I’ve watched It on the big screen… Oh boi…
Didn’t really cried when you’d expect It (In like I cried when expected + other times) but that was one of the moments.
The pacing of that movie is superv and that moment holds just enough afsadfa
I got a nosebleed at the end I cried so much. Not to big hahaha, gosh my head hurted big time.
I don’t cry for everything I swear 
(like It’s a bad thing lol) but I feel like Weepy McWeep Face around here.
this is me right now:
rewatching Stargate SG-1, dang i enjoy that! -it’s been so long
but gd frickin’ dang is Atlantis painful to watch 
, last time i couldn’t stand to watch it to completion, i wonder if that’s going to be different this time, of if i’ll enter a coma from a herniated brain first…
me neither, well, almost not, -sort of… 
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yea, real good movie, i’m quite looking forward to the 3rd installment, really crossing my fingers that it holds up to the others. Moar Toothless! 
(god the old hug emoji was so much better)
Watched Coco - I’m not really a fan of Pixar animation, but this was a good little film that entertained me through it’s duration. Heartwarming story and some good songs…and…
Bomb City - Not as good as Alpha Dog, but same sort of premise (although this is based upon a true story) - the outsiders vs the popular kids. You know what’s going to happen as the whole film is basically a build to the final event…although perhaps the story is a little one sided as it’s told from the point of view of the “punks”, and I had a hard time believing that in reality they’d be as mild natured as they were. Pretty decent but not amazing…and…
Braven - Jason Momoa vehicle. Again, ok. Rugged type guy ends up taking his father to his cabin up in the mountains where some baddies have temporarily stashed some drugs after an road accident. Queue shooting and violence as the two sides meets. A bit straight to DVD-esque, but again ok…and…
Blade Runner 2049 - Not as good as Blade Runner. 
THANK YOU.
This is why we married. Refined taste. 
2049 wasn’t as good as the first movie but I still thought it was about as good as it could’ve been, I really liked it.
Let’s see…
Reading:
I just finished up the latest “Alien” trilogy that came out a couple years ago: “Out of the Shadows”, “Sea of Sorrows”, and “River of Pain”. My take on them is unless you’re an absolute fanatic for the Alien universe, skip them. Even if you are a fan, you might think about skipping them. “Out of the Shadows” takes place between Alien and Aliens, and sets up the existence of another cache of xenomorph eggs and an ancient alien civilization on a completely different location. “River of Pain” is a retelling of the stuff that went down right before the events of Aliens, from the point of view of the colonists, so it’s sort of a throw-away because you halfway know what’s going to go down. The most interesting of the three is “Sea of Sorrows”, which ties in to “Out of the Shadows” three hundred or so years later and involves a guy who has Ripley as an ancestor.
Following those, I’ve started in on “The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree”, It follows a guy whose dad was a fantasy novelist, who recently passed away, and in going through his dad’s things he finds out that maybe the fantasy stuff in his dad’s novels wasn’t so much of a fantasy after all.
Watching:
Just burned through Jessica Jones on Netflix. Was good, but definitely dragged in places. Also watched Thor: Ragnarok again. Was a great buddy comedy romp.
Listening:
Podcasts, mostly. I hate most of the pop radio stuff that gets cranked out these days, so I generally listen to shows that interest me. They run all over the place in topic, from RPG Actual-Play shows, video game discussion, arcade and pinball collecting and repair, and discussions of authors and their books.
Over the past year or so I’ve been steadily working my way through all the available Aliens and Predator books that are available (I think the most recent Aliens Omnibus takes us to book 11 so far, with a few more to go, and then there’s the spin off Aliens books you mention, and then the Rage Wars trilogy which has a Predator crossover element, and of course there’s now one Predator Omnibus which has three books).
Of the three you mention I was fortunate enough to catch the free Audible offer - Out of the Shadows was given away free, and instead of as a standard narration, it was a full cast with sound effects. So I listened to that one and read the other two. I’d rate them in the order of release, perhaps feeling that the first was the best because it didn’t disrupt the canon and the audio was so good. The third book was terrible…I can’t think of anything really redeeming about it, and it didn’t really work with what we know folllows. As far as River of Pain goes, whilst the title was clever, I didn’t feel any of the characters were particularly compelling and the story was a bit weak for me…it stretched the mythology in a way that didn’t really grab me.
