A book that I loved just as much as everybody said I would; a pleasant surprise. :-)

Atmospheric and genuinely creepy, but the plot makes absolutely no sense. Oh well.

Totally delicious, charming, unforgettable and impossible to stop singing along with. :-)

I think this is the kind of film you need to be high to fully appreciate. :-)

Also, I am very entertained by the thought of expectant parents watching it. Ross and I were making alien-baby noises at each other all last night.

I have a perverse affection for David Lynch’s work: I tend to like it (most of it – I did not think well of Lost Highway) while at the same time finding it frustrating and occasionally idiotic. Wild At Heart has that same wonderful trait Twin Peaks does – its characters are wholly ridiculous and wholly earnest in their ridiculousness. It’s a quality that tends to detach the viewer, I think, but it’s rather enjoyable. And um, in this case, very hot.

Mary Louise Parker is kind of a one-note actress, and she has scary black witch eyes with no irises, but I like her anyway and I like Weeds as well. It’s silly, but entertaining.

Yeah, I’m finally coming clean about all the books I just haven’t been able to finish. :) I’ve actually gotten almost all the way through Neuromancer, but I think making it to the last page just isn’t going to happen. I’ve read and loved other cyberpunk novels, but I don’t know what it is about this - I think it’s the lack of humor that eventually made it it impenetrable for me. I’m so used to experiencing noir as ironic that I don’t know how to deal with it when it’s serious. Or something.

This is a fun read for little pockets of spare time, but is highly frustrating for extended reading because the 2-3 page format for the essays is just too short for the complex scientific topics Cole is treating. She just can’t get into any detail and everything gets glossed over just when you want her to go deeper. Understandable, since these pieces were once newspaper columns—but in my opinion that’s where they should have stayed.

Argh, I was really enjoying this but I accidentally left it behind at the museum during a volunteer shift, and someone must have picked it up and taken it because it wasn’t in the Lost and Found box the next week. Damn it. I’ll have to get a library copy so I can finish it.

I just couldn’t bring myself to pick it up again after I put it down. Maybe its time has not yet come for me. I found the beginning totally fascinating, but I lost interest once it got to the revolutionary action bits. Shows what I care about. ;-)