Sigh. It’s been a fairly busy week, movie-wise, and so now I’m five or six reviews behind again. Man, this sucks…
Anyway, I watched “This is Spinal Tap” last Thursday or Friday. This is probably the most famous mockumentary ever, tracking the attempted comeback tour of a hard rock band called Spinal Tap. They had a [...]
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Various kinds of alt.rock are my favourite kinds of music, but I’m basically very flexible when it comes to this. I listen to everything from sugary pop to some pretty raw metal, while checking in on basically every genre in between.
This is Spinal Tap
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home, part III
Whoa.
And when I was done, Queen’s “You Take My Breath Away” was next in line in my WMP playlist. How’s that for a coincidence?
Half-way evil Willow.
A Angel-Buffy(in-nurse-costume)-Spike dream landscape with barbed wire.
Fi fa fucking fum.
“Ladies and other ladies… the indescribable Rosenberg.” - Xander.
“Well, this is really unimpressive. One attack by the undead and Renee has [...]
Babylon 5: The Gathering
Almost two months after I began downloading Babylon 5, I’ve finally gotten around to actually watch it. Following Loki’s recommendation, I watched the pilot-movie first: “Babylon 5: The Gathering“. And although I have some complaints, I thought it showed a lot of promise.
First, the complaints. Of these, the acting might be the biggest one, as [...]
Withnail & I
I’ve heard a lot of people praising “Withnail & I” movie as one of the funniest movies ever made, and although I wouldn’t necessarily be inclined to agree with that, I have to admit that it at least is a very good movie, and that it’s quite witty.
“Withnail & I” doesn’t really have much of [...]
Awesome music videos
Radiohead - Paranoid Android — I don’t love the video as much as I used to, but man, this is still a fucking mind-blowing song. Undeniably my favourite of all time.
Queen - I’m Going Slightly Mad — not only is the song weird in a good way, but the video is, in addtion to being [...]
My 10 favourite albums of all time
I can vaguely remember that when I wrote the purpose statement of this blog, I said some stuff about the appearance of lists. And I feel that I’m sadly lacking in that department, so I take the least original list concept of them all, and try to start amending this failure. Later, I might try [...]
w00t! yayz0r! And some more restrained comments.
First of all, lets get all this emotion out of the way:
Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! “Batman: Year One” by Frank Miller has arrived!
And almost one month before I expected it to come, at that!
Additionally, Year One wasn’t the only thing waiting for me when I came home from Røros last night. SFX #154 had [...]
The Sounds of February — An Attempted Subjective Buffy Theme
Okay, as the theme for this month’s CD, I’ve chosen “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. I wll, in other words, try to make a CD on which all of the songs remind me of this awesomest of all awesome shows. Be it that they remind me of the show in general, a specific episode or scene [...]
Karaoke at the Caritas…
Last Thursday, my sister and I watched one of the first Angel season 2 episodes where Lorne* and his abilities are used. And my sister asks me a question, which I’m frankly disappointed in myself for not having asked myself before: “If you were to sing for Lorne,” she asks, “what would you sing? Give [...]
Couple o’ updates more
1. I just wrote a new page, entitled “Buffysodes”, on which I’ve put links to all my quasi reviews of Buffysodes. In time, it might be renamed to just “’sodes” or something, and have links to more reviews, but for now this is all there is. It’s primarily written as a service to my sister, [...]
The Sounds of January
I continue what I started in December: Making a home made CD to listen to while on the bus, in the car, or when I’m out walking. I also follow up a kind of dogma I thought up while burning December’s CD: That I won’t use the same band twice. I doubt that that dogma [...]
O treasure, where art I?
New year, new movies. I managed a (to me) respectable 107 movies in 2006, in other words a little more than my goal of 104.
So, this year was opened with an adaption of Homer’s “The Odyssey”, namely the Coen brothers’ “O Brother, Where Art Thou?“.
This lends both strengths and weaknesses to the movie. One of [...]
Arrogant Infidelity
(EDIT: Please excuse the crappy pseudo-quality of this “review”; I just finished reading “V for Vendetta”, and my mind hasn’t recovered properly yet.)
It would appear that Christmas is “romantic-comedy-time” as well as family time, for in the last week, I’ve seen more romantic comedies than I usually do in three or four months.
The last one [...]
The hardest working man in showbiz will work no more
R.I.P. James Joseph Brown, Jr.
The sounds of December
Here’s the content of the “homemade” CD I’m listening to in December:
1. The Doors - The Soft Parade
If I’m ever gonna try any drugs, this is the song I’ll be listening to while high. It’s surreal, and it’s great.
2. Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower
My personal Dylan favourite. Ambigious lyrics, wistful atmosphere.
3. The Buzzcocks [...]
It’s mine! My own! My precious!
Yesterday, I finally got my hands on The White Stripes’ cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”. And it’s so fucking amazing; I’m gonna listen to it and try to sing along until my throat starts bleeding.
The State of the End of the Millenium Adress
Neighbours, nobody loves you like we do.
Neighbors, your government has triumphed in finally making you a public fit
for the 21st century.
Never before has a governing body shown so much concern for the economic
well-being of its subjects.
Today we have insulated you from countless factions who threathens your
financial viability; such as the poor; the idealistic foreigners still
clinging [...]
Egyptgate
Finally watched “Stargate” again. It’s been at least six years or so since the last time I saw it, and I was actually relieved to see how little it sucked.
All in all, it’s the classic archetype of adventure movies. Nerdy academician, stout but troubled soldier, basis in various von Däniken-like theories of the past, supernatural [...]
Families — AS2×19 Belonging
This is another one of those episodes whose plot’s primary function seems to be providing a setting or an excuse for extensive character interaction and development. Because seriously, the Drakken demon (or however it’s spelled) and its entry into our world as a basis for an entire episode is a little thin. But when it [...]
“Mass Nerder”
“Don’t got no goatee
Don’t got no tattoo
Don’t got no nose ring
Don’t wanna be like you
See I got these glasses
So I’ll never be cool
Always get my assed kick
When I get to school
Don’t worry about an image
Don’t got no attitude
I know I won’t get laid
If I wont be like you
Don’t got no biceps
Don’t got no pecs
But I’ll [...]
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