Despicable Me-Loved it. Steve carell's fake accent is amusingly bad.Cute kids, super villains, what's not to love? 9.5/10
Toy Story 3- Meh. Kinda like the first two. Ken was funny. 6.5/10

Stieg Larrson- violent fun scandinavian thrillers.Already read the first two. 7.5/10

Missed a couple months, huh?

quick bullet reviews

films

up-9.5 excellent

away we go-cute and funny,8.5

books-
game of thrones by george r. martin-sweet fantasy. 9

tv

flight of the conchords-quirky new zealanders-9.

Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card- a parallel novel to Ender Game, this book retells the story from Bean's perspective as well as tell his story from Rotterdam slum to Battle School star. 7 (bought from Amazon ( Read more... )

Escape from NY- In the 'near future' NYC has been turned into a giant prison. Kurt Russell plays Snake Plissken a war hero turned felon who has 24 hours to rescue the president who has crashed into the NY prison zone. Isaac Hayes plays the bad arse Duke of NY and Ernest Borgnine is around for comic relief. A good bad future movie, 7.5 ( Read more... )

In the Company of the Courtesan (Sarah Dunant)- Historical fiction set in 16th century Venice as told by the title character's business partner a dwarf. Very engaging and the characters are very believable. The painter Titian plays a role but the history serves to buttress the story. 8/10, borrowed from BPL ( Read more... )

Since I don't use this for anything (last post being 44 weeks ago) I have decided to resurrect my LJ for film and book reviews. This way I'll be able to come up with a best of 09 list. I've already missed a fair amount so here are some bullet reviews to get started ( Read more... )

What I've been up to.


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Sorry for the lack of updates, all's well just busy with girlfriend and work. Both which are going swimmingly (knock on wood). Some quick bullets and then a call for ideas ( Read more... )

Jeopardy was pretty awesome. My episode airs June 27 You're not supposed to tell the media how you did, so if you really want to know how I did pick up the phone, or shoot me an email/IM. Great experience and everyone involved was really nice. I talked about TOMB as my fun fact and had a small but spirited Sos cheering section in the studio ( Read more... )

I just called my Jeopardy contact to ask him that question and a few other logistics type things.

His response- 99%. As long as you don't show up drunk you'll be on the air.

Jeopardy is becoming more and more my type of show.