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Well Above Average

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Rants and raves, facts and fiction, amusing musings and random assorted thoughts. Or more accurately--a way for us to procrastinate when we both have much better things to do with our time!

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  • Natural Born Killers 15th Anniversary Director\'s Cut

    Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 23:49 in DVD, movies

    It's hard to believe it's been fifteen years since Oliver Stone's groundbreaking film Natural Born Killers was released. Stone took the script by then up-and-coming writer/director Quentin Tarantino and took it from a standard blood-spattered action...

  • Where the Wild Things Are

    Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 22:55 in movies

    According to IMDB, Warner Bros. decided against marketing this film as a kid's movie and 70% of the marketing budget for it on broad-based and adult driven buys. That, however, didn't prevent a gaggle of kids from traipsing in or for "kid-based" tr...

  • A Serious Man

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 00:04 in movies, writing

    A Serious Man is seriously dark, seriously surreal, seriously twisted. The Coen Brothers film it reminds me most of is Barton Fink. Certainly, Larry Gropnick, protagonist of A Serious Man shares similar obstacles as Barton Fink. But whereas Fink s...

  • Dear Whore of Lucifer

    Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 00:32 in rants, random

    My latest favorite best of Craigslist post comes via Chicago:I have recently enrolled in a 12-step program for people whose lives were decimated and finances ruined by lawyer bills when their spouses filed for divorce after finding someone else to fu...

  • Nip/Tuck on DVD 10/6

    Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 23:23 in DVD, TV, pop culture

    One of the benefits of finally getting cable was experimenting with a wide variety of programming. One of those experiments was Nip/Tuck, an FX series about two plastic surgeons and the exaltation of image and superficiality and misogyny. The surge...

  • Zombieland

    Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 16:21 in movies

    Zombieland was a much better vehicle for the charms of Jesse Eisenberg than Adventureland. Both films featured Eisenberg's geeky character pining for an unattainable female and amusement parks. But Zombieland has Woody Harrelson and zombies. Lots ...

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