Failed Pilot

(in order)

1. Nashville
2. Brewster McCloud
3. The Long Goodbye
4. Short Cuts
5. 3 Women
6. M*A*S*H
7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
8. California Split
9. Images
10. Thieves Like Us

This is what Jim Cramer’s Mad Money looks like on mute, with closed captioning:

(screaming)
(baby crying)
(train whistle)
Now let’s talk about steel…..
(explosion)
It’s in my book…
(BUY!! BUY!! BUY!!)
(breaking glass)
(horn)

“_______ is _______’s White Album.”

“_______ is _______’s Physical Graffiti.”

This is the 4,821st lazy crutch that must be stopped. Just because a band makes a really long record with too many styles contained within, that band did not make “their Sandinista!” When a band makes a brazen shift into weirdness, they are not making “their Sgt. Pepper’s.” I can’t believe I just read this sort of wordcount cheating in a recently published review. Ok, yes I can. You know, I now wonder if I’M guilty.