So the story that Newsweek online was blazing a path into the future rather than lurching towards oblivion seemed to have some validity.
"Farm-to-table" here boils down to more vegetables than you'd normally see in a Chinese restaurant, cooked to an al-dente crispness rather than steamed to oblivion.
I will kill you and your extended family if you address me in such terms again, espèce de connard!" Then the team, led to the barricades by captain Patrice Evra, refused to train, willing themselves to collective oblivion rather than, like England's team, drifting towards it with constipated expressions on beefy faces.
In the end it's a record about living through paradox, choosing to appreciate mixed emotions rather than building one-sided certainties of oblivion or hopelessness around them.
Over dinner on Tuesday night, that's what New York University economics professor Nouriel Roubini told me was required for a "U" shaped economic recovery "rather than a Japanese-like 'L' into oblivion.
Piazzolla's "Cafè, 1930," from his "Histoire du Tango" had no more frisson than "Oblivion".
The 1963 film is a surprising choice for Bay, given that the titular birds preferred to peck people to death rather than punching them into skyscrapers and detonating them into oblivion.
Rather than believe that we will vanish into utter neutrinal oblivion, we like to think we will leave behind some trace, like the grains of unsweepable sand in the corner of an abandoned summer house.
Once you've gently let down the girl sat opposite you with a mental, 'sorry love', they actually have the temerity to carry on sitting there, rather than do the decent thing and be sucked into oblivion in an instant and replaced by someone else, hopefully prettier, and who likes Alan Partridge and the Electric Light Orchestra.
With songs from their June 2 release Savages such as the title cut and "Oblivion," expect that to happen sooner rather than later.