That being said, I’d recommend that you grab yourself the 5 Aliens Omnibus’ and give them a go. Not all the books are great, but a few of them are really good (Aliens Berserker being a prime example of a good use of the franchise). I audiobooked the Rage Wars trilogy…they were OK, although nothing particularly amazing…although again that’s perhaps because I didn’t much like the narrator.
What podcasts do you listen to?
I would also like to know! I’m a big fan of:
Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.
King Falls AM centers on a lonely little mountain town’s late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants.
Lore is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed podcast about true life scary stories. Lore exposes the darker side of history, exploring the creatures, people, and places of our wildest nightmares.
Because sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction.
Serial is a podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial tells one story—a true story—over the course of a season. Each season, we follow a plot and characters wherever they take us. We won’t know what happens at the end until we get there, not long before you get there with us.
Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode is produced and edited by host and creator Hrishikesh Hirway in Los Angeles. Using the isolated, individual tracks from a recording, Hrishikesh asks artists to delve into the specific decisions that went into creating their work.
The Heart is an audio art project about intimacy and humanity. Founded in Kaitlin Prest’s bedroom in 2014, The Heart is comprised of a community of badass writers, radio makers and artists who make personal documentary work about their bodies and their loves. In 2017, The Heart was named a Peabody Award Finalist.
I also have a few others I listen to but I think this is enough… hahahaha
(gosh I love podcasts)
Funny enough, I actually have the original seven books in the Alien series (Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum, The Female War, Genocide, Alien Harvest, Rogue, and Labyrinth) from back when they were originally published in their original mass-market paperback format, sitting in storage. They were definitely fun reads back then, but I lost touch with the series after Labyrinth. I’ve been thinking about picking them up in e-book format, as I’ve been pondering a re-read but don’t really want to be bothered to go dig through the storage tubs to find them. 
As far as podcasts go, right now I have the following in regular rotation:
Podcasts are dope! I listen to a few every week.
Super Best Friendcast
The Official Podcast
SleepyCabin (I’m so glad it’s finally back!)
and ocasionally the H3 Podcast
If anyone can recommend something similar I’d be happy to try it on my daily buss ride.
I just finish watching the TV-show Dark that is on Netflix. If you are bored with the ‘Hollywood style’ and like mysteries and time travel, then this is definitely something for you!
Reading: Nothing right now, but I wanna get back into it, been reading all the time a couple years back. Maybe some sci-fi, cyberpunk stuff. I really wanna try out Limit by Frank Schätzing. 
Watching: Occasionally catching up on Dragonball Super, otherwise YouTube. Been binge-watching channels like YourMovieSucksDotOrg and I Hate Everything. Oh, and last night I watched Hot Fuzz for the first time. Damn, what a good and funny movie, can’t believe I waited so long to watch it! 
Listening: Got the Far Cry Blood Dragon Soundtrack from Uplay recently, and that got me a lot into Synthwave, Outrun, all that sort of stuff. Great background music, for housework, studying, drawing etc. 
Apart from that I’m listening to pop/rock classics from the 80’s and before, including soundtracks from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and the tracks from K-DST (Classic Rock Radio from GTA San Andreas) 
Podcast wise I’m almost ashamed at the lack of breadth in my chosen rotation. On a daily basis I listen on my journey to work, during a walk at lunchtime, the journey home, and then when I’m walking the dog…it means I get through a fair amount of audio each day. You’ll soon see that I know what I like and I like what I know. So with brief descriptions (and I’m well behind on many of these so if they radically change during their lifetime then I’m yet to get there) -
Watch Out For Fireballs! - Two awesome guys (Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross, listed in alphabetical order) discuss old games…in detail. They’re both funny, genuine and Gary has a vocal cat who is also awesome (Hi Rors!). They have also done an amazing series of Souls podcasts…in fact the Duckfeed network is gold. Bonus fact - I sent Gary a Steam friend request (I can’t identify Kole’s account) Sadly didn’t get accepted.
Retronauts - Epic podcast that’s been around for years that in the main discusses old games. Often features knowledgeable guests and is incredibly varied in it’s content despite the retro focus. Jeremy Parish is often rumoured to be the man who coined the term “Metroidvania” although he denies it.
