It’s List Mania, as the Column Equivalent of a Cheap Pop Calls out the name of Your Hometown...
Songs that Should Never be Covered, Ever
This week I'm going to head off the beaten path, and choose the classic collaboration between Al Jourgensen and Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers fame. The result is a two-headed rock love child called "Jesus Built my Hotrod." It is utterly unique, impossible to duplicate, and should be left alone until the end of time.
The Idiot Box Proper
There is no news worth reporting this week.
Correction, there are no interesting tidbits that haven't been covered by other columnists and writers here at 411. They're all over the news, brothers and sisters, so feel free to float about and gather useless bits of knowledge.
This week I'll do something everyone likes – lists. Lots of lists. Bite sized, easy to read, even easier to disagree with. And I must remind you, these lists are NOT IN ORDER. There is no #1 or #10, just numbers for the items listed.
Top 10 Bands/Artists I Couldn't Live Without
1. AC/DC
2. Clutch
3. Les Claypool/Primus
4. John Lee Hooker
5. Crystal Method
6. Flatt and Scruggs
7. Allman Brothers Band
8. The White Stripes
9. The Beatles
10. Richard Cheese
Top 9 TV shows I wish were still on the air (the reason being that they were on television LESS when they were on a network. Now they are all in syndication, and on twenty times a day. In short, I pretty much hate all these shows)
1. Sex and the city
2. Friends
3. Home improvement
4. Everybody Loves Raymond
5. King of Queens
6. Roseanne
7. The Cosby Show
8. 8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter
9. Moesha
Top 10 TV Villains
1. The Gentlemen from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
2. Brother Justin from "Carnivale"
3. JR Ewing from "Dallas"
4. Cancer Man from "The X-Files"
5. Bob from "Twin Peaks"
6. Yosemite Sam from Loony Toons
7. Montgomery Burns from "The Simpsons"
8. Livia Soprano from "The Sopranos"
9. Vern Schillinger from "OZ"
10. Amanda Woodward from "Melrose Place"
Top 7 Movie Villains
1. Ming the Merciless from "Flash Gordon"
2. Jason Voorhees from the "Friday the 13th" franchise
3. Judge Smails from "Caddyshack"
4. Bill the Butcher from "Gangs of New York"
5. Hannibal Lecter
6. Alonzo Harris from "Training Day"
7. Lee Van Cleef from "Good Bad and the Ugly"
Top 10 Comic Villains
1. Dr. Doom
2. The Joker
3. Lex Luthor
4. Darkseid
5. Captain Cold
6. Ras al Ghul
7. Cassandra Nova
8. The Maestro
9. Saint of Killers
10. Deathstroke
Top 10 Comic Books on the market now
1. Fables
2. Walking Dead
3. Planet Hulk
4. The Punisher
5. 100 Bullets
6. Nextwave
7. Planetary
8. Fell
9. 52
10. Dead Girl
Top 7 Comic Books I Miss the Most
1.Hitman
2.Preacher
3.The Losers
4.Stormwatch team Achilles
5.Transmetropolitan
6.Seven Soldiers
7. Global Frequency
Top 10 Desert Island Movies
1. Caddyshack
2. Lebowski
3. Fight Club
4. Goodfellas
5. Evil Dead 2
6. The Texas chainsaw Massacre (1974)
7. Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
8. 28 Days Later
9. Waiting for Guffman
10. LA Confidential
Top 10 Favorite Cartoons
1. The Simpsons
2. Futurama
3. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
4. Sealab 2021
5. Family Guy
6. The Tick
7. Loony Toons
8. Beavis and Butthead
9. Ren and Stimpy (the early years)
10. South park
Top 5 TV Shows I'm Almost Ashamed to Admit Loving
1. Dawsons Creek
2. Melrose Place
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. ER
5. The Jerry Springer Show
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where you'll find a bi-weekly Podcast, featuring yours truly expounding upon B movies, music, and dumb shit with a couple of actual journalists. It's called Scene and Heard. This week we've got the lead singer of Sister Hazel on the cast with us, and throwing down in an iPod battle.
