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Story here. She's 93 years old and has cancerous lesions on her leg, with gangrene imminent. She's also been "pretty much confined" to a wheelchair since 2002. She hadn't wanted to undergo the surgery and I can sympathize. It has to be...

I saw this over the weekend, and enjoyed it immensely. From the moment Metallica's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" started playing over the opening credits, I knew that this was the zombie movie for me. Anyone else catch it yet?

Commercials, short films, parodies, music videos, whatever. You find it on YouTube and want to share it? Stick it here. People always toss the links out in chat, but I never save them and there've been some great ones. The Shake Weight: ...

It used to be that YouTube would just recommend stuff without telling you why, but now it links each recommended video with something you watched. And if I was watching Nick Cave videos last night and it suggests an interview with him, that makes...

Was there a youtube music thread around here? Am I just blind? Well, anyway, I've been listening to All Songs Considered on MPR and I think I'm in love. Two that they played and I can't get out of my head are 6wcZb80f5VE and 2CZ8ossU4pc ...

I was on Facebook just now, doing one of those "5 Things" dealies, when I started thinking about the worst concert experiences of my life: - I walked out of U2's "Joshua Tree" show in Atlanta when they did this halfass rendition of "New Year's...

This is just a little fun thing I thought of: open up iTunes (or whatever other library you use) and post the first and last thing sorted alphabetically under: Artist? Track? Album? For me: Artists: A*Teens to Za-Za Tracks: À Cause des...

I have no recollection of how I ended up with tickets to either of these concerts -- I think they may have been part of my parents' subscription series and they didn't want to go, or couldn't, for whatever reason -- I definitely didn't buy them...

I'd say mine is Scrooged.

and why in 3 or less sentences. Andy Dufresne - Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption A man who'd been shafted royally by life, but who never let his optimism fade. One of the good guys.

Here's one to try and start the ball rolling. The Ninja - Eric Van Lustbader Ninjas are some of the coolest mammals on the planet and this book tells us the true life stories straight from their secret training scrolls! Eric van Lustbader...

This post from the "Painfully Trendy Muisc" thread She checks out Mozart while she does Tae Bo Reminds me that there's time to grow The most painfully trendy lyrics from a painfully trendy song. Even deep-fried chicken is getting old, what...

I've had some on the brain lately-which is kind of tragic in it's own right but anyway. Post (at least? at most?) your five favorites, if you have 'em. Be honest. There is no shame. Lately, I can't stop singing this one. And it has to be this...

Well?

Mine is from a video called It's All Because (The Gays are Getting Married). Warning: If this one gets stuck in your head, be careful where you sing it! What song is stuck in your head today?

I don't remember seeing this here before. But the idea is that you're stuck on a desert island and you only have five albums to listen to for the rest of your life. What would they be? Mine: 1) Björk - Vespertine 2) XTC - Skylarking 3)...

Basically, you're given the budget and the ability to film your own fanfic, or to capture missed opportunities, or to take your favorite show to the next level of greatness. For one episode, you are in complete control of the script, the casting,...

Once I would have written a long set-up. I'm too lazy now, though. Let's just say that the madman plans to torture, rape, murder, and eat you, not necessarily in that order, but that there's someone ahead of you on the menu and it'll a week before...

I'd consider seeing it. Great re-edit of the trailer. Absolutely nails the whole late 60s/early 70s disaster pic vibe, while having a sense of humor about all of it.

Morgan Freeman is not nearly as great as people act like. That is all.

It was a surprising episode - talk about it later.

This is one of the better ones: The cover image is a pastiche of comics the protagonist would have read in the 1960's.

Yeah so this guy is OK I guess, but he illustrates my point that don't even bother modulating fancy through the fourths/fifths -- just go up by half-steps. My cite? this video, and James Brown's Live at the Apollo album. THAT, my friends,...

Let's say its like a last meal kinda thing.. I don't want people to think "hrm. which one would I not get sick of so fast.." Mine would be... after tough deliberation between Groundhog Day and Big... Groundhog Day.

She has a new film to promote and yet at the same time a set of indiscrete photos of her, have apparently been stolen and released by someone hacking into her stylist's personal account. Does anyone else think this is to just generate publicity...

