slithy toves

i know, that's weird isn't it? i'm pretty sure there's nothing at all wrong with his left eye irl, unless it is something recent.

i figured he'd make a good villain, even when he's playing a good guy he definitely comes across as someone you probably shouldn't fuck with.

so i went on a bit of a mad(s) bender last night. watched flame and citron and prague. flame and citron cements him as a badass, but i'm a sucker for wwii espionage-type films anyway. prague is surprisingly funny for a pretty depressing film. i think this crazy big danish guy is totally my new favorite actor.

i didn't say early v. late stuff, just that they tend to evolve over a broad spectrum indicating that they had a diverse musical palate to begin with

@dan i don't really believe you. punk rock is a broad enough spectrum that there has to be something you like that is punk. it is my new personal mission to find it @jack all those bands you mentioned are bands that have been around for a while and have tended to evolve along a rather broad spectrum. i think that's the reason for the disliking lots and liking a few, because i feel the same way. i'm surprised that i get so many funny looks when i admit something like that. there are actually even days where i'll like some songs and not others that i liked the day before, with maynard james keenan stuff like tool, a perfect circle etc. especially.

explaining my desktop reminded how completely amazing cacophony is as an album. they should rerelease this bitch and give it away for free because it must be listened to, in it's entirety! it isn't quite a concept album, but really it must be listened to from beginning to end to fully be appreciated. i had a hard time picking just one track to post, it brings a tear to my eye.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-EBjGsy1Hw

also pretty much any devo video is awesome

he's also apparently a james bond villian le chiffre, which intrigues me. i'm not a 007 fan, but apparently le chiffre was based on aleister crowley so now i've apparently got to watch some daniel craig james bond movies.

well we could hope that next time they switch up the instant queue they put them back on there. they removed lost for like a month and then put it back on there. so... maybe?

slithy toves is in lewis carroll's nonsense poem the jabberwocky. humpty dumpty explains the words thusly "'Slithy' means 'lithe and slimy'...'Toves' are something like badgers, they're something like lizards, and they're something like corkscrews." which amuses me greatly. also, it's kinda ugly / fun to say, slithy toves.

he's in pusher and pusher 2, strange that they don't show up. but pusher 3 is the only one on instant. you mean i have to wait to watch these? pfft, netflix, you disappoint.

although i think this would also qualify for wwytb in new vegas i approve of this sfw mm thread. it's thanks to you that i'm now on a personal mission to see everything that he has ever made... which hopefully will cement his badassery as opposed to belittling it

oh yeah, that bit

argh, ok you win with that one.

ok i can...

visually it was incredible, i almost felt like with the power they had in the visuals they used they should have done something more with it. they could have done so much with symbolism and a lot more with the story just by taking the crazy good atmosphere they were creating and manipulating it more. or maybe that's just the awesomesauce expectation i had talking, because honestly it's gorgeous just as it is but i wanted more. and this. that was actually pretty rockstar.

i'm always amused at how some of the older stuff that's just explained in a really nutty way is completely more sensical in the end than some of the things they came out with when they started really getting into science, and taking apart cadavers to learn about the human body and mixing chemicals together and whatnot. there are definitely some cases where you'd have been better off with someone treating you by the four humors than some of the things they did in the 19th century.

so due to this thread i watched blood into wine and valhalla rising. blood into wine was awesome and unexpectedly quite humorous. diedan, mmp i know you're going to be sad but i think i'm going to have to agree with mini here and say that you might have built valhalla rising up a bit much. i feel like if i'd just randomly watched it off the instant queue with no one telling me it was awesomesauce i would have enjoyed it more, i kept waiting for the awesomer thing that was never going to happen. although i'm now moderately obsessed with mads mikkelsen and feel like seeing every other movie he's ever been in ever. i do recommend everyone watching it, though, just don't set any expectations.

i have this saved in my favorites in case of bad days and as i was getting ready to send this a work friend linked me to this. it's pretty on-topic

1. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol (they're in the same book most of the time, not cheating putting them both. oh, and for me? duh...) 2. The Mound by HP Lovecraft (yes, it's a novella, but it's so good) 3. 1984 by George Orwell 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain i'm a weird reader, i'm not picky at all. i'll read anything from trashy romance novels to obtuse tomes on history or other perceived boring stuff, so coming up with favorites i usually end up listing stuff that i've been reading since i was younger because it's some of the only stuff i read and reread a zillion times. i like to go to library tag sales and pick up older books, like from the early 1900s, about science and stuff and read how crazy and racist and just sometimes outright bizarre stuff they took as absolute "fact" are today.

i would like to dispute that, but my previous job in retail and my law degree are preventing me from doing so. at least i'm not a lawyer, retail worker or rapist anymore...?

feeling a little deftones / perfect circle this morning and this is hitting the spot nicely

pretty much any talking heads video is awesome.

yeah, i'm pretty sure that law got redacted when i was in my teens. not that i would have a reason to know such a thing or that i ever celebrated not having to try to find a buyer who was willing to go to new hampshire on sundays *cough*. i do think some counties are still dry on sunday, though.