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This. Not to mention the TV shows/movies I want to watch. Yet I keep spending all my time on the internets...

It's because it's such a great book! I haven't read it in years, but it's stuck with me ever since. Also, crazy! The only people I've ever met who have actually read John Crowley were people who I told to read John Crowley. I really love The Deep, Engine Summer, The Solitudes, and Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land. I still need to finish the Ægypt tetralogy, read The Translator, and finish Four Freedoms.) Also, I really thought about doing a top 10, because there are so many that I feel like I'm leaving out, but I like the pressure of whittling it down to 5.

Self-explanatory, really. I feel like graphic novels should probably go in the comics thread, unless someone feels strongly otherwise. Anyhow, here's my top 5, roughly in order: 1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce 2. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon 3. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol (yeah, I'm kind of cheating by putting them both in there.) 4. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski 5. Little, Big - John Crowley

How the hell did you see it between last night and today!?

@TheForgetfulBrain: More often than not, I kind of love dissonance in my music. Though not always. Edit: I broke the quote bracket thingie...

Portishead - Only You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6eewqgGs_Q

1964, unfortunately. It gets tricky because there are a lot of different designations: whiskey is the main, then there are different sets, Irish, Scotch, Canadian, American, etc.. Then in America it breaks down into types: bourbon, rye, or whiskey (generic). After that it can be either straight, blended, or regular (so just bourbon whiskey, rye whiskey, or whiskey. Straight is not blended and has to be aged for longer). And you can add a region (I think only Tennessee and Kentucky, technically, but I could be wrong). So perhaps the information was just misleading or convoluted. It's confusing. I've done way, way too much research on this... ...anyhow, I'm supposed to be working. And we've used up like a page and a half of off-topic posts...

That's for Kentucky Whiskey, not Kentucky Bourbon. You're quoting under section vii) which is about other whiskeys, i.e., not bourbon. Only i) through vi) are about bourbon.

The link you provided only tells what the contents of anything labeled as Bourbon must contain. It says nothing about what may be called Bourbon in regards to origin. http://www.heavenhill.co.nz/prod01_copy%286%2911.htm It just needs to be made in Kentucky to be called Kentucky Bourbon. That's all that website says. Here are some examples of bourbon, named bourbon, made outside of Kentucky: http://www.mccormickdistilling.com/content/products_family.php http://www.asmithbowman.com/collection.aspx

"While it may be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated with Kentucky." Third line in. And the article I liked to is the federal law on designations. Edit: I agree that Kentucky bourbon tastes different than other places, but it can still be called bourbon even if it's produced elsewhere.

No Sunday sales in MN, nor can you sell anything beyond 3.2% ABW (around 4.1% ABV) in a grocery/convenience store. We also have a host of other restrictions including a barrel per year limit on growler sales, breweries can't own bars unless classified as a brewpub, etc., not to mention all the county to county restrictions. This is a fun Wikipedia page that accurately sums up all of the various restrictions by state. Sorry to drive this thread so far off topic...

Legally, that's not true. Basically it needs to be made of 51% corn, not distilled beyond 80% ABV, and then there are a bunch of other restrictions regarding alcohol content the barrels it's aged in, etc. It also has to be made in the US. I won't argue that Kentucky bourbon is best, but your no-state lines laws are likely more to do with distribution than anything else. Technically, in MN, we can't ship or carry any alcoholic beverages across state lines (even though everyone does anyway). Sorry. I'm such a downer when it comes to liquor laws. Here's a fun link to read, though!

Whiskey is not optional! Wait...I'm not in the drunk thread, am I?

I didn't have better options for the hair/beard! The eyes, though, yup, totes my bad...

Hair too long; beard too short. And those eyes just don't seem right at all...

Meh. It's not for everyone. In my head, campy/cheesy = funny.

Hahaha! I watched Machine Girl a few months ago. Kind of excited to watch Tokyo Gore Police as well.

Easily my favorite (FFIV):

It's the first ship from an NES game called Solar Jetman. First game I ever purchased with my own money. Lots of nostalgia for me. I settled on the avatar on Kotaku a long while back and guess I never changed it.

Bummer man. I grew up in a smaller town in WI and would be forced to drive an hour and a half each way to see smaller release movies. I had nothing better to do then though... I apparently missed Never Let Me Go in September, but it's possibly making another round at a smaller theater sometime hopefully soon? "Coming soon" doesn't really make me comfortable.

This is all I have to say about that link: Damn this goddamn snowstorm! I'll probably end up waiting until maybe Thursday before I see this.

Dude, good choices all around. I know I was talking about this somewhere else, but I really need to go see Black Swan. I really love Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain.