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[BottomGuy]

Jeopardy! 

[Vicious Parker]

I studied Ayn Rand a bit at school, The Virtues of Selfishness was on my reading list, and I read about her life but I've never read her fiction. I remember finding her a powerful essayist but disagreeing with her on certain things. She seemed to have a very definite vision of the human condition that I couldn't relate to entirely. I might have to give The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged a read at some point. Which would you recommend?

I first read Atlas Shrugged (even before reading her short novel Anthem). Honestly I knew very little about Rand before that, and it was more than enough to pique my curiosity.

[kspr]

/> Now that you mention it I think I'm seeing the resemblance.
 
Does this mean Bobby is BIll's child?

Junichiro looks like Hank, who looks like his mom. you can't explain that. he should have been a short fat weeb with a love pillow instead of a japanese Hank with a japanese job.

[Phalanxman]

Four Lions. It's a British indie film about a group of muslims that try to become terrorists. It's meh.

[Donkeymog]

Yeah, it is meh. I liked the concept and there were some interesting characters involved in the script but the end result didn't really work.

 

There were also a lot of British-isms that I can imagine just didn't translate at all. British muslims are an interesting bunch, God Allah bless their souls..

[Donkeymog]

I first read Atlas Shrugged (even before reading her short novel Anthem). Honestly I knew very little about Rand before that, and it was more than enough to pique my curiosity.

 

hast du watchen eine dokumentary ich gelinken?

[Phalanxman]

Yeahh... There were huge chunks of dialogue that were totally lost on me. I'm only familiar with 80's british slang. :P

[Vicious Parker]

hast du watchen eine dokumentary ich gelinken?

ja gerade jetzt

 

I wish I had something more enlightening to say here, but I don't. Thanks for linking it.

[Stars]

I'm still impressed every time I watch Back to the Future.

[Vicious Parker]

After watching the so-so original Stargate movie, I decided to watch the two SG-1 movies that were made after the series ended. I am watching them back to back, for the first time. Why did it take me 5 years to get around to this...?

[Xteven Xavier]

Always sunny in Philadelphia

[Stars]

Just finished rewatching Legend of Korra book1.

Last I heard, book 2 is supposed to air sometime in November.

[kspr]

one missed call is a J-Horror about people who get voicemails about their deaths from their own phone numbers from the future. it's a neat concept, but goddamnit why wouldn't you just break your phone, flush it, cancel the number, and keep on living? this girl just had 4 of her friends die after getting calls from the future, and she still keeps her phone. she goes to a hospital and talks to a corpse, and apologizes to it for running away as a child. something about munchausen syndrome. i can't really follow, it's subbed in broken english. i like j horror movies because they're so foreign. american horror movies are like slashers and stupid ghost stories. japanese horror movies are actually scary. the grudge? that movie scared the crap out of me for 2 years. i get tired, and i hallucinate, and i kept seeing the grudge, and she was pointing at me, just standing there in the corner, or on the side of the road, or in the mirror. scary shit. this movie is kind of like the grudge, but for no real reason. there's an evil spirit that kills people, and she stalks the victims more and more towards the end of the movie. she ends up being defeated when the main character and a detective find her dead body in an old hospital, and break the ghost's curse with japanese politeness. it's definitely the kind of movie you have to imagine happening to you in order for it to be scary, otherwise it's just kinda meh. i enjoy it maybe 80% for the strangeness of it, as well as the novelty of the plot.

 

8 thumbs up 

[Phalanxman]

Finally, watching the last season of the X-Files. I hate what they did with this show. It turned from sci-fi drama to a sci-fi CSI type show to a CSI type show with some sci-fi around the edges. I, personally, hate hate hate CSI type shows. I just can't connect with them at all. I think it's the rampant "I'm a badass with a badge so I'm going to go on a 30 minute power trip riddled with idiot cops talking shop and dark puns". It just annoys me.

 

EDIT: O.O So... I just watched the last episode, finally. WTF!?

[Stars]

We needed a movie to watch tonight, so I was like "There's always Part 2." So we watched Back to the Future Part 2. Probably going to watch part 3 next week at some point.

[Monkeydog]

So Ben Affleck becoming Batman made me really want to watch my favorite Ben Affleck movie (and one of my favorite movies of all time), Chasing Amy. I watched it twice. Once by myself and a second time showing it to Bee for the first time. God that movie is great.

 

Which lead me to wanting to see Joey Lauren Adams in Party Down...which is also a damn great show. Which lead me to watch some Parks and Rec episodes today (because of Adam Scott and Megan Mullally)...and now I'm watching Party Down some more and I am getting into the mood to watch Freaks and Geeks again (because of Martin Starr and Lizzy Caplan).

 

Also I'm basically just nonstop watching King of the Hill because it's easy to watch and on Netflix. Since now I can't just watch South Park all the time on Netflix...

[Vicious Parker]

It's like a new-media version of "if you give a mouse a cookie."

[Phalanxman]

Breaking Bad

[Xteven Xavier]

Venture Bro's

[Stars]

Elysium was pretty cool. There was a good bit more gratuitous violence than I expected, but it was a well put-together flick. There were several different interested parties in the story, and it was easy enough to keep track of them all and what their motivations were throughout the story...very much unlike Pirates 3.