I loved how Emily's response to Bojack's "this is a sexy mistake for you and a regular mistake for me" was "actually this is a pretty regular mistake for me too"

That's a really good reading, and it's so *sad*. Watching the season back alongside these reviews, one of the key motifs is him driving anyone away, either by being shitty to them directly (PC and Diane), laying the groundwork to blow up the friendship a few weeks after (Todd), or latching onto someone based around…

Saying Bojack's influence on the rock opera was neutral because he used his connections to set up a meeting with a theatre agent before ultimately sabotaging him is a very econ view of friendship, dude

God, you're right, fixed!

It feels more like Bojack's conception of his own sadness than his mother's withering assessment of his value as a person

There was some little sidebar Q&A article in a paper recently with Peter Hook, a lot of which was devoted to The Hacienda being turned into flats. New Order pumped a lot of money into the Hacienda when everyone concerned was too out of their minds on drugs to pay attention to that sort of thing.

Wow, that's fascinating. So they're like a transitional phase between pinball machines and arcade machines, kind of? It's interesting how much of the computerised arcade machines ended up adhering to this style, in terms of the layout of the machines and the interface.

I played some Tekken game at an arcade in Osaka (down the road from a Tower Records somehow, on what I figure was the Street of Forgotten Brands), and admittedly I am a milquetoast non-gamer who has never played a Tekken game before, but the computer opponents seemed pitched at an insane level of difficulty compared…

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Parasite seems harsh. Bojack's the former star of a TV show so successful he can sign away his residuals for the last few years without even noticing and Todd's an… entrepreneur? Magical elf?

I was reading some Joan didion essays at lunch, and there was this line in an article she wrote about the Bishop of California, a man so convinced of his own correctness at all times that he marched out into the desert of Jordan with nothing but a bottle of Cola and died:

The "you're Bojack Horseman" line did come closest to fetishising sadness of any line in the show to me. It connotes a kind of cosmic pre-ordination, that's there's grandeur in this stripe of sadness and self-sabotage.

Yeah, I was really looking forward to the review of the previous ep, but worried that it might be as slight and recappy as some other write-ups that I'd read of that episode. Instead it gave me exactly the sort of article I'd been wanting to read of Best Thing That Ever Happened, lots of nourishing stuff about Bojack…

This stuff is all down to interpretation, but Diane and Bojack's lives feel (to me) way less intertwined than Bojack and PC's. They're very alike and Bojack had feelings for her (although Princess Carolyn's observation that she was being paid to listen to him talk being a factor in that does not feel totally…

Dude was anorexic for quite a while though, right?

A lot of stuff that makes the first Silverchair album gauche in
hindsight is what made them great at the time, if you were lucky enough
to be in your early teens.

It's definitely its own thing, the guitar/bass/drums on the first Korn album sound nothing like a standard nu-metal recording, it's pretty roomy and live-sounding.

Going to a few shows in London in the last few months I've noticed a lot of new unsigned bands that take most of their sound from grunge and riot grrl.

It's weird how completely The Wildhearts disappeared, given that they were a legitimate chart band at one point, and this is the first time I've seen their name mentioned in years.

Alison Brie's voice for the critic was completely bonkers too, I hope she and PF Tompkins were recording their parts on the same day