But aren't there supposed to be really old rich powerful vampires who live in the Vatican or something? Shouldn't they be richer than the ones in Washington State?

I interpreted the comment about Diamond Dave not being prolific as talking about him in the last decade or two, not back in the 70's - early 80's. He hasn't been churning out solo albums and they have only done a couple of songs with the reformed Van Halen.

I saw Portishead and Kraftwerk both play at the same Coachella festival a few years ago. Portishead were great and Kraftwerk were fun to see because of their history.

Juno was an amusing, quirky movie, maybe it is time for a counter-backlash to start.

@Doc Br0wn: He got paid $100 K for a week's "work" on a zombie movie this seas0n. Last season he took the visiting professor job because he was out of money.

Leila is a badly written character and while the actress is hot, she hasn't demonstrated great acting ability to this point.

I didn't consciously note it, but I was certainly thinking about Blade Runner during that scene.

Vitalogy is still my favorite album to listen to late at night if I want some weird background music to set a mood.

I didn't think there was a chance that it was actually going to happen. I'm only thought as he was at the bottom of the pool was who would be the one to jump in and save him.

Toni Basil wasn't a sweet young innocent when that song came out in the 80's though, she'd been in movies like "Easy Rider", "Head", and "Myra Breckenridge" back in the 60's. I figure her background as a choreographer made it more likely that "guys like you, Mickey" more likely meant gays than innocents.

I hated Forrest Gump because I saw it as a big Baby Boomer nostalgia wank.

@ Domino: Yes, seeing the Magnum PI clip does raise the ending for me. I also missed the Harry Lime(y) reference, though I was expecting more references to the Third Man since I saw the previews last week.

I had the same thought as Todd, the ending was a disappointment that pulls it down to an A- overall for me too.

Toni Basil's Mickey

well I was never going to watch a show about boxing and it just looked way too cliche.

After looking at my original hardcover of Galapagos I see an inscription that it was a Christmas present from a woman I nearly married the prior summer. She was my high school sweetheart and we discovered Vonnegut together but she ran off with a total scumbag instead of getting married to me. I probably never…

Somebody finally mentioned Galapagos. I read it when it came out and didn't like it at all. But it meshed really well with what I'm teaching in an upper division liberal studies class this semester so I reread it and decided to use it for the class. At this point I wouldn't put it up with Cradle, 5, or…

I just watched Skyline a couple of nights ago on PPV. I was decently entertained. Though the ending is the dumbest/weirdest ever and it does start slow. But the bulk of the movie was good dumb fun.

I am so sick of…
"I have important things to tell you but I can't tell you right now".

The song I have going through my head is the Rolling Stones' Star Fucker (which Atlantic made them rename Star Star when it came out on Goat's Head Soup).