It's trivially easy to despise Avatar movies as I do and still appreciate that Cameron doing exactly what he wants to do in the way he wants to do it. Also T2 is a perfectly crafted movie IMO, and I can watch it over and over again. But that doesn't make it a masterpiece.

My earliest Christmas memory is liking the presents but not buying the narrative. My grandpa had flown me in a Cessna from Burbank to Ventura so I had a feel for how many houses there were and I had also looked up the chimney flue and no fat man getting down that.

Not to mention all the hits he wrote for other artists. (I spent some time in Minnesota in the '80s and it was crazy. I've never seen so many life-size cardboard cutouts of any other human being.)

The Towering Inferno! Neat.

Hey, that was my one encounter with the sheriff's deputy in Louisiana too.

I try not to say I hate things but I also truly hate Forrest Gump, Titanic and the Avatar movies.

and Adobe and QuickBooks and Google

and Batgirl. I need me some more old Keaton Batman

damn now I got to start another band

By S2 E2 I was "yup, still disliking this experience" and never went back.

Isis. I know it's not the best but it speaks to era of my life and to my songwriting and narrative sensibilities.

...whereas for me the very act of taking notes removes the material from the abstract and solidifies the concepts in my brain, so the notes aren't all that useful later but are invaluable at the time. I also studied by stating relevant stuff aloud, cuz if you can say it you can write it down later.

Batman Dark Patterns has been stellar. I'm obsessed with the panel designs in addition to the art itself. Also it's Batman the detective

I was the biggest Blow Pop customer of my local school candy entrepreneurs (in the '70s)

pretty sure I've spent more time in this cover for a single than it took to actually record the single