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Criterion is releasing every Zatoichi film in one dual format box set. http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1012-zatoichi-the-blind-swordsman
The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters. The films that feature him are variously pulse-pounding, hilarious, stirring, and completely off-the-wall. This deluxe set features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, collected in one package for the first time. -
Looks like some classic samurai violence.
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I totally didn't include any info beyond titles for my list. Let me know if I need to rectify that.
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If you've been waiting to see Gancarski badly misunderstand the themes of Breaking Bad: here it is.
Glad to see Ganc still sucks.
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So if I was gonna start watching Doctor Who, where would I start? Tennant's run? Is Eccelston's season any good?
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I've started reading the Harlem Detective series. Chester Himes was an amazing author. Now I've gotta track down the film versions of COTTON COMES TO HARLEM and A RAGE IN HARLEM.
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When I teach "Ozymandias" in the fall I'm gonna just let Bryan Cranstin recite it for me.Ho.lee.shit -
This is pretty alright:
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Also gotta love that Wrestle-1 card with 17 X's. They got some work to do...
I'm trying to remember the exact wording of the warning you get in Fire Pro when you book too many outsiders. "The roster is worried..."
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Well those are a bunch of interesting films I sure wont get around to seeing...Gonna try, however, to get in TOKYO FIST and RED SQUIRREL in the next couple of daysHaven't seen Tokyo Fist in many years and had too many films to get through to give it a re-watch, but it left a strong enough impression to get a vote anyway. Somehow I have never seen Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.A few films that didn't make the cut the last time around, that hopefully show up here: Fresh, Les visiteurs, Peace Hotel, The Nasty Girl, Swallowtail Butterfly, I Hired A Contract Killer, Muriel's Wedding.
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I live in Halifax, where there is no parking. So if you see a spot, you take that motherfucking spot, parallel parking be damned.
I'd say I pp two-three times a week. You people disgust me.
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THE CONJURING was really good, so thanks to those who recommended it. I thought it had an excellent cast (Ron Livingston!) and just the right mix of tension building and jump-scares.
Also, I like how haunted house movies now skip the whole "there must be a rational explanation!" bit and just goes right to "shit, this house is haunted!"
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Peter Motherfucking Capaldi. I suddenly care about Dr. Who.
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Great! Long weekend here, so I was gonna ask for an extension anyway
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Apparently James Raideen won the FF. never heard of him.
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Oh yeah, definitely. I'm just saying that if they're gonna do this thing, this fight is probably the best they can do. Maybe if Mo ever makes it to TNA he can be a "name" opponent for either man.It just feels like Viacom put Bellator in this situation to see if they can turn a real profit. You don't do PPV as a secondary promotion unless you have at least two or three PPV commodities. They have one (literally two past their prime fighters combining as one) at best. That won't cut it.
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Honestly, if they're set on PPV, this seems like the best possible match. Tito, at least, should not be fighting anyone outside of the seniors circuit, and their name value, while not what it once was, is still a lot higher than anyone else's in Bellator.So what's the rest of the card? Eddie Bravo and some title fights?Bellator just announced Rampage Jackson vs. Tito Ortiz for Nov. 2nd on their PPV debut.
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My thoughts are with you and yours, Natural.
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Half-Made World seems like it was written to meet a deadline. The author just rushes through things at the end and doesn't even bother with a real conclusion. There's enough good stuff in it that I'm intrigued by the sequel, but I doubt I'll ever get around to picking it up.
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Bah, there's just no way I'll have time to watch it. I've had the damn thing for years, too. A SNAKE OF JUNE is my favourite, but both of those mentioned look good.
Y'all better back me up on THE STORY OF RICKY.
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Very disappointed that I neglected to make the time to watch BULLET BALLET and TOKYO FIST.
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Keiji Muto meets with Jeff Jarrett in Nashville!
The future of Wrestle-1 augurs poorly.
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"Evil Ash" was a really dated name which I've been thinking about changing for years, but I had trouble coming up with anything better. I briefly pondered "Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged" (or just "Wowbagger"), but decided against it. "Control" ain't too flashy, but it'll do; I was thinking of the head of the Circus in TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY, but also Edwin Walker's paranoid theory of the "Real Control Apparatus" and Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control."
I also lurked at the old green and yellow board, and posted once or twice.
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Here are some albums I like, in no particular order:
"Push the Sky Away" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (just for you, BL88--this is probably the Nick Cave-iest Nick Cave album yet)
"We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic" by Foxygen (If I were to describe this band, I'd be describing a band I don't like. However, I do like this band. Favourite track: "On Blue Mountain")
"Wondrous Bughouse" by Youth Lagoon (favourite track: Dropla)
"I See Seaweed" by The Drones (my favourite track of the year might be "Why Write a Letter You'll Never Send")
"Silence Yourself" by Savages (cannot choose just one song)
"New Moon" by The Men (favourite track: "The Brass")
"The Terror" by The Flaming Lips (best opening track this year. Well either this or the Daughn Gibson album [bL links to the song])
"...Like Clockwork" by Queens of the Stone Age
"Innocence is Kinky" by Jenny Hval
"Kveikur" by Sigur Ros
"Untogether" by Blue Hawaii (I believe my favourite song is called "In Two")
I'll try to add some thoughts, so that ain't just list-o-mania.
I will mention that Sigur Ros and The Flaming Lips are two bands who I've known about for ages, but whose music has never caught my attention until these two albums. Conversely, I'd never listened to MBV before, and I find this new album dull.
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MMA Talk.
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Maldonado vs Beltrain in a by gawd slobberknocker!