re: mieville
Alright, Heller, here goes:

Dominic…
I just read your comment re: The Dark is Rising:

my inner 12-year-old…
…is super excited both about The Dark Is Rising and The Golden Compass (and I think Nicole Kidman is PERFECTLY cast as Mrs. Coulter; I hope she lives up to my expectations).

great discussion
Agree with many of the comments here re: the initial greatness and subsequent decline of The Wheel of Time series.
I would also like to second (third, fourth) the suggestions of Robin Hobb (READ NOW!) and Gene Wolfe, and I will add another one of my own, which I am surprised to find no one else has…

clavis
creepy. ok, just… creepy.
should we send the cops to check out your basement?

i second that emotion
Yeah, I agree with most people here that The Wheel of Time series started strong, and then it just seemed like RJ was milking it for all it was worth, with doorstop after doorstop. I remember reading a complaint elsewhere that in Book 6 (or 7, it's hard for me to keep them straight) NOTHING…

pig in zen
Thank you… I'm glad someone gets my point.

1967 is, like, SO 5 minutes ago
OK, so we get it, those of us younger than 40 want to have a year where we all go "Yes, that year defines us as a generation." The problem is that we've been fed this propaganda by boomers that would have us believe that *every single American youth* was at Woodstock, fucking their…

very handy
love the handy-dandy, print-clip-save list of movies to see later this year/next year.

inertia
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kath and Kim (I moved back from Sydney to Montreal two years ago) but do you honestly think that it could be made into a North American sitcom.? I really don't think Americans would get it, and the few Canadians I've shown it to find it moderately funny, but only after I've "translated" the…

stop me…
yeah… parkie rocks. leno, letterman, et al (i.e. American talk shows, actually, Canadian ones too) suck. my fave night of TV viewing living in Sydney, Australia was The Bill followed by Parkinson. British TV kicks North American TV's ass.

registered names suck
i had a comment all ready to go, but stupid login won't let me post. damn you!

come on av clubbers
44 comments and no "raping my childhood" references? you guys are getting slack. ok ok, i'll do it.

OY1, you're not going crazy
yello's "oh yeah" was used in both films.

damn you totz!
you beat me to the raping my childhood gag.

nobody cares but…
… i do, so here goes:

is it a sellout if….
… the artist uses a commercial to reach a wider audience, a la Moby, Of Montreal, and (posthumously) Nick Drake? i would never have known about Nick Drake if it hadn't been for that Volkswagon commercial.

say what now?
mystery? who? negging? what?

i've been to his grave…
…not because i was specifically seeking it out, it just happens to be a few down from the grave of my husband's cousin that we went to visit in sydney. it's really large and there were bunches of flowers and candles all over, and a bench where fans could sit and have a moment. it was kind of…

uh, actually, golem
there's no "e" on the end of bourgeois. at least, not in english.