I love Kevin Smith.

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Truly. The man's a laid-back, smartass genius. Who else could conquer the filmmaking world with a static, visually boring, endlessly talky slacker flick filled with blowjob jokes, that cost about $37 to make? When I first saw Clerks, I literally could not believe what I was seeing and hearing. My sister was visiting from Spain that year, and I dragged her to see it. We laughed so hard we couldn't stop, and I ended up with sore abs for about three days.

Kevin's been doing speaking gigs for several years, because he is awesomely funny onstage. I just got his second performance DVD, Kevin Smith: Evening Harder, from Netflix, and was enjoying watching his London show, when he started talking about Lord of the Rings.

Now, I already knew what he thought about LOTR. (Clue: he's a Star Wars geek.) That little jab in Clerks 2 told me everything I needed to know, although it was a hilariously funny jab. So I wasn't surprised. It's a really funny rant. Basically he was disappointed because in his words, "it's three movies about fucking walking." He goes on amusingly about it, and then he starts talking about the ending, and why he didn't like it. And what he would have done instead.

OH GODS.


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If I didn't love him before, I'd be head over heels now.

General update

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In the last two months, I have acquired:

1) A new fridge. Shiny, quiet, no-frost, and FREE. Yay for municipal trade-in programs!

2) A BATHTUB. Oh, gods, I cannot tell you how much I love this. It's been at least ten years since I had anything but showers. And it has a hand-held shower nozzle! LUXURY.

3) A computer desk! No more computer spread out on milk crates! I feel all efficient now.

Snoochy-booches, yo!

Okay, I take it back

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Lost is getting interesting again.

The inserts are confusing and intriguing at the same time. Are they flashbacks, flash-forwards, or alternate time-slips? Seems to be some of each.

And my ST-lovin' soul is happy with the time travel stuff. Yay for the return of the polar bears! I still regret the loss of Medicine Man Locke, but the thing with his kidney was great. It's that kind of puzzle-piece intricacy that hooked me in the first place.

I think it was really all that crap with the Others that made me lose interest for a while. A whole year of dicking around with Benry and his little King Turd of Shit Mountain setup - boring! Now we're back to the fun stuff - jungle, guns, jumping at shadows, weird techno geekery, strange magic and what-the-fuckery. Wheee!!