Got about a third of the way into this three years ago and then got distracted by the Hyperion books. I'll have to pick it up again, I remember enjoying it.

This sounds insufferable.

Well yeah, that's exactly why I get so sore when people act like Aerosmith is the be-all-end-all of MA rock n' roll.

Speaking as someone who's lived in Massachusetts all his life, good fucking riddance. I hate this band, I hate that this band is associated with my home, and I hate the schlubs who take pride in that association most of all.

I watched a couple episodes of TOS in the wee hours of Wednesday morning when I accepted that I wasn't going to get any sleep. It helped as much as it possibly could have. Which was not a lot at, but still.

This one's kind of out there at first blush, but the work of Vladimir Nabokov. He's got a not entirely unfair reputation for being coldly, almost cruelly intellectual, but there's some deeply insightful and heartbreaking shit about the human condition in there as well.

You've reminded me of Woody Guthrie's list of new years resolutions. "Don't get lonesome" gives me a lump in my throat every time I read it.

"Pretty much anything and everything Gandalf says across the entirety of the Tolkien ouvre" would be a solid answer, honestly.

The song from the act break in the 1982 Royal Shakespeare Company stage version of Dickens's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby:

I won't run out and buy it immediately, but those commentaries are tempting enough that I could see myself caving somewhere down the line. I had the first three seasons on DVD before Netflix streaming became a huge thing and the commentaries were pretty wonderful. I'd be interested to hear the ones from after I…

I'm really regretting becoming addicted to water.

But I was late to the party and the only thing I got to describe as a dumpster fire was Hellraiser 2 a couple weeks ago! This blows.

I hate me some DCCU, but I love me some WWI. I'm going to play this one by ear.

That makes a ton of sense. I'm a latecomer to the series and I only saw this one for the first time two weeks ago. I loved the first one, but this was an absolute mess. It was more than aesthetically bonkers enough to hold my attention, but I was pretty disappointed in the actual narrative.

Hellraiser 2 is a dumpster fire. That screenplay needed at least two more drafts.

I was at a party last night with Hocus Pocus on in the background, and it does indeed seem to be pretty widely beloved by my generation. I never saw it until I was seventeen or eighteen, so I find it lame as all hell. It's exactly the same situation I find myself in with Home Alone.

Pffft. Everyone knows that no one knows why feet keep washing ashore.

God I love Rooney.

I had originally planned to save this for the first heavy snowfall of the year, but I caved and fired it up last night. I think this is my favorite horror movie, it's just perfect.

Hooray!