No more buffy
 

So, it's over.

Wow. Kinda strange. It seems like it has been on a long time. 7 years is I guess.

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is it in the available list? I think that the avatars are just added once someone uses them. I've had this for about a week. the easiest way to do the avatar is to download to your computer then upload here. I've never figured out the hosting sites.

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hearing about the guys at guantanomo I'm remined of Brazil " its only fair we bill the terrorists for their interrogations..."

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Agreed. It's one of the more weird movies I've ever seen. Who did the soundtrack, wasn't it Cat Stevens?

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I have gone through my whole life thinking I was the only person who liked Munchausen.

I agree with Brazil, Bound, Time Bandits. (And, how could people not love Troma?)

I would also add:

Deep Cover
Vanya on 42nd Street
Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill
I Got Da Hook Up
The Crow
Remo Williams
Buckaroo Banzai
Ice Pirates

Edited to add: Fear of a Black Hat is an all-time classic. Good catch, Justice.

E/O

Annika Update
 

Check out her clubhouse interview from today - http://www.pgatour.com/u/ce/multi/0,...382158,00.html - because there are several interesting things in there:

1. She is going to be hitting 7 woods into the longer par 4s. Not good.

2. It has been raining quite a bit in Fort Worth, so much so that she, Sergio and Jesper cancelled their practice round after the first hole. This will help cancel out her inability to spin the ball. Note, Jesper offered her strokes in their bet and she refused.

3. Tiger has called her three times this week. I guess she needs someone to talk to in the locker room, because she has one all to herself (not counting the 580 press credentials issued this week - compared to 170 last year).

4. One of her playing partners, Neal Barber, is also on a sponsor's exemption. The other, Dean Wilson, was wearing a "Go Annika" button today. Nice.

5. If anyone can survive the pressure and media maelstrom, it is probably her. She won't play chess with her husband anymore because he beat her the last time - she is that competitive. It sounds like she thinks her game is good right now, and that she is focused on what is important. Overall, she looked really composed, admitting that it was overwhelming, but not seeming to be too tense as she joked around several times and saying "when I leave here on Sunday" at one point.

I hope she does well. The offshore book I bet on has her at a little over three to one against making the cut, though. I will probably take a flier on that tomorrow. It's a hell of a ballsy move for a very private person.

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Those seem like pretty good odds. One thing I haven't seen mentioned, although it's perhaps too obvious, is that golf is against the course, not against another player. So she can judge herself simply by playing the course, and get an idea of her scores. I don't think she would have entered if she didn't think she had a decent shot at making the cut.

Outdated Humor
 

"In addition to McDermott and Boyle, the departures include original cast members Kelli Williams and Lisa Gay Hamilton. Marla Sokoloff, who joined "Practice" during its second season, and Chyler Leigh, who signed on this season, also are gone."

Umm. Isn't he the focus of the show and isn't she is like the anorexic foil? This is like Ally McBeal without Ally and Fish and Biscuit etc. Not that I like the Practice, but this seems like a stupid(er than normal) idea. I have always hated the Practice because 1) they win about every criminal case 2) almost all their clients are innocent 3) their lawfirm sucks. I mean, it seriously sucks. There is a shouting match in every episode. Who the hell would want to work there. And why is everyone, including the secretary, an equity partner?

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Good call on the Five Deadly Venoms. But you are all leaving out the movie with the strongest cult following ever--except for the freaks who watch Rocky Horror--Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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Too Pedestrian.

not7y(I prefer Brian anyway)S

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I don't know if there's a cult surrounding that film. (It would be a very literate cult, though.) I loved Vanya on 42nd Street. Julianne Moore just looked so luminously beautiful, and Wallace Shawn got a rare chance to play the lead.

I watched that at my parents' house once. After that, I never watched a movie with my family again. I hate having to explain films to people. The only thing worse is watching a film with a sex scene in front of relatives.

Still chastened after watching Billy Baldwin tape a sexual escapade in Flatliners sitting next to my Grandma. Ewww.

Book/CD/DVD Club Suggestions
 

Books
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Greatest Stories Never Told, Rick Beyer
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, David Simon
Little Green Men, Christopher Buckley
Making Movies, Sidney Lumet
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Naked, David Sedaris
Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell
Thank You For Smoking, Christopher Buckley
Tishomingo Blues, Elmore Leonard

DVDs
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
Boogie Nights
Bound
Croupier
L.A. Confidential
The Player
Raising Arizona
Unforgiven

CDs
A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay
Blacklisted, Neko Case
Electric Version, New Pornographers
Elephant, White Stripes
Mass Romantic, New Pornographers
New Moon Daughter, Cassandra Wilson
Sea Change, Beck
Simple Things, Zero 7
Tanto Tempo, Bebel Gilberto
TNT, Tortoise

edited to fix Sedaris' blatant attempt to steal Sarah Vowell's royalties.

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Isn't the word cult defined as what any given religon was before it found enough suckers to go mainstream? On that theory, I would say a cult movie is one that didnt have great mainstream visibility or acceptance when it came out, but that it found a smaller but obsessively devoted following. With this definition, I would go for films that I loved that werent in the movie theaters for more than a minute, probably bc they didnt have budgets or were panned by critics, and that yet, I can never get at a video store bc they are always out. Waiting for GUffman is an obvious example. I had to go to like ten video stores over a couple of years before I could get this video. Big Lebowski is another excellent example. And Office Space.

While obscure and bizarre are good adjectives for cults, in the SanDiego Nike Warm Up suit, lets kill ourselves and find the aliens kind of way, they are not dispositive of the genre.

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Reservoir Dogs has enjoyed too much widespread commercial success to be considered a cult flick anymore.

My favorite cult flick is Shakes the Clown. How it got made still amazes me - it had utterly no chance of success at all.

AI
 

I am glad that my days of listening and viewing to the vibrating prancing balladeer are coming to an end. Why dont the judges point out his dreadful vibrato? On the last tune, it was unbearable. And the way he stands in place with his head down during his most ballady ballads is more posturing and drama queenity than I or anyone should have to bear. This guy is just pure camp.

And what was that suit he was wearing? I think I bought the same one at Bebe in 1995. What was that line from Best in Show (cult movie?) where the two gay guys are watching Christy CUmmings prance around with Butch on the floor of the dog show and one guy says that she looks like a cocktail waitress on a _____? Well, Clay looked like her body double for the film in his outfit. And when he stood next to Ryan Seacrest, they looked like they were waiting for their limo to take them to the gay prom. Its camp. That is the only way to look at Clay. High camp. High vibrating camp.

As for Ruben, his last number really moved me, and not beacuse he, and Prancer, had a choir of thousands in creepy red robes standiing behind him. I realized that when he busts into the really singy part of a song and that smile comes on, he looks like Jerry Garcia doing one of his happier ballady tunes (but not ballady in the Clay sense). And when he takes his kudos from the judges, he looks like a gigantic, morbidly obese, black Andre Agassi who has just won a Grand Slam title.

I decided to give my self one hour to obsessively hit redial like some kind of big loser who has no life. I got through fifteen times in an hour. Then I couldnt take it anymore. Hopefully Quentin Tarantino has one of those jobbers from Radio SHack that can call in 200 times at a time or whatnot.

How are they gonna fill two hours tonight? They better not plaly that cheezy Billy Ocean, Ruben "get out of my dreams, get into my car" video again. I still have that fucking "proud to be an american" going through my head from the five minutes of the Monday show I saw. Images of Josh singing about his wife and his children . .. . make it stop.