yeah!
homages and references are way better than original storytelling and personal vision! I can't wait for the remake!

not terribly regional
we had plenty of stuff like this in philadelphia, where i grew up.

hahaha - that's pretty awesome. and accurate.

My favorite kind of AV Club interview
is when it's with someone I know nothing about, but decide to read it anyway because I'm bored. Next thing you know, I'm totally fascinated and learning a whole bunch of interesting shit I never knew before.

It seems like the argument breaks down as, "I don't like this, therefore I refuse to believe anyone else does."

and by "she" i meant "he". whoops.

According to wikipedia which I can't be bothered to link to, Cannibal Corpse is the highest selling death metal band of all time with over a million records sold. That's pretty commercial (there is a difference between 'mainstream' and 'commercial').

You keep using that word
"You won't find black metal with a girl in a bikini on the cover, or a monster. It challenged all of my preconceptions about what metal was. With a lot of the bands, even calling them "metal" is a bit of a stretch. Like, early Thorns is an example of a great black-metal band, but if you heard…

totally. that line always confused the shit out of me. does anyone even remember what the soundtrack to evil dead II sounded like?

Correction
"two self-absorbed teenage lovers"

Immediate Fail
The fact that there's no industrial anywhere on this list immediately disqualifies it from being 'the best electronic music of the 00s'

That hard drive loader was amazing
For more utterly retarded tech, Pacino was also in The Recruit, which advances the totally awesome idea of introducing a computer virus into systesms through "existing wiring" in a light socket. This is because, as Colin Farrel (playing an MIT "Computer Genius") explains, "there's…

Tom Cruise responds!
This is definitely a first for an AV Club article:

for the longest time
i thought the coens were being deliberately obtuse about the various subtextual elements of their films, but i'm starting to decide that they really, truly do create these multi-layered works of art without any thought or analyzation to those elements. goddamn geniuses and their stupid talent.

yeah, but it doesn't burn to the ground. it catches fire, and everything stays quite solid.

I also read Cold Six-Thousand before I realized it was a sequel and had the exact same initial reaction to American Tabloid. After getting punched in the face for over 600 pages by every single sentence if C6K, the more fluid style of AT was kind of a let-down (plus, Littell was such a great character, it initially…

Terrifying
I got to see him twice in LA back in April, and we have tickets for next month's show in Vegas. Sure it's selfish, but I really hope he hangs in there till then…

I'm late, I know
but Cochrane was definitely the most wasted as the seasons drew on. His monologue at the end of season one was phenomenal. Also, what the hell was up with his "lunger" storyline? He was progressing farther and farther into likely death, until Al yelled at him, and then it was never mentioned again.

You got your dates wrong
They toured with Bowie in 1995, not 1997.

actually?
"Has there ever been an apartment complex in the history of time where all of the residents moved there without knowing each other beforehand and then became super best pals after a few weeks of living there?"