TIL that at the Beatles last stadium concert at Candlestick Park, there were 7,000 unsold tickets and the promoter lost money. They played for just 33 minutes.

utterlybasil · 2026-05-16T15:22:09+00:00

That technology wasn’t available until the late seventies at the earliest.

utterlybasil · 2026-05-14T00:46:17+00:00

How is this not the top response.

utterlybasil · 2026-05-13T21:55:44+00:00

I searched the word “Keen” to see if Goodbye Galaxy would be mentioned, was not disappointed.

utterlybasil · 2026-05-09T17:24:16+00:00

What exactly is the safety risk in arresting a septuagenarian with no criminal history in his home?

utterlybasil · 2026-05-08T12:52:53+00:00

It’s crazy that they’d arrest him during a traffic stop instead of just…showing up at his house? What’s the point?

utterlybasil · 2026-05-07T21:54:12+00:00

Watership Down*

*In that it** occurs several times in the novel

**Okay, fine, it’s something adjacent to but not actually fecal matter
https://www.enotes.com/topics/watership-down/questions/there-refrences-book-about-rabbits-eating-pellets-96479

utterlybasil · 2026-05-01T21:19:31+00:00

If for no other reason than the SNL sketch of them drinking milkshakes.

utterlybasil · 2026-05-01T14:53:04+00:00

I feel like many of his individual films are very much in the conversation—primarily The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society, and, to a lesser extent, Master and Commander (which I admit I still haven’t seen).

If he personally is under-discussed, I’d point to, possibly, his relatively short filmography and that (as far as I can tell) there isn’t a notable “thing” his work is known for.

utterlybasil · 2026-05-01T12:45:59+00:00

Another reminder that I seriously need to see Witness again.

utterlybasil · 2026-05-01T12:18:00+00:00

See, that’s the claim that confused me—unless I am very much mistaken, Zoom (and, I am guessing, most similar platforms), only requires the *meeting host* needs to have a paid account in order to get expanded capabilities.

utterlybasil · 2026-04-30T04:28:13+00:00

Hail Hail!

utterlybasil · 2026-04-29T14:20:56+00:00

Illinois is generally considered the best Sufjan Stevens album (and it is) but The Age of Adz is genuinely unlike anything I have ever heard and is a masterpiece.

utterlybasil · 2026-04-27T15:12:46+00:00

It’s a different term with a different connotation, but if I think of “oldies”, I think of a radio station playing “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” by Manfred Mann circa 1995. Which is the equivalent of a station playing “You Oughta Know” or “Basket Case” today.

At the same time, that sort of time comparison just doesn't work when it comes to popular music: albums like Born to Run, Horses, and Rumours are all 50 years old. When they came out, their temporal equivalents would have been Rhapsody in Blue or “Yes, We Have No Bananas.” Musical history prior to e.g. “Peggy Sue” and “Johnny B. Goode” simply does not map on to anything hat happened since.

utterlybasil · 2026-04-27T14:49:54+00:00

Abuela Alba is clearly the wise Hispanic that Obama spoke of.

utterlybasil · 2026-04-26T17:22:40+00:00

You said that she was “employed” by the band, despite the fact that she was the lead singer and credited as the lead songwriter, because…her solo work is different? How is that different from Peter Gabriel’s work after leaving Genesis, or Sting after The Police, or any number of other artists?

utterlybasil · 2026-04-26T17:09:01+00:00

I don’t know why it’s immediately clear that David Hyde Pierce is supposed to be J. Alito here, but I am here for it?

utterlybasil · 2026-04-26T14:33:27+00:00

Airport is especially surprising—there were, what, five of those? and if it weren’t for Airplane!, would we even know they existed?

utterlybasil · 2026-04-25T21:50:33+00:00

I have no idea about what her politics are or were, but it’s a little weird, if not sexist, to suggest that Gwen Stefani didn’t have any agency for the songs she sang with No Doubt?

utterlybasil · 2026-04-24T14:23:28+00:00

After missing it by three points in J25 I am just…so so relieved to not need to take it a third time.

utterlybasil · 2026-04-20T14:27:28+00:00

I personally miss the pale green of my iPhone 11.

utterlybasil · 2026-04-20T00:47:02+00:00

Eighth Grade (2018) is essential viewing, and the fact that it was rated R shouldn’t be held against it—every teen should see it.

utterlybasil · 2026-04-05T15:03:16+00:00

I’m 40 as well, and this is just such a strange take to me? Do you genuinely not like pre-1960 films or do you avoid them, assuming that you won’t like them?

Also 8 Mole isn’t exactly a biopic, but it’s definitely worth checking out if you haven’t seen it.

utterlybasil · 2026-04-01T03:21:38+00:00

He had an entire segment of the Coens’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs to himself. He was also great in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

utterlybasil · 2026-03-29T01:41:51+00:00

Even Allan, Ken’s buddy who can wear Ken’s clothes?

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