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movies

Movies I’ve seen, movies I’m gonna see, and my commentary about them.

Batman and books

Jon and I finally got around to seeing The Dark Knight Rises last night, and it was awesome! I had forgotten much …

House of Leaves

I bought a new book last night: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. And by “new”, I mean new to me, …

couldn’t watch Watchmen

We got a bit of snow, enough to cover my brother’s porch, the trampoline, and the cars, but only barely enough to …

Paranormal Activity… I guess?

I just got back from seeing Paranormal Activity with Jon and, honestly, I’m disappointed. There was all this hype about the movie, …

visits and kung fu

I’m at my parents’ house with Jon, wrapping up the last of our travelling around Kentucky. We visited his family for three …

extracting audio from a DVD

It’s pretty easy to extract just the audio from a DVD in Linux, using Mplayer, sox, and either Audacity or split.