Bit of a slight review
I'm pretty excited for this, though - got into Yoko with the remix album Yes I'm A Witch a few years back and her amazing live performance at Pitchfork fest that year, then moved on to (much of) the rest of her catalog. This's one of my more-anticipated releases of the year, though I oddly have…

Totally agree - it's hard to call any Beatle underrated, but the lack of credit Ringo gets makes a good case. Lexicondevil and RichardD have it pretty much spot on; Ringo wasn't as showy as some, but he didn't need to be. He's one of my all-time favorite drummers, and I'd like to add "She Said She Said" to the list…

Definitely agreed.
My sister saw them when they first showed up in Bloomington (home of Secretly Canadian) and got me hooked. This album - and their EP - really don't hold together spectacularly well and are clearly the work of a band that hasn't entirely defined itself yet, but there's so much going on, and such a…

With "Be My Baby" and "River Deep Mountain High" to her credit - and not to say that the others listed above are inconsequential - where would popular music be without Greenwich?

Good call, Sean O'Neal
Though I hold We Love Life in higher regard than you seem to (mainly based on Wickerman and Sunrise) Jarvis is perfectly suited for an album of Walker covers. Hell, throw in Neil Hannon while you're at it.

"Psychic City (Voodoo City)"
is possibly the best song of the summer I've heard this year. And I'd completely forgotten how much I liked "See A Penny Pick It Up" a few years ago. Looks like I should probably check this out.

I'd never heard of this before
Also intrigued now.

It's the name of the series. Sort of a shorter, more accessible approach to many of the ideas behind Morrison's Invisibles series. Wikipedia actually does a decent job of explaining it, between the overview and themes sections.

OICJC and Tasha are right - like anything else, from music to movies to novels, there's really no single "starting point": you have to get a general impression of a person's tastes in order to make a decent recommendation. Admittedly, comics are more of a niche thing than most mediums, so it's easy to fall into the…

The newest, Kathryn Immonen-written issue of Runaways was actually pretty great. I lost interest and dropped the series during Whedon's run, but I think I might be back in.

Nine (unmentioned) highly worthwhile albums
Just because it's been such a great year for music:

Whoops; skip in the shoddy internet service and I don't even realize I've managed to make this post already. Fucking AT&T.

The Zombies!
The fact that nobody's mentioned Odessey & Oracle yet makes me doubt the sanity of all AV Clubbers.

The Zombies!
The fact that no one's mentioned Odessey & Oracle yet makes me doubt the sanity of all AV Clubbers. Brilliant summer album. Those harmonies!

@WitchFinder I'd say it's worth a shot, if only because it's quite a change of pace from the first one - no songs that Jarvis wrote for other artists to perform, a rougher sound that you'd associate with Albini but not so much with JC, and some absolutely brilliant lyrics (though I'll not say the album is filled with…

The solo debut didn't grab me aside from a couple tracks
But man, this is a really good album, isn't it? Been in near-constant rotation since it leaked, and given how much good music seems to be coming out this year that's saying something.

Pretty late, but…
I've been wanting to re-watch this since reading Scott's essay, and I finally got the time to do it tonight (only a month later!)

It's time for a re-appraisal of Donnie Darko
One of the least-profound movies to represent itself as deep since the Matrix sequels. I'll admit some of that is more the fault of the film's fans than of the film itself, but man was that movie a disappointment.

What's weird is that Andy's earlier totally-manipulative character seems to have been dropped. I mean, it makes him much more likable, but it's strange to think how underhanded he was in trying to win approval when he was first introduced compared to the much more open way he acts now.

While they were dancing, Bob asked Phyllis, "Are those staples?" The line indicated that Dwight had stapled her shirt back together.