Minor correction: Mycah, Arya's friend who was killed by the Hound in the first season at the same inn, was a butcher's boy, not a baker's boy (which would be more poetic).

I saw Jethro Tull a few years back in concert along with a young violinist named Lucia Micarelli; they first surprised me with the Love Theme from The Godfather, but better than that they did a pretty kick-ass version of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir for flute and violin.

"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" on Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Just amazing.

I watched it in both 24 and 48; I didn't feel like 48 brought anything to the party and was occasionally distracting. Liked the 3D. As a Tolkien nerd I loved some of the supplemental stuff (White Council) but didn't feel the additional plot stuff (Azog) was necessary. I think a great two-hour movie could be made from…

I believe you're mistaken. Tolkien had been working on a larger mythos (much of which would be consolidated and published posthumously in The Silmarillion) but LotR was started and created specifically to be a sequel to The Hobbit, which was published in 1937 - LotR wasn't finished until 1949. The early chapters of…

Cute and all, but isn't this just pretty much a ripoff of the idea behind Pixar artist Josh Cooley's Little Golden Books versions of r-rated movies from a couple years ago? http://www.slashfilm.com/cool-stuff-pixar-artist-josh-cooleys-lil-inappropriate-golden-book-movies-r-fun/

"The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into

Seems to me that the article misses a pretty major element of Fisher King - which is that Williams's character is homeless and insane because his fiance was one of the victims of the guy Bridges inadvertently goaded into going on the shooting spree. One of the major elements of the story is Bridges trying to make…

Seems to me that the article misses a pretty major element of Fisher King - which is that Williams's character is homeless and insane because his fiance was one of the victims of the guy Bridges inadvertently goaded into going on the shooting spree. One of the major elements of the story is Bridges trying to make…

I forget who, but someone I know expressed pretty much the same sentiment; I replied that I viewed Companions as the 'Verse's version of courtesans or something along the lines of a geisha - both of which were given more respect and higher standing certainly than a common prostitute would be.

I forget who, but someone I know expressed pretty much the same sentiment; I replied that I viewed Companions as the 'Verse's version of courtesans or something along the lines of a geisha - both of which were given more respect and higher standing certainly than a common prostitute would be.

There's a scene in "Heart of Gold" in which she loses control badly - and it breaks my heart every time I watch it.

There's a scene in "Heart of Gold" in which she loses control badly - and it breaks my heart every time I watch it.

I always took it that she was amused when it was just a situation, but once she started seeing the men turning into oafs (falling under Saffron's wiles) she got really annoyed with them for being so easily controlled.

I always took it that she was amused when it was just a situation, but once she started seeing the men turning into oafs (falling under Saffron's wiles) she got really annoyed with them for being so easily controlled.

I love this ep - I think it's the first one that really, really put the hook in me - but Out of Gas is still my absolute fave.

Babylon 5. I thought the conclusion to the Shadow War series was a giant "fuck you" from JMS to the audience; up to that point he'd been telling a classic good-vs-evil, dark-vs-light story only to turn around at the end and say, "What, you BELIEVED that shit?" I stopped watching and never watched another minute of…

Babylon 5. I thought the conclusion to the Shadow War series was a giant "fuck you" from JMS to the audience; up to that point he'd been telling a classic good-vs-evil, dark-vs-light story only to turn around at the end and say, "What, you BELIEVED that shit?" I stopped watching and never watched another minute of…

Yep, I still like the Eagles. Then again, I'm old.

As Eddie points out, it's in the pilot, "Serenity"; specifically, it's right near the end when everyone is celebrating (spoilers?) escaping the Reavers with the Crazy Ivan maneuver.