Same. Even Gutterflower isn't a bad album. It wasn't until Let Love In that Rzeznik really solidified his all-power-ballads-all-the-time stance*, and by then my tastes had changed enough that I could no longer abide that. I still have a lot of affection for those guys, though.

Yeah. It's Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, and at least one other person whose name I forget.

He's not coming to Kansas City or St Louis either, which means I can't go see him unless I want to a)skip out on school, and b)drive all the way to Denver or Chicago. Bastard.

It's just kind of weird to see him looking noticeably older, as he'd apparently had the aging process on hold for quite a while when LOTR was being made. I was stunned when I found out he was 33 when they started filming.

And it looks like Father Time finally caught up with him and smacked him around a little.

I see your Tower of Dawn and raise you the fight in the elevator. There's no room to maneuver, it's almost impossible to keep the sand-zombies away from Farah, and it's eleventeen hours long.

The worst bit is where you have to get through that doorway with the Swoopys coming straight at you from the opposite direction. My strategy was to try to get there with both Kongs (Squawkses?) intact, then just plow right in and use the mercy invincibility to get past. I was finally able to do it the right way…

Funny story, when I was first struggling through Gusty Glade I thought, "Man, what if you had to do this in a bramble level? Wouldn't that be brutal?" How right I was.

That one is acceptable. The others can go die in a fire. Especially the first one. I don't know if the eye-searing colors were intended to make it harder, but they sure as fuck did.

I both like and hate the Deep Roads. The sensation of being miles from civilization, in largely unexplored and hostile territory, looking for something that probably doesn't exist and a person who's probably dead, and the road just goes on and on and on and just when you start thinking you'll be here forever you find…

I need to rewatch it too. The first and only time I saw it was before Blockbuster Video collapsed. I rented it along with Brave and Tangled, which earned me a weird look from the guy at the counter. I don't remember a whole lot about it aside from the fact that a) it wasn't as grim or gory as I'd been led to believe,…

K-12 school is pretty different from college though—you're forced to be there, you have little to no choice regarding what you study or who you interact with, and for a genius like Ford it would be whatever the opposite of intellectually stimulating is. College allowed him to pursue his own interests.