return to form
Childish Prodigy is not Kurt's best album. His first few records have that Springsteen/Nebraska magic and are just perfect in mood and production. Smoke Ring is a return to this sound so while being less ambitious, it is what Kurt seems to be best at. The most disappointing thing about Smoke Ring is the…

Barton Fink is a great one.

Salute to Scenes of People Using a Typewriter
Movies include:

GTA is actually a very moral game because you can play the game without killing any civilians. Prototype also is moral in a sense because you are supposed to be playing a villain or at least an anti-hero so the slaughter of innocents is what is expected of the character. Prototype or GTA would only be immoral if…

Exactly. You think writers would actually understand how works of art are separate from the artists. This isn't just a problem with the AV Club staff but film and music critics in general who, more often than not, are reviewing the people rather than their work.

You're doing it wrong
Some of these picks aren't even about immoral works of art (if there even is such a thing) but the morality of the creators which is an entirely different problem. Others are just apologies of liberal guilt as if conservatives don't have issues with violence in entertainment.
I also find it…

scalpers i love you, but you're bringing me down
all my friends (will not be at the show)
north american scumfucks
scalper infiltrator
never as tired, as when I"M WRITING IN CAPS

Charlie Brown offers to pay baseball team's salary
Struggling pitcher and disgruntled adolescent, Charlie "Chuck" Brown, has offered to pay the salaries of his fellow teammates if they are to overlook his lack of talent, abysmal ERA, and generally bummer attitude. Charlie has generously offered to give up his weekly…

What does dick mean?
I'm not really sure what dick particularly means in this article. Bono and Robbie Robertson didn't really do anything to be labeled "dicks." Bob Dylan and Radiohead aren't the only ones to have ever hated the media. Paul McCartney and Q-Tip aren't the only ones to have ever been control freaks in…

Keaton and the long con
The greatness of Keaton I think lies in his ability to stretch out gag sequences to nearly epic length. Chaplin films usually had more narrative and therefore the gags were non-sequiturs to the story, such as the roller skating scene in Modern Times. In Keaton's films the gags are interwoven…

is what a joke?

An entire column on "loud" Ohio bands
Guided By Voices
The Breeders
New Bomb Turks
Times New Viking
The Black Keys
early Devo
Pere Ubu
Psychedelic Horseshit

My one man cults
Band: Times New Viking (best lo-fi band of 00's)
Album: Powerage by ACDC (their best album even though it contains no hits)
Movie: How I Won the War (and everything else by Richard Lester)
Game: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (better than Red Dead Redemption)
Author: Jay Cantor (epic novelist that…

Also Lee Marvin. Also Ernest Borgnine. Also Walter Brennan. Film had one of the best male casts ever.

Blackboard Jungle is not a cult film
Why is it that any film that is in black and white and made before 1970 is labeled "cult"? Can classic film not be appreciated on its own terms instead of being placed into this cult category which is just a catch-all phrase with no meaning.

Mirror Man has better versions of the same songs that appear on Strictly Personal which was messed with in post-production.

Also, Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee is the greatest song title of all time.

Best Albums in order
1. Doc at the Radar Station
2. Trout Mask Replica
3. Lick My Decals Off, Baby
4. Safe as Milk
5. Ice Cream for Crow
6. Mirror Man
7. The Spotlight Kid
8. Clear Spot
9. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
10. Strictly Personal

Confessions of a Trophy: A Novella
I didn't expect to fall from a skyscraper into a car windshield. I didn't expect to wake up next to a naked bald-headed pumpkin. I didn't expect the sun to go out. Yet this is my power. This is my curse. Like a god, I give pleasure to man. He raises me erect and the day is no more.…

If by half-wittedly inane you mean insightfully accurate than thank you. But I find Dean's performance to be too overwrought and acting like he thinks a rebel would act. Mineo on the other hand delivers a performance that is as vulnerable and revealing as any put on film. I don't want to put it completely on his…