A couple of years ago (give or take), I ran across a pair of online videos that projected the future of social media over the next several years. The interesting thing was that one video presented a very positive view (technology enabling networking and music) and the other took a very negative view (corporate lockdown and paranoia). Each video ( Read more... )

This is spoilerish.

( Thus, a cut. )

Go now. It's gone after Sunday. There are all sorts of great reasons to support this, but they're all secondary to just how good it is.


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This could be happy-making.

( I shall geek out behind a cut. )

There's a fairly common setting in fantasy stories - books, games, what have you - where a powerful necromancer raises an army of the dead to take over the town/kingdom/world, and it is the job of the main characters to prevent that from happening (which frequently involves a dangerous infiltration of the dark fortress). Really, it's common enough ( Read more... )

Picked up the soundtrack to Evil Dead: The Musical. With songs firmly set in the traditions of musical theater, it captures both the sophistication and the subtle humor of the movies upon which it was based.

Groovy.

(And, yes, Ash is still a perfect example of Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces.)

In the course of a discussion with fitzthetoad I came up with a definition I liked (which also pulled together a string of Thelemic ideas that I might explore later in more depth):

Being open-minded is acknowledging that something "right" to you may be "wrong" to somebody else, and vice versa - no more, no less. It doesn't stop you from fighting for what you ( Read more... )

Thoroughly enjoyed Serenity last night. Thanks to scotia_girl for spreading the word.

Movies are a lot better when you're in an audience that laughs, cheers, screams, and otherwise reacts to what's going on (which seems fairly rare, at least at movies I've been to lately). Serenity in particular is better when the audience sings the Firefly theme song ( Read more... )