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Proops.

Pitch Perfect: The Pitchening

You say that like it's a bad thing.

"Folks…who…need…a…tease…have…Tom Cruise…dangling…for our perverse enjoyment."
— A.A. Dowd

Been seeing Edge of Tomorrow during its run on HBO. Every time I catch part of it, I get irked that it wasn't a bigger hit. Such a good, clever, entertaining movie. Can't decide if it was the Cruise factor, bad marketing, bad timing or a combination thereof that sunk it at the box office…but it's a shame.

It can be…

Squidiculous

"He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! "

El frack

So far I'm finding it an easier read than I expected. After only about 40-50 pages though, I think Ishmael is kind of a condescending dick.

Upvoted for Extreme, Numan, Joan Jett and NIN

*bad imitation of Cris Cornell* Face Pollution! Face Pollution! Face Pollution! Face Pollution!

Duran Duran, Soundgarden, Anthrax, White Zombie!

+ for Kinks, Soundgarden, Queen, Bowie and my favorite Lady Gaga song.

Upvoted for my favorite REM song (being only a lukewarm REM fan).

I was impressed with how good Dickinson's voice still sounds. He was killin' it.

Finished reading a Batman graphic novel, Batman and the Mad Monk (trying to read in chronological order and then on a whim, I started reading Moby Dick. Never read it before…only an excerpt in school.

This thread escalated quickly.

Tap! Turn it to 11.

"Wasted Years" or "Run to the Hills" and then "The Trooper"