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Everything = indie

clear gives way to yellow

clear gives way to yellow

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how many of you think about this game every single time you hear a song that was used in it? Haha.
"This is the latest from saddle creek."

and then, you know, hope they speak enough Spanish to know you aren't chingaring around.

Every once in a while, I rediscover how crazy good Yuck's debut album is.

http://youtu.be/OssnQWe5IEg

Save the effort and buy a Skrillex record.

http://youtu.be/OssnQWe5IEg

Save the effort and buy a Skrillex record.

So Jack White called Dan Auerbach an asshole. Sounds a lot to me like the asshole calling the asshole "brown."

Man, it's tough, but you gotta own this all now. All bullshit and kidding aside, if you don't come clean and you lead her on, you'll officially be an asshole for real.

okay, so that was a super dickish post I made, sorry.
To each their own, really, but I think that it was a completely brilliant way to end this half. Breaking Bad is a show that is pretty much the opposite of "epic" - it presents everything in a very deconstructed way. Things sort of unfold slowly, and the devil is always in the details. Almost all of the exposition occurs in the slower moments that string together the big set pieces and the explosive parts. To me, it was always a given that the whole thing would unravel from one little missed detail that Hank would pick and scratch at until the floodgates open. Same as one little cigarette butt with lipstick on it would lead to one of the more emotionally bracing flashbacks. Same as some of the most intense and cathartic moments of the show aren't ones where people are getting shot or run over or blown up - they're moments of revelation and pathos (see: Jesse calling Jane's voicemail, "I am the one who knocks," "No more half-measures, Walter").
So there are basically two ways to go out - to try and top cliffhangers and massive set pieces, or to light the single spark that will start a raging fire. I don't think it would have been wise to try and top the intensity of the season 4/5 break. Instead, they took Hank, a man who nearly destroyed himself physically and mentally and certainly career-wise trying to catch his white whale, and blew up all of his near-misses and oh-so-close calls altogether. It wasn't from chasing the RV down from an ATM photo or acting on any serious hunch. It was a total accident during one of life's most mundane moments. A total left-turn from anything anybody would have expected, a call-back to a scene people may have forgotten, and bringing full-circle the consequences of one of the most unforgivable things that Walt and Jesse "had no choice but to do" in the interest of their own self-preservation. The icing on the cake is that the audience is allowed to see this revelatory moment through Hank's eyes.
If I was going to pick a bit of iffy writing, it would be that Walt just HAPPENS to be in the office when Steve Gomez tells Hank that they're bringing the hammer down on Mike Ehrmantraut. But that's just one thin part in a show that has had some of the most consistently top-notch writing that I have ever seen.
But yeah, to each their own. The part of me that is hyper-critical and loves to pick apart writing and read between the lines loves the shit out of it.

You fucked up. Lying to get into a female's vulva and subsequently, vagina, is a federal offense punishable by life in prison without parole. I suggest you lawyer up.

You fucked up. Lying to get into a female's vulva and subsequently, vagina, is a federal offense punishable by life in prison without parole. I suggest you lawyer up.

Now I have a headache.

Who the fuck is Bonnie Bear?

Wait. Who the fuck is Bon Iver? Did you misspell Bon Jovi?

Despite having a copy of Downward, I still wish Earth Analog would jump on doing a fancy schmancy deluxe repress themselves. You know, before another label licenses it out from under them to Matt Talbot's frustration.

I went in a head shop the other day to look through the records they had...found the section of "new" vinyl, and most of what it had was Limp Bizkit, Machine Head, Disturbed, and POD. I was...amazed.

I always enjoy Judge when he's bringing the dry wit.

Digital toilets are a lot cleaner, but they seem cold.

Watched Repo Man tonight, great shit

I kind of wish I'd named Iggy "Chewie" instead. His mother was a tiny little thing, but his father must have been a Maine Coon. So he's literally a walking carpet and very vocal, with red/orange fur. Definitely more of a Chewie than an Iggy.

Coal Chamber.