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Yeah I'm with you. Wilco, Spoon and Old 97's have been consistently my three favorite bands for two decades now, which is crazy to think about. I get that Old 97's aren't on the same creative plane as the former two, but I will just always love them. I still do really like the newest Wilco stuff, but it's much more subdued and introspective than their earlier work. I know a lot of Wilco fans don't much like their stuff after A Ghost is Born, but Wilco (The Album) aside, I've really enjoyed most of it and think there are several great albums in there. But then there's Wilco (The Album), which is almost completely forgettable (Bull Black Nova, notwithstanding). To Spoon's credit, I don't think they've ever put out an album like that. I even really enjoyed their detor into dance/electronic with They Want my Soul and Hot Thoughts. As it were, I'm halfway through Lucifer on the Sofa and yeah... it's fucking GREAT. I don't know if it's up there with Ga, Gimme Fiction or Kill the Moonlight, but damn if it's not close. Need to listen to it like 25 more times, lol. Can't wait for my vinyl to get here... (not arriving until next Thursday)

Not sure I agree with this. Movies work just fine if you have (a) the right story and (b) the right people telling it. Look at Rogue One. It's exactly what a standalone Star Wars film should be - take part of the SW lore and flesh it out with (mostly) new and interesting characters Disagree about Solo to a certain extent. At the time, I thought it was a bad idea because I thought it would be impossible to properly capture the charisma of a young Harrison Ford. While that was certainly the case, if you can get past that, I really do feel like that movie has aged well. I've re-watched it 2-3 times in the past several months and it's really a lot of fun. In particular, Woody is fantastic as Beckett and Donald Glover is super as young Lando. The Crimson Dawn stuff was great, too. Whenever Filoni/Faverau decide to dip their toes into making a Star Wars feature film, I have no doubt it will kick ass.

Yeah every single album has been legit good. Even a band like, say, Wilco, has put out records that the fans/critics are kind of "meh" on... I feel like every Spoon record the fans and critics all are like, "Yep... another great Spoon record..." Got my shipping notification on orange/black (Go Pokes!) vinyl. Can't wait to spin this.

Don't think so. It's only 6 episodes, and Deborah Chow is directing all 6 and show-running. She previously directed two episodes of Mandalorian Season 1: Chapter 3 (The Sin) and Chapter 7 (The Reckoning).

Watched the finale last night. It was fun. Rampaging Rancor was great. The Boba-Cad faceoff was great, too. Wondering if Cad is dead? His little chest-light do-dad was still blinking when Boba walked off. My take on the whole Boba series is that it could have maybe been a bit better, but it was still mostly fun. Not everything Star Wars has to be amaze-balls. It kind of reminded me of The Bad Batch series. Not the best effort of the Filoniverse, but had some fun highs and was still worth a watch. And you know a lot of these story points will continue to play out with future Filoniverse shows. Only 3 short months until Obi-Wan! Woot!

Letts is amazing. I love in the "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" episode with JLD when she points out to Jerry that Letts ("the guy who won a Pulitzer for August: Osage County!") was in that episode and Jerry was totally unware, lol.

Fantastic. Also - a (relatively) young Tracy Letts as the guy from the off-track betting place which was Elaine's go-to fake number. "What about Charlie? He's a man."

Where's that rum raisin???

I don't know if they are "better" than Nolan's but they are quite good. I'd actually consider them "underrated" at this point just because Nolan's films sucked all of the air out of the "Batman movie" zeitgeist. Batman and Batman Returns are fantastic and I'll always love them. Burton did a tremendous job of essentially making a live action comic book (versus Nolan, whose inspiration was more urban crime dramas/mob movies), and the casting of Michael Keaton, Nicholson, DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer was perfect.

He's great. Another one of my all-time favorites and just absolutely inspired casting was James Spader as "the step skipper." "I'm so sorry George. I'm sorry I didn't want your rather bulbous head stretching out the normal-sized neck hole of my finely knitted sweater..."

That means each of us would only have to be like half a man... ... THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT...

You said it would be "a mailman I know" and you're A MAILMAN I KNOW....!

OMG. So mad I forgot these. George going to watch Breakfast at Tiffany's at a stranger's house is one of my all-time favorites... "Joe...."

Goddamnit! One I couldn't remember was one where Catherine Keener paints "The Kramer." She writes Jerry a letter that rips off a speech from a movie... a Woody Allen movie maybe? Don't recall.

Yeah it was in the episode when George takes out Bette Midler in the softball game. Jerry and "the understudy" are watching it at the start of the show. George also mentions when when he's trash-talking Bette Midler when she's at bat, lol.

Ha yeah. It is pretty clear, though, that Kramer and Elaine are the two big drinkers in the group. They barely ever show Jerry or George drink... usually just a glass of wine at dinner... but they show both Elaine and Kramer boozing it up pretty frequently. Off the top of my head... The English Patient, Beaches, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Star Trek II, Star Trek III... that's all I got... EDIT - How could I forget... Schindler's List

I think you're selling him a little short within the show's universe. I'd say within the show he's doing better than "medium-talent comic in NYC"... within the show he's successful enough that he goes on the Tonight Show multiple times, the Today Show (at least once with the Puffy shirt) and gets a pilot/development deal with NBC, and works steadily in and out of NYC. I think, within the show, he's probably supposed to be a comedian who is fairly well-known nationally and makes the rounds on the late night shows... kind of like, well, him, before his show hit big, or maybe someone like Ray Romano, also before he got his show. Just all of those guys who were his peers that were always on Letterman or Carson/Leno in the 80s/90s. So he's not like multi-millionaire or anything, but I imagine he's doing pretty well.

Saw DBT at Cain’s last night. My first show since seeing Wilco at Cain’s back in October 2019. Felt good to be back.

The waiiiiiiiiiting is the hardest part…

Freaking LOVE Sneakers. I had that VHS tape in college and watched it all the time. Great ensemble cast and great, underrated movie.

Since Thrawn and Ezra disappeared to the "Unknown Regions" (or whatever they called it) together, I'd be very surprised if we don't see him. And yeah I think it's a given we'll be getting all of the best Filoni characters in live action. Thrawn, Sabine and Ezra are almost a given, IMO. I think Hera, Chopper and Hondo are also pretty damn likely. Others that are possible, but maybe less likely... Embo, Dutchess Satine (flashback in Obi-Wan series), Kanan/Caleb Dune (flashback?), Agent Kallus (Cassian Andor series?).

I mean at this point I tend to think of all the "Filoni-verse" shows as one big show. They are all going to have important story/character cross-overs serving the larger story. It's interesting because in the old Expanded Universe (now non-canon "Legends") the post-ROTJ Luke recognized the problem with the dogmatic view of the Jedi on personal attachments and the problems it caused in the past and could cause in the future, so he relaxed those rules with new Jedi and that's how he ended up marrying Mara Jade. But yeah in the new canon (thanks to TLJ) he seems to be doubling down on the old Jedi dumbness and doesn't realize the problems with those views until *after* Ben Solo turns into Kylo Ren and wipes out his Jedi academy.

The first two tracks are very good, IMO. I already have Lucifer on the Sofa pre-ordered on vinyl so really looking forward to hearing the whole thing.

LOL had almost the exact same reaction/interaction.

Just watched. Goddamn that was great. I was already more than satisfied with the Grogu/Luke stuff plus the return of Vanth and then Filoni goes and brings in CAD MF BANE. I squealed like a schoolgirl when I saw him walking in town.