This was linked over on SDMB. I had heard a couple of the episodes before but I didn't know so many still existed and were available free. I don't know if any of you have ever listened to them before, but some of them are great, very atmospheric.

We shall not limit ourselves to the good. We shall not limit ourselves to sitcoms. What shows make you stab your own eyeballs? What shows make you die a little inside just knowing they're on TV? I throw up a little when I see ads for Real...

EGwB-f1xfxM This was actually a hit in the UK :smack .

Now I like it when a well known actor or familiar face pops into a movie or show for a scene or even a few seconds. Hunter S. Thompson appearing in the flashback scene of Fear & Loathing was priceless.(Holy shit, there I am!) But sometimes you see...

I generally don't use Internet initialisms, but I have to say OMGWTFBBQ!!!1! :shock: :shock: :shock: No, really. Thanks to the metaquotes community on LJ, I've just been introduced to a piece of prose worse than the classic Eye of Argon. Far...

It took 15 days and is roughly the size of Manhatten, but this stunning piece of artwork in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada is worth a look. with more on the story here.

world builder This film is just about 9 minutes and it's moving. I have tears in my eyes as I type. If you haven't seen it and you have just a little time to spare, please give it a watch.

SvGeLGeFrrU This video is a rare gem!! Anybody who is in the quicksand community knows all about this video!! "The quicksand community". Let's enjoy the generous cornucopia of crazy brought to us every day by the internet. Post the most...

Now, I'm not just talking about fantasy books or movies set in the modern age, or scifi stories with a hint of telepathy and mysticism, I mean works which go all out on both the science fiction and the fantasy stuff. So I suppose I have two...

Our long national fashion nightmare is over: "Project Runway" will be back on the air this summer. From here. Yeehaaaw! This summer. Lifetime. Who's with me?!

Having seen some shots of the remake of the 70s series of Wonder Woman, a few things crossed my mind. I don't mind its a reboot, 40 years is plenty of time to update and they have enough material from the comics to do so. It's not the change...

I love Star Trek. I remember watching on episodes on Saturday afternoons when there was nothing else on. One of the first movies I remember seeing--and requesting many many times--was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. But it wasn't until a few years...

I'm surprised nobody has started a thread about the new movie. I haven't seen the movie in theaters yet (the theaters are all closed here) but I saw the pirated version two weeks ago and loved it, I can't wait to go see the finished movie at the...

Has anyone else here read it? If so, what's your opinion?

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I'm not a big fan of AI...I usually watch the auditions, but have never followed a full season of it. Can't deny that it's a cultural juggernaut, though, and so I'm curious about this step they've taken and what the thinking behind it was. I'm a...

This is very, very tangentially inspired by the NaNoWriMo article. Repeatedly I have heard or read that novellas are unpopular. Conventional wisdom seems to be that readers don't like them. Apparently publishers go so far as to misrepresent books as...

Why is it that there seems to be a dearth of war poetry from WW2 when compared to WW1? I can name three or four WW1 poets off the top of my head (and I'm no great patron of the arts), as well as a couple of famous poems, yet cannot do the same for...

So, this bronze statue from Alberto Giacometti has just been sold at Sotherby's as the most expensive piece of art at auction. Why?

Okay, without making reference to whatever they've done over the past few years (I haven't bought any of their albums since Everyday since I live in mortal terror of someone discovering how uncool my Amazon purchase history is), what exactly is it...

Why is goat meat and goat's cheese relatively rare in British/American cuisine? Goats eat almost anything and are good hill climbers, so it can't be that they're unmaintainable in the British isles. The meat's also quite tasty, as is the cheese,...

James Earl Jones and Chris Cooper

Seriously. WTF is up with that? One of the nastier aspects of Lord Voldemort You-Know-Who was that he wanted to rule over both the wizards and Muggles. But surely he can't be the first, and surely the others can't have all failed. Consider:...

In the behind the scenes stuff for movies like CEofTK and the documentary on Kubrick he comes across as funny,informative and very knowledgable. I can't believe that it's a time issue, as in he couldn't slot in a couple of hours to do it. Does he...