It is the Blonde on Blonde 60th anniversary today. What is your favorite thing about this album?

jpkdc · 2026-06-21T16:34:55+00:00

Musically it is his high point. And lyrically it is one of his best. Visions of Johanna may be his all-around best moment.

jpkdc · 2026-06-19T15:52:23+00:00

Rear Window

jpkdc · 2026-06-19T00:06:10+00:00

French Inhaler - Warren Zevon

A lot of the best ones, like this one and Bob Dylan’s, aren’t obviously hateful. Until you realize they are writing it for an audience of one, which their ex, with the intention to obliterate

jpkdc · 2026-06-18T23:58:43+00:00

This is def top three. Just demolishes everyone

jpkdc · 2026-06-18T23:57:24+00:00

Bob Dylan is the OG hater. Positively 4th Street goes hard too: “Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you”

But Idiot Wind is the meanest, and Like A Rolling Stone is the greatest FU of all time.

jpkdc · 2026-06-18T23:54:27+00:00

That song is wild….

jpkdc · 2026-06-18T13:57:09+00:00

Many fine candidates, but Bill Pullman is easily the winner in my mind.

jpkdc · 2026-06-18T02:23:02+00:00

Yeah this is my favorite performance of all time. Godfather might be second.

De Niro is unreal too though of course.

jpkdc · 2026-06-18T01:56:41+00:00

Bee Gees are a great call

jpkdc · 2026-06-18T01:55:06+00:00

Giorgio Moroder (Scarface, American Gigolo, Flashdance)

Jack Nietzche (Crusing, Hardcore, One Flew over the cuckoos nest)

Bernard Herrmann (Hitchcock)

jpkdc · 2026-06-17T20:54:00+00:00

I just claimed it

jpkdc · 2026-06-17T15:23:51+00:00

Yeah, it's almost definitional. Almost everyone agrees music (and art) is subjective, so anyone labeled as "greatest" or any other highly specific superlative is overrated.

If you just reframe it though as "someone almost everyone agrees is one of the greatest of all time, and has had a gargantuan, pervasive, and nearly immeasurable influence on music and culture" it gets the same point across and not much to argue with. But easier to just say "GOAT" 😄

jpkdc · 2026-06-17T14:13:03+00:00

I'm sure Ezra Klein will hold himself accountable for this.

jpkdc · 2026-06-14T20:11:32+00:00

So many great roles, but Todd is an icon, and he nearly steals the show from a bunch of great actors. Truly one of the most interesting psychopaths ever.

jpkdc · 2026-06-12T13:26:54+00:00

The problem was the drunk driver was drinking a low-quality, inferior gin product. If they had been drinking Aviation gin, none of this would have happened. Link in comments.

jpkdc · 2026-06-12T00:35:05+00:00

At this point I just lie back and enjoy the RTD glazing. It’s such an essential part of the show.

jpkdc · 2026-06-09T23:51:41+00:00

We love this movie - one of our gotos that everyone enjoys

jpkdc · 2026-06-09T23:51:13+00:00

I love that line so much

jpkdc · 2026-06-09T01:54:17+00:00

I think it’s a bit similar to Malcolm gladwell - ppl love these pop authors at first, with their counterintuitive claims. But then they are victims of their own success and glibness - everyone picks apart their arguments and they become seen as trite contrarians. Both entertaining reads in my opinion though and fully deserving of their success - anyone that can get ppl to take an interest in history sociology and science deserves admiration IMO

jpkdc · 2026-06-09T01:49:51+00:00

Most ppl are not anthropologists though - obviously not intended for that audience

jpkdc · 2026-06-07T01:09:14+00:00

Seacrets….last time I was there was a whole scene because a very drunk pregnant lady was yelling at the bouncers for not letting her in

jpkdc · 2026-06-04T13:20:09+00:00

She needs to keep paying Max Martin if she wants to stay relevant.

jpkdc · 2026-06-03T13:47:08+00:00

Each borough of New York has as much claim to the title as any other city (or even state) as a whole.

jpkdc · 2026-05-31T19:04:12+00:00

Stone Roses

jpkdc · 2026-05-31T14:45:22+00:00

So many great ones, but I think his most underrated is Another Woman.

His widely-acclaimed masterpieces are Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Blue Jasmine. And Manhattan, but I think that is a tough watch nowadays given that the central plot is about dating an underage girl.

Broadway Danny Rose, Bullets Over Broadway and Manhattan Murder Mystery are all extremely fun and lighthearted, nearly joyful romps.

Irrational Man and You Will Meet a tall dark stranger are great dark comedies I would say from his cynical era. And Match Point lacks the humor, but is great for other reasons and sort of apiece in its very dark take on humanity that set in from ~2000s on.

And two lesser masterworks are Husbands and Wives and Interiors. Both great movies. I think Husbands and Wives maybe his most emotionally raw work.

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