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Soylent Green is boring.

And don't forget Eagles of Death Metal, where he mostly plays drums.

Go backwards from there. Rated R and their self titled first album are excellent. Lullabies to Paralyze and Era Vulgaris are decent enough, but not nearly as good as the first three. I'd go for the Them Crooked Vultures album over them. It has the SftD-like combo of Homme and Dave Grohl on drums, with the bonus of…

Your avatar is Crow T. Robot. Of course you're going to take the "It's just a show, I should really just relax." attitude. (But so do I.)

Columbus has the Drexel theaters. If anything it's disproportionately likely for its size to get screenings of art films.

I'm 33, so I was about 9 when the first season of TNG aired. I remember being at a party at my aunt and uncle's that was pretty much all adults, and the TNG pilot was on in the background (as a rerun) and hearing some adults talking about how it was pretty bad compared to TOS and wouldn't last more than a season or…

I think what happened was Jones bought the episode tapes (film reels?) and on a separate occasion Gilliam saved his animation materials and the original tapes/films of the animations.

I wouldn't necessarily say she's particularly powerful. She's very much a back-bencher who has never even gotten a piece of legislation out of committee (maybe not even gotten anything debated in a committee either?), although I guess in the current congress she's on the intelligence and financial services committees,…

You know would be a better use of the ads for themselves if they're going to insist on doing that? Play ads for songs or genres I might possibly listen to. If I'm listening to, let's say, Mastodon it's really bizarre and off putting to hear ads for country, R&B, or power pop. They know what I've listened to. No doubt…

Yes, they did change it for new users. I just downloaded it a week or two ago, and I had to use my Facebook login to sign into it. They somehow bill this as a feature.

A lot of Enterprise is better than its reputation. That storyline is not. It didn't need to be made at all, but they did it as a two-parter.

If you're curious at all about the rest of the universe, Protector is really good. World of Ptavvs at least has some interesting conceits (but is very late 50s/early 60s SF), the Gil Hamilton (Flatlander) and Beowulf Schaefer (Crashlander) short stores are all pretty decent, and the Man-Kzin Wars books (which are…

I am a huge fan of Larry Niven's N-Space books, but yes, the Ringworld series within it get bad really fast. The first one is a SF classic. The second one has its moments but also plenty of badness. The rest suck, but must be very profitable… mostly because people like me keep buying the sequels and prequels out of…

Eric is so bad that you forget that it even exists. Your brain actively covers it up. It's like Star Trek: Nemesis in that respect.

Agreed on the original theme. Hooray for Delia Derbyshire; she deserves more credit than she gets.

I think that song sucks so badly that it makes people so angry that they preemptively hate the show. Enterprise isn't half bad. It beats the hell out of that crap hole, Voyager. It's no DS9, TNG, or TOS, but it's pretty OK. By the way, the theme song is a song from the Patch Adams soundtrack. Who the hell thought that…

I dismissed Enterprise when it was airing. (My god, the theme song alone can put you off the show.) But I watched it recently on Netflix, and as a whole it's a decent show. There are only a handful of episodes I'd call outright bad. Its first two seasons do a lot better than most of the first two seasons of TNG, and…

She also lived in London for a good chunk of her childhood.

Sounds remarkably like the British schoolboy game "Conkers", but with M&Ms instead of horse chestnuts. (And you don't eat the horse chestnuts.)

Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about… ::GONG::