Onion's AV Club steals ILM Mainstay!!

The Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries ed by David Twiston Davies (Grub Street, £10.99)

This collection of obituaries, which appeared in The Daily Telegraph from 1987 to 2002, is a must for those interested in the personalities of the soldiers involved in the 20th century's most crucial battles. Here are the stories of those who fought at the Somme and El Alamein, at Passchendaele and Normandy, tales of courage, daring and remarkable escapes from death. Brigadier Tim Massy-Beresford, for instance, was wounded by a bullet which passed through his chest and killed the man behind him. Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Coventry, meanwhile, killed an SS officer with a single punch.

You're better off just killing them with a single punch.

IB: This is a fucking good one. It's a song of big ups. It's just a list of who's in the house, and it rules. I've never enjoyed hearing who's in the house more than I do on this song.

Uh? No, dude, that's "Teachers." Also I am very weirded out by all the "oh, I don't know this one" responses.

Also, the Brockofuckometer clocks in at 24 "fucks" in his segment. Impressive!

But what really boggles my mind is that they just put up a solid interview with Andrew Bird in their blog. It's like he isn't famous enough to get a feature, so they opted for asinine observations from bigger stars like gibbard and brock. Boo to the AV Club for not doing well by their readers this week.

Latest Bin Laden Tape For Completists Only

February 20, 2006 | Issue 42•08

NEW YORK—CIA analyst Douglas Biryla advised the public at large to skip the latest video tape from fugitive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden Monday. "This latest offering doesn't have anything his post 9-11 work lacks—just the usual ominous threats of total annihilation to the West," Biryla said. "Despite some nice remastering work courtesy of Al-Sahab, it's not bin Laden's best , and certainly not mandatory viewing outside of the intelligence community or bin Laden's more hardcore fans." Biryla's monthly review column on pre-recorded Islamist screeds runs in 38 foreign-policy newsletters worldwide.

Austin - "iTunes, should I stay at this job or seek out something new?"

iTunes - "Smokin' by Hank Mobley"

Yeah, sometimes you have to read into it a little biut.

DC: God, what a fucking great… I have amazing taste in music! This album is unbelievable, fucking great, not one bad second on there. If you played it now for people that are doing stuff influenced by DJ Shadow, it's still better than that stuff.

Hmm. Kill him.

Their music criticsm, on the other hand, suffers from College-borne Indietitus, an accute pathogen-triggered brain disease that eliminates one's ability to see beyond the boringly immediate and obvious music pics.

Aztec Camera, "The Crying Scene"

DB: I actually asked Cassie to download this song, because I really liked Aztec Camera when their first record came out. Roddy Frame was famous at 16, and writing heart-on-his-sleeve poetry, you know, written to girls in berets, and it's very overflowing and somewhat embarrassing to listen to. I was thinking about them, so I bought their greatest hits, and "The Crying Scene," the comeback song for them—which I thought was an amazing song—wasn't on the greatest hits. And I just thought, "No one even cares. No one probably even knows that this song isn't on it." And then I listened to the rest of the songs and I realized why. So I said, "Will you go fetch this song off the computer? Will you go to the music well?"

I'm confused. What does "I listened to the rest of the songs and I realized why" mean? Does he mean that the other Aztec Camera songs are so great that the Crying Scene didn't deserve to be there? Or that the rest of the songs from the album that The Crying Scene is on (love? stray?) are so bad that no wonder it is forgotten?
or something else?

Coherence, now!

IB: These guys have catchy songs. I just wish they weren't such a one-fuckin'-trick pony.

pot calling the kettle black?

More like pot calling the rainbow black.

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i.e.

"Um...I guess that's the 60s, is that like Bert Jansch or something?"

"It's Only the Black Rose by the Yardbirds"

"Okay. Sounds pretty good."

"What's this some Weezer song not off Pinkerton or the first one?"

"Yeah it's December off Maladroit"

"This song sucks"

"Woah this is the 90s...jeez is this like Tar or Unsane or something?"

"It's Quicksand"

"Oh yeah..I remember them...they were okay."

"This is techno...um pretty cool I guess."

"It's Poor Leno by Rokysopp."

"Oh yeah, I bought that but I've never listened to it too much."

"It's (Who Put the Benzadrine) In Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine by Harry (the Hipster) Gibson"

"oh...what's that off?"

"A MOJO comp called Feed Your Head"

"Oh yeah I ripped that from a guy at work. What a stupid song. I never actually listened to that disc. I should sometime."

the fuck happened to their comments section?

Univision made them get in line with the rest of their affiliates. It kinda sucks, like half the front page is reposts from Gizmodo or wherever now.

Might as well put this here. Cold. Blooded.

Last month, G/O management told its seven Chicago-based A.V. Club employees that they either had to move to Los Angeles to work in the company’s new office there or lose their jobs. The employees were not offered cost-of-living increases. 1/X https://t.co/uzqIZUJVhE

— Onion Inc Union (@OnionIncUnion) January 6, 2022

thought they couldn't go any further downhill?

NOT satire. NOT an ironic headline. @TheOnion, WT actual F. Sickening. Saw you go from scrappy Madison paper to more self-aware city paper before screwing over employees, nixing the print version, changing owners, screwing over more employees, & becoming pure corporate grossness. pic.twitter.com/9LH9UoslYM

— tammy golden (@tammygolden) August 8, 2023

Pretty sure the AV club is now separate from the onion

The print edition stopped ten years ago but both are owned by G/O

ai club

Do you know which article it is? I went poking around out of curiosity, but couldn’t find it

According to The Wrap, it was this:
https://www.avclub.com/updated-august-2023-movie-releases-1850700499

Looks like they've taken down the note, which is too bad because at least it was transparent.

Oh wait, nm, it's still there. It's all the way at the bottom.