Forum: Arts and Entertainment

Probably this has been done many times, but I just wanted to share. Yesterday I was thinking I'd like to hear a Neil Diamond version of "We Don't Need Another Hero". Who/what do you wish you could hear?

Someone inflicted this particular earworm on me. I have no idea what they are saying, although I get the idea what the song is about. It is also rattling around inside my head and wont go away. Sorry Lady Gaga - Poker Face doesn't even come...

If you're still reading this, you probably already know I am referring to the realm established by one Elessar, n￩ Aragorn and sometimes known as Strider, Thorongil, and several other aliases. The title character of RETURN OF THE KING, in other...

(I'll go first) ...read any of Ernest Hemingway's novels. I consider myself a fairly well-read individual, English was one of my top subjects in school, yet I've never read a full-length book by the man that some consider the greatest...

aka Captain Decker and the Giant Liver Fluke in Space. Seriously, this alien entity is just a bit too much and a whole lot of nothing from the special effects department. Upon occasion I feel they were just phoning it in.... Decker does a good...

And I mean "classical" in the broad sense, not just from the Classical period. (Most of what I like is from the Romantic and Modern periods, so I would fail at such a post!) I love Holst's Planets Suite. Mars and Jupiter get a lot of the...

This is one of mine: 8dyeyFr7w6U and this bollywood one: F5ky5ClIjL8

I'm talking about middle school and high school, not college. And I'm talking actual assigned readings, not "I had to read a book of my choice for ________, so I chose _________." A few that I can think of: Best: A Tale of Two Cities,...

So this morning I was reading yet another fawning story on the Times-Picayune about Rami Malek, who plays "Snafu" Shelton on the Pacific. They've done this two weeks in a row now and the guy has only been in one episode so far. What's the big deal?...

Funky beach blonde wigs, bizarre face painting and ochre colored bodies--some Eden the ST crew stumbled into. :roll: Good ole Vaal--one hungry bastard for explosive rocks (and who among us is not? I ask). This episode has lots of social...

My last few threads from been oddly Tolkien-free. I blame the Welsh. I'll name a few points of divergence; pick whichever amuse you. Weathertop, by a Nazgul blade. Moria, by an Orc-sword. Parth-Galen, by an Uruk arrow. Helm's Deep, by a...

For me it's mostly the classic musicals: My Fair Lady Guys and Dolls The Music Man Camelot South Pacific Bye, Bye Birdie I love them and cringe every time I watch them. (Though at least My Fair Lady was intended to cause some of those...

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

Boys Don't Cry

Odd name for a solid show. I think of changelings as alive, but mythical creatures, not some mashup of badly aged software, but whatever... Uhura gives a great performance. I like seeing the multi-ethnic crew (heck, I don't think we see that...

That's right, what are your nominations? I will start with a short list: Taxi: Reverend Jim's driving test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvn-tBeLpCk WKRP: Turkeys Away: http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoafYtDe.html 7 minutes. Whole Ep:...

I just watched the SAG awards, because they were honoring Miss White with their lifetime achievement award. I just love her SO much. She's cute, she's funny, she can laugh at herself and get a good zinger in at someone else without any hard...

Rainer Binder-Krieglstein, the Austrian musician behind this video is my eleventh or twelfth cousin, i.e. we are not meaningfully related at all. Probably I would never have heard of him if his family hadn't turned up among my ancestors. ...

Recently I re-discovered the show Grounded For Life. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255734/ I remember watching this all the time when I was in high school. Once in a while I would catch it in reruns on cable. Recently I found out a friend of mine...

Yesterday in chat there was a discussion about General Hospital that I was largely ignoring since I don't watch soaps. When I saw pepper say something about a period of time when they were writing Luke Spencer as unsympathetic, though, I started...

_odTlZaoLCA I LURVES this all girl band. The Men All Pause is funky like this and I Miss You is a sweet song - I originally thought that Michael Jackson was singing the lead.

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We watched it this weekend, and while it was entertaining and funny in spots, it had some really weak spots. For one thing, there wasn't a single sympathetic character. Everybody was some shade of asshole, from bad to worse. Also, the ending was...

One of the best. Such an interesting one. This one has a bit for everyone: Evil Spock with goatee Uhura's belly button Sulu showing his true nature (Takei's that is)--complete with the scar that changes sides! Kirk, the nice womanizer, but...

Vote I say. Show your work!

We've probably had one of these threads before but I forget things so I'm starting a new one rather than reviving it. What's your guilty musical pleasure? I normally say I don't feel any guilt over anything I like, because I feel such confidence...

Some of my friends are apparently really into Lost and feel that I should watch the show. Except I haven't watched it, so if I started watching now I think it would just be some meaningless nonsense to me. Netflix to the rescue! Over the next...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Hour_(Doctor_Who)#International_broadcast It appears the new companion is Karen Gillan a 22 year old Scottish redhead. She has a comedy background. I am leery of the New Doctor, but then that is to...

Malcolm Mclaren - the manager of the Sex Pistols and one of the founders of the punk movement has died in Switzerland from cancer. His influence has certainly outlived him and will continue for many decades to come.

Or like squeezing blood from a stone. A stone made of money. And poop. Discuss. :(

Today in the car I realized I cannot listen to a certain song by Kansas without expecting stuff to blow up and pretty boys to bleed: al12WO5x23w (That's the song they play in the season finale every season on Supernatural, for those unfamiliar...

A good, solid episode, although the "organ in his chest" is never explained. Adonis was damned hot for the time--he looks pretty buff even today (compare him to George Reeve's Superman orAdam West's Batman's physique. Clearly, most heros of the day...

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I am defining "contemporary" as "first published in 1999 or after, by an author who was not, at the time of first publication, dead." Why? Because the first story I'll recommend is Eleanor Arnason's "The Grammarian's Five Daughters," which was...

An ignorant young white man goes to foreign soil. He's there for an ecologically destructive mission, but instead finds himself physically transformed into one of the natives, who live in a huge tree. He falls in love with a young woman of the...

Brendon Urie looks like Rachel Maddow. Huh.

Pictured in her role as Pam Beesly. In business casual. <3 ...I love the girl-next-door thing.

A new season, a new start. The Enterprise and her topnotch crew are still on their 5 year mission and have settled into functioning as a well-oiled machine. Kirk, Our Hero and Illustrious Captain, knows he can totally rely on the cool-headed logic...

A gay director wanted to make a comedic version of the exploitation films of the '70s and '80s, using transsexual women. The women are attacked by three cis men (the description of the film has them as "straight", but since trans isn't "gay" that's...

I think the characters in Doonesbury age but since I've never found it that funny/entertaining I'm not entirely sure. Any others, especially in non-newspaper comics?

Inspired by a discussion in chat I was paying slight attention to. As I have mentioned before, I used to date a woman who was a huge Seattle Mariners fan. Before we moved in together, she told me that I had to accept that she would, whenever she...

Every time there's news of a remake or a reboot or a re-imagining, people will inevitably bitch that "Hollywood is running out of ideas!" They bemoan that it shows the general lack of creativity in Hollywood, and whine about how there are no new...

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And the final episode of Season 1. This is an excellent show as well, proving that ST:TOS wrote its best stuff while under pressure (they were chronically short of scripts during Season 1). Kirk having a nephew always kind of stretched...

Weather Channel host Nicole Mitchell?

If she wasn't two thousand years dead, I mean:

Straight up vote.