Inventory

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Inventory / A.V. CLUB
Each week, the writers of 77je A.K 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. Exploring 24 great films too painful to watch twice, 14 tragic movie-masturbation scenes, 18 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 avclub.com and in the pages of The A.V. Club's sister publication, ^m The Onion.
But wait! There's more: John
Hodgman offers a set of minutely I
detailed (and probably fictional)
character actors. Patton Oswalt
waxes ecstatic about the "quiet
film revolutions" that changed
cinema in small but exciting ways.
Amy Sedaris lists 50 things that make her laugh.
"Weird Al" Yankovic examines the noises of Mad
magazine's Don Martin. Plus lists from Paul Thomas
Anderson, Robert Ben Garant, Tom Lennon,
Andrew... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Inventory / A.V. CLUB
Each week, the writers of 77je A.K 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. Exploring 24 great films too painful to watch twice, 14 tragic movie-masturbation scenes, 18 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 avclub.com and in the pages of The A.V. Club's sister publication, ^m The Onion.
But wait! There's more: John
Hodgman offers a set of minutely I
detailed (and probably fictional)
character actors. Patton Oswalt
waxes ecstatic about the "quiet
film revolutions" that changed
cinema in small but exciting ways.
Amy Sedaris lists 50 things that make her laugh.
"Weird Al" Yankovic examines the noises of Mad
magazine's Don Martin. 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.
FEATURED INVENTORIES INCLUDE
BB Keanu Reeves movies somehow not ruined by Keanu Reeves 22 great songs inspired by heinous true crimes 13 particularly horrible fast-food innovations AE
8 great films made by directors after they turned 70 P< 35 things we'll forever associate with The Simpsons re andmuch more
"Inventory'^ awesome and will provide you with endless hours of reading and arguing with friends. I love this book, except for page 124.1 don't care what anybody says, Bowie's 'Young Americans' sounds terrific with the saxophone. Go f*** yourself, A. V. Club." — JOEL McHALE, The Soup
"In a culture that worships the disposable, lazy lists obligatorily put together by self-serving editorial staffs at the likes of Barely Information Magazine, The A.V. Club has decided to embrace what it parodies until it meets itself just outside of heaven and shakes its own hand while flipping itself, and you and me, off. Kudos, A.V. Club'." - DAVID CROSS, Mr. Show and Arrested Development
S"l'm going to put this awesome book on my coffee table so when people come over they'll think I'm fun, clever, and sophisticated, but charmingly populist. And when they see my 5 name on the back cover, they'll also think J j I'm famous!"
— MINDY KALING, The Office
"Despite the fact that they declined to ask me to participate in this award-winning* book, I bear no ill will toward the writers because they are all geniuses; buying this book will make you feel a genius, too.** (*This book has not won any awards. **No, that was not a typo. I literally meant you would feel a genius.)"
— MICHAEL IAN BLACK, The State and Michael And Michael Have Issues
"I did look at the book and enjoyed it, but didn't have time to come up with a quote, unless 'Seems like a pretty good book. I had a great time skimming it' works."
— EUGENE MIRMAN, Flight Of The Conchords and The Witt To Whatevs
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