Wes

My secret has been revealed! Honestly, it's only been like the last sixth months. I can't stand the taste of Coke from the can anymore, maybe because it's what we have at work. I know I'm in the minority but for some reason I love Pepsi now. wes (prepares to be banned)

I thought this might be fun/interesting...post pictures of your actual physical desktop (not your computer screen). Here is mine: Post away!

So does that mean you guys aren't going to count HKDL's Space Mountain? wes (who stopped counting coasters a lonnnnnnng time ago)

Those Mr. Toad cars are in like EVERY Disney building. WDI has one, Archives has one, TDA has one. I keep expecting one to show up at a Sample Sale for like $6.

What's with that weird back spike?

I don't think you're going to find a lot of people who are going to take a Thursday off to meet at the park.

It's way better than IE. It blocks pop-ups and is very stable and fast. It's free, too, so it doesn't hurt to download it.

Right now both Bright Eyes albums, LCD Soundsystem and The Decemberists are the best things I've heard so far. The new Of Montreal album is really good too. Jonathen, if you like the eels, get "Electro-Shock Blues". That's by far their best album, in fact it's the only one I'd consider really good. "Blinking Lights" is really a rip-off of a lot of ESB..

"Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah. " Next: Dude, Where's My Car?

I was in ACE from 98'-00, and then I gave up because I don't do much travel and I don't need to read out-of-date news articles about things that happened four months prior. Plus I'm pretty sure I'm below the minimum weight requirement.

I <3 you too, even if you do like The Arcade Fire and "Make Believe".

^ A better, larger version, yes.

^ No, QT did not break the "rules". He did what any great film maker can do, he bent them to make it seem like he wasn't following along when he really was. Believe me, films like Pulp Fiction get brought up when a teacher is discussing structure and such. You don't necessarily need a classic three-act, but you do need to have conflict (every story in Pulp Fiction does) and character motivation. What I'm talking about are student films who knowingly don't include any story or interesting characters or reason to care. 20 minutes of walking through a park for no reason is not a good movie, even if the angles are interesting. 20 minutes of an annoying SNL-type character doing a funny voice and acting stupid is not a good movie. Movies are visual storytelling, and if there's no story to tell, then what's the point?

^^ See, I don't believe that. Here's my opinion, take it for what it's worth: There's no way that a good film maker approaches something thinking "Oh, I'm gonna make it suck, but I'll stick to my vision of suckiness, and I'll be rewarded because at least I was persistant!" That's BS. Film is far too costly and labor intensive for people to think that. Especially with something like Napoleon Dynamite, where it was indie and self-produced. They racked up huge credit card bills so they could make a movie they knew was SO bad? BS. No, I'm sure those guys thought they were being extremely clever by removing any semblace of a plot, creating aggravating characters, passing it through a Wes Anderson/Todd Solondz rip-off filter, and coming out with that product. I've been through film school, and I've sat through at least 20 Napoleon Dynamites, (and this was before the movie ever came out). You go into a script writing class and the teacher says "Here's the rules of a three act screenplay" and there's always that one obnoxious kid who thinks he's above the system and wants to write a film without three acts, or character arc, or motivating drive. And the results are always 100% SH!T. The only reason the film got as huge as it did was the fact MTV is a marketing genius. They sensed there was a rise in the "indie" arts culture, and they knew there was a groundswell of popularity for movies that were "so not hip, they're hip" way. As anyone part of that scene knows, the more obscure and random your favorite band/movie/t-shirt/whatever, the cooler you seem. They created a "cult classic" before it even was released by screening the movie for free in tons of cities, giving away free stuff at indie oriented events. Kids jumped on that shit like a fat woman in a cake store. Word of mouth grew and grew, and soon everyone wanted on the ND bandwagon. From all the advance buzz, I thought the movie was going to be great. Boy, was I in for a shock when I sat through a two hour version of the same movies I had to watch at the end of each semester. See, I said I wasn't going to write about it but now I've written like an essay on it...arg.

Haha, magic. The best part is the slow motion recap. It's too bad he looks like he is going to start crying right after the fall.

^ Oh god. That site is hideous. I want to slap the Flash designer's hands until he can no longer click his mouse. Anyway, the layout ... if that rendering is accurate, is cool, but it seems a little abbreviated for being such a huge ride.

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WTF is the layout of this thing? I can't figure it out!

Hippie parents.

^ That was passive agressive. Yeesh. I was just wondering about why you felt that way about The Ring and possibly not other movies from the same genre. No reason to treat it as a knock, believe me.

^ Why are you looking for plausibility in a supernatural horror movie plot? I'm not saying The Ring is far from a cinematic masterpiece, but the concept is interesting enough.

^ I'm in the camp that Napoleon Dynamite was one of the most god-awful disasters I've ever seen. I'm not going to launch into a page long diatribe against it simply because I have better things to do than write about sh*t movies that I hate. But the movie makes me really angry, and it's popularity confounds me.

Terrible, terrible movie.

Right now I'm reading David Egger's A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (or at least trying, the book is too depressing to read too much in a single sitting) and Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation.

"Another Travelin' Song" Bright Eyes ...maybe. It might be a little too un-mainstream.