My enjoyment of restaurant is strange. I'm fascinated by how nobody ever pays, and they all have sudden explosions of taste, and they all like spicy sauce. It's beautiful, bizarre, and they all have open-ended stories with neither beginning nor end.

But I disagree on the live music. I think anime for music, and music for anime, are separate genres entirely from live music by live artists. And Arcane with its music videos are top notch. But since it's French-animated ordered by an American studio, some people wouldn't even call it anime.

And we do our culture a disservice if we assume that Billie Eilish is any sort of representative pinnacle. It's the cabal control of media that has punished our ability to find and celebrate the talent we have. I know a guy who walked away from a record deal because of the evil in Hollywood. I didn't understand when he did it, but now I do.

Anime is still growing on me. I'll check out the recommendations. But anime will never truly replace Rudy Giuliani as a surprise mystery singer.