The motto of the AV Club Newswire: "Snars Gratia Snarkis"

I love the Pumpkins, but Billy Corgan is the only artist I've ever paid money to see perform live (the Pumpkins' 2000 "Machina" tour), only to walk out of the concert thinking, "Man, what a jackass…"

You're forgetting that there was also a 7-disc reissue of "The Aeroplane Flies High" which added another 86 extra songs (by my count.) to the 33 songs in the original 1996 box.

In a way, "Adore" may be the most timeless Pumpkins album, for no better reason than in so drastically altering the band's sound, Corgan also succeeded in making it sound like anything but an album from its era. I love the other "classic lineup" Pumpkins albums, don't get me wrong, but they sound like artifacts of…

I've heard some of the live shows from the "Adore" tour, and it was mesmerizing. (A fist fight?) This is the one super deluxe Pumpkins album that I was especially hoping would have non-bootleg live material, and I am not disappointed.

I'm a Who fan, but I don't understand how people can take the post-Moon years seriously, particularly as Townshend's solo albums from 1980-1985 are just so much better than either "Face Dances" or "It's Hard" As a fan of these albums, it annoys me to think that Pete's solo career ultimately faded away for no better…

For the record, I didn't read this article.

"The whole of cinematic history in the hands of media conglomerates deciding what is worthwhile and what is to be discarded. That’s hell. "

I haven't seen this film, but I am somewhat taken aback: That Bulger was an FBI informant is merely a "rumor"? That none of the evidence is "conclusive"? (By the way, evidence can't be divided. Opinion can be divided, but not evidence.)

I was worried—it's probably been at least four days since the AV Club has used the word "iconic" in an article headline.

Ten.

I love "Saturday Night Fever"—what I hate is the word "iconic".

But when everything becomes iconic…then nothing will be iconic.

Now that every aspect of popular culture that has managed to endure in the collective consciousness for more than eighteen months automatically becomes considered "iconic", it is apparently now incumbent upon headline writers to immediately distinguish that which is "most iconic".

Legal Eagles 2: Dark Of The Moon

Is it me? I seem to recall that it was several years (2006?) after "Phantom Menace" that an online essay popped up somewhere explaining the writer's dissatisfaction with the midichlorian concept of the Force. It was only then that PM haters also started caterwauling about midichlorians, mostly by parroting that…

Yet another example of a "celebrity" (or, in this case,, "celebrities") that I had never heard of prior to their use of said celebrity to say something controversial. These guys renovate houses—but the twist is that they're twins?

I typed somewhere, in another thread, that a major reason why "The Comeback" worked was because in its single season, it had a beginning, a middle, and an end. Maybe picking up the story of Valerie Cherish after ten years will be a good thing, but is it creatively necessary?

We shan't recover from this, no, we shan't recover from this…

"The Comeback" was an entertaining, if flawed series—the biggest thing it has going for it, however, is that it did last but a single season. The central concept of the show works only because, as it now exists, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Revisiting that same concept for a second season only would have…