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[hadjare]

So we finally saw Old Country for No Men ... er...No Country for Old Men....in any case -- blah.  The first half of it was good, but then it just sort of petered out.  I think Tim said it correctly when he said it was like hearing old people tell a story.   My thought on it was that it had no music in it

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[udjibbom]

the answer, of course, is that everyone likes ac/dc - because they rock!

and the vietnam song you're talking about is, probably, "Vietnam" by reggae man jimmy cliff.

yeah, the dexter books are written by jeff lindsay - there are, i think, three of them so far and from what i've heard, the series has had to diverge away from them over time because there basically isn't enough story to cover an entire season of programming - i think they basically use the books as a rough outline for the overall arch of a season and then add in stuff to sort of fill out the hours they need.

the books are good - and, really, it's the idea itself that is just so genius - but they are a little different; the biggest thing for me is that the evil voice in dexter's head prompting him to go out and kill is, literally, an evil voice in his head - he refers to it as his "dark traveller" and, while it's just sort of a vague idea in the first book or so, it actually becomes [or, at least, he believes it to be] an actual presence in later books - to the point where it literally abandons him for a time. or, again, that's at least what dexter believes - i'm still not sure if the book universe has an actual supernatural dimension or if we're just being told about it because the protagonist is, y'know, a crazy person.