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I liked Stand by Me a lot, even though it wasn't that scary.

Let's see... taking camp value and nostalgia as well as actual goodness into account, my list would go:

The Shining*, **
Carrie*
Creepshow
Children of the Corn
Stand by Me
The Dead Zone
Christine
Shawshank Redemption
Maximum Overdrive
Firestarter
Misery
Pet Sematary (sic)
Salem's Lot

Anything not on this list means not even camp or nostalgic value could save it from being utter crap. Inclusion on this list doesn't automatically exclude the film from being utter crap, either; it just means I have a soft spot for it.

*These movies would be in a top ten favorite movies list, regardless of Stephen King's involvement.
**Kenan does have a point, though, since Stephen King for some reason decided he had to remake this movie into a total steaming turd because he believed Kubrick somehow got it wrong.

and i forgot about shawshank, one of my FAVORITE MOVIES EVER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

xpost - it's Jesse.

But here, it's like the only game in town. It's big, it's cheap, it has free wireless. It's full of people from about 5 PM untill 11. Then the drunk people spill out of the place and the social strata of the town becomes clear. Certain people walk out and go to one bar, some other people go to a different one, and a few go home. It's really weird, and god damn I'm drunk.

I never had realized that Mylo sampled it. DENSE>

Anyone up for doing something tonight? Sarah and I are indecisive. We are considering:

1. Rock show
a) Dead Meadow/Pinebender at Sub-T
b) Pere Ubu and Mahjongg at Abbey Pub if it's not sold out
c) Oranges Band and Red Eyed Legends at the Note (probably not)

2. Movie
a) The Fountain
b) For Your Consideration

3. Something else. I mainly just want to get out of the apartment.

Call me.

We're hungry.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bPIqX8gbyVA

My favorite guy: "Life's unfair, and Ernest Goes to Jail tells us that."

The new Tom Waits set is freaking awesome. The first disc especially is some kinda awesome bloozy Waits-essence concoction. And the third disc is so bleeding strange. Love.

http://www.cta.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=DSPView&Lookupid=1218&CurrentPage=3

I don't know if "great" is the word, but that sounds like the job I'll have at 40 if I don't don't get more ambitious in a hurry.

haha My last place was like that for the whole time I lived in it. Cats and all.

I too often dream of trains.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:-IAONYZaXGwvgM:http://static.last.fm/groupavatar/5398e914ce6e9cd562eb96ca07d8678d.jpg

The 2nd cheer is for cheap eats: 99c breakfast (eggs, bacon, potatoes), $1.99 breakfast (eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes, french toast) and Swedish meatball lunch, not to mention lingonberries at every turn.

1 Jeer for missing parts in their furniture. In the 3 pieces I put together tonight I was missing 1 screw (easily replaced) and 2 obscure fasteners. Grrr.

Also, Courtney made clear that I was forbidden from having sex at Ikea this time.

http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm

Eating steaks in Argentina feels like joining a cult. You find yourself leaning on friends to come visit, and writing YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND in all caps more often than feels comfortable. Argentine beef really is extraordinary. Almost all of this has to do with how the cows are raised. There are no factory feedlots in Argentina; the animals still eat pampas grass their whole lives, in open pasture, and not the chicken droppings and feathers mixed with corn that pass for animal feed in the United States. Since this is the way of life a cow was designed for, it is not necessary to pump the animal full of antibiotics. The meat is leaner, healthier and more flavorful than that of corn-fed cattle. It has fewer calories, contains less cholesterol, and tastes less mushy and waterlogged than American meat. And the cows spend their lives out grazing in the field, not locked into some small pen. You can taste the joy.

I think I may have the exact same dishes.

Ditto. I was only able to put my bed together through the good graces of someone's well-stocked toolbox, because the parts sure as hell didn't fit.