Would Charlie Brown have been happy with his rocks if he didn't know the other kids got candy?

The game is picking which of 1,001 music albums you've heard. The source is 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, which like all attempts at comprehensively indexing the best of the arts, is worthy only of mockery and savaging.
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This is the only one of the three that I saw in a movie theater, and so it was the only one for which the special effects really worked. That was fun. The rest of the time I was either wishing for more special effects or fighting against laughing aloud. My thighs are still sore from punching them to keep from laughing aloud.

( Spoilers )

Attack of the Clones: I kept falling asleep. Really. For what I saw, though, my criticism of The Phantom Menace applies, with some caveats.

( The caveats, and Clone Wars too )

I saw Star Wars: The Phantom Menace for the first time last night. It was awful. I mean this in a non-ironic way. It sucked. I told M I refuse to see it again without getting roaring drunk first: If I'm going to see something that hallucinogenically bad, I don't want to remember it.

( No, really. It's bad. )

The cake of love has lots of frosting
No one finishes the damn thing
It's sweeter than ten Hello Kitties
And absurdly fat'ning.

But you-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo
You can feed the cake to me
And i-i-i-i-i-i
I will eat it gratefully.
Attribution dammit: The Book of Love by Magnetic Fields (link points to iTunes music store)

Zombie Barbie
Collector's Edition chants 'Brains is haaard!' in a sluggish monotone. With coordinated ostrich skin purse and pustulent grey flesh.

Two PensHey boys! You're an orphan playing in the gutters until you find a working ball point pen! Sell the pen and use the profits to invest in oil futures - whoops! You can't sign the paperwork ( Read more... )

So the kitchen here has some cabinets with slotted grooves in them, so that you can insert more shelves. We need more shelves, so I cut down some plywood to put in 'em ( Read more... )

Insufficiently Fabulous: Wacky comedy about two aging single women and their repeated attempts to make a mark on the fashion world despite their complete lack of social acumen and business connections, all while their friends and abandoned children slowly destroy themselves with street drugs. 60 minutes.

Walt Disneys' Yu-gi-puff-amon Squarepants: ( Read more... )

Out in the town of Blue Springs, Montana
I got big money for hunting down goths.
Nighttime would find me in Starbucks cafes when
Music would play Satan-worshipping rock.

Blacker than night were the cloaks of the goth boys
Wicked and evil while casting their spells
I searched and failed to find sign of the goth boys
I had a mission to save ( Read more... )