Beat the Champ is great— there's a Broadway-showtune sound to the songwriting that I love, and "Werewold Gimmick" is one of the hardest rockers in the man's catalogue.

I'm digging it— it's neat to hear more of a presence of synths and weirder production on the record. B feels about right, but it's an album that's definitely on my wavelength.

It definitely sounds like he's less interested in taking his characters when they're at emotional low and high points, and more concerned with nostalgia, regret, and uneasy equilibrium. It's an album about people having passed through crises and survived, rather than being in the middle of them.

I can't rank em— and this is, like, the one band where that's a case —because no band has meant as much to me as tMG and that's inseparable from the music. Like, okay, All Eternals Deck is my favorite album of all time, but is that because it's a showcase for how amazing Hughes and Wurster are as a rhythm section and…

Heretic Pride was originally going to be an album of songs about monsters— hence Lake Tianchi, Michel Myers, etc. That mission got away from them, but there's still a lot of traces there.

Neither member is cis and both identify as gender-non binary.

God, Bobby Peru is a human nightmare. Such a grotesque, terrifying performance.

This is my second-favorite thing related to right-wing media today.

Definitely bazgo.

And it's not like anyone's saying Kanye was wrong about Bush nowadays.

Fuck that movie for wasting the potential of Willem Dafoe as a hammy villainous Dick Cheney stand-in.

It really is nightmarish, down to Cooper walking and walking in a looping space while being pursued. It, and Mulholland Drive, are the most dreamlike things I've ever seen on film.

It's a shame that Jimmy Scott, the haunting, androgynous (he had a glandular condition that left him prepubescent his whole life) jazz singer from the finale passed away a few years ago. I mean, it's of course a shame that he's dead, but also because I would have loved to see him in the show again. He was such a good…

Whether or not he's trapped in a dream.

Unpopular opinion: Heston deserved what Moore did to him. It was mean and unfair, but if the guy was too doddering and old to handle a confrontational, unfair interview, he shouldn't have been heading an organization that shapes life-and-death public policy.

Look, I know that there's been a lot of Dangerfield jokes posted, but I'm just gonna use his darkest, most applicable one-liner.

Jesus.

No thank you. It's not like the filmmakers left them ambiguous by mistake.

That scene was definitely a little rushed and forced. Odenkirk was still great in it though.

They stuck him across the border managing local distribution, just one rung up from street level. It definitely seems like Tuco doesn't even do business with Hector directly. Compared to what the other Salamancas are up to, Tuco's definitely being kept at arm's length.