spiny norman

I wish I were EugeneMark so I wouldn't have to read such shithouse posts ever again. Except when I read my own, obviously.

I swear William C. Wells' eye just moved.

Madonna's Ray Of Light was fantastic. As was Radiohead's The Bends.

What's the story with the Pledge, anyway? Is it done as well as the Anthem playing? Because then it's just superfluous. At our school we had the anthem play every assembly (Monday mornings). From memory, everyone stood for it (except for disabled people and the like). Why wouldn't you? That said, if you want to rebel against the words "under God" being in the pledge then write a letter to someone or, just as people said, don't say that bit. Just sitting there is pointless and makes you look like a little shit rebelling for the sake of being radical.

It's Doctor Who?

John Wayne.

My graduation song was Jeff Buckley's Last Goodbye. Which basically succeeded in having everyone feel down about their love life and think the song somewhat inappropriate (especially given Cat Stevens' Wild World was the #2 choice and seemed far more appropriate). As for the "prom" song, I don't actually remember the last song played at my formal. Which is pretty awful as it was only 11 months ago. I think it may have been My Sharona, but who can say?

I'm curious, did conservatives back in the day dismiss The Great Dictator, High Noon, In The Heat Of The Night and The Deer Hunter as liberal propaganda? There are plenty of movies with positive messages about America and plenty with negative messages. It doesn't necessarily affect the quality of the film, so why get hung up on it? And yeah, Mendes is all right by me so far, so I'll probably go see it unless I hear awful things about it.

Abba - The Winner Takes It All

I just say "No thanks, I'm not interested"?

I don't think we have Jack in a Boxes in Australia. This pisses me off.

Gosh and bother.

It's 84 here, but the humidity makes it a fair amount worse.

I would completely swap that around, but I think all three of his albums are masterful.

My phone is second hand. The person who had this phone before me was named Lucy. Her ring tone is Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. I could never be bothered changing it back.

It's too early for me to have any alcohol in me, but by about four or five hours from now I would. And no, never smoked cigarettes nor done illegal drugs. Not my thing.

I watched almost every episode of Lost - it was good, but it's constant "Something's going to happen, oh wait, no, it didn't" became tiring after about ten episodes. It came back well around the end after about episode twenty, but it's tease ending with the hatch only served to piss me off further. It is not as brilliant a show as Deadwood, which truly is the most fantastic thing on television today. Lost was great in concept but a bit of a letdown in execution (though its Pilot episode was very well done).

If Angle Is God and Ravenbomb are rooting for 24 and Lost to win Best Drama, respectively, they have quite clearly not seen Deadwood. Which should be awarded Best Drama and Best Actor without any charade of a competition with it.

Ed Wood is a masterpiece, and you're a fair dinkum idiot if you don't see it to be so.

Hail To The Theif was a pretty awful album. Their only truly great album was The Bends. OK Computer and Kid A are both inconsistent, some good songs in their but some pretentious crap wherein they believed in their own hype too much.

While I would probably give Scorcese the title of greatest director alive (in that many people seem to consider him to be in the top five of all time), I concede he has made a few classics in the past (though all with De Niro). That said, if he fails to make a classic in the next five years, I would not have confidence he ever will make one again. The Departed sounds interesting, and the Rooslevelt biopic could be worthwhile, but if either of those turn out to be of the calibre of Gangs of New York I'm not going to hold out hope any longer.

I agree about You Make Loving Fun. Wonderful song. Bugger Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie was the awesome one in the band.

I've been to Cardiff. It was an okay place. Good castle.

Pretty much every episode of Deadwood has been awesome, but they chose the six best. And if Tape 3, with the two final episodes of the series, was chosen, no other show stands a chance in this world.