By Rya Backer

Yesterday, while pretending to listen to music on my headphones, I overheard a voice from my past.

The voice was that of Billy Corgan, lead singer of the disbanded/re-banded/whatever Smashing Pumpkins, and the song was "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning." You might know its more fist-pumping incarnation "The End Is the Beginning Is the End," but for the three other people who purchased the soundtrack for the 1997 Joel Schumacher tour-de-force "Batman & Robin," the slow-as-molasses version of the band's Grammy-winning hit rang equally as familiar.

I lifted my head only to notice that the song was coming from one of our many monitors, amid flashing violent, fancy and violently fancy animation. I was perplexed — where was Poison Ivy? California's governor? Batman's nipples? Then, I went about my day. Read more...