Just got back from "Jet Li's Fearless", another lavishly produced, gorgeous martial arts epic. Jet Li is easily my favorite of the major martial arts stars and his movies are usually pretty spectacular, Fearless being no exception. There's two set-piece battles that were especially amazing, one set atop a platform many feet in the air, another in a ritzy multi-level restaurant. What was unusual about...
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Holy shit. The iTunes Music Store has German rock. When did this happen?
emotedcreations:
Thanks for the 'ignore' help...
pepelepew:
I don't know never been there.
I need more time in the day. Another 72 hours a day ought to do.
I have 47 library books waiting for me to read them. ~39 of my own books (with multi-book single-volume collections counted as one book) also in need of reading, though I've read parts of some of the multibook collections. Not to mention the dozens of other books at the library...
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I have 47 library books waiting for me to read them. ~39 of my own books (with multi-book single-volume collections counted as one book) also in need of reading, though I've read parts of some of the multibook collections. Not to mention the dozens of other books at the library...
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Yesterday I went and saw "Crank", which if you don't know is the movie where Jason Statham plays Chev Chelios, a hitman who's been poisoned in his sleep with a mysterious drug that kills him by "blocking the adrenalin receptors". Which is gobbledygook, of course, but it sets up the central premise of the movie, which is that he's constantly got to keep the adrenalin...
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otoki:
Well, random emails are all well and good, but will random names work, too? And I can't have them ship to the same address, I don't think.
Ah, how sad, that i can only make so much money off of them to give to planned parenthood.
Ah, how sad, that i can only make so much money off of them to give to planned parenthood.
sauda:
You are superbly entertaining. 
Lessee:
Picked up the fourth and seventh seasons of Buffy on DVD for a combined total of 45 bucks, new, including free shipping. A great deal, although I shouldn't have done it quite so early in the paycheck. Between that and a few other things, including school, money's going to be tight until my next payday. Bleh.
Beat Titan Quest. (On normal difficulty, anyway). Towards...
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Picked up the fourth and seventh seasons of Buffy on DVD for a combined total of 45 bucks, new, including free shipping. A great deal, although I shouldn't have done it quite so early in the paycheck. Between that and a few other things, including school, money's going to be tight until my next payday. Bleh.
Beat Titan Quest. (On normal difficulty, anyway). Towards...
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pepelepew:
That MMO sound really cool.I might have to try it.
It's that time again. Yes, time for that plague upon the Twin Cities, the Minnesota State Fair. I really cannot think of an event on the local social calendar that I hate more. Part of it is that it's so completely uninteresting to me. You have basically three main sorts of things going on: incredibly dull exhibits, mostly to do with farming and animal husbandry,...
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mistergone:
What are you talking about!?! the MN State Fair is one of the last places you can see and admire the mullet in all its natural glory 
Ahhh, so majestic, no?
Well at least the funnel cakes are decent.
I've avoided watching Deadwood b/c after they canceled Carnivale mid story
I've become a bit gunshy of their shows (plus I shelled out like 70 bucks for that damn season 1 set 
).
Ahhh, so majestic, no?
Well at least the funnel cakes are decent.
I've avoided watching Deadwood b/c after they canceled Carnivale mid story
I've become a bit gunshy of their shows (plus I shelled out like 70 bucks for that damn season 1 set ). It's scary how many blank discs I go through. I've got at least 350 burnt as something or other, heavily skewing towards CDs (I just ordered my third 100-pack of CD-Rs and I had a couple of 50 packs as well, vs. nearing the end of my second 50-pack of DVD-Rs). I'd use CD-RWs, but these are archival, not things I'd want to write over....
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So I had a birthday. It contained stuff. Not very much stuff, but then I gather that's part of this "being technically an adult" business, that presents drop off in quantity. Main thing is I wound up with Season 1 of Carnivale, so I am shiny.
Also finally got my hands on a legit copy of Titan Quest, and Dragon Warrior VIII, as well as...
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Also finally got my hands on a legit copy of Titan Quest, and Dragon Warrior VIII, as well as...
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necia:
Ooooh! Happy late birthday!
