeners become insufferable zealots: it keeps getting dismissed as something adequate that they've gotten themselves too worked up over. I agree that Coltrane was possibly the greatest musician of the 20th century, and that he was obviously a genius. I won't say the same for…

Taken out of context that comment might indicate rather poor music taste.

"Where You'll Find Me Now" is gorgeous.

Yeah, it's hard to make an argument that Aeroplane is a "You had to be there" phenomena when it makes new converts every day.

Closer to involuntary leg kicks. Like, I'll move my arms up in a self-defense kind of way, or bow my head, or something like that.

You don't say.

Fair enough. I'd recommend revisiting NMH every once in a while; I know it's cliche, but Aeroplane often doesn't click for people on first listen.

Well, for a lot of people—most likely the majority of people who have listened to this album—they do exactly that. I mean, I think the songs are musically gorgeous and that Jeff's singing is remarkable, but those points are harder to argue. I think anyone who believes that lyrics matter at all at least has to…

Neutral Milk Hotel have a legacy because they were the project of a truly extraordinary songwriter who hit upon some John Coltrane/Van Morrison level stuff, cut a record of it, and then stopped. An unbelievably compelling and mysterious set of songs was rendered more compelling and mysterious when the artist who…

Lyrics. The important part is the lyrics.

And yet, has kinda good taste in it. Just like rock music. It's truly bizarre; I agree with so much of what he likes, but out of hundreds of reviews, only a few times has he ever said something about an album that I agreed with, even if he loved it just as much as me.

"Now we move to feel/Ourselves inside some stranger's stomach/Place your body here/Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine." I don't think I've ever listened to that lyric without having some sort of measurable physical reaction.

It really is extraordinary how much love he appears to have for rock n' roll while simultaneously holding anybody who makes it in utter contempt. It's like he's suspicious of anybody who would have the desire to do something as dumb as form a rock band, so with each new rock album he listens to, the genre has re-win…