I recently enjoyed watching the classic ’80s movie Highlander again, the film that spawned all those rather rotten TV spin-offs. The movie, however, is the real deal. Definitely the best sword fighting among immortals ever to grace the screen. Christopher Lambert deftly plays the lead role, and Sean Connery shows up as an effeminate, ageless tutor for Lambert’s character.
If you’re into beheadings (and who isn’t?) this movie is for you. The immortals, like Lambert, can die only by losing their head. They live for centuries, duking it out until only one is left standing. And the big ol’ bad guy, Kruger, is seriously bad-ass.
The best part of the movie, however, is the soundtrack by Queen. The songs are simply perfect for the action and the mood. It is Freddie Mercury and the boys at their finest. Strangely enough, it is an unofficial soundtrack, but the songs show up on Queen’s album A Kind of Magic.
My, my, The Thermals are getting quite popular around here.
By around here, I mean within my close circle of indie-rock friends.
By indie-rock friends, I’m actually referring only to me because all my flesh-and-blood indie-rock friends have scattered themselves around the globe. And despite living in a golden age of communication, we all make geographical excuses [...]
The Habitizer, a cool online tool to help you get your affairs in better order. It’s free, easy to understand, takes little time, but the payoff could be huge.
The Habitizer helps by tracking your habits—bad or good—by the number of stars you give yourself each day/week for your progress. That’s it. Just gold stars. But won’t it feel good to see a string of 5 star-days as compared to lowly 1-star days?
I have to say that it’s been a great year for music, at least for the indie/alternative/(god forbid emo) music I favor. Carving out ten albums from the stacks of excellent releases this past year was quite difficult for me, but a task I have undertaken with the ardor of ten men…one for each song, [...]
Whether you’re an atheist, catholic, pagan, or Hillary Clinton supporter, it doesn’t matter. The Great Black Abyss awaits us all. Every day we slip a little bit closer to the edge. Does anyone else obsess about this shuttling off of our mortal coil?
It’s just right smack in front of me each morning, noon, and night. [...]
and the disarming nihilism put down on the page by this Great Man is simply overpowering. It floors me. Takes me back 25 years to a cynical kid having unbearable, racing thoughts of what dying really meant, not to exist anymore except in the memories of people who knew you, loved you, who identified your [...]
Get off the Rocky Road
Recover lost Innocence
Wrestle with problems, don’t agonize over them
Ride my bicycle more
Quit smoking for good
Build better websites
Live in a Happier Home
See Movies of my Dreams
Be a better Father, Son, Boyfriend, Brother, Friend
Take Mental Pictures to last a Lifetime
Get a new Tattoo
Wed., November 21, 2007
WAUPACA, Wis. - A man who was upset with his wife for not buying beer took vengeance by shooting one of the family’s two pet goats, prosecutors say. After his wife arrived home, she and the daughter heard four gunshots and went outside and found one of the two goats with its [...]
The city is still breathing but barely, it’s true
Through buildings gone missing like teeth
That line by The Weakerthans always makes me think of home, the home I’ve known more years than not. Maybe there’s a yellow tooth (”Don’t brush me! Don’t brush me!“) for Dane Cook, too.
But I’m moving again, closer to my daughters, but [...]
I read a story about a guy named Gardner who stayed awake for 11 straight days and came out of it pretty well, although this descriptive passage tells of some funkiness along the way:
“As more days passed, Gardner’s speech began to slur, he had trouble focusing his eyes, he frequently grew dizzy, he had trouble [...]
