April 2012
17 posts
Has There Ever Been A Backlash Against "I Want It...
If not, I want to start it now! Yes, it’s catchy, but it’s also mewly limp gibberish, and I’m tired of it being treated like the group’s greatest moment. I’m willing to accept that my preference for “Larger Than Life” is personal, but if you put “I Want It That Way” over the delightful, cocky Gap Band homage “Everybody (Backstreet’s...
Apr 27th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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katherine st asaph: A(n over)simplification of... →
katherinestasaph: anthonyisright: A) “They were better before they were important, right?” B) “We, the critics, find this to be the greatest work of an artist that has proven important.” C) *trumpets* “BEHOLD, THE UNDENIABLY IMPORTANT ARTIST SPEAKS!” I’ll go two steps further: D) The solid work that some… Totally adding Katherine’s two steps to the game, which at a booth I...
Apr 19th
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A(n over)simplification of "Rubber...
A) “They were better before they were important, right?” B) “We, the critics, find this to be the greatest work of an artist that has proven important.” C) *trumpets* “BEHOLD, THE UNDENIABLY IMPORTANT ARTIST SPEAKS!”
Apr 18th
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The Game Is "Rubber Soul/Revolver/Sgt. Pepper"
Best played in bars, dinner parties and other social gatherings of nerds. Take a legendary popular director, actor, band or whatever, and see if you can map out these three artifacts. A) The early popular work that a large number of fans consider the artists’ peak, often in opposition to B) The seminal work that is regularly declared their career highlight, with that critical consensus...
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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All I Have To Say About "Girls"
If you’re going to hire the mom from Freaks & Geeks to play a mom who excitedly announces she’s immediately cutting off her daughter mid-dinner with a sing-song “no more money” and later have her shriek about deserving a lake house as her daughter lies half-conscious on the floor, please give us some context so we can tell whether this horrible, contemptuous behavior...
Apr 16th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 3rd
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“All I know about Citizen Kane is that the dog was named Rosebud.”
– My wife, the cineaste. I was permitted to post this quote in exchange for spoilers.
Apr 3rd
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