It seems like Quentin Tarantino is to movies what DJ's are to music. I don't know a whole lot about the stuff that the guy pulls from (blaxploitation, kung fu, samurai flicks, spaghetti westerns, etc), but after reading about Kill Bill for a little while (yes, I'm obsessed) it turns out that practically every element of the movie--from the story ( Read more... )

Imagine you're a 20-year old kid who wants to punch something, but not actually hit it. This could be out of fear of said object getting annoyed at you and hitting you back ( Read more... )

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Went to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field today. Beautiful day for a ball game, except I hate baseball, but the company was cool so it was kind of like having a conversation with a giant three-dimensional holographic TV in the background. Whenever I tried to focus on the game my eyes glazed over, but it was great for atmosphere and the occasional ( Read more... )

The sequel to Being John Malkovich should be called Being Agent SmithIt would be the ultimate test of his formidable acting powerz. Done in the same style as the original BJM, of course ( Read more... )

Question: why don't I smoke pot ( Read more... )

Freaking thunderstorm woke me up at 5:30 AM, and now I'm sleepy.

Columbusites, let me know if this happens to you in the next two days. If it does, it means we can replace all the meteorologists in Ohio with people who call up their friends in Chicago to ask them how the weather's been.

Blogs are very, very strange things.

Congratulations to whoever invented them for changing the fundamental nature of communication yet again.

I thought a little more about what made Pirates unboring, and posted it below... There's one minor spoiler that people who haven't seen the movie probably won't even understand, but just in case I've put it in an lj-cut thingy.

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I saw Pirates of the Carribean last night. I think this is the first Jerry Bruckheimer movie since Bad Boys that I've been thoroughly entertained by, although it was a lot longer than it needed to be. I hope the DVD is a director's cut that actually removes about 30 minutes of the film and puts it under the "deleted scenes" menu ( Read more... )