The other night I listened to Tempest, the Bob Dylan album from a few years back. I heard it was good, and I've enjoyed the smidgens of Bob's recent output that I've heard over the years, but I don't think I was prepared for how amazing this thing was. Pay In Blood is as badass a sinister strut as Tom Waits ever…

Capital idea. If you stop in Athens, lemme do guest vocals on the title track, would ya?

The two guys who are producing our EP are in a band called Fat Neptune who make some pretty great modern psyche rock: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

We laugh, but this has been a year of republicans becoming even more distant from reality than they were before, which is saying something. Back during the RNC, Newt literally told a reporter than he was more interested in feelings than facts. Colbert's "Truthieness" term was always fitting when describing the…

in terms of the music? Not much difference, at least to an untrained ear like my own. I love CDs because I like album artwork and liner notes, and they're more portable than vinyl. There's still something satisfying about holding something in your hand and saying "This is a great album," rather than looking at a…

Ballad: Little Wing, followed by May This Be Love. Rocker: Spanish Castle Magic.

Having not seen any of the new eps (Waiting for the nuke to be over so I can marathon it), I'll say that while they don't go for the throat quite as often, when they choose to Cowboy Bebop and Adventure Time are about on equal footing with SU in terms of devastation potential.

One of my favorite film reviews of the past few years is Matt Zoller Seitz's review of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the bulk of which is about the mysterious, enduring brilliance of Tom Cruise. He really is something; give him something meaty, and he'll knock it out of the park; give him some high-quality fluff…

Oh, I'm very far from a Kaufman hater in general. Synecdoche, New York is a bit much for me, but Being John Malkovich and Adaptation are awesome, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my all-time favorite movies. I just like him best when he's not such a downer.

Anomalisa. Everything about it is almost flawlessly executed, I just can't bring myself to care about such a hopeless story.

I really, really want there to be a good Wonder Woman movie. Wonder Woman is such an amazing character, possibly my favorite character in the DCAU, and the popular consciousness thinks of her as some kind WWII holdover with no personality. I wish with all my heart that an excellent movie would come along and change…

Reminds me of the Allmusic review of Combat Rock: "The arena rock of "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" make The Clash sound like an arena rock band".

I don't know if any Gravity Falls fans here have been following the news, and I don't want to spoil anything for the folks here who haven't seen it but should (coughStephencough), but…well, you know that thing at the very end of the very last end credits? Some folks finally found it; there was a long, international…

To be fair, he really, really didn't want the job. A friend of his was quoted at the time saying that he didn't want the position "Because he's not a fucking moron". I think he went for it out of some misguided sense of patriotism, which is a quality which has defined much of Ryan's political career. While that's…

Has anyone described BvS as "A very stoppable force meets an easily movable object" yet?

I'm excited to read the swaths of reviews saying "It's okay. I mean, it's visually interesting, but the story is needlessly convoluted, and it tends heavily towards style over substance." Every time Gilliam puts out a movie, the critical world gets amnesia and forgets who he is, and reviews the film as thought his…

Shit, Kubo comes out this month? I need to get my ass to the movies.

I listened to Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair for the first time, that was pretty great. I've been showing my mom Cowboy Bebop, we got up to "Mushroom Samba", which has one of the most ridiculous/awesome chase sequences this side of Fury Road.

I worry that I don't post enough, making every time I do post some kind of intrusion into something I don't belong in. Then again, I feel that way about most social interaction, so…

It's pretty fantastic. Recent cartoons have become some of my favorite shows ever for their fleshed-out characters and intriguing ongoing stories, but there's a lot to be said for pure, high-octane silliness, and we don't get to much of that these days. Animaniacs had that in spades, and was insanely clever about it…