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Best wishes, prayers and positive thoughts to your friend and his family. I hope things improve for him. Keep strong, buddy.

Glad to see that it works for people but I'm not using it. I'm afraid of tempting my ISP to send me a email/notice that states "Hey asshole, you've hit your bandwidth capacity!" or something like that. And I stream a lot of video and audio already.

I've read The Road, No Country For Old Men and All The Pretty Horses. All excellent and more accessible than Blood Meridian.

Not really. Just my laptop, a headset and a couple of apps (iFreecorder to record, Audacity to edit).

Good list! I also have the Henry V soundtrack. Very sublime.

My top 25:
Seven Samurai
Lawrence of Arabia
The Rules of the Game
Le Samourai
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
Once Upon A Time In The West
Vertigo/Notorious/Rear Window (a three-way tie for Hitchcock films since I can never decide)
The General (1926) (Buster Keaton was brilliant and this can still kill with an audience)
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
My Neighbor Totoro
Die Hard (agree with your comments; also beautifully shot and edited)
La Jetee (short film that inspired 12 Monkeys but this is gorgeous, thought-provoking and affecting. Also better)
JFK
Almost Famous
Hard-Boiled
John Carpenter's The Thing
Heat
The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers (1973) (because they're two parts of the same film and both are spectacular swash-bucklers, not to mention hilarious)
Blade Runner
Aliens
Monty Python's Life Of Brian (I love Holy Grail but I prefer this these days)
The Matrix trilogy (yes, even the sequels. Especially the sequels.)
The Empire Strikes Back 

I ought to invite you back on the podcast some time, if you'd like to come back, of course. I've been thinking of re-editing and reposting our episode. I didn't know what the hell I was doing then but I got a better handle of it now. 

Understandable. I paid $3 less and its become a nice surprise. I don't buy the $60 games that much and I chose this game mostly by some trusted review sites. 

Good write-up! I'm nearing the end of my 2nd playthrough and the game still holds up beautifully.

It's definitely strange but I wouldn't consider it campy. It tries to cram so much story and world-building in a 2 hr. 7m. running time when it should be a three-hour. I think the Wachowskis did as good a job they could to keep the story coherent. Its definitely worth a watch. 

A friend of mine (who also loved JA) saw Chappie Sunday night. He felt it was messy plot wise but a lot of fun.

From Hell is awesome. I can still remember so much of the gnarly imagery. The art can be crude at times but its very reflective of the down-and-dirty setting that its based in. I haven't read it since college.

Chappie is taking a beating critically and I suspect its doomed to be a punching bag like Jupiter Ascending. I haven't seen it yet but I still want to.