i'm using the same name on slsk as i use here

Tony: hit that shit... get on SLSK boy!

Tone, what's your username on it? i'm using tekamafo
Craig's skynex
Taylor's zeeroh

Speaking of slsk, i got that up and running now, currently searching for some new Mars Volta.

i'll be on slsk all-day today though, no worries

that's funny... the 80's are now considered retro? I thought we had to wait until at least another generation had passed... really, the 50's are retro, the 80's are just old news. maybe in another 20 years...

oh, and I loved the caption about You Can't Do That on Television... having made Nikelodeon what it is today... what is it today? :)



in other news, Bad Education (or la mala educacion) was... probably not a movie most of you would appreciate... some of you, for sure, but not most. it's really dark, one could easily say that it was glamourizing/sensualizing pedophelia (I'd disagree, but it's a fine line), and there was a lot of stuff to do with homosexuality that makes me want to suggest that unless you're open minded, you ought not to see it. but the acting was really great, the plot twisted in really interesting (yet still intuitive) ways, and Gael Garcia Bernal was fabulous. I also really enjoyed how lispy the Spanish was. but it's very dark. not a date movie at all. and it gets close to being x-rated a couple of times without being overly erotic... lots of tension, without being overly sexual. I think I'm liking these foreign films. far better than the hypersexual american films that we often see.


um... again, foreign film: the Motorcycle Diaries is one of my new favourites. Like Sideways, it's a travel/buddy film where the friends in it end up going in entirely different directions at the end... best quotation to describe the film firmly represents that: that this was a chronicle of two people's lives running parallel for a while. I don't know how much of a romanticization it was of the trip... having read Alberto Granado's travel diary of that adventure, the movie seems to stick pretty close to his remembered history. but it was a phenomenal movie. it stayed clear of overly lauding the two individuals - I think - and entwined a lot of the history and social consciousness that was uncovered during their voyage. Like Y Tu Mama Tambien, this movie really brought a wider social discourse into what could've been a straight-forward travel story (YTMT not so much travel as coming-of-age, but you know, same difference)... aside from the fact that we know who Ernesto Guevara de la Serna turned out to be.... (they only called him 'Che' once - and that was because Argentineans say "che" a lot... who knew? and not because it was his nickname yet)

sorry tay, my bro probably turned off slsk when i was off at my poker game (i wons again!!! yeeeA)

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Hey Par - Can I borrow your calculator again tomorrow?

Okay, yeah... I've just verified that Denali is officially "holy shit!" material. Imagine if Esthero sang for the Black Heart Procession...


No, I'm fucking SERIOUS!