All right, I admit it. I caved in and opened my copy of “The Last Colony” by John Scalzi, and with what line does he start off his book?
This story - like all good stories - begins with a goat.
(I’ve edited it a bit to make more sense. Yes, it does really make more [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Literature with Horns
The Brotherhood of the Wolf
Last night I went over to the table where my Never Ending Stack of DVDs lies jumbled together, and I picked a random one without looking too closely on exactly which it was. It ended up being “The Brotherhood of the Wolf”, a movie I bought solely because of Terje’s recommendation and the dirt cheap [...]
Blade Runner: A Praising
Believe it or not, but I watched Ridley Scott’s adaption of Dick’s novel “DADOES?”, Blade Runner, Thursday evening and haven’t had the time to post about it until now. I blame society for this grievance. I need money to continue feeding my addictions, and to do so I have to take time of out my [...]
At “The Last Colony” has Arrived!
Goody good goodness! The last volume in the Old Man’s War Trilogy, The Last Colony has arrived in my mailbox. It was released in Europe on Friday, sent to me on Thursday, and it arrived today! Huge kudos and much love goes out from me to you, the Amazon corporation. I can’t think of a [...]
Flow My Tears, the Blogger Said
This blog post contains spoilers for season 2 of Battlestar Galactica (a small one, but very irritating if you haven’t watched it) and The Lies of Locke Lamora (a major book ruining one, which I’ve censored very thoroughly). If you are big ol’ psycho about spoilers, I wouldn’t read this post at all. Move along, [...]
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” is supposed to be the mothership of all western movies, and that was one of the reasons I bought it one month ago. Another reason for this purchase was also the wickedly cool cover art (its got a red cover with a black silhouette of Clint Eastwood) and [...]
Phillip K. Dick Mystery of the Day
Which famous painting is described in this quote from Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?:
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature’s torment, echoes of [...]
Apocalyptic Tagging - Streamlined for Your Satisfaction
As I’ve said so often before, I’ve never liked categories. I’ve especially found my own categories very irritating, simply because “I could get no satisfaction” from using them. My book, TV-show and movie reviews got lost in the maze, so I decided to cut the fat and only keep the tags I wanted. This way [...]
The Black Dahlia
Nearly every time new DVD’s get released where I work, there are some movies that nearly everyone rents, some movies that only kids rents and some movies that no one rents at all. Now, you might think that it’s the films that, judging by the cover and experience, looks the worst are the ones that [...]
My 5 Favourite Films, TV-Shows and Books
Loki asked me this over at Thus Spoketh Terje:
What are, approximately, your five favourite TV-shows? Your five favourite books? And your five favourite movies?
The question came after I had inquired with Terje whether I’d like Babylon 5 or not, but Loki, being himself, wanted to chip in as well. In order to do so, he [...]
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