Oppenheimer was shit, another movie of his that treats women awfully. I haven't seen Oppenheimer yet, but I'm very curious about this take. Without rewatching anything I feel like he's another typical patriarchal director without much by way of nuanced, complex, or important female characters. But ...

I saw Oppenheimer this summer and I did see that Nolan won an Oscar for it.

I thought it fit well into the Nolan box of visually thrilling entertainment about worthwhile ideas that is not made for/by rubes. I am totally fine with this, but I still don't think of him as more than that.

As far as tips, get a bottle of fish sauce, keep it in the fridge. Put a couple dashes on every-fucking-thing you cook. Game changer. Not my brand but I get it. During 'rona times, I did some serious deep diving into the Woks of Life website. I was motivated mainly by a frustration of my lack of ab...

I’ll add that the decline of the AV Club bummed me out most of all. (It should win the Rod Stewart Award for Worst Fall from a High Peak.) Never let it be said that I missed an opportunity to shit on the new AV Club ; here is former contributor Scott Tobias sharing the latest idiocy involving that ...

The Wedding Present had this right all along. Exactly. They would also change up setlists night to night so each audience knew they were getting a somewhat different experience. And when it was over, everyone knew the band had given what they were going to give that night. A related practice is the...

Happily, I became much more open to bands and styles as I've gotten older. It's a long list. In the other direction - I was huge into the whole WaxTrax and adjacent kind of music as a teen. KMFDM, Ministry, Front 242, NIN, that sort. At the time I thought that shit was HARD, but man that shit has ag...

This is an impossible question. Kill Taker - Red Medicine - End Hits is a pretty untouchable run. "Foreman's Dog" holy moly what a song.

With today's technology, I think what matters most is the quality of the original recording - room, mics, placement, how the signal is captured and mixed whether analog or digital. I'm no expert in this stuff. The medium of delivery to my ears, as long as hi-res, is fungible given the many options. ...

love this record

The last 4? 5? decades have had their version of X will slow down global warming/climate change: remember the push to convert everything to natural gas in the '90s, then it was bio diesel, etc. Even if those things would have helped, they were never widely adopted, and ignored the bigger issue that...