1. Brazil
2. Time Bandits
3. Shallow Grave
4. Trainspotting
5. 28 Days Later
6. Sunshine
7. The Acid House
8. 24 Hour Party People
9. Heavenly Creatures
10. Incubus
11. Santa Sangre (although this is a bootleg cuz it's not available on DVD)
12. Ever After
13. Enemy at the Gates
14. Children of Men
15. Idiocracy
16. Team America: World Police
17. The Hebrew Hammer
18. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
19. The Commitments
20. Father Ted, series 2 & 3
21. Excalibur
22. D.A.F.T.
23. Weird Al video collecti...

• Chad
• Todd
• Brad (or any name containing Brad, like Bradley, Bradford etc.)
• Preston
• Arnold
• Peyton
• Jackson
• Tyler
• any US Presidential surname (Carter, Reagan, and the above Jackson and Tyler etc.)
• Glenn
• Darryl
• Wesley
• Weston
• Wilbur
• Marshall
• Merle
• Donald
• Ronald
• Mason
• Sheldon, Shelton
• Landon
• Wyatt
• Chase
• Hunter
• Colton, Colt
• Brandon
• Seth
• Orville
• Ernest
• Harley
• Harlan
• Gary
• Larry
• Rodney
• Wade
• Wendell
• Austin
• Dakota
• Cody
• Corey
• Chase
• Brent
• Gage
• Skylar
• Trey...

• Cheryl
• Brenda
• Carol
• Courtney
• Hayley
• Tatum
• Jackie
• Jacqueline (all I hear is "jackal")
• Layla
• Arlene/Harlene/Darlene (anything ending in -lene!)
• Verla
• Velma
• Wilma
• Wanda
• Shelby, Shelley
• Desirée
• Jenna
• Camryn
• Phyllis
• Wendy
• Candy, Sandy, Randi etc.
• Paige
• Megan
• Barbara
• Diane
• Crystal
• Amber
• Alexis
• Gladys
• Glynis
• Marsha
• Shirley
• Myrtle
• Laverne
• Melba
• Carly
• Kelsey
• Tammy
• Elvira
• Nadine
• Bernice
• Beryl, Opal, Garnet, Diamond or any other gem (except Pearl ...

• Liberum arbitrium - Free will
• Homo homini lupus - Man is a wolf to man
• contra spem spero - against hope I hope
• Magnus frater spectat te - Big Brother is watching you
• Memento vivere - A reminder of life (literally remember that you have to live)
• Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived!
• Non est ad astra mollis e terris via - There is no easy way from the...

• Russian Icon Museum - Clinton
• Plastic Museum - Shrewsbury
• Plumbing Museum - Worcester
• Quilting Museum - Lowell
• Mass MOCA - Adams
• Maritime Museum - Fall River
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum- Boston
• Shipbuilding Museum- Essex
• Public Health Museum - Tewkesbury

• lawyer -- I said this in 1st grade because every single girl in my class said she wanted to be a nurse, and every boy wanted to be a football player. I had to say something different... I'm not sure I even knew what a lawyer did!
• comedian -- I had two jokes, both on the same theme "When I grow up, I want to be a comedian. I think I'd be good at it because whenever I tell someone about it, they laug...

How is stuff different from when I was born in the Dark Ages? (1972) Note: I'm not saying any of this stuff is better as in "The Good Old Days..." I actually dig my computer and electric kettle. These are just random observations!

• households generally had one phone, and it was a rotary dial one
• there was only one telephone company and they owned all the phones.
• TV got 4 stations: NBC, ABC, CBS, and P...

• Just remember, when you think you're free/ the crack inside your fucking heart is me

(Marilyn Manson, "Speed of Pain")

• Grey would be the color, if I had a heart

(NIN, "Something I can Never Have")

• In the end, all you can hope for is the love you felt to equal the pain you've gone through

(Editors, "Bones")

• Last night I dreamt That somebody loved me/ No hope, but no harm Just another false alarm

(The Smit...

Here are the books I have in my possession that I still have to read:

1. 100 Years of Solitude
2. Geek Love
3. Armageddon in Retrospect
4. Fast Food Nation
5. Robin Hood: People's Hero or Lawless Marauder?
6. The Hobbit
7. A Long Way Down
8. the Koran
9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
10. House of Sand and Fog
11. As I Lay Dying
12. Doctor Who: the Unfolding Text
13. Mission Song (John LeCarré-- I can't remember where I got this or why I have it or...

I haven't worked in the record store for at least 3 months... here are some recommendations since I haven't heard any sucky albums lately, only the ones I've bought!

JarJar -- Luke -- Anakin -- Jabba -- Han Solo -- Greedo -- Lando -- Yoda -- Vader -- Boba Fett

• Jamie Lidell Jim: Vader. This album is awesome. It's even more poppy and R&B-like than the last one (you can't detect any traces of his past ...