New Game Plus - Three friends discuss old games (at least 15 years old to get covered). Somewhat briefer than the other podcasts I listen to, with episodes clocking in around the 40 minute mark. This is just like a group of friends chewing the fat over each game…it’s not quite as detailed as the the above two or the next one below, but it’s got a charm of it’s own as the hosts all bring the show to life.
Cane and Rinse - At least two/three people discuss…old games. They deep dive into the games and give a detailed analysis of each one. It’s also a British podcast so they’re playing to a friendly crowd!
Back In My Play - Three guys discuss old games…similar but different to New Game Plus. It’s interesting to note that Josh Hillyer accurately predicted what Nintendo would do with the Switch way back in 2013.
So yeah…can you tell what I enjoy listening to? Tried Axe of the Blood God too but I had to drop it because it wasn’t that great…
Just watched this…really quite enjoyed it, even without seeing The Room beforehand. It’s well worth a watch if you want a glimpse into the world of someone who seemed to be almost disconnected from reality.
Yeah I watched it too, it was good, honestly preferred the book though as it goes into more details and is slightly different in the way events go. Greg for instance was not initially cast to play Mark and didn’t really want to do it, Greg was just line producer and Tommy had cast someone else as Mark. Tommy always wanted Greg to play Mark and said he would pay him a lot of money (which he needed and is why he eventually took the role) and they secretly pushed the initial actor out of the role without telling him for a while saying that Greg was going to do some Mark scenes as a screen test for a different role.
Audiobook:
Just finished listening to Battle Mage by Peter Flannery. Title sounds a bit generic but the writing and story is sublime. I could scarcely put it down to do my work. It’s a story about dragons, magi, and knights that is brimming with brutal combat and tear-jerking emotion.
Podcasts:
The Adventure Zone is simply a must listen for everyone. It is an rpg podcast, loosely based on D&D that is extremely funny and develops into a truly epic saga. I recently finished their first main story arc and it was just as epic as any of the best fantasy audiobooks that I have ever listened to. Griffin McElroy is a god-tier game master/dungeon master.
I recently tried out Brute Force, another rpg podcast, and it is another extremely high quality production that is also very funny. Brute Force tells the tale of a band of adventures that are “monsters” rather than normal hero types such as humans, elves, and dwarves. Their band is composed of an undead archer, a yeti, a golem, and a harpy.
Finished reading the Predator Omnibus (Concrete Jungle, Cold War & Big Game). Easy, quite fun reads…wasn’t sure if I liked the fact that Dutch’s brother was in the first two of these, although it’s not detrimental and the fourth wall breaking comparison of his physique to Schwarzenegger is quite cheeky. They’re definitely a better experience than some of the Aliens novels, although very similar in style and a wasted opportunity as the Predator’s have a lot more story potential than the “Xenomorphs”.
Also watched I, Tonya last night, a film I avoided for a while thinking it had no relevance to me. Couldn’t have been more wrong, and rather than being a true story of a figure skating champion it’s more akin to a black comedy. Would recommend it to the uncertain…
Currently listening to the Mass Effect OST’s.
Watched a few more things…
Gerald’s Game - Meh. That was two hours of my life I’ll never get back. Really can’t fathom where the amazing reviews came from…to me it smacks of straight to TV (although I suppose that’s exactly what it is).
Justice League - …and this one got critically mauled and yet I found myself enjoying it. Darker in tone, grittier, and slightly more nonsensical than it’s Marvel counterparts I actually started to like the DC characters more than I had prior to watching the film. The only DC film I really didn’t enjoy was Suicide Squad.
I, Tonya - I’d seen this advertised for an age and avoided it because I thought the subject matter held no interest for me…figure skating?? But I was mistaken. This is a great little film, telling a true story with more than a touch of black comedy. Would really recommend it.
Finished Simon R. Green’s Into the Thinnest of Air. Disappointing is all I will say…for the fifth book in the series I expected better not worse. I’m going to start Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts by David Gerard tonight. I’ve read the first sentence and it already appeals (Question - Should I buy Bitcoin? Answer - No.)
Listening to…well, I seriously cannot get enough of these three tracks (well most of the music from the whole soundtracks but these stand out to me)
Shatterhand
Journey to Silius
Wonder Boy III The Dragon’s Trap
I just went to a premiere for Pacific Rim Uprising thanks to a friend from work. It was just more of Pacific Rim, if you enjoyed the first you will enjoy this one, and if you didn’t maybe stay away from it. Monsters fighting robots that should tell you all you need to know.