I'm a fairly large Cronenberg fan, but that one just doesn't hit the mark. It was actually a bit on the boring side.
My curiosity is almost piqued. Thinking it must be quite the achievement to actually make that novel boring...
I'd hate to tell you how to spend your time, but I hope you don't watch it. You'll wish you had done something else.
Nah, dont worry, as cavalier as i can be with my limited time, i dont see my curiosity piqued enough to actually go seek it out or anything! I have a ton of grainy old black and white world war 2 movies to get through first anyway!
Project them on the wall of the studio while Sandy Pearlman forces you to re-record your basslines over and over!
Hah I did watch battle of the bulge quite recently, ok movie but I'd have gone with a bridge too far myself.
3) 1066 - The Year of the Conquest - David Howarth. Audiobook. There's little duller than narratives of single battles but one of them is battles where the author guesses based on very sketchy sources. The best parts of this one is the picture of people's lives pre-conquest. So much of it is taken up with the politics of Earls instead of showing in any kind of detail what the Normans actually did to the country. It also had the usual "the English are always like this" bilge that I've moaned about elsewhere.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison
OK, I'm about 10 hours into the 15 hours of Dracula Audiobook. Love it, obv, and the free for 30 days Amazon ap is great, EXCEPT...
It gave me a notification a few days ago that I had one free credit and if I wanted to shop for any book, so I'm like well, I could go for Carmilla again after Dracula, so I press all the buttons and when I got to the end it said "You need a credit to do that". Bitch, YOU told ME I had a credit! Then I got another notification today, so I click and it said I had a "challenge". The challenge was to finish the book. The book that i've been playing every single day for the last 10 days.
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
OK, I'm about 10 hours into the 15 hours of Dracula Audiobook. Love it, obv, and the free for 30 days Amazon ap is great, EXCEPT...
It gave me a notification a few days ago that I had one free credit and if I wanted to shop for any book, so I'm like well, I could go for Carmilla again after Dracula, so I press all the buttons and when I got to the end it said "You need a credit to do that". Bitch, YOU told ME I had a credit! Then I got another notification today, so I click and it said I had a "challenge". The challenge was to finish the book. The book that i've been playing every single day for the last 10 days.
I'm not at all worried about any kind of robot uprising.
OK, I'm about 10 hours into the 15 hours of Dracula Audiobook. Love it, obv, and the free for 30 days Amazon ap is great, EXCEPT...
It gave me a notification a few days ago that I had one free credit and if I wanted to shop for any book, so I'm like well, I could go for Carmilla again after Dracula, so I press all the buttons and when I got to the end it said "You need a credit to do that". Bitch, YOU told ME I had a credit! Then I got another notification today, so I click and it said I had a "challenge". The challenge was to finish the book. The book that i've been playing every single day for the last 10 days.
I'm not at all worried about any kind of robot uprising.
They can be easily distracted by playing the Wallflowers.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
OK, I'm about 10 hours into the 15 hours of Dracula Audiobook. Love it, obv, and the free for 30 days Amazon ap is great, EXCEPT...
It gave me a notification a few days ago that I had one free credit and if I wanted to shop for any book, so I'm like well, I could go for Carmilla again after Dracula, so I press all the buttons and when I got to the end it said "You need a credit to do that". Bitch, YOU told ME I had a credit! Then I got another notification today, so I click and it said I had a "challenge". The challenge was to finish the book. The book that i've been playing every single day for the last 10 days.
I'm not at all worried about any kind of robot uprising.
They can be easily distracted by playing the Wallflowers.
OK, I'm about 10 hours into the 15 hours of Dracula Audiobook. Love it, obv, and the free for 30 days Amazon ap is great, EXCEPT...
It gave me a notification a few days ago that I had one free credit and if I wanted to shop for any book, so I'm like well, I could go for Carmilla again after Dracula, so I press all the buttons and when I got to the end it said "You need a credit to do that". Bitch, YOU told ME I had a credit! Then I got another notification today, so I click and it said I had a "challenge". The challenge was to finish the book. The book that i've been playing every single day for the last 10 days.
I'm not at all worried about any kind of robot uprising.
They can be easily distracted by playing the Wallflowers.
I thought it was Goo Goo Dolls.
It's a huge misconception that robots have just one fatal flaw; a large swath of shitty music from the 1990s send them into addled rapture.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
4) Edward the Confessor: King of England - Peter Rex. Paperback. Found this one to be dull going after the terrors of Cnut and the 1066 Conquest. Despite the hagiography and sainthood, Eddie's just as much a ruthless bastard as any other King.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison
Just finished Garth Ennis' The Boys, which I found to be even better that Preacher, despite a few now out-of-date non-PC items. Highly recommended, and infinitely better than the Amazon series which diverges in ways that really take the wind out of the sails.
Just finished Garth Ennis' The Boys, which I found to be even better that Preacher, despite a few now out-of-date non-PC items. Highly recommended, and infinitely better than the Amazon series which diverges in ways that really take the wind out of the sails.
I love Preacher the Show. If the Boys is from the same guy, I will check it out for sure, while before I had little interest
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
Just finished Garth Ennis' The Boys, which I found to be even better that Preacher, despite a few now out-of-date non-PC items. Highly recommended, and infinitely better than the Amazon series which diverges in ways that really take the wind out of the sails.
I love Preacher the Show. If the Boys is from the same guy, I will check it out for sure, while before I had little interest
The writer of the comics is the same, I'm not sure about any overlap with the production crew of the show. Again, it's wildly divergent and not a good reflection of the original material.
Just finished Garth Ennis' The Boys, which I found to be even better that Preacher, despite a few now out-of-date non-PC items. Highly recommended, and infinitely better than the Amazon series which diverges in ways that really take the wind out of the sails.
I love Preacher the Show. If the Boys is from the same guy, I will check it out for sure, while before I had little interest
The writer of the comics is the same, I'm not sure about any overlap with the production crew of the show. Again, it's wildly divergent and not a good reflection of the original material.
I have several "active" shows i'm in the middle of, like so many open cans of coke in the fridge, but I'll keep it on my raint day list
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
The premise is of a future technology where people can temporarily occupy the bodies of others, and the black market that develops around it. Tho I'm not much of a sci-fi fan (not the "legit" serious stuff), my scholarly interest in brainwashing piqued my interest. As well, I've still got enough residual Marxism in me that I immediately saw it as potential critique about selling our bodies to be abused by others.
Bedtime reading:
I've long found originalism utter bullshit from the perspective of a historian—it's ironic because it claims fidelity to history yet is wholly ahistorical because it treats history as fixed and dead—but I was interested in understanding it better from the vantage point of a legal scholar.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
The premise is of a future technology where people can temporarily occupy the bodies of others, and the black market that develops around it. Tho I'm not much of a sci-fi fan (not the "legit" serious stuff), my scholarly interest in brainwashing piqued my interest. As well, I've still got enough residual Marxism in me that I immediately saw it as potential critique about selling our bodies to be abused by others.
Bedtime reading:
I've long found originalism utter bullshit from the perspective of a historian—it's ironic because it claims fidelity to history yet is wholly ahistorical because it treats history as fixed and dead—but I was interested in understanding it better from the vantage point of a legal scholar.
Soule's Daredevil run was a bit of a downer after Waid's.
I did watch battle of the bulge quite recently, ok movie but I'd have gone with a bridge too far myself.
