I saw Brokeback Mountain yesterday. I'll spare you the good review (I did think it was one of the best movies of 2005), but I must say, in addition to providing fresh meat for teenage fanfic-writing girls who are growing out of their Legolas/Ron Weasley crossover phase, you just know there's going to be a porn version called Bareback Mountain ( ( Read more... )

Some songs that basically sum up this year:

Interpol - "Specialist"
Death In June - "Despair"
Dead Can Dance - "In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated"
Aarktica - "you have cured a million ghosts from roaming in my head"
Boyd Rice and Tiffany Anders - "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder"
Der Blutharsch - Track 2 from The Pleasures Received in ( Read more... )

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Today I had to see The Polar Express at a local IMax theatre because it was in 3-D and my mother heard it was actually good in that format. I really don't think I'm innocent enough for this movie: when they get to the North Pole, I couldn't help comparing it to a fascist rally. I mean, a whole townful of people are forced to work in huge ( Read more... )

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||| 43% Stability |||||||||||| 50% Orderliness |||||||||||||||||| 76% Accommodation || 10% Interdependence |||| 16% Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 70% Mystical |||||||||||||||| 63% Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Religious || 10% Hedonism |||||||||||||||||| 76 ( Read more... )

Amusement of the day: Wikipedia has a whole category devoted to moral panic. Rainbow parties and sex bracelets all in one place!

Also, I currently own more books by William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, and Kathy Acker than anyone else on this site.

The Goth Girl
33% Sexy-Cute, 12% Dark-Light, 32% Artsy-Stylish

Sexy, Dark and Artsy, the Goth Girl definitely catches your eye. And who can blame you, with her black eyeshadow, black clothes, and black expression? The Goth Girl tempts with the promise of sinful satisfaction.


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Some things I am sick of:

-The "War on Christmas" bullshit, especially fundamentalist bitching about the use of "Happy Holidays" as opposed to "Merry Christmas." This isn't a case of those eeevil secular humanists trying to wipe Jesus out of everyone's minds: it is simply more accurate, as many different cultures and religions celebrate holidays ( Read more... )

Memes ahoy ( Read more... )

I'll be going home to Kansas for a month this Friday. Some pros and cons of that ( Read more... )