I'd like to meet:

Nicole Kidman...that bitch owes me 7 dollars for Bewitched! ....

Soulmates???

Music:

I like a little bit of everything. Interpol, Cocteau Twins, Lush, Dr. Dre, Peaches, Throwing Muses, Ludacris, Sigur Ros, Lisa Germano, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Billie Holiday, Snoop Dogg, Pavement, Petula Clark, MC Chris, They Might Be Giants, Dixie Chicks, Utada Hakaru, Low, Mary Margaret O'Hara, The Replacements, the Pixies,Husker Du, Everything But The Girl, Tracy Thorn, 2 Nice Girls, Salt & Peppa, Faith Hill, Stereolab, Rilo Kiley, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Innocence Mission, Aimee Man, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Mission of Burma, Louis Prima, Kid Dakota, Death Cab For Cutie, The Young Dubliners, The Coors, Wire, C Murder, João Parahyba, Interpol, DEVO, Deep Dish, Petshop Boys, Fuck Buddies, The Cure, Joy Division, Gary Numan, Too Short, Tricky, Weezer, Romeo Void, Flock Of Seagulls, Wu Tang Clan, 10,000 Maniacs, Scarling, Rickie Lee Jones, Frou Frou, Bloc Party, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Mobb Deep, Psychedelic Furs, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Postal Service, Wu Tang Clan, Haley Bonar, Yaz, Sleater-Kinney, Siousxie and the Banshees,The Smiths, Kanye West, Young Jeezy, and Liz Phair would rise to the top....but I like most genres; Hip Hop, Rock, Classic Rock, Celtic, Top 40, Alternative, Nu Wave, Folk, Worldbeat, Trance, and even a little Country and a tiny bit Opera. I guess I draw the line at Polka and Heavy Metal. I might lean more toward Alternative than the rest.Adding radio shows to the list I like Howard Stern (when he doesn't go too far), Lovelines with Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew (however, Adam recently left), KQ morning show in MPLS, and NPR (Ira Glass rules!)

Movies:

Lost In Translation, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (the real one), Waiting For Guffman, Princess Bride, Best Of Show, Valley Of The Dolls, The Usual Suspects, The Producers, Planet Of The Apes (just the first one), The Big Lebowski, Royal Tenenbaums, Napoleon Dynamite, Trainspotting, Life Of Brian, Rushmore, Swingers, Momento, Office Space, first Matrix only, Clerks, Jay & Silent Bob, Sound Of Music, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001, Scary Movie, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, The Shining, anything with James Spader in it, Blazing Saddles, Lost In Translation, Broadcast News, almost anything with Albert Brooks in it, Austin Powers, X-Men, Chocolat, This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, the first Batman only, Amelie, High Fidelity, 40 Year-old Virgin, A Clockwork Orange, Silence Of The Lambs, The Jerk, Guys & Dolls

Television:

House, Grey's Anatomy, Family Guy, Simpsons, Survivor, The Apprentice, The Food Network, Attack Of The Show, X-Play, Trading Spaces, The Man Show, Golden Girls, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, Pinky &; The Brain, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Brak, Space Ghost, Gilmore Girls, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Alias, 24, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Adventures of Pete &; Pete, Alan Partridge, Keen Eddie, Profit, The Sopranos, Without A Trace, The Daily Show, Martha Stewart, Adult Swim, Nick.

Books:

