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Never heard of vinescope before, but just spent the last hour clicking on random. Addictive stuff.

Watched Upstream Color. I laughed at one internet comment that said "It's as if Terrence Malick made a film, thought it was crap, and gave it to Shane Carruth." I wouldn't call it crap, but I feel like I'm gonna have to some reading to make sense of it. Beautiful images though, particularly the macro photography. I will say it's probably the only English language film I've watched with subtitles. So damn quiet.

Special Triple Bill: Wedding Crashers Crash Four Weddings And A Funeral

The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Shakes The Clown Grumpy Old Men Falling Down Martha Marcy May Marlene Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle Natural Born Killers Of Mice And Men

Young People Fucking 12 Angry Men

For real, Jae?

This one hits a little too close to home...

So glad nobody was here to see my reaction.

Alternatively, go to your local library. Mine has a few shelves of graphic novels you can check out. Better to not spend money while you're still trying to figure out what you like.

Pretty amazing. There's a graveyard in the picture and you can zoom in so far that you can read the inscriptions (if you can read the Japanese script)

Be wary of FSW trying to get you to notice him.

I love a good Google challenge, but unfortunately I've come up with nothing. Even taking out Mickey Mouse, Winnie The Pooh and Honey Boo Boo, nothing comes up. You mentioned Laugh-In. They had a Halloween special in 1970. Maybe it was that? Anyway, here's a website that may help you out - http://rarehalloweenvideos.blogspot.ca/

All shitty movies have a great ending. It's the one where I get up out of my chair and walk away.

Agreeing with FSW. That guy is the most punchable fucker ever. I love Partridge, but that doesn't look so great.

Sunshine belongs in the great movie/shitty ending discussion.

How about Blue Steel Davey Richards?

Blood Feast is pretty terrible, but I found it good for a laugh in its ineptness. Death Race is a guilty favourite of mine. Seen it a couple of times as well as the sequel (but haven't got round to the third yet) Plot may be weak, but the action scenes are well done, and mostly practical if I recall. I don't know why people rag on The Reader so much.

I for one am hella pumped for the return of Maven.

Is Bad Boys worth continuing with? An hour through, and so far the only action has been the bad guys gunning down two people. No explosions. No car chases. This is a Michael Bay film, right? I only decided to watch it for some crazy visual stunts.

I paid for two to see it in a theatre. Yay me.

This has now happened in at least 20 Tim Horton's across the country.

I happened to be reading this too. About halfway through, I put it down for a bit and haven't had the urge to pick it up again weeks later. I guess I'm obligated to finish it though seeing as it was a Father's Day gift I asked for after it catching my eye in Chapters. Even though you pointed out that Allan and Gump are polar opposites in terms of the consequences of their actions, the similarity was a bit too much for me. They both breeze through life carefree and while Gump is too dumb to know the politics of the situations he's in, conveniently Allan outright doesn't care, meaning both just go along in a dopey fashion with whatever is suggested to them. The only moral decision he makes (at least in the first half of the book) is to save the Chinese woman from being gang raped. The present day stuff is a little more interesting, though as you said the characters are fairly simplistic. And it did that thing (I want to say it was in Amelie), where everyone is given a quirky little backstory. Otherwise, it's a nice, lightweight holiday read, though you shouldn't necessarily go out of your way to pick it up.

I vaguely remember that, what was on the other side? Agent Scully? Great image though, I think I've seen a figurine based on that. It was either Scully or Venus Blue Genes. All 3 got airings on the wall.

Not my good news, but there is a nice pay-it-forward style story happening in Canada this week. On Tuesday, a man walked into a Tim Horton's in Edmonton and paid for $500 worth of coffee for whoever came in. Then in Calgary yesterday, the same thing happened. It happened again today in Ottawa, Red Deer and twice in Edmonton. On one of the occasions in Edmonton, a woman bought $1300 worth of coffee. Awesome story, though the more cynical of the population are theorizing that it must be part of some kind of publicity stunt by a radio station or something. Tim Horton's have said they know nothing about it.