I did the same thing at age 12 around 1990 when the choices were hair metal or dance pop, and it took me until about 1996 to realize that all music with distorted guitar was not the equivalent of hair metal. That's largely thanks to my sister buying Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness and me overhearing the more…

Really gratifying to see The Iron Giant make an appearance. From the convoy of soldiers on the old style troop carrier to the barely verbal monster/friend of the nerd boy hero self destructing with the Government's unimaginable-evil-unleashed. The genius of Stranger Things is making these explicit call backs that…

I walked/got rides from strangers from Pennsylvania to Kentucky when I was 19 and had several encounters that in retrospect scare me, but at the time I was in the grip of severe depression/religious mania and so didn't acknowledge the danger. West Virginia was the scariest with its gothic forested mountains and…

Who's got that Spotify playlist already made for us?

Oneohtrix Point Never and Washed Out were what started me looking back at that strand of 80's music.

Well the Kardashians are Armenian and that Taylor Swift seems like a real turkey here, so turnabout?

Yeah that's not PA, unless maybe right on the Maryland or WV border.

As a 37 year old, Pokemon for me has always been in the same category as Teletubbies and Power Rangers: some weird annoying little kid thing from the 90's. So seeing slightly younger politics and comedy people I follow on Twitter completely focusing on this now makes me feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone.

Jazz is not primarily a hipster/aficionado art form where the improv is what most people are digging. It has primarily been a dance music, and the whole nightclub scene is about people hearing standards while they eat drink and dance. The theater and festival jazz scene is parasitic on that original context. Anwya,…

Hey come on, can't we agree that all poor people are bad and dumb, regardless of their race?

"There’s nothing wrong with continuing to make a living by trading on your once-great band’s musical output—it’s called" It's called "the entire history of being a professional "musician right up until precious Baby Boomers turned musicians into high priests of their never ending youth culture, where a night's…

This is my favorite album of hers. I think a much more clear (and flattering) comparison than Kate Bush or Tori Amos for this one is Portishead. I can't get enough Portishead so this is a welcome substitute.

Of course it's voluntary, but as the whole point of Twitter is free discussion what's the problem with being there and complaining about the content? If you go there for the content that you get most of the time, and you find that it's being swamped by content you don't care about, that's annoying. And Twitter is for…

Counterpoint - the annoyance an non-fan feels when being bombarded by trivia is understandable, and venting with a hacky joke is ok. Every Sunday night I want to tweet "shut up about the tits & dragons show", so I get the sentiment. Now if people are going out of their way to mock sports, yeah that's dumb but if…

It's probably a generational thing. While I knew he was a former sports guy, to me he was a famous actor. I was 16 when the trial happened.

The New Radicals figured out this sound in 1997.

It is the impetus for the whole rest of it. Personhood begins at conception -> we should reduce and restrict abortion -> we should adopt socialistic policies.

Personhood, and thus human rights, begin at conception. But we cannot justly codify laws around this truth so long as only a certain portion of the population would bear the consequences of it. That is why the pro-life cause must adopt socialist policies around pregnancy, parenting and women in the workplace.

You don't sound fiscally conservative at all. Based on this I couldn't guess what your disagreements with Sanders are.

Is that show about the rich mean pretty lady who dies young and is punished by coming back to life as a rich fat lady lawyer part of this genre? My wife loves that show and this Royal Pains show. I can't fathom the willful choice to watch it, but I'll admit sometimes when she's watching one I'll stop for a minute and…