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S Is A Number

If you meet a con man with scruples, then they probably belonged to somebody else.

About Me



"Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of."

Everyone's got skeletons to hide...on their shelves (skip to 3:51 left to start the good stuff):

My Interests

music (mainly alternative rock), photography, playing guitar, film, baseball, tennis, alpine skiing, cooking, internet, playing cards and games of skill, CD collecting and live music trading, cats, wildlife, stimulating chat (online or inlife), reading, foreign cultures, travel, humor, soccer, Aussie footy, concertgoing, wine and cheese, my Clouds music info website

I'd like to meet:

those who see the world from an obtuse angle

people with ideas, opinions, open minds, and a sense of humor

look at all that junk to the left, see anything you like? then we already have something in common. however if you'd like to add me, PLEASE send me a PM as well as an invite so I know it's not spam (wankers, a pox on them all)

and naturally anyone with a profile using tiny colored fonts that are impossible to read and crammed with pictures so they're painfully slow-loading, I love both those features. Really.

I edited my profile at Doobix.com

Music:

Juliana Hatfield, Clouds, Sleater-Kinney, Lush, XTC, Dresden Dolls, Rush, New Pornographers, Shins, Curve, Beatles, Leo Kottke, Sundays, Deadstar, that dog, Bilby, Wilco, The Who, Sing-Sing, Belly, Eisley, Blake Babies, Some Girls, Rolling Stones, Elastica, Velocity Girl, Tegan and Sara, Midnight Oil, REM, Cranberries, U2, Fuzzy, Trip Shakespeare, Breeders, Cowboy Junkies, Billy Joel, ELO, Beethoven, Mendelsson, Replacements, Cocteau Twins, Heavenly, Darling Buds, Sheryl Crow, Dressy Bessy, House of Large Sizes, 10,000 Maniacs, Mozart, Bach, Tuscadero, Jefferson Airplane, Dance Hall Crashers, Liz Phair, Catatonia

For a ranked, more in-depth look at my 100 favorites, click this link.

Television:

Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister, Monty Python's Flying Circus, X-Files, The Simpsons, VH1 Classic's "The Alternative", Junkyard Wars, Northern Exposure, Monk, Green Wing, Blackadder, Thin Blue Line, Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, Police Squad, Red Dwarf, Seinfeld, Friends, Twin Peaks (early years), The Office, One Foot in the Grave, Celebrity Poker Showdown, She Spies, Sanford and Son, Dharma and Greg, Home Movies, Futurama, Twilight Zone, MST3K, Black Books

Arrested Development - just added because I've been watching it at length for the first time, if you get G4 channel they're running an episode every night. A total scream, very clever writing & directing, and a terrific cast. Naturally it was a flop.

Books:

Candide - Voltaire
Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
Getting Even - Woody Allen
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Catch Me If You Can - Frank Abagnale, Jr.
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

My Blog

Return of the Lame Movie Review

Got the urge to bang out a few quickies, good enough for when you don't have time for the real thing.  Pause first to groan at the obvious innuendo though. Here's a challenge for the self-lo...
Posted by S Is A Number on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:29:00 PST

13 movie reviews for the price of 1, but that's not all!

All right, here are capsule movie reviews for the other ones I've seen in 2007 and didn't get around to writing before.  Not very many misses so far. Jules et Jim - Very enjoyable until WWI start...
Posted by S Is A Number on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:26:00 PST

And so it goes.

Was tuning into the Conan show to catch when Of Montreal comes on, a band I often read about as similar to Beulah who were excellent, when I hear of all places during Craig Ferguson's monologue t...
Posted by S Is A Number on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:20:00 PST

Trainspotting and movie review: High Tension (not Trainspotting)

What does a trainspotter actually do?  Is it true they really just spot trains?  My brother met one once: he said this bloke had a fat logbook where he would write down the wagon number...
Posted by S Is A Number on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:01:00 PST

I have the Power

This comes after not having the Power for approximately 30 hours from Saturday night to sometime Monday morning.  I'm talking electricity - reports say that the ice storm that struck left ab...
Posted by S Is A Number on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:36:00 PST

MST3K - A Date With Your Family

I was looking at http://video.aol.com/in2tv for some MST3K episodes and was gassed to find a bunch of shorts I've never seen hosted here. For those unfamiliar, Mystery Science Theater 3000 was the be...
Posted by S Is A Number on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:34:00 PST

movie review: Dark Water

My stats say I've had 39 blog hits already this week - how did that happen??  So hello to all you anonymous blog readers (or poorly programmed bots) out there, this review is for you.  Dark...
Posted by S Is A Number on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:17:00 PST

let he who is without sync podcast the first stone

Merry day AFTER Christmas.  Do the 12 days begin 12 days before or after the 25th???  One more element to that song's bizarrity.  Someone told me they heard it originated as a poli...
Posted by S Is A Number on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:19:00 PST

movie reviews: A Foreign Affair + Royal Flash

Have been living a blogless existence, so time to get caught up on what I've been watching!  Here's a twofer. A Foreign Affair - This postwar comedy with Marlene Dietrich as an acid-tongued night...
Posted by S Is A Number on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:14:00 PST

movie review: How To Steal A Million

It reached 81 glorious degrees yesterday, the day the Rebumblicans lost their 6-year power stranglehold on the nation.  Hardly a coincidence I think.  The Democrats don't have all the answer...
Posted by S Is A Number on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:42:00 PST