I don't really understand getting worked up over what people call their children. I mean, Courtney means short nose. Cameron means crooked nose. Brian means maggot. But it doesn't matter. I think North and Nori both sound nice.
Kanye picked "You get Spike Jonze to direct your music video but he can only spend the length of the song working on it" in a game of Would You Rather?
He has made two incredible albums under his current moniker, so I don't give a shit. I don't think they sound like "the diary of a sad clown", whatever that means. He has said that he was playing a character more so under his previous moniker J. Tillman, the sad, saccharine, self-pitying, singer-songwriter type. Now he's just doing whatever he wants, and I like this work infinitely more. I don't care if someone thinks he's a caricature.
Such a stacked album. Still remember hitting play and hearing that "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" riff for the first time. Head began to rhythmically bob and my body began to move. Classic.
I know how much you wanted it blochead, but the real #1 is that Cale guy for the bullshit he said to Tom on the Bjork review.
Cale, the asshole, was robbed.
I love Father John Misty. His entire persona is dripping with smelly irony and cynicism, which is understandably a little too much for some people, but I can't get enough of him. I Love You, Honeybear builds upon Fear Fun in ways I didn't expect. It's an outstanding record; a new song stands out on every listen.
My ego was kept firmly in check by this year's Top 50 comments; from four places in 2013 to none in 2014. I took it very badly.
I'm determined to place this year, but sadly the only shining light in a shit January performance is my Editor in Chief award. My only hope may be to become as omnipresent/prolific/incessant as you are.
I'll always have this: http://www.stereogum.com/1667557/shut-up-dude-this-weeks-best-and-worst-comments-116/franchises/shut-up-dude/comment-page-1/#comment-8392467
Your third paragraph is completely valid though. I don't think that's the same. That has nothing to do with you feeling some weird ownership over someone's art, it has to do with others not understanding something more transcendental. Something that has to do with humanity as a whole.
I think I understand what you mean. However, I feel if they had fully committed to some supernatural theme/element and made that a concrete reality in the True Detective universe, that would have ruined the show. This was about insane characters that were into some occult practices, and validating those occult practices, and lending them some credence, would have been a huge misstep by Pizzolatto. As it stands, I thought it was an excellent first season.
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