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We're the Hell's Satans…
…outta Bakersfield!

My first job was at K-Mart in the spring of 99. I still wake up in a cold sweat after having horrible nightmares about that place. You know how K-Mart is the bottom rung of the big box retailers? Just imagine how awful that place was run.

Oh but I could, GH.

800,000 dollars per episode…
…one dollar for every person who watches the show? Ba dum ching!

Sunshine was one of the most interesting films of 2007. It also looks fucking amazing on BluRay.

Jeremy Davies is fucking excellent and lifts the pedigree of any film he's in by at least two notches, even if its already fantastic like Saving Pvt. Ryan or Solaris. Oh, and Ravenous is fucking awesome in its own bat shit crazy way. I doubt we'll ever see another film of its type.

Wow, Solaris!
It was good to see this as a MYOF review. Even better, it wasn't completely filled with non sequitur references to pop culture.

Agreed with Handlen. Especially so because Shymalan mortgaged his future as a director with Disney in order to make Lady in the Water. They turned it down, he threw a hissy fit and left for another studio. It's all documented in some book I've never read, but you can find it on Amazon.com I'm pretty sure.

I'll throw on more praise for Willow. It's a shame that it didn't really catch the eye of pop culture in the way some other 80s action movies did. Watch the trailer recently? I remember it saying something like "Get ready for the next big adventure!" or something, like it would be the next Indiana Jones or Star Wars.

If you can call it a dream, you have succeeded stunningly. I wouldn't say it's much of a dream though.

Rabin's book…
…reads like a really depressing version of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa-Puffs. Honestly, I don't think I can read it. It's just too much for me. As a sufferer of mental illness myself, I found his excerpt brought me to places I didn't want to go.

I remember being psyched for Surge back in the awesome days of 8th grade. Then I tried it, and it was like a flat, watered-down Mountain Dew. I hated the stuff. Vault, the successor to surge, tastes a bit better. But the Dew is still king of the green, extreme sports sodas.

Does anyone give a fuck? Kind of, I guess. Leary is still on Rescue Me, which I have never seen but I guess is an important show when it comes to awards season and buzz in Entertainment Weekly. Romano is still in some kind of semi-retirement after doing his show for 9 seasons, not unlike Jerry Seinfeld. Leguizamo was

Megen Fox has dramatic range as an actress? I guess her guest-starring stint on "Hope and Faith" or whatever other shitty sitcom that was proves it so. Also, has she been in anything besides a Transformers movie that has even had any kind of a cultural impact whatsoever?

I've seen both the DTV Darkman sequels and they actually both have their merits. Didn't the guy from the Mummy play Darkman. And no, not Brendan Fraser… I mean either the Egyptian, tattoo dude or the mother fucking mummy himself.

But he was quite bad ass as Ra's Al Ghul… you gotta give him that!

This reminds me of the time…
…I did cocaine with Karl Malden.

Public Enemies…
My friends have been gushing over it for a few months, but I thought the trailer was immensely boring. I like Mann a lot, but his last few films have not excited me at all. I'm tiring of Depp and Bale rather quickly. Crudup is a good actor and I'm interested in his take on J. Edgar Hoover. Anyone know

New Band-Aid album, however,
…still in post-production limbo. Just kidding, folks. There is no rapper named Band-Aid.

But we still have…
…Ebony and Jet, correct? Right..? Someone tell me we do!