After watching the pleasantly disturbing Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Katie was sure the actor who played Otis was Captain Spaulding from House of 1000 Corpses.

She was half right. Tom Towles (Otis) played Lieutenant George Wydell in House of 1000 Corpses.

Sid Haig (Spaulding) was in Spider Baby which is vaguely connected musically to Henry with thanks to Mike Patton.

The Henry theme is stuck in my head now...

Stage 3 on the way and Stage 4 not that far off.

Our house upgrades include screen doors, then a storm water tank out the front. We may have to pull our finger out.

We've just completed watching Six Feet Under Season 5, the final season of this much loved show. The last episode was as good as had been hyped, only losing a little of it's glow due to spoilage at the beginning of this year, only half forgotten.

There were lots of tears.

I've no idea what we're going to watch now. I've looked forward to buying that series boxset every year for years now...

I can say it's the only TV series I've watched every episode for almost entirely on purchased DVDs. I also own all of Futurama but I had seen most of that on TV. I bought (and continued to buy) all of Six Feet Under purely on faith and after watching some of the first (or maybe it was second) season on TV.

Alan Ball (writer/director of Six Feet Under and American Beauty) is moving on to work on a vampire series (from Wikipedia):

In 2005 it was announced that Ball would undertake the writing and direction of a new HBO series based upon Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries. The series, about a single barmaid and her adventures with the coming-out-of-the-coffin-undead, is to be titled "True Blood" and is slated to air in Autumn 2007.

100 things we know now that we didn't know last year [BBC].

The description is a bit wack but it's still a fun list.

And yes, I just said "wack" in context.