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There were just a bunch of action and horror previews when I saw Dark Knight. I feel cheated.

Dr. Who episode with the Torchwood team on it. The world is right again.

At 7/25/08 08:47 PM, aviewaskewed wrote: It did when I went. At first I totally mistook the Dr. Manhattan stuff for an updated Flash origin :)

Steve has never read Watchmen, so when the Spirit trailer started he went "Is this Watchmen?"

I admit, I chuckled.

But I'm going to dig out my copy and let him read it before we see the movie.

At 7/25/08 05:19 PM, Christopherr wrote:
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World--Dude, coolest dystopia ever. Babies aren't born anymore, but instead cultured from single eggs which are split apart to produce up to 96 identical babies. These babies are conditioned throughout childhood and adolescence to do all sorts of wrong shit, like drown all strong emotions in drugs and sex and cringe at the mere mention of books or mothers.

Monk: Where do i sign up?

Me: It didn't exist

Monk: I know but still...it would have been perfect...*sob*

Proteas: Not again *facepalm*

At 7/25/08 10:11 PM, SevenSeize wrote: But everything is strictly controlled, and when kids hit puberty they start taking special "vitamins" to keep them from feeling anything sexual or romantic.

The movie Equilibrium got horribly overshadowed by The Matrix (which came out around the same time), but it has an interesting approach to the whole false-utopia concept, using the idea of mood-suppressing drugs that basically turn people into machines. Plus, it's Christian Bale. And Sean Bean. Who dies - not a spoiler, just a fact of nearly every Sean Bean movie.

I swear to God, if it weren't for the Sharpe movies, I'd say Sean Bean has died in more movies than he's lived through. When someone said to me some years back "Hey, I heard Sean Bean is going to be in Lord of the Rings," I asked "So, what, is he Boromir?" They were a little baffled - "How'd you know?"

"He's the first one to die."

Equilibrium unfortunately is one of those movies that gets talked up way too much and can disappoint you if you're expecting too much, but it's not a bad film at all. Great supporting cast - William Fichtner, Emily Watson, Sean Pertwee, Taye Diggs, and a very cute Bernese Mountain Dog puppy. Very cool combat sequences, interesting costuming and visual choices by the director, cool imagery. If you watch it, you will definitely see why it suffered horribly because it came out after Matrix, but anyone with any ability to do an in-depth analysis will understand how they are different.

I've seen bits of equalibrium, particularly the big fight at the end. It was very different from the matrix and it used swords sooner. So I'm torn about it.

At 7/25/08 09:19 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Monk: Where do i sign up?

Me: It didn't exist

Monk: I know but still...it would have been perfect...*sob*

Proteas: Not again *facepalm*

You have managed to completely lose me. I have no clue whatsoever what you're talking about, man.

At 7/25/08 10:11 PM, SevenSeize wrote: The Giver is like that, only its a novel for younger people. It's like a junior high level book I suppose.

But everything is strictly controlled, and when kids hit puberty they start taking special "vitamins" to keep them from feeling anything sexual or romantic.

Dude, The Giver has nothing on Brave New World.

Plus, The Giver has that gay crap where only one person is allowed to see colors and feel shit. There's no magical bullcrap in BNW.

At 7/25/08 11:15 PM, Christopherr wrote: Dude, The Giver has nothing on Brave New World.

Plus, The Giver has that gay crap where only one person is allowed to see colors and feel shit. There's no magical bullcrap in BNW.

You're not really scoring a lot of points, fella.

At 7/25/08 11:49 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: You're not really scoring a lot of points, fella.

The Giver is dystopia for children, that's why it is on many middle school reading lists.

So.
We can't eat tomatoes... and we can't eat jalapenos.

Not a good time to be me...

At 7/26/08 12:42 AM, fli wrote: So.
We can't eat tomatoes... and we can't eat jalapenos.

Not a good time to be me...

