I hate me some Young, but he sure knows how to pitch his work at the judges' sweet spot.

She's going to amp up the brattiness next week, if the previews are to be believed.

Coltrane? There's a simile Murakami would appreciate!

I distinctly remember references to a large, impressive member in Sputnik Sweetheart; not to mention the phone-sexy first few pages of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Wonderland and Dance Dance Dance are two of my favorites; I definitely see what you're saying about Birnbaum's translations. There's a lot of "philosophical musing" in Wind-Up Bird that doesn't do the already-meandering plot any favors…I also like Philip Gabriel's work on Kafka on the Shore. I guess the point here is…

I'd like to think she spelt it incorrectly on purpose, to mimic what her ten-year-old self would've done. I don't know if it was a necessary touch but I'd call it the least of her mistakes.

I thought it was funny when he basically quoted the title of "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" without acknowledging that his idea MAY have been covered a million times before, and better.

Best faces of the episode: Young throwing up Blue Steel as he cavorted pantless for his piece.
Sara's pitch-perfect "brooding artist" sulk during one of her talking-head bits.
China's complete sad face during Sara's crit: watery eyes and downturned lips.

Oh my god - you're not lying. Evile's vocalist sounds *exactly* like Hetfield in his prime!

More posts = more credibility!!

Well…Jones has reviewed around twenty games for the AV Club. What's "real" experience? Rating games on a scale of eight to ten because you're afraid of losing publisher reacharounds? In the same vein: what are these hard-and-fast rules for quality mechanics and story?

Ah…basically what I was saying up top but much more succinctly. Well done!

I think Argento simply lost his touch for atmosphere, which is what made his early works so great. Trying to recapture the Three Mothers spirit with Mother of Tears didn't work with boilerplate music and sitcom-quality cinematography. Is the plot substantially different? Measurably MORE happens in Tears than Suspiria…

Seemed like the Prop 8 piece won cause it would look good in EW and "spoke" to some of the judges. That is, "I care about this because it affects me as a gay man in California." I don't see what was pop about it, really. "The colors," I imagine China would say.

"Civilization" is my favorite track here; 'energy and hooks' are definitely what's lacking in the rest of the album…it's like if Rick Wakeman made a dozen remixes of "Cans and Brahms." Long gone are the days of Goblin-sampling cleverness.

Yeah the "bad" Catwoman ending is great - really thought I'd messed up there, though I felt justified seeing as Batman is a big asshole to everyone, including (spoiler?) Robin who appears just in the nick of time to help him but is brusquely reassigned to delivery boy. Bats's relationship with Talia is also painfully…

Unremitting sexism and tone-deaf characterization may as well be the New 52's manifesto. Whoever wrote Catwoman's dialogue in this game must never have heard a person - let alone a woman - speak; she coos each of her insipid one-liners like she's constantly orgasming, and this is to say nothing of her tits-out…

Rush do have a sense of humor, though its wickedness is debatable.

Someone's never heard "Violin!"

Agreed, a C? This is worse than an album of Radiohead remixes?