watching this with a packed, energized house at the Vista - built atop the Hollywood ruins of D.W. Griffith's Babylon - on the one year anniversary of Charlottesville was both sobering and electric; hate is here, it has always been here, and it's our duty to call it by its own ugly name then beat it back into the earth. that should not be news.

Spike's style is absolutely sensational throughout - hitting an ecstatic register that you might call…