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Same answer as a previous AVQ&A
This also was my "Best Personal Pop-Culture Experience of the Decade" from last month's AVQ&A, but here goes:

"Impersonal" is still my favorite of PFT's two albums, but …
… "Freak Wharf"definitely has some really, really good bits on—

LOVE PSYCHEDELICO
Meeting and interviewing the two core members of Japanese folk-rock duo Love Psychedelico, and seeing them perform three times (Royal Clayton's tavern, Los Angeles, May 2008; World Happiness Festival, Tokyo, August 2009; and Super Session Vol. 3, Shibuya, Japan, October 2009).

"I AM GOING TO MURDER YOU!!!"

Re: Brain Candy
Still one of my favorite comedies of all time.

F for "Fade away, Chris. Just fade away. (And then get sent to federal, pound-me-in-the-ass prison.)"

@Unpossible: Very true. The whole ——- Airlines suite at the end was classic, especially the out-of-nowhere Walken impression: "There's no record of you talkin' to some bitch — she's probably dead!"

Best stand-up album of the year
Best album cover of the year.

Squibbity-flabbity-doo! *Pip pa-pip pip* DEAD.

Her lipstick was as red as the logo on the pack of Lucky Strikes in my shirt pocket. Tears streaking down her cheeks same as the raindrops pounding on my office window. Her green eyes peek up from under a hat that looks like it costs what I make in a month and says to me, "You've got to help me." I says back to her,

Superheroes …
To Leonard it's no big deal, they just a bunch of knucklefucks.

I only own three from this list …
… but that includes the No. 1 pick from Phoenix, "Merriweather Post Pavilion" and "It's Blitz!"

[Walks into room full of A.V. Club commentors]
… Large Marge sent me.

Though they nearly did with such beloved hits as "Surfin' Surprise," "On the Surf," "I Love Surfin'," "A Song About Surfing," "Surf!," "Everybody's Out Surfing," "Why is Nobody Out Surfing?," "Just Gotta Surf," "Me, My Surf and I," "Surf-tastic," "Surf-alicious" and of course, their nine-minute rock opera-esque suite,

Soup's on, and I got a coupon
Chinese restaurant, asking for the Grey Poupon
He said, "No — duck sauce, soy sauce.
And this ain't no Burger King, so you don't get no toy, boss."

The image that comes to mind when I think of Robbie Williams is and always will be that video where he strips down to exposed internal muscle tissue and then eventually just bones. I was in Japan at the time, and MTV there showed the extended (or uncensored, or whatever) version.

He came to ask him for at least some new tracks
But only got confronted by the beast with two backs

Hells yes.
When it comes to DOOM, I belong squarely in the "obsessive / completist" category you mention (though I have yet to check out any of the "Special Herbs" instrumental discs), and in the weeks since picking up "Unexpected Guests" it's damn near been the only music I've listened to. I don't even think "Born

Tap ya toe, grime and strapped for dough
Rap for show, to let the whippersnappers know
Sucks to be them, now pass that loot
Up under the tux he wore a hazmat suit
Sounded like froggy, sip the groggiest of potions
Be up in the party with the foggiest of notions
On the list of lobbyists who save the oceans
Gave his donation to

I just bought "Invite Them Up" and "Comedy Death Ray" at the same time, and there is such a wealth of good stuff on both of those that it's hard to choose a favorite. Probably the strongest set on "CDR" is Paul F. Tompkins, especially the bit about never being ready to see Fabio ("The very idea of you!") On "ITU,"