Four things The Bourne Ultimatum needed:

• Free running
• Brian Cox
• A tripod
• A dictionary definition of the word 'ultimatum'

One thing The Bourne Ultimatum doesn't need:

• A sequel

So yesterday I went out and bought myself a whole bunch of shiny new things, justifying each purchase with the fact that I was paying less than retail for it (especially the $109 shoes I got for $60).

One thing I bought was the new Apple keyboard. I hadn't expected to like it at all, because it looked just like a laptop keyboard, and I hate hate ( Read more... )

If you are building a custom LiveJournal style, use "$entry->print_text()", not "print $entry.text", even though the two should be functionally equivalent and the former is completely undocumented. Otherwise, when one of your friends makes a Voice Post, your friends page will die spectacularly, without even an error message, and you will have to ( Read more... )

See, the biggest opening in history doesn't actually mean anything at all. It's all hype anyway, which, sadly, is what big-budget film-making has turned into now. Market the shit out of it, and it won't even matter if everybody hates it, because they'll all have seen it before they realise as much. Awesome.
( Pirates of the Caribbean: Completely Irrelevant Subtitle )

Gangs of New York: I have been meaning to watch this for a while. It was pretty much just for the moustache/top hat combo on Daniel Day-Lewis, but his ridiculous accent was an unexpected bonus.

Full Metal Jacket: Thoroughly enjoyed about two thirds of this movie; I suspect I would have enjoyed the rest, had I not been asleep. When I woke up, the ( Read more... )

Good albums remind you of other good albums.

Bad albums remind you of the last album by the same artist.

And so it goes. Shoot me in the comments, but I am regretting buying Year Zero already. I'm not getting anything I failed to get from With Teeth. The Fragile remains my favourite, because I can listen to it and still want to listen to it again.

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( A compendium of boring, placed behind a cut to enhance intrigue because you know I'm that shallow )