@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus Ennis' gritty Punisher run gets all the attention but I love the wackier one he did where Castle uses Spider-man as a billy club to sock around a headless Russian and throws Wolverine under a steamroller. It was being a dick to superheroes in a cartoony and comic way —…

I understand that, but I was adventurous to a degree. I'd get punk albums and look for the bands they mentioned in the thank yous, for example, and look for bands bands I liked name-dropped in interviews. But I never delved too deep or strayed too far and I'm annoyed that my younger self, after falling in love with…

Well, that put some disturbing images of the Noid in my head. Again.

I joked about this before, but I really would be interested in some pre-Boomer hate. "God Bless America" is ripe for detestation.

Also, Andy Falkous!

I think I've told this before, but I rode the bus for the entirety of my school career (if there is a better definition of "lame" I'd like to hear it, really) and the bus driver listened to the same oldies station for years. And because it was a school bus, I was on it for the same time period for years, midway…

@avclub-95a62165d7784d4c1e8bbb3bdcb18d56:disqus bad song zombieism! In which you have already been infected and the only thing you can do to ease the pain and emptiness inside you is attack/infect others.

I still can't believe that Global Frequency's pilot did not get picked up. Seemed like a brilliant premise for a TV show. Although come to think of it, I'm halfway through the first series of Fringe and that has a giant Global Frequency/case-of-the-week vibe.

"Hello Sheboygan! We're My Own Prison, and the doors are locked from the outside!"

Nope, it was 2008. I remember it because Obama had just been elected and Primus spent much of their set bitching about it, ultimately closing the evening with a 30-minute version of "Here Come The Bastards" dedicated to the Democratic Party.

See, I like Global Frequency a ton. I think its issue-by-issue format plays to his strengths. @cousin_barnabas:disqus has a great criticism below about how Ellis is idea-focused and reading him can be like hearing about a story, Global Frequency's setup allows him to just throw out cool ideas, let them cause conflict…

I saw them live in 1998 on the Sno-Core Icicle Ball, which that year had probably the oddest lineup I've ever seen on a tour — the Aquabats opened, followed by Tha Alkaholiks, then Blink-182 and finally Primus (who I was there to see) as the headliner(!). They were fine, but what I remember most was the huge press of…

"I feel disdain for the kid that I was—a kid who couldn’t look further than alt-rock FM radio to find music to listen to."

I don't know if I'd go that far, but on the other hand the most important thing the interviewer has done so far in these has been the setup to "Well, you're a dick!"

I dunno about your radio stations but mine don't play "Whole Lotta Rosie," so I need to throw on Let There Be Rock to hear it and I never regret that decision.

I was trapped in a car this weekend without the ability to change the radio and guess which song I heard, @avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus ? The ACOUSTIC version of Cumbersome, which is even shittier than the regular version — those vocals are so much more prominent. I thought of you. It's your song now.

Aha! Simple Lessons! That is the Candlebox song I know (and I owned the album it is from, ugh). It's weird, I feel like this song is far more widely known/hated but I have no recollection of it.

Downface is a fantastic shitty band name but sounds much more late-90s nu-metal.

FLAGGED for not being Mr. Tusks.

Maybe Orbital gets away from this? But otherwise yes, it's pretty annoying. I think my main problem with Nextwave, which everyone seems to love, is that I came to it fairly late in reading Ellis and a lot of those tics were more obnoxious than entertaining for me.