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, Naked Lunch, anything by Dashiell Hammett. Pulps with The Shadow, Black Bat, Doc Savage, etc. I don't read anything by Virgina Woolf as I'm afraid of her.================== Nobody thought the levees would be breached ...Fly Into a Building? Who Could Imagine?By MAUREEN DOWDWASHINGTON
Three little words:
Still employed there.Of all the through-the-looking-glass moments in the last few days, the strangest is this: The F.B.I officer who arrested and questioned Zacarias Moussaoui told a jury that he had alerted his superiors about 70 times that Mr. Moussaoui was a radical Islamic fundamentalist who hated America and might be plotting to hijack an airplane.Seventy? That makes one time for every virgin waiting for Mr. Moussaoui in heaven. Judging by how disastrously the prosecution is doing, the virgins will have to wait.We could have cracked the 9/11 plot if the F.B.I. wasn't run by dunces. Mr. Moussaoui's lawyers got a break because according to the testimony of the officer, Harry Samit, a better-run bureau could have broken the case even without the terrorist's confession maybe F.B.I. officers should have shot him with some paintballs.On Sept. 10, 2001, Mr. Samit confided to a colleague that he was "desperate to get into Moussaoui's computer." He never heard back from the F.B.I.'s bin Laden unit before 9/11 what did the unit have to do that was more pressing than catching bin Laden? And he was obstructed by officials in F.B.I. headquarters here, whom he labeled "criminally negligent." He named two of the officials who did not want to endanger their careers with any excess aggression toward radical fundamentalists: David Frasca and Michael Maltbie, then working on the Radical Fundamentalist Unit. Even though Condi Rice told the 9/11 commission that "no one could have imagined" terrorists' slamming a plane into the World Trade Center, an F.B.I. officer did. Officer Samit testified that a colleague, Greg Jones, tried to light a fire under Mr. Maltbie by urging him to "prevent Zacarias Moussaoui from flying a plane into the World Trade Center."Later, Mr. Jones told Mr. Samit that it had just been "a lucky guess." Kenneth Williams, a Phoenix agent, also sent a warning memo to the phlegmatic Mr. Frasca in July 2001, after sniffing out a scheme by Osama to dispatch Middle East extremists to America to get flight training. Neil Lewis wrote in The Times yesterday that "William Carter, an F.B.I. spokesman, said that neither the bureau nor Mr. Maltbie nor Mr. Frasca, who are still employed there, would have any comment." Still employed there? How can Mr. Maltbie and Mr. Frasca still be employed at the F.B.I.? How can Michael Chertoff still be employed at Homeland Security? How can Donald Rumsfeld still be employed at the Pentagon? Missing 9/11, missing Katrina, mangling Iraq, racking up a $9 trillion debt those things don't cause officials to lose their jobs. Only saying something honest as prescient Gen. Eric Shinseki did can get you a one-way ticket to Palookaville.Rummy told reporters last week that the military was preparing for a civil war in Iraq, but he did not consider it a civil war yet even though he acknowledged it was hard to tell exactly when chaos tipped into civil war. "I don't think it'll look like the United States' Civil War," he added sanguinely. Yeah. At Fort Sumter, Lincoln let the enemy fire first. So the defense secretary believes if the body count stays below the Civil War era's 600,000, Iraq will achieve a healthy blue-state, red-state democracy? One administration official says that Rummy does not hold the same sway in meetings anymore, that he's treated as an eccentric old uncle who pops off and is ignored. But why can't W. just quit him? Instead, the president praised him for doing "a fine job" on two wars and transforming the military, when Rummy actually bullied the military to go along with his foolish schemes in Iraq and has sapped the once-feared fighting machine.At his impromptu press conference yesterday, the president presented himself as a nice guy doing a difficult job, relentlessly joshing with reporters. He chided the press for playing into terrorists' goals by showing bad news from Iraq "they're capable of blowing up innocent life so it ends up on your TV show" even as reports surfaced about insurgents outside Baghdad storming a jail, slaughtering 18 police officers and letting the prisoners out, following fast upon an insurgent raid on Iraqi Army headquarters in Kirkuk. Does the president think TV will instead report on an increase in melon sales at the market?When the Bushies harp on training Iraqi security forces so America can hand the country over to them, it has a hollow ring. Back in 2003, the U.S. de-Baathified Iraq and put its faith in its friends, the Shiites. Now, given the suspected Shiite death squads and militias, the U.S. wants to bring the Sunnis back into the system. So whom do we trust? And for how long? Asked if he could envision a day when there would be no more U.S. forces in Iraq, the president said, "That, of course, is an objective." But he added that it would be decided by future Iraqi governments and future American presidents.Once W. is not still employed there.Bush and Ahmadinejad - Spot The Difference.I continue to find it almost impossible to find any great substantive difference between the certainty of purpose displayed by George W. Bush and that of the regimes he is supposedly appalled by.In today's Washington Post it has been reported that, "In remarks that set off a domestic firestorm, a senior cleric close to the new president suggested in January that Iranian voters were largely irrelevant because the government requires only the approval of God."This is obviously not the viewpoint of a rational man. However, I don't find this very different from Bush making the claim, "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job."Or his assertion that God told him to invade Iraq.So whilst Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opinion that the electorate are "irrelevant" is, rightly, seen as the ramblings of an extremist; those same ramblings put him nearer to Bush's mindset than Bush would like us to believe. After all, Bush is a man famous for not reading opinion polls, the best guide available to the thoughts of the American electorate.Now, the fact that Bush believes that God guides his actions, gives him a certainty of purpose; a belief that he is always on the side of right and good. Indeed, for many of his supporters, this is part of his attraction. He has played to the Republican Christian base more than any President before him.So what's the difference between him and Ahmadinejad? To be totally honest, I can't see any.posted by Kel

Heroes:

Batman, Captain America, Iron Man, Omega the Unknown, Stingray, Black Goliath, Birds Of Prey, The Defenders, Prototype, The Vision, Colossal Boy, Green Lantern, and yes...you too Aquaman. Poor maligned, misunderstood Aquaman.
Peter Griffin: Everybody I've got bad news. We've been cancelled.
Lois Griffin: Oh no Peter! How could they do that?
Peter Griffin: Well unfortuantely Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We just got to accept the fact that FOX has to make room for terrific shows like: Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonder Falls, Fast Lane, Andy Richter Controls The Universe, Skin, Girl's Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, Freaky Links, Wanda At Large, Costello, The Lone Gunman, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Normal Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddy, The Street, American Embassy, Cedric The Entertainer, The Tick, Louie, Jonnie Zero, Greg The Bunny....
Lois: Is there no hope?
Peter: Well I suppose if all those shows go down the tubes we might have a shot.