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Created by Tom Levin and Will Hines in a hurry. Ten movies we like that are good that you haven’t seen that you should check out.

1. Winter Light
2. Two Lane Blacktop
3. Suspiria
4. My Man Godfrey
5. Putney Swope
6. Nashville
7. Last Days
8. Defending Your Life^*
9. Iron Giant
10. Dogville

Our opinion on this matter is final. Your subjective opinion, should it differ, is wrong. Enjoy.

*Was “His Girl Friday” but we decided that was too obvious.

Answer any or all:

• I want a better profile pic for my twitter. What should I do?
• In the book version of Let The Right One In, the vampire Eli describes once meeting an older vampire and asking why there weren’t more of them? The older vampire answers, and then points at Eli’s chest and coyly suggests something I do not understand. Explain that.
• Is it harder and harder to feel like one knows the current music scene, or is it just something all aging hipsters like myself feel?
• Is it okay if I describe myself as an aging hipster?
• I have eight unspoken for ISBNs and I’m going to use them to publish books by me and my friends. No question here, but if you have suggestions for books I’d like to hear.
• Could it be that the reason the dBs never got any bigger was the lead vocals were never really that powerful, despite the great song writing and arranging?
• You know that very sweet video some teenager made which is just footage of a girl sheepishly walking around a 7-11? And you know how lots of people crapped their pants over it? Am I a dick for thinking that that video is good MOSTLY because it had the good sense to put a good song underneath the footage and that we SHOULD be complimenting the music?
• Anyone know a simpler way to record a podcast than how I’m doing it? I do this: shotgun mikes into a mixer through RCA cables into the “line in” input of a Mac Book Pro into Garage Band. Export as .aiff, edit with Final Cut Pro, export as .aif and use iTunes to change to an mp3. Phew!
• How does Ricky J do anything that he does? Especially the History of Cup and Balls?
• Will we all live to see America be as wonderful as it could be? Or at least to experience hoverboards? How about food pills? Food pills! Food pills!
• Will someone ever dig up a piece of paper that resolves once and for all: who Shakespeare was addressing his sonnets to, what happened to Amelia Earheart, or what Kurt Cobain’s next album would have sounded like?
• What is the scariest short story I could read?
• Will I ever successfully do a Scottish accent on stage? What if I do not wish to put any work or concentration into this task?
• Will I ever live in another city?
• I know I’d prefer invisibility to flying, but how about phasing vs. turning to steel? Emotionally they are similar.
• Will I see Marvel Comics make an original roster of superheros that eclipses the Kirby pantheon? Not that I have anything against the Kirby pantheon, but forty years is a long time to base a company on re-runs.
• Farting, body odor or nose hairs? Which is worse and why?
• That’s it!

1. Read the trivia section of its entry on imdb.com
2. Read its entire entry on wikipedia.org.
3. Read Roger Ebert’s review.
4. (optional) Read the AV Club review.

Saw Carrie and Miller’s Crossing tonight on Netflix streaming. News flash to no one: they’re good!

This should been a twitter post.

Watched “Let the Right One In” on Netflix streaming. Enjoyed it very much, and was mildly creeped when it ended. But the worst was about to happen! So it’s 2:30am and my apartment is dark. Then I heard someone come in the front of my apartment building — not unusual, but because of the vampire movie I stood up to listen. I heard the footsteps come up the stairs, and I started thinking “what would i do if this were a vampire coming in?” Then I heard my DOORKNOB TURN and it opened. I half yelped and then said in a shaky voice trying to be firm “HELLO.” The person apologized — it was a girl who meant to go to my neighbor’s door. I was reaching for a heavy book — my first choice of weapon, and a poor one at that.

So that made the whole movie scarier. Scary movie, that Let The Right One In.

UCBComedy.com editor Nate Dern released this funny sketch inspired by The Final Destination movie series: The The Final Destination. Check it out, won’t you?

The Cornish Game Hen Maneuver. A shamelessly ridiculous Star Trek-inspired sketch written by and starring John Frusciante. Directed by me. Also starring Devlyn Corrigan, Cody Lindquist and featuring the voices of Mike Still and Greg Tuculescu. Edited by Carmen Angelica. Crew: Brett White, Ben Ragheb, Mike Fallek, Ian Carr.

I’ve been watching episodes of the original Star Trek series on Netflix recently. Great fun! I love that everyone who worked on that Enterprise was 40 and had a gut.

The End of the World –and improvised sci-fi show — starts tonight at 11pm. The class and I have spent 8 weeks developing this show. Half the class spends the first half of the show creating events that lead up to an apocalypse, and then the other half of the class shows the world that develops after that apocalypse. It is great fun! It runs for four Tuesdays starting tonight.

The idea for this show was born when I was IM-ing with Katey Healy-Wurzburg in February and said “I wish I could teach a 600 where we just act out the plot of Watchmen every show.” And she said that it sounded possible — just do an Evente that always ends with the world blowing up. I agreed, but didn’t think that was complicated enough so I tacked on a mono scene to the end of that. BOOM. Sci-fi extravaganza.

I gave them a suggested reading/viewing list at the start of class.

When I took my current job as Associate Academic Supervisor pretty much the first thing I did was talk with Joe and get this show approved. Power corrupted me instantly, I’m happy to report.

So if you are going to Harold Night, or if you are a fan of geeky sci-fi and/or improv — come by and check it out.

Runpee.com is hilarious. It tells you in a very organzied and businesslike manner when during a movie you can run to the bathroom, missing the most minimal information. Star Wars has only one recommended pee time. [via kottke.org]

I accidentally saw Star Trek a third time in the theaters last night.