tomspanks

I have to bend the rules a little. Life Aquatic with Seu Jorge covering Bowie songs in Portuguese,

You know what, the RPats song isn’t bad if you speed it up 1.5x.

How did Macon know how to break the curse? Did Amma tell him?

I remember that too, but I assumed he was just trying to comfort her.

Oh, I totally missed that part. I thought it was all female casters who couldn’t choose/flip flop like the male casters. I thought the Duchannes curse was that all the females in that line will go dark no matter what. Never mind!

So, I read too many caster wiki articles today and Link and Ridley get their own spinoff books. Spoiler tags just in case LOL.

I’m not sure how much “magic” Amma was. She could speak with the dead, but is that magic or a natural gift she was born with? She was a keeper as well, but it seemed like that position came with only the key to the library? I would be fine with Futurama references in all your posts for no raisin.

As I understand it the curse is on Lena’s maternal side and yes the curse turns them Dark. There was nothing in the movie that suggested Genevieve (the lady hologram from the Civil War) was the first caster. No, the curse isn’t on all female casters. On the 16th birthday of a female caster, while the moon is out, they are “claimed” light or dark, based on Their true nature. So say if a female caster *wanted* to be light while having a dark nature, she would be forcibly claimed dark. For male casters they can choose to be light or dark and they can flip flop throughout their lives.

I want to watch the miniseries, but it’s not streaming. Before you ask, no my library doesn’t have it.

You’re not exactly acing it either, bud.

I hope you guys still talk to me on Monday.

Three words: young Han Solo

Get your lotion ready, because we're watching The Singing Detective (2003). https://youtu.be/2DgrnmkbXp8 Available on Amazon Prime.

No. What is a "grudlian"?

According to the caster wiki, the main drawback seems to be: "They will become sociopathic, no longer having empathy and remorse, and are incapable of love. They are taken over by negative emotions. Ridley says going Dark changes the way you feel about people. When a Dark Caster turns Dark, they sense the feelings they had, the things they loved, but those feelings are distant. They can fight the sociopathy, but can't successfully grow out of it." So...I guess your personality shifts dramatically when you turn dark?

I agree. They were going for the joke of an "old" person discovering Google. I mean, it was pretty funny when my father-in-law discovered emojis and sent the eggplant one because he was literally referencing the vegetable. My cat didn't play with the phone, but he loves playing his cat game on the iPad. Maybe try it on a tablet?

Nah, the tunnels in the movie weren't some small segments connecting 2 houses. Viola Davis said that they run under "the whole country."

The underground railroad was not literally underground. It was not a railroad either.

I thought you were gonna be more offended that they called Jeremy Irons the poor man’s Alan Rickman...

Hey, you're using the same font color as the background, lol. FTFY.

Did anyone else think it was a little odd that Ethan didn't know who Bukowski was? In the beginning of the movie, we get to see Ethan's vision board (?) with book covers pinned to various locations on a map. Below, you can see that he has read (or at least have heard of) On the Road and Naked Lunch. I'm not lumping Bukowski with the beat writers, but I feel like Ethan would've come across Bukowski at some point. Surely it came up in his Amazon's "Customers who bought this item also bought" section?

In this clip Angela Lansbury talks about her experience filming Blue Hawaii and she slips into her Southern accent. She's still got it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBMLiKDi5oM

Mind = blown.