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I am sensitive to caffeine and white chocolate has none. But what the hell, I'll eat it anyways.

Well, there's the donut hamburger, but I think Paula Deen beat me to it.

Jay Reatard
I'm a fan of Jay, but I think a lot of his post-death hagiography comes from dying young. Alicja Trout is still around though, and gets no press whatsoever. If you like garage rock, check her out.

Nah. He's just one Meet the Parents sequel away from a late-career renaissance.

Auto-erotic asphyxiation, Heche. A clean, natural high.

John Lennon wasn't a saint, John Lennon didn't have to be a saint.

Thompson would have loved to see Obama elected, I know that. Towards the end he was so desperate for hope he was latching on to the likes of John Kerry. Then again, maybe it suited his apocalyptic style better to go down in the raging torrent of doom that was the Bush years.

Didn't Churchill say that the greatest tragedy to befall the Russian people was Lenin's birth, and the second greatest tragedy to befall the Russian people was Lenin's death?
Well someone said it.

I have no snarky one-liner for this. Actually, I do, but I just… can't… pull the trigger.
So um, hugs?

Good call on that. Douglas Adams somehow made me like an Eagles song.

I like to masturbate sometimes. But not all the time.
Know what I mean?

'Nother One
I didn't like the Dawn of the Dead remake, but using The Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died" is the perfect way to end any zombie movie.

Wack Handlen
I fucking love that Cat People scene in Inglourious Basterds, and I wish Tarantino had stuck to that "music video" vibe throughout. Like Zack says, segements of the movie are great, but you're bouncing back and forth between cartoonish violence/characters intoduced with rock riffs, and slow-burn scenes of

(piano music swells)

I'm pretty sure the Perfect Day/Trainspotting scene was mentioned in one of the inventories. The song complements McGregor's OD so perfectly that I can't hear it now without seeing it play out in my mind.

Generation Kill
Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around" is an absolutely perfect, chilling song, but the most standout use of it for me comes at the end of the HBO miniseries Generation Kill. In the entire show, there's no soundtrack music (though the marines in it often sing pop songs out loud to pass the time). Then in

Starting fires and sneaking out of church to rob parked cars
"When Bart and Cartman compare the worst things they've ever done, Bart mentions that he once cut the head off a statue"

I can't really remember any well-described drugs in Transmetropolitan though. Even though Spider was an obvious Hunter Thompson stand-in, the drug stuff was just background noise.

I'm pretty sure you just sprayed it on your eyeball.

Adrenochrome
Sacrifice… sacrifice… sacrifice…