Any movie with Don McKellar in it can't be all bad.

The Three Glees
I don't mind Todd's "3 Glees" reading, but I'm happy to forget it when I watch an episode because it's not a framework for how I want to experience the show. "Glee" is one of the few shows in which a "naive" reaction is very satisfying, perhaps because of the way musicals appeal to the emotions.

That's a lie. Beer does not addle the brain.

I saw them at the same show as idiotking and Warren Oates. Wish I had know - we could have had drinks after the show.

Dave.

And he got his cake and ate it, too.

The end credit sequence of Stephen Colbert dancing while singing the Christian camp song is one of the best things I've ever seen on Comedy Central.

Speaking of Gervais:

I forget how good "Seven Samurai" is until I start to watch it, and then I'm blown away by its quality anew.

"A Bug's Life" is an entertaining movie, as are all Pixar films. It's also a comic nerd's wet dream, with voices by Dave Foley from Kids In The Hall, David Ossman and Phil Proctor from Firesign Theatre, Roger Bumpass from National Lampoon, Phyllis Diller, Dennis Leary, Julie Louis-Dreyfuss, Bonnie Hunt, David Lander…

I'm with you Kyle. I'd much rather watch "Brewster McCloud" or "3 Women" than "Nashville" or "Short Cuts."

Great Interview
Let me just add my thanks to Messers Pierce and Mitchell for a great interview. Thank you.

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Us and Them
Genre is important not only to how we read the novel, but how the characters within the novel read the preceding section. Frobisher and Canvendish, both educated and cultured, condescend to Ewing and Luisa because of their genres, but (one of Mitchell's ironies) they can't wait to find out what happens…

An interesting topic for discussion, and one that seems fitting with "Cloud Atlas," would be about how the reader's experience of the book was dependent on the medium used: traditional book, audiobook or electronic book.

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I also enjoyed the contrived escape in the second half of Cavendish, possibly because I was relieved at how Mitchell pulled off the "old man stuck in a nursing home" idea. Kudos.

Part of me respects what I assume is Mitchell's "I don't care if it works or not, I want the story to go this way, and so it shall, whether it contradicts other parts of the novel or not" spirit, and part of me is incredibly frustrated by it.

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