Best description I've heard of LA is that the whole city is actually an island that floats atop a basin of human sadness and spray tan fluid.

The horror of when recognizable =/= adaptable

Fairy Tales are fine on their own if your into that sort of thing.  It's when we drag them kicking and screaming into the world of copyright where you get Amanda Seyfried in heavily reimagined period dress on green screen set trying to deliver lines about a finding her magic beans or some shit while brooding post rock…

Cillian Murphy has this whole "successful alien-human hybrid experiment" look working for him.  I picture there's a basement in some secret weapons lab that's full of suspended animation tubes of horrific Cillians gone wrong, like scene in Alien Resurrection.

I recognize the things MTV is honoring!  I'm part of this!

It's a show where professional thespians passionately deliver monologues to the glassy, uncomprehending eyes of Yorkshire Terrier dressed as Othello.  I think it was supposed to be a Dada revival or something.

I'd watch that.  I'd watch the shit out of that.

*Breaks from character methodically

I'm pretty sure most people's idea of New Zealand is half hobbits, a certain percent May-Orees, and the rest are Scottish people with awful teeth

Great Job, Internet!

Yeah, they really want you, they really want you, they really do not have reservations about keeping the security deposit.

I don't know, there's some pretty severe cultural discontinuity between the Eastern Empire and Classical Rome, whether or not 'Byzantine' is a retroactively applied label.  The whole art historical record radically departed from classical conventions, for instance, and Christianity was interpreted in wildly different…

And what's the deal with airline peanuts?

I guess what I'm saying is did he or did he not Forget Sarah Marshall

I can't even remember the plot of that movie, but Jason Segel's dick sure stayed with me

He hosted Saturday Night Live and starred in a couple of terrible comedies that I was under the impression flopped.  His other claim to fame for Americans is being married to Katy Perry, but I didn't think the combination of that and a collective shoulder shrug from US audiences usually wins you two tv shows.

I loved the second one in grade school because it had enough action to appeal to me as a preteen (or tween, is it now?), but it would take an awful lot of convincing for me to give this franchise another shot now.

I want to say that was MI 2, and the track was called "I Disappear" or something.  I think Jason Newsted left the band shortly after they released it, although I'm not sure if the reason for that was because Metallica was like two years away from their absolute nadir and he saw it coming.

No, you're definitely working some kind of angle.  We'll figure out what it is.

Part of my culture shock in moving to Hawaii came when a friend I had met burned me a CD of half Sublime and half 311.  When she gave it to me she asked me excitedly "Do you listen to Ska?  Like, Sublime?"  I think I stumbled over something about liking No Doubt and seeing Mustard Plug in high school to not hurt her…