(And thank you for the compliment.
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Really? It says 1969? SG's been on some kind of crack lately.
(And thank you for the compliment.
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Really? It says 1969? SG's been on some kind of crack lately.
pepelepew:
Ya my summer be going fine too. Except foe X-box 360 crapping out on me.Which sucks.It cost 130 bucks to fix it.
Watched the entirety of the second edition of "Loose Change" yesterday, as I am doing an 8+ page research paper on 9/11 conspiracy theories (I am finding that I really wish I had picked a different topic, but, well, it was due nearly two weeks ago now, so it's not the best time to change that. For those of you who may be worried: I...
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wildswan:
Happy happy birthday!! 
nickfaust:
Happy Birthday.
Got 12 console games yesterday:
Timestalkers (Dreamcast), Carrier (Dreamcast), D (PSX), Alter Echo (PS2), Armored Core 2 (PS2), Armored Core 2 Another Age (PS2), Jet Set Radio Future (Xbox), The Bard's Tale (Xbox), Phantom Dust (Xbox), Legacy of Kain - Defiance (Xbox), all for 5 dollars each or below.
Prince of Persia - The Warrior Within (Xbox) for 12 bucks
and SWAT: Global Strike Force...
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Timestalkers (Dreamcast), Carrier (Dreamcast), D (PSX), Alter Echo (PS2), Armored Core 2 (PS2), Armored Core 2 Another Age (PS2), Jet Set Radio Future (Xbox), The Bard's Tale (Xbox), Phantom Dust (Xbox), Legacy of Kain - Defiance (Xbox), all for 5 dollars each or below.
Prince of Persia - The Warrior Within (Xbox) for 12 bucks
and SWAT: Global Strike Force...
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frankmask:
I usually just put them outside. But the call is always for murder.
Well, school's over for the summer. Not so much for me quite yet, though. Still gotta write that research paper I've been putting off. Shouldn't be too terribly hard, but I hatehatehatehate research papers, so it nonetheless stings. Still, once that's out of the way I'll have three or four weeks of unadulterated relaxation during my time at home. Hot relaxation. Bloody renters went two...
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pepelepew:
Yep The heat really sucks this year.I just don't about those people that think that Isreal can do no wrong. All I can guess is blind patriotism. People block out the negative and focus on the postive.Not too many wanna have discussion anymore. They just want espouse thier opinions and ideas.They have had ideas for so ideas gfor so long that think ideas are thonly right ones.
necia:
I think part of it might be that there are so many on the opposite side, willing and ready to condemn Israel for things that they don't bat an eye at when done by other countries (or at least, don't condemn nearly as harshly). Israel isn't above reproach, clearly, but it's not the pure evil that a lot of people (including a lot of American leftists) seem to think it is, either.
There might be a lot of blind support of Israel, but I think there's also a lot of blind hatred, too. And neither one is accurate or helpful. *sigh*
Ooooh! A date, eh?
There might be a lot of blind support of Israel, but I think there's also a lot of blind hatred, too. And neither one is accurate or helpful. *sigh*
Ooooh! A date, eh?
This hasn't been a good month for mail. I've had two Netflix DVDs delayed by a day, one that hasn't shown up yet, a Gamefly game that shipped on the 8th and just arrived today (unless Gamefly was confused and shipped Monster Hunter when they said Devil Kings. Dunno.)...
One more week of class, got the final and a make-up day and that's that. Which...
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Also notable is the mildly xenophobic subtext. Jet Li's first big movie (as far as I know) was "Once Upon a Time in China" with his martial arts schoolmaster up against the evil foreigners, and while "Fearless" tones that down somewhat (and it's not the focus of the movie), the opening and closing battles are against the champions of an evil, scheming group of foreigners (the Foreign Chamber of Commerce). It's mildly disconcerting, as a foreign viewer.
Imagine how the rest of the world feels with 99% of the american film with a villian, and to be honest, even though I have enjoyed other wire-fu films, after seeing District B13 I just can't get into the style anymore.
PS as with most foreign films, watch District B13 with the original audio track, its a million times better.