FDA approved US-grown jalapenos today... and tomotoes have been ok-ed for a few days now i think

There is a bald eagle about 220 feet from where I'm sitting, I just looked up over the monitor & I could see him through the kitchen window.

Its the little things like this that makes living out in the sticks worth so much more than the city... too me anyway :)

Here's a shot sitting at my computer & zooming out enough to still catch part of the curtains

My windows are all awning style (except the bedrooms) its a building code thing for bedroom windows.
So I slipped over & quietly opened the door & got a couple of shots of him.
He is in beautiful condition & he was making some high pitched calls & 'chuckling' as well.

At 7/26/08 08:20 AM, morefngdbs wrote: There is a bald eagle about 220 feet from where I'm sitting,

If I was you, I would have shot the eagle and took it as a trophy.

At 7/26/08 10:53 AM, ThePretenders wrote:

At 7/26/08 08:20 AM, morefngdbs wrote: There is a bald eagle about 220 feet from where I'm sitting,

If I was you, I would have shot the eagle and took it as a trophy.

I heard they taste like a cross between trumpeter swan and sandhill crane.

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I bought and/or rented every game/cd/book recommended, barring BNW and Watership Down (good books, already read 'em). I've got a stack of awesome waited to be devoured.

Cake rocks.

At 7/26/08 11:25 AM, LazyDrunk wrote:

At 7/26/08 10:53 AM, ThePretenders wrote:

At 7/26/08 08:20 AM, morefngdbs wrote: There is a bald eagle about 220 feet from where I'm sitting,

If I was you, I would have shot the eagle and took it as a trophy.

I heard they taste like a cross between trumpeter swan and sandhill crane.

;;;
They are PROTECTED !
Which means they can take your gun, your vehicle & possibly because i would have to shoot it from my home....my fucking house !

I don't care what it tastes like, shooting an eagle or any of the osprey that come around here is out of the question. Why kill something as a trophy ?
I have some nice photo's...they are just like a trophy except the eagle didn't have to die.
Which means that hopefully it will return :) & that's worth more than any trophy .

At 7/25/08 05:19 PM, Christopherr wrote:
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World--Dude, coolest dystopia ever.

Never read my average Myspace blog, then...

I'm a bit upset with Sony.
I bought a PSP, and I never use it... Mostly because there are very few games that I actually like, but it's the movies that I dislike.

Why should I pay for a movie twice?
Couldn't they figure out a way to use Digital Copy so that I could simply hook it up to my computer and directly upload itself to my handheld device?

At 7/26/08 12:21 PM, morefngdbs wrote:

At 7/26/08 11:25 AM, LazyDrunk wrote:

At 7/26/08 10:53 AM, ThePretenders wrote:

At 7/26/08 08:20 AM, morefngdbs wrote:

If I was you, I would have shot the eagle and took it as a trophy.

I heard they taste like a cross between trumpeter swan and sandhill crane.

;;;
They are PROTECTED !

So are trumpeters and sandhills, that was the punchline ;)

I don't care what it tastes like, shooting an eagle or any of the osprey that come around here is out of the question. Why kill something as a trophy ?

Native Americans did it for the honor as well as prestige.

I have some nice photo's...they are just like a trophy except the eagle didn't have to die.

Which means that hopefully it will return :) & that's worth more than any trophy .

Great pics, btw. It's uncommon to see them set up so low and close to human dwellings.

At 7/26/08 12:32 AM, Christopherr wrote: The Giver is dystopia for children, that's why it is on many middle school reading lists.

Doesn't make it any less valid than Brave New World or any other classic work of dystopian imagination. Instead of knocking something for its audience, you could always try understanding it.

You are clearly not the literary analyst you think you are.

At 7/26/08 02:14 PM, fli wrote:

Why should I pay for a movie twice?
Couldn't they figure out a way to use Digital Copy so that I could simply hook it up to my computer and directly upload itself to my handheld device?

What people have been doing is downloading movies from their computers onto memory sticks to play on the psp. The way you're talking about may exist. I don't know, I went with the ds.

