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I saw the Pixies' Doolittle show last year. I will gladly pay lots more cash for shows that are just the other albums, too. Excellent value. New Pixies songs would be welcome, but they've been doing their own projects for like 20 years.

Rawls is not an economic theorist. Economic theory is those graphs of supply and demand in all their great variety and near uselessness. I disagree with Phodreaw's characterization of the evolution of economics - it started at about the same time as the other social sciences, before the distinction between "hard"…

Lawsuits
Scientology has run into some real legal problems in Europe, to the point where they had to shut down and give some of the money back. Here, though, religions are allowed to be scams. Their paranoia about exposure - I don't get it. Anyone who wants to know already does. But it probably doesn't take much…

Peter Stormare for re-election as your incumbent Satan! Doesn't even matter if the movie is bad or you hate 3D. It would be worth it just for that.

Mencken, Nietzsche, or Jesus was Jewish? Of the three, I'd have to guess that Jesus was the real Jew. He was not only a Jew of ancient times whose ancestry ocurred before the diaspora - he was heavily reputed to be of priestly heritage, and a descendant of David. If he existed, he was totally Jewish. My question…

No love for the tumor baby, or the tooth fairies? So funny.
But agreed hat this could probably be better if he got off the feel of the recent comic book movies, so I hope that's not what they're hiring him for. I think the sensibility of Mimic (though I know Del Toro hates that because they made him change the story)…

I really can't remember how eXistenZ goes, and I might have been almost as fuzzy on that the day after I saw it. Some movies you remember in detail, others you don't. Dreams are often the same way.

Ludology - Any thoughts on how Mal's totem became her husband's?

OK, gonna try one more time. Yes, the ending is clearly a dream, but as I see it, it's not clear whose, or that it's separate from the "reality" that we're introduced to on the first awakening. If "it's all a dream" causes you to dismiss the whole movie, then this was probably not the right movie for you.

If it doesn't matter to you whose dream or reality it was, Park, then I guess I was more drawn in by the movie than you. Though I diidn't feel that absorbed at the time.

I thought the ending mindfuck was pretty good, though I just saw the movie and could probably see it again and give it more thought. As best I can recall, there's no reliable test for if you are in a dream or reality, you have to intuit it from circumstances. The purpose of the totem is to tell you if you are in your…