...in which I review various media forms I have devoured.

[jackshoegazer]

Finished A Prayer for Owen Meany... most heartbreaking book I've ever read. Cried like a baby. Hate John Irving. Fuck you John for making me care.

Watched the 1963 The Lord of the Flies... nature documentary cinematography, bad child actors.. needs to be re-done, but won't because it's two hours of naked boys. Oops, I guess it was redone in 1990. Guess I'll watch it and hope. Maybe I should read the book.

Watched About Schmidt... Jack Nicholson doing the Bill Murray thing... older guy learns about his wasted life... pretty funny, odd, endearing. Beware... mullet alert and a naked Kathy Bates.

Tried to watch Futurama... still convinced that's a crap show. I've never giggled even once.

Played more Baldur's Gate II... completely stuck... there's still missions to do, but I can't figure out how to trigger them... don't want to sail away yet. Bastards.

Don't know what to read now... might dig into the Satanic Verses if I can't get my hands on the second George R.R. Martin book.

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I moved around a lot as a kid, and somehow I managed to not be in a school the year they taught LotF, like it got taught in 7th grade at one school when I was in 6th there, but then moved to another school for 7th grade, but that school taught it in 9th, then moved again, etc... I got an odd education that way :P

People keep telling me Futurama is an acquired taste like coffee or beer, that it's deeper and more clever the more you watch it. Uh... I can get used to coffee or beer to the point that I now love both, but I don't think I can waste hours and hours of my life watching a crap show hoping I start to like it.