Peter Jackson would be proud.

and starring Eric Stoltz.

Also, why are the Orcs traveling by daylight, when this doesn't happen until Fellowship?

They wanted girls who saw the movies to have a heroine they could cheer for. And then they completely undid all of that by placing her in a love triangle.

I watched the old cartoon again not long ago, and was amazed by how much I enjoyed it.

Same. Everyone else was blaring Bohemian Rhapsody and I was listening to B & S and wandering dreamily through improbable fall landscapes.

I haven't heard the whole album yet, but the two singles they've released are phenomenal, especially "Make You Better." There's definitely a sense of maturity that wasn't present in their previous albums.

It was definitely one of their weaker albums. And this is coming from someone who thinks Fold Your Hands, Child isn't as bad as its reputation.

Well, at least it has David Thewlis. Though now I'm imagining some weird Slayer / lycanthrope team-up.

Old Belle & Sebastian and new Belle & Sebastian are so different in style that they're almost two distinct bands, yet somehow they're both my favorite band. In terms of their earliest work, If You're Feeling Sinister is my favorite - and probably my favorite album of all time - closely followed by Tigermilk.…

Question for those who have heard it: do you think he's referring to Isobel Campbell when he talks about the woman with the sweet voice who helped bring him out of hell? I'd heard rumors that they weren't on good terms, so that would just be lovely.

Having streamed the album last week, I just can't get over how good the first song is. I'm slowly warming to the rest of the album, which is largely fantastic, but right now I'm still hooked on that first song.

{ posts the identity of the flagger. it immediately vanishes }

Not yours, they were both spambots.

Yeah, the two posts I flagged last night got removed automatically. I don't know if anyone can be trusted with so much power.

If you go in with the knowledge of their true author, it becomes a fun game of finding the parallels between the two series. (There are several).

Reading the latest Thursday Next novel and finishing "The Cuckoo's Calling." Feeling pulled to start reading Philip K. Dick again. Also, the second season of Poirot is even better than the first.

"All I can say is, I wasn't just having sex. I was making love to a
beautiful woman. And her boyfriend. And a third person whose name I never learned. Furthermore, it was wrong of me to say I was building houses for the underprivileged when I was actually having four-way sex in a cave in Brazil."

Family Guy ruins everything.

I find that the more we enjoy the "good version" of something, the more we tend to be enraged by the "bad" version of that same thing. Nathan Rabin wrote a great article about this in relation to Star Wars. It's the reason why I feel more animosity towards Desolation of Smaug than I could ever muster towards The…