Just my luck, I stumbled across it in the bargain bin last weekend. ![]() I'm a huge fan of the AV Club's trenchant and irreverent review style, and I've wanted to own this tome of pop-culture lists since it came out last year. But if I did ever do that, I would imagine it would be a pretty good analogy to how I approached this book. You know when you think to yourself "I'll just have one of these Pepperidge Farm cookies." And then an hour later you come to your senses, a Milano chocolate ring around your mouth, fluted paper cups strewn everywhere, and you feel like utter crap? No? Me neither. Plus lists from Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Ben Garant, Tom Lennon, Andrew W.K., Tim and Eric, Daniel Handler, and Zach Galifianakis-and an epic foreword from essayist Chuck Klosterman. "Weird Al" Yankovic examines the noises of Mad magazine's Don Martin. Amy Sedaris lists fifty things that make her laugh. Patton Oswalt waxes ecstatic about the "quiet film revolutions" that changed cinema in small but exciting ways. Club’s sister publication, The Onion.īut wait! There's more: John Hodgman offers a set of minutely detailed (and probably fictional) character actors. Exploring twenty-four great films too painful to watch twice, fourteen tragic movie-masturbation scenes, eighteen songs about crappy cities, and much more, Inventory combines a massive helping of new lists created especially for the book with a few favorites first seen at and in the pages of The A.V. ![]() Club issue a slightly slanted pop-culture list filled with challenging opinions (Is David Bowie's "Young Americans" nearly ruined by saxophone?) and fascinating facts.
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