"intentionally antagonistic books that shit on everything that people hold dear"

Best "baby noir" ever
With Tracer Bullet from Calvin & Hobbes coming a close second.

Mann is pretty much the king of shooting in DV. He's always been an intensely slick visual stylist, but the night scenes in Collateral are something else. Now I'm REALLY excited for Public Enemies.

Irreversible II: Reversible

hatin had gone too far, and had best watch his mouth.

Cantona vs. Neruda.

While we're on Arabic literature, how about "Miramar" by Tayeb Salih? I've had it on my shelf for years, and could really do with a little push towards reading it.

I'd love an excuse to go back to Motherless Brooklyn. The Fortress Of Solitude is also great. And I loved The Disappointment Artist, his short collection of essays (the long piece on the New York subway is one of the finest bits of non-fiction outside David Foster Wallace I've read recently).

"I hate to admit it, but yeah, I could use a Primer on When to Pee and Poop."

Now I'm excited. I read it at the beginning of '08 (on the advice of AVC commenters, no less! This site changes lives!) and it definitely felt like one of those books that benefit from multiple readings. I'm definitely looking forward to going back over it.

"Shut up YOUR face."

They could at least have given him the patented Evil Doppelganger Goatee.

"Their desire to keep living shows me no respect."

Haha, Bogus Journey. No idea if it would hold up now, but I too loved it when I was a kid. Possibly the most unlikely venue for a lengthy Seventh Seal reference/parody…

"Ignoring the events of T3 would kind of render the title a bit anachronistic, don't you think?"

Tintin!
Many fond memories of childhood there - I still have all the books on my shelf (apart from stuff like Tintin au Congo, which is meant to be incredibly racist). I wouldn't have thought they'd be at all well-known in America, but they're well worth reading - classic adventure yarns, well-plotted and excellently…

Too late to make a Simpsons reference? Never!

Who needs a kidney?
Is it Ernest? I just can't get enough of his wacky shenanigans!

See, for me it's the opposite. The Clash come out ahead of all those bands you mentioned. The Buzzcocks may have the energy, the Stranglers may have the wit, the Pistols may have that cartoony image, but The Clash have that swaggering image lashed to raw sincerity, fiercly polemical songwriting, musical innvoation in…

"CITIZEN APE."