I feel that some of the BEST literature has been on the middle grade school level. My favorite examples: The Breadwinner, Number the Stars, and basically everything from Ray Bradbury. (FYI-- I've heard that Fahrenheit 451 is being made into a movie... to make up for the crappy version from the 60s.)

Heck, even Charlotte's Web has a special place in my heart for being high drama.

At 7/26/08 05:30 PM, fli wrote: I feel that some of the BEST literature has been on the middle grade school level. My favorite examples: The Breadwinner, Number the Stars, and basically everything from Ray Bradbury. (FYI-- I've heard that Fahrenheit 451 is being made into a movie... to make up for the crappy version from the 60s.)

True. (By the way, I heard that Tom Hanks has the leading role in Fahrenheit 451.)

Heck, even Charlotte's Web has a special place in my heart for being high drama.

True as well.
The books I enjoyed a lot in middle school were both written by Jerry Spinelli, Loser and Manic Magee. Both talk a lot about life inter-cities, and how it really affects the kids growing up in them.

At 7/26/08 04:40 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Doesn't make it any less valid than Brave New World or any other classic work of dystopian imagination. Instead of knocking something for its audience, you could always try understanding it.

There's a reason it's given to the young audience, obviously. Sure, your statement holds true if it were written on an adult level, but it wasn't.

The Giver was written with a fairly common vocabulary and fairly simple literary devices, leaving less to be interpreted, just like a children's author would write.

However, Aldous Huxley wrote books for adults, back in a time where it took high-level literary talent to become a "classic."

At 7/26/08 08:17 PM, Christopherr wrote: There's a reason it's given to the young audience, obviously. Sure, your statement holds true if it were written on an adult level, but it wasn't.

Actually, my statement holds true no matter what. I'm a student of Cultural Studies, a major branch of which is Children's Literature - as in, delving into the depths of what makes "classics" of young-readership writing valuable as works of literature. They're compared on equal footing with Melville and Shakespeare.

The Giver was written with a fairly common vocabulary and fairly simple literary devices, leaving less to be interpreted, just like a children's author would write.

There is in no way less to be interpreted in a children's book than an adult novel. You just don't know how to look. I considered writing my master's thesis on Dr. Seuss.

However, Aldous Huxley wrote books for adults, back in a time where it took high-level literary talent to become a "classic."

Pfah. Plenty of classics are pieces of shit.

You have very clearly never seriously studied literature, or if you have, your teachers should be slapped.

At 7/26/08 08:33 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: There is in no way less to be interpreted in a children's book than an adult novel. You just don't know how to look. I considered writing my master's thesis on Dr. Seuss.

bonus points for making it rhyme.

At 7/26/08 06:27 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I LOVED Number the Stars.

God, it still doesn't fail to make me feel sad at the end....
OH!

Tuck Everlasting. Another book that always makes me sad at the end... my cousin is trying to do a book report, and guess what? This Friday, my cousin finished his Monday's work.

He watched the movie and tried to pass it like that...
Good thing I caught him before he turned it in.

So, basically, on Friday... I made sure he read the book. We read it aloud, together.
3 hours...

But he's doing his paper right now, and... hopefully... I've knocked some sense in him for doing half assed stuff like that. That should had taught him a lesson about doing stuff right on the first try.

But.. you know... some people learn to not pee on the electric fence when they're told... and others learn by peeing on the electric fence. *sigh*

At 7/26/08 08:35 PM, Malachy wrote: bonus points for making it rhyme.

Maybe just the introduction :)

Ok, picking out the one book I remember liking from that ear that wasen't like a staple, The Outsiders. 50's street youths with a movie that's basically a where are they now 80's special. Violence, smoking, class struggle, Swazie, all good.

I've tried to pick up The Outsiders... but it seems that I can't. It's all dusty now...
With all my free time, I've been re-reading Harry Potter. Right now, I picked up Grimpow. It's been on my shelf since Christmas, when I received it during a Secret Santa exchange.