Another time I'll wax nostalgic about the Wisconsin/Seattle tradition, and how the lovely Shelly eventually broke it along with our psyches.

Rather, I want to reinstate Bad Movie Night, and I need recommendations. For me, the essence of Bad Movie night is fun, so even if the films shown truly are bad (they don't have to be), they can't be so ( Read more... )

While I'd intended to watch the opening ceremonies, when I noticed David Belke's The Maltese Bodkin was playing last night, I panicked and bought my ticket right away, remembering my disappointments in previous years when I hesitated early in the festival. A friend volunteering at the beer tent offered her opinion that I'd made the right decision, ( Read more... )

This weekend, Metro Cinema presents seven films from Korea, a country that has produced several of my favorite films in recent years. I'm planning to see all but one, which I have on DVD. I hope to see you there.

The films include:

King and Clown (2005), a period piece about a ruthless tyrant who pardons a couple of clowns on condition they can ( Read more... )

In southerly climes it would have begun in early March, but the cool spring air creeping in through the bedroom window has infected me with the strange dreams I lost for most of my 30s and recovered shortly before my 40th birthday. In my youth they brought me enormous, industrial-designed spacecraft hovering over the Baltimore beltway, or else ( Read more... )

For our upcoming Hobbit Party, I want to concoct six drinks to share with guests throughout the day. I'd like to link them to each of the three Lord of the Rings movies, which we'll be screening downstairs while the rest of the party goes on upstairs and in the game room. Here's what I'm thinking so far:

Black Rider: a coffee drink with Kahlua or ( Read more... )

When you think of horror as a genre, what do you think of? I don't want to skew your answers by offering examples, but I'm hoping you will offer me at least three examples of books, comics, movies, or whatever medium that comes to mind.

Also, what is horror not? And do you have other terms that you use to differentiate things that are similar to ( Read more... )

As a lazy LJ user, I haven't used tags or filters before, but now I'm considering it as an alternative to friends-locking posts by default. I'm particularly interested in the opinions of those who aren't on my friends list, since I've marked virtually everything friends-only these days ( Read more... )

Which is greener, recycling a two-liter plastic bottle or recycling an equivalent number (say, six) of aluminum cans?