SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND

About Me

"We never asked ourselves "Who will get this?"...we always said "The right people will get this."-- Joel Hodgeson, Creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000

My Interests

girls. storytelling. words. images. violence. animation. video games. comic books. movies. dirty jokes. villains. the apocalypse. zombies. and any combination thereof.

Music:

Movies:

Oldboy. Dead Leaves. Cutie Honey. Shaun of the Dead. Hot Fuzz. Leon: The Professional. The Fifth Element. Ninja Scroll. City Hunter. Azumi. The Hobbit. Hellboy. The Long Kiss Goodnight. Fight Club. Six-String Samurai. Pulp Fiction. Battle Royale. Trainspotting. Memento. American Beauty. Drunken Master 2. Hard Candy. Sockbaby. Wild Zero. Army Of Darkness. Evil Dead II. Return To Oz. Little Miss Sunshine. Enchanted.

Television:

Mystery Science Theater 3000. One Piece. Spaced. The Boondocks. Avatar: The Last Airbender. The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Andy Richter Controls The Universe. Farscape. Samurai Jack. Justice League. ReBoot. The Tick. Mr. Show. Futurama. Afro Samurai. Densha Otoko. Phoo Action.

Books:

Preacher. Sharknife. V For Vendetta. Blade Of The Immortal. Hack / Slash. Berserk. Hellsing. Reiko The Zombie Shop. Neverwhere. Snow Crash. Nextwave. The Zombie Survival Guide. World War Z.

Heroes:

Mr. T. Ororo "Storm" Monroe. Ronnie Cordova. Warren Ellis. Spike Spiegel. Tak Sakaguchi. Indiana Jones. Donatello the Ninja Turtle. Hellboy. Earthworm Jim. Artie (The Strongest Man...In The World). Usopp. Viewtiful Joe. Conan O' Brien. Krillin. Max Payne. Travis Touchdown.

My Blog

Me In A Metal Tube.

(written by my Ego with bursts of Id)While Crystal Skull was a pleasant suprise of childhood wish fulfillment (at least for me), The Incredible Hulk felt like something I'd been waiting for a very lon...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:31:00 PST

Marvel Team-Up.

Back down from the mountains to take the Little Sister to see her family and attend her brother's high school graduation. Watched Death at a Funeral (amusing), Idiocracy (strangely funnier the second ...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:09:00 PST

FOR ASLAN DURRR

Saw Brinz GASPian yesterday. It was marginally better than the first (take that however you like), but the trouble with the Narnia movies is they want to be the missing link between Harry Potter &...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:11:00 PST

"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

I wrote a long rambling thing about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but to sum it up to get you away from your computer and into the theater......Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is ri...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Thu, 22 May 2008 03:35:00 PST

MORE LIKE A NON-JA

Speed Racer & Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.Saw both alone to avoid any contamination of opinion. I went into SR prepared to hate it but was slowly won over by the one trait of the...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:12:00 PST

KNIVES OUT

I really, really wanted Ravenous to be more than the sum of its parts. Trouble is, the movie didn't share that ambition. When the hell is Robert Carlyle going to be in something worth watching more th...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Wed, 07 May 2008 10:34:00 PST

PRINCE GASPIAN

I recieved several requests from friends asking me to post what I thought of Iron Man, so here's a short summation.Any problems that I had with the movie itself were spackled over by the special guest...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Fri, 02 May 2008 03:05:00 PST

PLEASE EAT SOUP AND PLEASE EAT ME

Memories of Matsuko is the meanest film I have ever seen, and that includes Oldboy, Hard Candy, American History X, Dancer In The Dark and Grave of the Fireflies.It's accurately described as a'f...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:19:00 PST

MANDATORY.

Evolution was not the worst movie I've ever seen, but it sure tried to be.
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:56:00 PST

AN AWKWARD REALIZATION

Watching Sweeney Todd again for the billionth time, I figured out exactly why I like it so much -- Mr. Todd & Ms. Lovett are essentially the cockney Victorian version of the Joker & Harley Qui...
Posted by SINGLE SERVING BLACK FRIEND on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:44:00 PST