I don’t care for Mandy Moore’s early pop stuff, but I really loved “Coverage.” This album is by far the best-yet. “Gardenia” is especially powerful.

This was SO good! I am not a fan of British television or television in general, but I do love Clive Owen, so I threw these discs on my NetFlix queue.

The love scenes were a little hard to watch, but otherwise, this was truly sumptuous—it fully captivated my attention for hours.

I love Ayn Rand. “Atlas Shrugged” is easily, to me, the greatest book ever written.

That said, this movie was disappointing, as, I think, any movie would be that attempted to condense over 800 dense pages into a two-hour film. The speed at which character development and history were glossed over was blinding.

Definitely worth consuming … but Atlas Shrugged is SO much better.

This book is not on Amazon yet, but you can purchase it (only $2 for a PDF) at: http://www.lulu.com/content/704697

Misandry is a huge topic of interest for me and I’m eager to read this book.

This is NOT my type of movie at all (I only rented it to complete “Movies Robert Sean Leonard Is In” on Lists of Bests), but my expectations were so low, I actually didn’t mind it. In fact, I may have even enjoyed the part where they save Memo.

This is truly the most frightening movie you will ever see in your lifetime.

This was MUCH better than I expected. I am not exactly “pro-Bush” at the moment but at the same time I do not relate to most anti-Bush zealots. I expected this film to be 90 minutes of Bush-bashing but was pleasantly surprised to find a healthy balance of criticism while treating his hypothetical assassination compassionately.

I disagree that it’s too controversial to depict the assassination of a sitting president. At least it is clearly a fictional film and not fiction-purporting-to-be-truth ala Michael Moore.

If you like period pieces and are at all interested in Jack the Ripper, you will definitely enjoy this film. There was a bit of gore but it was fairly tame overall, despite the suggestion on the NetFlix DVD sleeve that it is “not for the faint of heart.” The “love story” between Depp/Graham was underdeveloped at best. Cinematography was fantastic and Depp was, as always, brilliant. Still, I want my two hours and one minute back.

I’m not one who makes comments like this lightly, but: Atlas Shrugged is the greatest work ever to be born of the union of pen and paper. Even at 1069 solid pages of size five font, I found it impossible to put down. (It took about three days—definitely not ‘skim’ material.) Sheer brilliance. Absolutely expanded and refined many of my personal values, from capitalism to sex.

John? Are you out there?