Bully for you AV Club!
I must give credit where credit is due. I always kinda rag on the comics reviews here for skewing a bit too heavily towards the same-old, same-old superhero revisionism that hasn't been fresh since Frank Miller's glory days. This list makes up for all that. The bad part is I've read about half…

…and "Fight Club"? I don't get it. Not at all. That makes me feel older than seeing Adam West on the big screen. Well, that and people waxing their nostalgic carrots over Weezer.

Fuck, I saw "Batman" in a movie house. Um, the one with Adam West.

Creepy is as creepy does…
So, yeah, guilty as charged. I just HAD to click on the link to see monkey-ripped-my-flesh-lady. The YouTube link source is already removed, so I hit the other one that takes me to an ABC News clip. And before I can see the clip I have to sit through a commercial for Blackberry with annoying…

I thought…
I thought that Gwen Stefani was killed by the Green Lantern in "The Amazing Spider-Man" # 121.

Mixed feelings about this
TCJ's constant ranting about Marvel/DC/Diamond was always a mixed bag. I guess they felt compelled to include that sort of thing since their primary distribution was via comic book shops. But then again, who cared about that crap besides people who would never pick up TCJ in the first place?

But what about…
Geez I'm lame. I never heard of at least half of these anthologies. Although I'm glad Scorcese's "Life Lessons" made the cut.

Tangy
Everytime a rapper uses some variation of the "N" word, a white college guy (who is also wearing a fitted cap in solidarity) should be allowed to use the same word when greeting his like-hatted "homie" - as they pass each other on the quad at their small liberal arts college in the midwest.

Gene Simmons real name = Chaim Weitz. Pretty close.

For sheer absurdity it's hard to beat the "Goin' Blind" lyric: "I'm 93, you're 16…" I don't even know what that means. I mean, I KNOW what it means but seriously. That and rhyming "your knees" with "baby please" pretty much sums up the awesomeness of Kiss.

Stop the presses! David Cross did something lame? Do tell!

Beach Boys…
I can't see another American band besides the Beach Boys getting this appellation. Credence belongs under the category of "close but no cigar." And while I have a general loathing for all things Grateful Dead, the argument in their favor is something I find myself *almost* agreeing with. But that is…

Meh.
I think Albini's notoriety comes from making interesting pronouncements that appeal to nerdy zine/blog writers and recording a lot of great bands. But take all that away and listen to Big Black without that context and there aint much interesting going on. Shellac is marginally more interesting. But only…

I am a pretty well-rounded guy with broad taste in music but the "Josie" soundtrack gets way more play in my house than I would ever admit.

"Backdoor Lover"

He is also the go-to guy for professional wrestlers seeking to make anthemic rock songs. At least he was for Hulk Hogan. Also Rick did several guitar parts on the Kiss album "Destroyer" when Ace Frehley was "not available."

A Poem By Henry Gibson
Englebert,
Humperdink.

No love for Rick Derringer?
I'm quite the power-pop hipster but I probably listen to Rick Derringer's "Let Me In" more than anything Big Star ever did. I think it was written by Ellie Greenwich.

Wait…Billy Murray bought so much wine he needed a TRAILER to get it home?

Ooops…
I snuck into a bar in NYC that was hosting an invitation-only wrap party for a movie. A friend and I were making small talk with some producer type she knew when the waiter walked over to where we were standing and introduced himself. I told him I didn't want anything. About a millisecond later, I realized he…