Everybody else has explained how hugely different the processes were, so I’ll just point out that the Bush tax cuts were passed via reconciliation. So, um, no, Obama didn’t start this.

I’m sure Tarantino has some input into the marketing of his films, but isn’t this a Sony decision more than a Tarantino decision?

“Has”? I think that ship sailed a long time ago. Luckily he still keeps directing interesting and, on occasion, fantastic films.

Why do you think “nobody” wants this movie? Tarantino has a huge fan base, and tons of casual film viewers also love his stuff - or are at least interested enough to see them in the cinema.

Fantastic interview, and really in depth. Why no Coming Home? (or did I miss it?)

And still one of the site’s best features!

One of those casual fans here. Don’t like much of the Mothers stuff (although, I guess I can appreciate it). I do dig Hot Rats and about 1/3 of Joe’s Garage. But I absolutely adore the 1-2 punch of Apostrophe and Overnight Sensation . . . which to me would be all good Zappa distilled with very little bad Zappa. The…

Definitely, so tight and the sound he got, from the low-budget early stuff through the Mutt Lang sheen and beyond was always so ferocious. Say what you will about the lyrics or “the same three chords,” the rhythm guitar is never dated and always killer.

Yup, it’s a killer song - she somehow takes the devastating confessions of Exile and writes one of the most thoughtful, honest songs about life after divorce for a little kid. At the time, I think most reviews of the album lumped into their “yeah, but” paragraphs, so they could get back to trashing the matrix songs.

You’re probably right that it was “unwise,” and I get that. I just think it was less about wisdom and more just about an honest fuck all y’all - and I get her frustration. I think the album really got reviewed based on the existence of the Matrix songs alone (not their quality, which I admit is pretty shite, and not…

Great track, for sure! But I’d say the self-titled also has a fair few strong songs . . . Firewalker, Love/Hate, Little Digger, My Bionic Eyes, Good Love Never Dies (yes, crap title). A whole album built around those songs is really great somewhere on Earth-2.

At least half the songs on each of the latter three albums are really really good. Okay, maybe half is generous, but there are plenty of tracks from those three that I’d love to hear played live.

Part of that aggression though, came in reaction to the chorus of “sell out” which greeted the self-titled album. That album was recorded as stab at something like mainstream indie, with a lot of the production done by Michael Penn. The label wanted mainstream hits, so they sent her back to record those Matrix…

I remember reading an article in SPIN or someplace in the mid-90s, height of his fame, where he professed his love for the band Boston, which was so totally the opposite of 90s cool, but which also makes all kinds of sense.

WBTC is not the worst pop song of all time (I mean, MacArthur Park is right there), but it’s still a flaming pile of shit. It’s the epitome of top-40 cash-grab sell-out. It’s lyrics have no coherence, and any that they do have completely undermine the fact of the song itself - I mean, “Someone’s always playing…

True, there’s no doubt that every era of pop has its ear candy, baffling hits, and downright stinkers that somehow become popular - don’t think anybody doubts that. And it has to do as much with today’s fractured landscape as anything else. But it’s still hard to imagine a record like Automatic becoming as ubiquitous…

I didn’t take it as a comment about avoiding current pop culture so much as a comparison between what constitutes “gotta have it” pop culture of different eras. Regardless of how one feels about REM or Swift, you have to admit that these are two very different artists and albums, and a cultural era that would turn…

Even if it is pedantic, it raises the question of having the good sense to know one’s audience. A lot of AV Club readers are geeks, whose geek spheres of interest include areas outside pop culture - one of which is grammar. Knowing that using “less” is going to irk half your readers (give or take a few) is poor form.

One of the important things here is how adults respond to this behavior and model appropriate behavior. Sadly, there’s way too much “boys will be boys,” and “girls, know your place!” And those kinds of responses make it difficult for already confused pubescent kids to learn to interact properly because oftentimes,…

And your friends, and your parents, and the people you work with. Soon. Been feeling that shit hard this week.