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Beatles Vids featuring Muppets!
So cute. Muppets version of Octopus' Garden, written by Ringo Starr.
Cookie Monster singing "Hey Food" Blackbird. Everyone remembers it as Paul McCartney's song. Ob-La-Di :) They have London accents instead of Liverpudlian ones though -
American Psycho and Jazz
So I finished American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. It's pretty much about the corruption of the modern day American Dream (see a vein with the books/comics I'm reading? - Watchmen, Fear and Loathing, Transmetropolitan, now American PsychoIt's definitely not reading for the faint-hearted. Beneath the yuppie shallowness of Patrick (he names all ( Read more... ) -
The Prestige
I finished it in one day.
Here I was, expecting this book to be exactly like the movie. After all, that's what Hollywood normally does.
But no. This isn't.
This is not only set in the Victorian Era, but also in the modern day, as the two are interlinked, just as the two families still are. And it's enthralling, yet frightening at the same time.
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like dylan in the movies
Ordered some books off The Book Depository yesterday using my own card.
The Prestige - The book that the movie was based on. Won some fancy schmancy book award in 1995, as well as some other nice awards. What got me super interested was the steampunky bits in it. All steampunk, pseudo-Victorian novels have Tesla. 'Cause in them, Tesla's the ( Read more... ) -
Ben Folds Five dedications
And this is the first time I've seen them live on Youtube. Amazing.
And an orchestral version of "Zak and Sara"?! DEAR LORD. -
Who watches the Watchmen?
A 'graphic novel' which I want to buy - badly. It's epic, awesome, and the movie was just brilliant.
I downloaded the PDF of the book last night and now reading through. The artwork is vintage, with the taste of old Marvel style. But this isn't Marvel, of course.
And famous quotes (apart from the one in the title):
Heard a joke once:
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so let it out and let it in
Recently, I've been checking out pretty little indie flash games... made by Amanita Design.
They're the geniuses who made Samorost 1 and 2.
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