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Enjoyer of science fiction, fantasy, comics, video games, whiskey and porn. Not necessarily in that order, and often at the same time. Currently using this platform to log recently read novels. I may expand that usage now that the other place is dead.
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Getting ready to watch that Alien/Star Trek film. <um...> What? <it isn't a crossover> It says Romulus right in the title. There aren't likely to be any other Romuluses...es..'s? now, are there. <...>

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Watched Nymphomaniac: Volume I. I'm vaguely aware of Lars von Trier, but have never seen his films. This one was on sale. It's extremely sexual, as one would expect, but it isn't in any way erotic. Depressing? Clinical? Don't think I have it in me tonight to sit through the 3 hours of Volume II.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Continuing to dig through the movie library for things I haven't watched recently/a million times. Stretch: Great fun. Patrick Wilson is always good, and Chris Pine is just eating it up. Free Guy: The Anti-Deadpool. This kind of shit is why Ryan Reynolds is so good. Commit to the bit 100%, always.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I hadn't realized Mississippi Grind was an A24 film, so I'm looking over a list. Quite a few decent films in here. I didn't think much of Everything Everywhere..., which is how I even know the name of the distributor, so I'm surprised by how many other films I've seen and liked.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

PKD being on my mind, and since it's turning into random movie rewatch night, The Adjustment Bureau is up next. Emily Blunt is amazing always, but it's an underrated Matt Damon vehicle as well.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Picked up a bottle of Woodford Reserve this evening, so I'm feeling the urge to watch Mississippi Grind again. I hate the acronym, but...iykyk.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

We Can Build You, by Philip K. Dick The only other PKD I've read was "Do Androids Dream...?", which I read decades ago due to being the Blade Runner fan that I am. I remember it being quite hard to follow. This felt much more coherent, but it's...uh. Mr. Dick was an odd duck.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome To The Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut I started reading this ages ago, finally got around to finishing it a month or two back. Looking at the story titles now, I honestly can't recall much about most of them. I remember liking them, but not many have stuck in memory for some reason.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Star Trek: Picard - The Dark Veil, by James Swallow Continuing to fill in between TNG and Picard. We're just after the first book, following what's happening to Riker and Troi (and son) on the Titan. I enjoy how much more cohesive the novels are these days. The early ones (80s/90s) were often...not.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Moonraker, by Ian Fleming I don't think there's much of anything in this one that ended up in any of the films. It's certainly nothing like the Moonraker film, which is to the good. The book is instead a proper 1950's spy novel. Beginning of the cold war, nuclear paranoia, fears of Nazi resurgence.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Star Trek: TOS - The Pandora Principle, by Carolyn Clowes I really liked this one. A good story, but primarily it fills in a lot of Saavik's backstory. Where she's from, how she met Spock, how she landed in Starfleet, all of that.

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