"…the erotic life of a woman from the morning of her 18th birthday until the end of that same day."

That picture makes me think of some forgotten 'else-worlds' style Buffy episode. Akin to the ones where Willow is a vampire and Buffy was in Cleveland or something. Only in this alternate timeline Buffy has excellent discounts at the local pierce-atorium and black garment outlet mall.

Hey fuckface, are you HUNGRY? Does your ass actually fit into a regular size pair of jeans? Why are you starving yourself? This isn't motherfucking Ethiopia or some shit. INTRODUCING FIFTH MEAL. We layer HOT MELTED CHEESE over THREE STICKS OF DEEP-FRIED BUTTER and top the whole thing off with EVEN MORE MELTED CHEESE.…

Oh the heyday of shoving letters into film titles. If I remember correctly this phenomena took place while the Bond films were on hiatus between Dalton and Brosnan otherwise we could have seen some truly great mangled titles like T0m0rr0w N373r D135. Or 80085.

So THAT is where the Hostel movies came from. Or maybe that dude you knew in college became the key grip for one of the more dire Saw sequels.

The story of (and history operating around) Bulgakov's composition of Master and Margarita is as heartbreaking and surprising as the novel itself is beautiful and full of dark humor. Early drafts were burnt up, the author feared for his life, was restricted from writing or producing drama (Bulgakov was probably best…

Heller, thanks for this. I am listening to Cult of Youth on Spotify for the first time right now. It is pretty damned awesome. The pairing (and transition) from "Casting Thorns" and "Through the Fear" is especially remarkable. Can't think of many artists who could make something like this.

totally agree. Just thinking its a shame that so many albums that AVClub writers clearly dug were not included in the end product.

I took a closer look at your individual ballots to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of your voting Best Of system. I took the top 3 picks from each of the 16 voters. Here are some results:

Just off the top of my head I'd say the Stereogum and some of the All Songs Considered lists over on NPR are pretty decent lists. Granted their lists are deeper (more entries) so there is more room to find your particular chestnut and they divide them up by genre so there is less 'Ur Hip-Hop coverage sucks," etc.

Great fucking album. Feels like it will remain vital for a while, too.

The Brit pick is kind of a headscratcher but at least it has had some amazing success, singles -wise. What I mean to say is you have to judge it differently I suppose?

Scrolled and scrolled the comments looking for a more appropriate place to write this but didn't come across any Gang Gang Dance love. That would be my album of the year, closely followed By Destroyer, WU LYF and Iceage.

Hey, you, get off his cloud. You don't know Daniel Day and you don't know his style.

i think the internet 'authenticity' fracas was more about her rebranding herself as indie after she failed as a more mainstream pop artist than her being too pretty or some such. Because lord knows one's taste does not change over time nor can you simultaneously enjoy both pop music and indie (whatever that is). I'm…

My favorite monthly is Animal Man. Foreman is making a name for himself on that title.

I've said my piece on a few of the more poorly constructed fiction reviews I've encountered on this site but what I'd rather do is put a positive spin on this comment track and give a big FUCK YES to the AV Club's Film and TV reviews. They are among the best on the internet in my opinion.

Well, Murakami has always loved him some middle-aged male protagonist paying creepy amounts of attention to teenage girls…

and always bleeding from the skull. it was like the creators of that show had some sort of snuff fantasy they wanted to enact over and over again. "I know what will go perfectly with those gigantic owl eyes—a gaping head wound!"

This is like a 2 page excerpt from some forthcoming Pynchon novel. But I think Pynchon would have found a way to wheedle in an Uncle Jesse "Have Mercy!" when the Scientology operatives were snooping around Stamos.