• kitchenette
• anywho
• guesstimate
• happenstance
• credenza (anyone who knows what this is, let alone uses the word without irony, is a giant wanker)
• ironical (it just sounds wrong, even though it isn't)
• co-inkydink (you know, like cutese for 'coincidence')

RELATED: words describing things that will automatically make me hate the thing in question no matter how cool it is:

• whimsical
• heartwarming
• precious
• inspiratio...

JarJar -- Luke -- Anakin -- Jabba -- Han Solo -- Greedo -- Lando -- Yoda -- Vader -- Boba Fett

• Cloverfield: Anakin. Why? I understand that having a reality-based documentary type movie filmed by whiny yuppies makes it more realistic, but do they really have to yell "OH SHIT!" all the time? Can't you make it less realistic? Note to self: buy whatever kind of camera they used; it can run on batteries...

• Gareth
• Marius
• Emlyn
• Jude
• Eamon
• Fintan
• Flannan
• Cian
• Cathal
• Ciarán/Kieran
• Cillian/Kilian
• Cormac
• Finian
• Dorian
• Amyntas
• Jarvis
• Jonas
• Rufus
• Rupert
• Amias
• Tristram
• Liam
• Florian
• Jasper
• Oscar
• Benedict
• Elias
• Tobias
• Malachy
• Rafael
• Ralph
• Alun
• Roman
• Ronan
• Rowan
• Linden
• Zev
• Rhys
• Elián
• Hilario/Iladio

Boring names I dig:

• Julian
• Ian
• Thomas
• Owen
• Evan
• Harry
• Brendan
• Dylan
• Timothy
• Richard
• Martin
• Lucas
• Damian

Names I'm on the fence about:

• Rhodri
• Lev
• Arkady
• Guy
• Luka
• Silas
• Domini...

• Cecilia
• Dervla/Dearbhile
• Ada
• Agnieszka
• Ludmilla
• Jadwiga
• Eavan/Aoibheann
• Sorrel
• Vera
• Bryony
• Dulcie
• Ianthe
• Rhianydd
• Jemima
• Fiona
• Olive
• Fionnuala
• Lucy
• Ivy
• Josephine
• Líadan
• Carys/Cerys
• Linnet
• Sylvia
• Pauline, "Polly"
• Eveline
• Caoilfhionn/Keelin/Keelian/Caoleann
• Alice
• Violet
• Emeline
• Beatrix
• Adeline
• Adelaide
• Sîan
• Rosemary
• Rosaline (but I can't stand the nn Roz)
• Eleri
• Ethni
• Doris
• Ruby
• Pearl
• Helena, "Nell"
• Iris

Boring names I like a whole lot:

• Juli...

scale: JarJar -- Luke -- Anakin -- Jabba -- Han Solo -- Greedo -- Lando -- Yoda -- Vader -- Boba Fett

• Rolling Stones, "Shine a Light" sdtrk: (LUKE). Take all the RS songs you know, and then muzak-ify them while played live. Boring. You can get this as a flash-drive wrist band too! How avant garde!
• REM, "Accelerate": (GREEDO). Critics are shitting themselves because this album doesn't suck as much as...

• Control Group
• Petard
• Nebulous
• Test Subjects
• Merry Meat
• Spork
• Fang Shui
• Surreal Killer
• Tine
• Pink Freud

scale: JarJar -- Luke -- Anakin -- Jabba -- Han Solo -- Greedo -- Lando -- Yoda -- Vader -- Boba Fett

• PJ Harvey , "White Chalk" (Anakin): WTF? Why does this sound like a 3rd rate Juliana Hatfield wannabe at an open mike night in Trumansburg?
• Siouxsie, "Mantaray" (Anakin): WTF? Why is this so happy? Why is this so corny? It's like cabaret-lite, and not in a good way.
• James Blunt, "All the Lost Souls" ...

Here's what I think of some of the shizzle that's come out lately. As always - the scale goes <br>

JarJar -- Luke -- Anakin -- Jabba -- Han Solo -- Greedo -- Lando -- Yoda -- Vader -- Boba Fett

• Ben Harper, "Lifeline" (Lando) - sounds like Ben Harper. It's nice; reminiscent of a slightly funkier Cat Stevens. If you like BH, you'll probably like this. If you like singer-songwriter types, you'll probab...

Wow, this isn't a very impressive resume.

• my dad knows Ben Burtt Sr., who is the dad of the guy who did the sound effects and made up the languages for the Star Wars movies.
• my dad allegedly served pizza to the Kingston trio and Tom Paxton and possibly Peter, Paul & Mary, depending the story.
• my stepdad played on a bunch of records by the Burns Sisters as well as Martin Simpson.
• I handed Uma Thurman a...

Note: anything between U2 at the Carrier Dome and the White Stripes at the Orpheum I pretty much guessed at the dates. I'm also not counti