Rolling Stone magazine's Top 100 songs of 2007  #
Friday, 14 Dec 2007 11:07AM
100 best songs of 2007? We'll see.

I like that, with the magic of YouTube, lists such as this on the web can actually link to the song itself so you can listen!

Books like "1001 Songs You Should Hear Before You Die" always seemed kind of useless to me. Like a book about the best photographs without printing the photographs.


I Am Legend  #
Friday, 14 Dec 2007 11:03AM
Something drew me to Will Smith's new movie, I Am Legend.

I'm a huge fan of end-of-the-world last-man-on-earth stories. But I'm a huge anti-fan of Will Smith movies. He's not a terrible actor, I just never much like his sorta-funny-kinda roles.

So when normally that would have been enough for me to "wait for video", for some reason I was still drawn.

Then I found out that the "non-human" characters in the movie were all voiced (in part) by Mike Patton.

Perhaps that's what I heard in the background screaming in the trailer that confusingly locked my attention?

Perhaps.


Death to the death penalty  #
Friday, 14 Dec 2007 09:47AM
New Jersey ends death penalty [smh]

I have always assumed that although the United States still has (and actively uses) the death penalty, that it was legal only in a few of their 50 states. Wrong. 14 without. 36 with.