This is an issue for about 40% of the art I consume, from jazz and avant-rock to arty/experimental film. It's hard to earnestly explain something when the automatic assumption the other person has is 'you couldn't possibly actually enjoy this, and your attempt to convince me otherwise shows me just how pretentious you…

I've linked to this a few times in the past, but this seems to be a good primer for how to look at Zappa, especially after about 1975: http://www.furious.com/perf…

Jeffery Jones will be first in line!

I did the Iggy!

Neil Gaiman said that kids were appropriately scared by Coraline, but that adults tended to be truly unnerved by it.

Boy, it sure is.

They have a project going with Shout Factory, the last I heard.

I love that Frank story. There are so many weird, arbitrary rules in that short in particular (I still think about the suggestion that boys can get away with showering in the morning, but that girls should shower in the evenings 'so there's time to put your hair up').

He can even swim in it!

Well, this reminded me that Roger Ailes is dead, so that brightened up my day a little.

That was Crow in Devil Doll!

So when they implored us to 'go ahead and hate your neighbor/go ahead and cheat a friend', it wasn't sarcasm.

Bring on The Last Dangerous Visions!

No, this Sparks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…

Thomas Pynchon
Sparks

Sticking strictly to rock and rock- adjacent music:

I don't know - the GOOP Troupe kicked some ass when they came here.

I have no opinion about this one way or the other, but:

I'll be here eating a whole roasted rabbit with my bare hands on this nice oak desk!

Currently on the third episode. Good - really really good. Like, shocked delighted good. It's essentially supersonic Joel - season 2-4 style with the pace cranked way up. That may not be for everyone, but it's working for me. It reminds me of the Firesign Theater - very avant-screwball.