Suffering From Mothra Mouth

Mothra recently lamented on this very blog about how he was using the word fantastic too much on our radio program. Loyal readers came to his rescue and he expanded his word power thanks to you all. Maybe you could rally together and help out our pal John Darnielle, too. Pitchfork featured an interview with him last week and in it he uses the word great 15 times and throws in a bunch of goods and awesomes too. It's pretty astounding to read because in his music, he seems to have a great grasp of the language and the possibilities it offers. I know casual conversation about ringtones is nothing like sitting down and working on song lyrics but I found his limited vocabulary rather shocking. I was also floored to find out that he loves Law & Order so much, regardless of whether it's Original Flavor or one of those Extra Crispy spinoffs. He even goes out of way to praise Sam Waterson. Seriously? Him? At least he didn't say anything kind about Jerry Orbach because if he did, I would have to immediately rid my collection of all Mountain Goats albums and renew my vow to never see Dirty Dancing ever even though I was just given the Ultimate Edition recently as a gift. But then Mr. Darnielle reinstilled my love for him by praising Paper Mario and Super Mario Galaxy which are both superawesome and he's right to speak of them so highly. But Law & Order? That dreck is the antithesis of great.

A Call For Help

So, I was listening Sunday night's show at work today (narcissist? not really, just bored with the online radio that we listen to, but it is fun to actually hear the show which I don't really get to do on account of cueing song and logging entries to the blog) and the one thing that jumped out at me was my over-abundant use of the word 'fantastic'. It was, "oh, this album is fantastic" or "man the lead guitar in that song is just fantastic." What the hell is happening to me? My vocabulary is diminishing into a hodge podge of phrases and words that I don't even like.
So, I'm asking you to help we with this problem. Give me suggestions for better adjectives that I can use on the radio. I kinda like 'wicked awesome' on an ironic level, but I don't want to get stuck in that rut. So comment to this post and help ole' Mothra out. I'll even give you an on-air shout out like, "The production on that Shins number is the cat's meow - adjective brought to you by *your name here*"
Thank you all in advance.

Here is a video that always amazes me because it was made when rock videos reigned supreme, but it is so damn lazy, but friggin' awesome at the same time. Enjoy: