It's Black Friday, and all that, so the Christmas season has officially started, and we will all be deluged with a torrential flood of Christmas Music, much of which will be played out ( Read more... )

Some people have to spend a traditionally family-oriented holiday in unusual circumstances, where it might seem like there isn't all that much that makes this holiday different from any other day ( Read more... )

Saw these too. I have not been to very many concerts in over 10 years, so most of the shows I saw were in the late 1970's and 1980's, with my really rabid concert-goings ending by the mid 1990's. The ridiculously high price of tickets is what caused me to stop. I am also not a big fan of "reunion" shows, where there is no new output by the band ( Read more... )

I was in a Ron and Fez forum, and I tried to remember all of the bands I have seen live ( Read more... )

Please, spare me.

( Under here...as if I was not sick enough already. )

The recent tasering of the UCLA student will lead to a bunch of protests on and off-campus, I suspect. Based on the video, the student became angry and uncooperative when asked to show ID, because he said he was being singled out because of his Middle Eastern ethnicity. At this point, though, isn't it just too bad, considering who has been the ( Read more... )

A student made this 20-minute short film based on Richard Mattheson's "I am Legend ( Read more... )

For those who have not yet seen the Borat movie, it is very funny, but see it before any "Borat-isms" become the equivalent of "I'm Rick James, bitch ( Read more... )

All of the indicators seem to point to the weirdest/most awful horor and adult films coming from either Germany or Japan.

I wonder if this is because neither of these very proud cultures have never gotten over being conquered.

I always see "simply the best."

Just once, I would like something to be superlative, but really hard to grasp, full of hard-to-understand formulae, pie charts, and bar graphs on the verge of incomprehensibility. Here's what I want to see on my next pizza box:

"Complicatedly, the best."