OK, I now have an excuse to watch The Station Agent, which I've had DVR'd for like a year. The director is directing the pilot for HBO, and they cast Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister. If this show is half as good as the novel series it is based on, I'm going to upgrade my cable to get HBO ( Read more... )

Ben, have you ever heard any Peelander-Z? Japanese punk rock band based out of NYC that plays dressed up like Power Rangers, and they'll do professional wrestling moves on stage, along with human bowling?

So, had a pretty awesome weekend. Went and saw John Waters at the Weinberg in Frederick, which was 10 kinds of awesome. He went over some of the same stuff that we saw on his televised special on IFC (or was it Sundance?), but 3/4s was totally new, and even the "old" stuff was funnier in the retelling. Randomly awesome: sitting right next to ( Read more... )

Officially 30 today, so I am now old.

On the upside, I want to see this movie. Looks like the best Sam Raimi movie Sam Raimi never made.

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Just finished watching the BSG finale. Laura actually cried in parts. I have to say, even though they dispensed with the action by the end of the second act, parts of the last third were pretty heart wrenching. Roslin's death scene had me pretty damned misty eyed, along with quite a few of the goodbyes in this episode. And while I know it will ( Read more... )

So I could piss it away on frivolous things, like items in a video game. Specifically, a spectral tiger mount in WoW. But I don't think I'd be able to blow $1,000 on such a thing, no matter how cool it was. Unless, you know, I hit the lotto for a few million. In which case I'd be filling in a few holes in my D&D collection too. You know, ( Read more... )

Seriously. We all know you are fucking us over. But to rub it in our face like this? This is seriously pitchforks and torches kind of shit.

Oh shit, I am SO totally there:
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Just watched Let the Right One In. While I don't have Chud's gushing praise, the movie does work on quite a few levels, and has a pretty refreshing amount of ambiguity in it (quite a bit dealing with certain characters motivations, and true potentials). Not to mention the "innocence" aspects of it which make it all the more disturbing on some ( Read more... )

So is anybody else amused/annoyed at the amazing amounts of butthurt the GOP is having over giving DC the vote?

While I should know better than to go looking in Fark politics threads, the Fark Independents (TM) there are pissing me off.

Yeah, I know that it isn't in the letter of the Constitution. But we fought a fucking war over this concept