Coming from an Exile hater (seriously, I just can't get into that album and I've tried so many times), the one song that represents the worst qualities of that album — toying with black heritage — but it just so incredible and ethereal is "I Just Want to See His Face". It's my favorite Stones song and I listen to it…

Out of the shortlist of songs that make me tear up, the one that always gets me is "All That I Got is You" from Ghostface Killah. Such a powerful, beautiful song. Ghostface describes the shittiness of poverty so poignantly. (Hey, AV Club: why don't you do a list of hip-hop songs that are meant to wow the stubborn…

My favorite Radiohead song is "In Limbo". Really heady and meditative and it sounds so amazing right after "Optimistic". I love how the song ends. It sounds like a cat purring. The only time I saw them play it live, Nigel Godrich came up on stage (this was last year in Auburn, WA) and shook a tambourine to this song.…

"The Ocean". That's been my favorite song ever since I discovered Zeppelin at 13. (I always feel sorry for people who say their favorite song changes all the time for them. How sad to be so self-conscious.) I remember my skin already tingling as I finished up the cassette to Houses of the Holy. Then when "The Ocean"…

Yep. I've been to too many live Roots shows to not resist the joys of seeing them in 8-second intro/outros to commercials. The Jimmy Fallon Show: Something to read books to.

It is interesting that we focus on Bush's response typically more so than bringing up how the Air Force was doing test runs that day as the civilian planes flew wherever they pleased. We put billions of dollars each year into a military that won't even bother protecting us.

I guess my experience deals with parental censorship. My mom and I saw "Exit to Eden", I think it's called. Dan Akroyd, Rosie O'Donnell, I vaguely remember the film and was in my early teens. Anyway, the film has some unusual S&M comedy that I think my mom was really uncertain was going to lead to. So we walked out of…

Yes, "Death Note" is brilliant, my favorite anime series, and I've told many a non-anime friend to get into it. Even though they made it into a live action movie in Japan, I still have my fingers crossed that someday Christopher Nolan makes a U.S. adaptation of it. Anyone really into "Memento" would likely love "Death…

Actually, Five Ho, Grave of the Fireflies is partly autobiographical. The creator of the film raised his sister as a teen. When she died, he could never forgive himself so he made the film. Yeah, as if you needed the film to be any sadder…Anyway, it's a classic. Essential film.

Huh?
I've seen 8 of the 15 films and couldn't remember most of these scenes except vaguely Swank's mom in Million Dollar Baby and the one from Network only cause I rewatched it recently. Do I have a bad memory? I tend to remember most of the other references made about films here. Or are these scenes so bad or…

Whoa, I missed that episode. Sounds like a necessary punishment.

Obligatory vinyl collector post
Yes, I'm the asshole who still thinks it's clever to mount his collection of rare and normal vinyl cardboard covers panoramically around the room in plastic sleeves. My favorite of the bunch is "Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs" by Eddie Hazel, first pressing.

El Santo wins my gold medal. I mean…don't you want to know what's with the lion hands? And that profile of the game show host…priceless.

Silver medal to Sensation 109. Thanks, Breakfast Balls

Bronze medal
Neal Adams collective Green Lantern / Green Arrow series in no particular order:
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Man, Diamond Dogs is totally my favorite Bowie album. Those medleys are to die for. "Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing" and "Big Brother/Chant of the…" are incredible. "We Are the Dead" is brilliant too. And if you think "Rebel Rebel" is just some sad Rolling Stones retread, listen to the song that sets up that killer…

I think Aladdin Sane is his most overrated record and second Tobias. It's incomparable to Ziggy. That moment when "Star" segues into "Hang Onto Yourself" which then leads into "Ziggy Stardust" which then leads into "Suffragette" which then leads into "Rock N' Roll Suicide". Aladdin simply doesn't have that track to…

Hearts and Minds. Greatest documentary ever. Michael Moore only wishes he could allow a story to tell itself the way Peter Davis does. Exposes the U.S. imperialist culture with an unblinking eye.

Critical Thinking 101
Books: I'm always pleased to find out 1984 is required at some of yr. high schools. Because it certainly wasn't at mine. I would also add Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere, The Autobiography of Malcolm X and The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman. I find it interesting that the majority of…