Zef:

We have to pay a deposit of 5 cents on every carbonated beverage. Last month, this got changed so that we have to pay a nickel on bottled water, too--but still not iced tea, or alcoholic ciders, or...AHH, it's so confusing. We have that "The manufacturer really wants the bottle back!" thing that you have, on really the big, half-gallon bottles, and then the deposit is $1.50. It's good for the environment when people take their smelly, rank, even sometimes crawling-with-insects bottles back. But not for the guy who has to handle them! I did tell you all about the bottle someone returned to make sure that they got their fucking nickel back on, the one that included the rotting, moldy corpse of a mouse?

Lils:
Thanks! I haven't read the interview with Brain One yet, but I will do so over the weekend!

Zefster, it costs about $3 to rent a movie, the last time I checked. Of course cos I shell out $24.95 per month for my Netflix subscription, that might have changed in the interim. Here in CA we have a redemption value tax built-in with all recyclable bottles and cans.

Although it's a few years old, a friend at Twitter just passed along this article, so I thought I should do the same for my favorite Enophile. (The interview itself is great, though the intro made me go, "Jeezy creezy, and I thought that I was a wordy-ass writer? Get to the fucking point already!").

Wait wait, so what's this deposit thing? Here I have to leave a buck if i want to buy beer in a quart+ glass bottle, but otherwise there is no such thing. After I leave the buck, I can either give them back the bottle and get my buck back, or keep it and give it to them whenever i buy a new beer.

Both. I've added bunny ears and a fluffy tail to my Frank N. Furter costume.

For a homophobe, he sure draws the gayest shit imaginable. Look, that one guy's "blowing" that other guy!

So, Negs...you're going to your GYN dressed as a Playboy bunny? Or as a man?

Got some classic DVK for ya: Lola Dress up 2 of 4

This one is especially timely for me, as I have an appointment with my GYN tomorrow.

All I can think of to get movies (in the realm of 'legality' of course) is blockbuster. How much do you pay for a blockbuster rent in the first world? I have to pay $2 on sale days for a rent, or $3 on a weekend.

Also this is just a personal pet peeve of mine, but it seems 90% of mexican movies (outside of the mainstream, of course, which is all romantic wacky comedies with a dash of sexy salsa) are about 'the issues', which is well and good, it calls attention to them, but in the end a movie's not going to change the world (did Gore's do anything tangible?) and I'd rather see that effort pushed into more artful things, fantasy or whatever. It's well and good to call attention to the issues, but what's the point of improving the issues if there's nothing better to look at on the other side (i.e. Imagination and such)

Sorry for the rambling, I'm just hella coming down from a night of partyin'

What? You can't get Mexican movies in Mexico?! GET A BETTER BURRO! Strap rockets to it or something.

Yeah, it is the news. That's what makes it great: it's the news, if you add 10 or 20 years. I work with people (aka: assholes) who would see that armed wall and nod, "But it would keep us SAFE! From the illegal MEXICANS! And, FUCK, did you see how much LETTUCE costs now?! WHY ISN'T IT CHEAPER?!?!"

I would if I had anything like netflix! The burro that comes every third day carrying titles from the border never has anything more recent than 2007.

I'd absolutely rent this last reviewed movie, too, but I kinda get enough of that in the news as it is.

Huh, I hadn't thought of the documentary aspect. I will guiltily admit that, I liked it on the big screen a ton more because, being made by the team that *almost* made the Halo movie, the action is top notch, and as a plus there are a couple references that bring a smile to this gaming nerd's face.

The semi-documentary style of it should work pretty well on the small screen, but I will join the legions of see-it-sayers.

you need to stop whatever is it you're doing and go watch Sector 9

They did a sequel to District 9 already?! ;)

I''m waiting for the DVD, but the reviews were universally awesome.

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EDIT: Noooo, oh hell. i meant *District* 9. Sector 9 was the title here and i assumed they hadn't translated it.Shows how well my mind works when sober.

And, hell no, it might not be as graphically pretty as Speed Racer, or as full of detail as the anime Metropolis, but it's effin' rockin' to watch in the big screen. I liked the loud audio, at least.


If you love Sci-fi and hate racism, you need to stop whatever is it you're doing and go watch Sector 9, like right the hell now.

For what it is, which is terrible, it's absolutely great! Seriously.

Also my girlfriend has a visceral, gut reaction to the realistically rendered giant robots. Like, maybe not quite bad enough to be whatever the robo-equivalent of "furry" is, but...

The local radio movie reviewer said of the latest Transformers that he would have rated it much lower, except for all the running in a tight t-shirt the leading chippie did. As it was, he shared Kirk's opinion, and wondered aloud what happened to his brain.

I've committed to never pay money to see one of those kind of films again, so I'll just have to wait for the DVD to come available at the public library, the way I did with the first one (which was sort of not HORRIBLE until the robots started talking).