Title Comment Comment Date Comment Link
TV Series I've Seen Every Episode Of

I must say I am quite happy with your girl sometimes. Also, Newswipe is awesome.

 4/18/2009 View
2000 movie ratings (ranked)

Holy crap. The Jon Stewart of the UK. What an awesome show this is so far.

 4/10/2009 View
People we SHOULD be listening to

Our leaders are more dangerous than our sworn enemies.

 4/6/2009 View
Reading Log, 2009

This is the last straw. I'm finally moving to Australia.

 4/5/2009 View
2000 movie ratings (ranked)

Wow.

 4/5/2009 View
2008 movie ratings (ranked)

I am so there.

 3/28/2009 View
Reading Log, 2009

Oooh, yeah, I like that better.

 3/27/2009 View
Reading Log, 2009

My current political leanings, according to this test.

It should be noted that I felt like answering "I don't know" to about 1/5 of the questions, and that all my opinions are easily open to change, since politics is very complicated and I don't have time to be an expert in the effects of certain policies.

Basically, I advocate an anti-ideological political stance, an "empirical politics."

But, I happily have some pretty good company: Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama.

 3/23/2009 View
Best Rock Albums Ever (according to me)

I usually don't enjoy opera, no.

 3/22/2009 View
Every style of music ever created (about 95% complete)

Yeah, that or "dance", I think...

 3/22/2009 View
Best Rock Albums Ever (according to me)

I still really like Metallica's first three albums. I think they will always have a special place in my heart because those albums - along with Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons - were one of the first albums a friend "snuck" into my life back when I was only allowed to listen to Christian music. So, Metallica and Dream Theater were like 10x better music than anything I had ever heard before - it was easy to be blown away by them! I would listen to them with headphones in my room and then pause it whenever my parents knocked on the door. They thought I was listening to dc Talk.

Strauss' Salome is an extremely complex and daring musical work I'm not in the least qualified to comment on. I don't much like the artificiality and limitations of opera, but I do rather like the part where Salome makes love to John's severed head.

 3/21/2009 View
Most Important Thinkers of All Time

It's kind of hard to tell how important relativity or quantum theory will be. I'm waiting to see the results for a theory of quantum gravity - that will greatly impact how important Einstein's insights turn out to be.

 3/21/2009 View
Every style of music ever created (about 95% complete)

darktremor (and others):

If you had to come up with a word to talk about rap, techno, house, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime... what would it be? It isn't "rock". What is it?

 3/20/2009 View
Favorite Writers

Thought of the moment:

Science doesn't "disprove" God. It can't.

Well, I guess science "disproves" God the same way it "disproves" fairies.

 3/18/2009 View
Favorite Writers

If I lose my job in L.A. it might be kinda fun for a month or two. :) I wouldn't do it for the resume, but for the company.

 3/17/2009 View