My favorite album cover out of all my records. And though I'd been avoiding this one for ages due to the Spector influence and Cohen's own disowning of the result, after picking it up recently I have become rather obsessed with a few tracks. Particularly, "I Left a Woman Waiting."

Holy multiple innuendo, Batman! How could I have missed it?

It took me about 3 hours to "get" Xenoblade, and that was close to the mark where it could have been shelved for a while (but all the raving praise of the game might have kept me in even longer just to find out).

I'm of the opinion that it was a terrible, terrible idea to let SEGA develop games featuring Mario characters. Their developers aren't up to the task, not by a longshot, and these games mark some of few instances where Mario was allowed to headline truly mediocre games.

It is somewhat amusing how he goes on about having loved "kart racers" all his life, yet never just straight up calls it Mario Kart. I know it's the competitor, but still... that omission of the obvious reference point feels strange.

WHAT. Double Dash was the greatest entry in the franchise, if ya' ask me. It still hasn't been topped, even though MK7 is fantastic.

This gets into more complicated territory but... what do you call the "underage" model industry? The current idea that 18 marks a natural division between child and adult is if anything a great statistical outlier if you look at world history or even at the world today outside of the top Western nations. I think…

They're not exactly children. It's an art style. They sexually valorize cuteness, coyness, playfulness and other attributes that dictate the character design, but it's not the same at all as interest in children.

Eh... there's a right-wing element hidden in all these CoD games, if you ask me. It doesn't mean the players ascribe to it, but it's still there. Hiring Oliver North and then presenting this scary "hacker" image as the enemy amongst us... that's the thinking that will bring even more military expansion and damning…

I don't see children. I see young adults represented in a style of extreme cuteness. There's nothing wrong with that. *shrug*

Ha, good call. This was a massive missed opportunity.

That was exactly the image that popped into my mind as well.

Good choice, I also feel that Low is musically more futuristic than any other album in his career. It still today feels more contemporary and forward thinking than any synth-heavy album I own, in fact.

That Dead or Alive port on the 3DS was incredibly well done and used the system's graphical capabilities so well... I share your sadness that it was universally ignored, even though it's easily the best fighter I've ever owned on a handheld.

I used a self-cleaning toilet just like that one in Boston (outside near the aquarium) about 5 years ago, so it's neither entirely new nor is it Europe-exclusive. But it is pretty nifty, as public restrooms go.

Pfft... I could shoot a fat Luma in the mouth from a mile away.

As an... aficionado of the lower half of the female physique, DoA still irritates the hell out of me with its boob obsession. I'd rather they fix those meagre, adolescent hips first. >_<

I'm not sure I agree. I'm not demanding a ridiculous superhero chin, but I do find that Bale, to be brutally honest, has a lower face made for radio... except that his voice is also horrid, so even radio would be a stretch. He just looks terrible in the suit to me, like a teenager trying on his dad's Batsuit while…

He just does not have the jaw or chin for Batman, nor the voice, and these things always bother me more than they should. I like him better in the Bruce Wayne scenes but... every time his weak lower-face and terrible voice throws out a line like "this isn't a car," it becomes just a little harder for me to see him as…

I have to sheepishly admit that I enjoyed her work in Rachel Getting Married, so... I have high hopes for this Catwoman, even if she doesn't immediately quite look the part as it was burned into my childhood (see: curvy 60s TV Catwoman).