Imagine this as a marathon Halloween viewing party, where everyone is tasked with bringing the real, pipe-hitting scary shit:

What interested me was when Matt Cameron joined, he wrote songs for the band that jumped and stuttered like Soundgarden always did. I remember in interviews Eddie saying that songs like "Evacuation" were really hard for the band to learn and play. McCready and Gossard were professional musicians in their 30's, and a…

Really? Okay, admittedly my tastes usually lean towards more esoteric guitar playing, so maybe it's just me. Stone Gossard to me seems fairly workmanlike, McCready is just like the guitar solo guy who sticks to the same bluesy scales Led Zep, et. al, already did 40 years ago.

I actually like the dynamics and little things hiding in the corners of this song. Their last two albums were just power chords with drumbeats, for the most part. The worst thing PJ ever does is let Mike McCready shine. His bluesy solos are so embarassing. Actually, I think it's pretty baffling that a rock band could…

Watching it now…I am usually quick to defend the writers here and don't get into all the SIIIIIMS! nonsense. But this is an awful, awful show. Is this review a joke? Rabble-rousing?

Another thing this article failed to mention (not that it needed to): The early rumors were that Crispin Glover might be the Joker. You can't blame us for being a little letdown by hearing the casting news that it would be Heath Ledger instead. He turned out to be great, but holy shit Crispin Glover.

Jack's wild cackle is so great and infectious. And that face is absolutely iconic. I don't know if I prefer his character to Ledger's, but Jack was more "Joker." Ledger was weird and wore purple, but didn't do a lot of joking.

They all cost about that much. At Barnes and Noble they have some really cool ones that are I guess for adult LEGO fans (Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water, the White House). Those are over 100 bones!

Does the current generation of actors have its own Martin Balsam? Considering the best we can do for an "older" Batman is Ben Affleck, who could probably pass for 25, where the fuck are the Real Men and Regular Guys in Hollywood??

Is he farting, specifically, on Gaye's music though? I mean aren't there hundreds of singers who do pretty much this same thing? Shit, did Marvin Gaye innovate musical composition in some way I don't know about?

Fuck the family. There are hundreds of singers who do this R&B loverman routine. The Gayes are not owned monetary compensation because a singer sounds (vaguely) like their father. Hell, Thicke has openly admitted and CREDITED Marvin Gaye as an influence.

I don't like their music, but the most interesting part is that it's almost like they fucked their career up on purpose.  Reading "Our Band Could Be Your Life" there are like 3 separate important shows or opportunities where they showed up drunk and played Tom Petty covers instead of actually blowing people away.

That's right the tar baby is not presented as a black stereotype. It's just a sticky thing that looks like a person.

I don't know…it's just tough for me to imagine him as the ultimate badass when he went home and said his prayers every night. Maybe I am small-minded…but I can't see a bible-thumper as an anti-authority hero.

I do like these albums, but I get tired of the image of Cash as the ultimate rebel. For every song about shooting men and doing drugs, he has dozens about how great Jesus is or other cornpone garbage. That Man in Black ideal is really only true of about 5% of his discography.

Very strange….this woman's letter was vague and contained no problem at all, and the answer was an advertisement for some kind of postmodern porn site. I feel like I've missed something.

They're kidding themselves if they think this was much more than a freak show and/or teenage jackoff material.

Yeah, but the Misfits and Minor Threat aren't youth culture.

Actually, people have easiest access to complete garbage and, with video stores gone, no access to certain better movies. It's easier for me to log in to Netflix and check out License to Drive than it is to watch Citizen Kane on a whim.

All of those movies are either sequels or existing properties. How many truly original, stand-alone movies will be big hits next year? You can't tell me Pacific Rim wouldn't have done just a TEENY bit better (with a couple tweaks), titled Voltron.