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So apparently (and this is likely old news to everyone but me), I, Robot has nothing at all to do with I, Robot. They just welded the name (and the three laws) onto an unrelated screenplay once they acquired the rights. So, yeah.

But seeing that the title of the screenplay was originally "Hardwired" reminds me to mention how disappointed I was to learn that the film Hard Boiled was not based on Hard Boiled.

Although I'm happy to see live action adaptations of comics, most of my favorite comics are ones that I really don't want to see adapted to the screen. Some of them (Ronin, Night Force), it's because I don't trust anyone to do a good job, in part because I'm pretty sure doing a good job would necessarily mean creating a box-office flop. (I would dearly love for someone to prove me wrong, though.) Others, though, I just don't think belong on film - it's impossible for me to imagine enjoying a Dr. Strange film, or a Thor film, or a Cerebus film. (Did I just admit to really liking Dr. Strange, Thor and Cerebus? Oops.*) I've been wracking my brain since Spider-Man came out, trying to think of a property that I'm just dying to see on film; something that's actually plausible, if not likely. I think I've settled on Hard Boiled, now that I've been reminded. Sure, the plot isn't what's awesome about Hard Boiled; the movie would be totally different from the comic. But I think a successful Hollywood movie could be made that would still be recognizably Hard Boiled. And man, wouldn't that be awesome?

* - I also really dug ROM and Dial H for Hero, but I've outgrown those.

So. Having listened to "Poison" about 20 times since yesterday, I've discovered that I actually really like the lyrics. I didn't like them much when it first came out. It's possible that's because when it first came out, I didn't wanna hurt someone just to hear them screaming my name. I dunno. But even now, listening to the Alice Cooper version isn't the same for me - I'm not as involved, and I don't fancy the lyrics as much. This strikes me as odd, because the singer in the song is espousing the viewpoint that I identify with - why would I identify more when the singer is female? It's not like "The Leader of the Pack," which touches me because I pity the singer.

Upon further reflection, it seems to me that I simply don't believe males when they sing love songs. I've fervently expressed my undying love for a person when I wasn't just trying to get into their pants, and I'm sure other males have done so as well, but my fundamental assumption when I hear a guy go weak in the knees for a girl is that they're just horny. I believe Bruce Springsteen when he sings "I'm on Fire," but I have no faith whatsoever that Paul McCartney just wants to hold my hand. I'm having a hard time coming up with more examples of love songs sung by males, because I really don't like them. But as soon as a female sings them, suddenly my reaction is "Oh, yeah, I know just what she's talking about."

It's probably worth pointing out that when I say "love song" I mean songs sung to a target who we assume has some interest in the singer, or particularly mopey songs about how awesome the singer's loved one is. I have no problem with "it's too bad I'm too screwed up to have a chance with the girl I love" songs.

Wow. The Brian Leiter Project has actually made some inroads.

Once more, breaking my self-imposed ban on posting spam subject headers:

Happy Holidays from Equifax

Yeah, I don't even rate punctuation, let alone an exclamation mark.

Ok, I tried and I tried to refrain, but this latest entry is just too much.

It’s....an experience I suppose most have had in some form. ( ... )

and..... for..... the briefest of moments shaking adrenaline you wander what its going to feel like the end crash gyrating mind spinning and its here they are trying to break you agghhhaggghhhgghahhhh its ahead the end the trap the corner the....finals.

Something I came across with Livejournal's random page feature? No. It's one of my fellow students. I can't deny that I succumb to the allure of the ellipsis myself, from time to time, but please - if I ever begin to use them like that (without..... irony, that.... is.), please just put me out of my misery.

Oh. For the sake of reference, whatever package is interposing itself between his fingers and the web substituted the unicode ellipsis character for his ellipses, and I switched it back. Other than that, it's cut and pasted; apply [sic] as necessary.

Bleah.

Once again, flail has been nominated as one of the worst comic strips on the web by the readers of PvP. I can't really figure out what it is about what I did that attracts such disdain. I guess I'll go ask.

UPDATE: Well. That's magnificent. It's 12 hours before my new account can post to the thread. I wonder if I'll even remember this tomorrow morning.

So I'm burnt out on citation exercises, and I decide to take a look at iTunes for Windows.

( And then I gripe about it for 2 pages or so. )

And just to add insult to... well, to bad UI... They have audiobooks marked "Explicit," but there's no way to search just for those books! Curses.

I can't bring myself to drive behind a car with a "Who is John Galt?" bumper sticker.. I just can't do it.

Ugh.

I was trying to look up the full context of "...sound and fury, signifying nothing..." (It's the second time I've had to do that, I don't know why I can never remember it.)

But I couldn't remember which play it was from. (I never really got Macbeth. There's a hole in my mind where a unified concept of what Macbeth is like should be. I've read it a couple of times, but it never sinks in.) So all I had to go on was the text I was trying to remember.

Go have a look at this. It's ridiculous. This isn't a "Google should have taken me directly to Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5" rant. Wasn't the phrase hackneyed after the first 20 times it was used as a title? If I lock it down in quotes, it only takes to page 3 before I find Macbeth, but... Argh. Don't people write their own metaphors any more? Rip off Shakespeare in the article body, and I won't gripe. But write your own damned titles, please.

Actually, I guess I shouldn't get upset. It's still less popular a title than this.