Also: Artificial intelligence and “gaydar,” popular Star Trek episodes, Hollywood’s decline, Asian shoegaze, and imagining aliens.

Methinks some people need to be a little less pretentious concerning the art form’s integrity.

The experience of listening to music is so much more than simply the music’s audio fidelity.

Also: The elitism of the current technology boom, ‘Daredevil,’ Sufjan Stevens and broken love, and biblical hermeneutics with Terrence Malick.