The Breakfast Club

BENDER: When have you ever gotten laid?
BRIAN: I've laid, lotsa times!
BENDER: Name one!
BRIAN: She lives in Canada, met her at Niagara Falls. You wouldn't know her.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 1:54 PM on July 3, 2008 marked best answer

(badly formatted copy of the script here.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 1:54 PM on July 3, 2008

Three Strange Days - School of Fish
Seven - Sunny Day Real Estate
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 1:45 PM on June 27, 2008

And just to copy the rest of chr1sb0y's comment, thirding Screaming Trees and Gentleman (The Afghan Whigs and Greg Dulli's later side projects - Twilight Singers and Gutter Twins [both with Mark Lanegan from Screaming Trees] - are some of the best rock in the last 20 years)
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 1:48 PM on June 27, 2008

I bought this last year. Creeped the hell out of my wife when she came upon it in a box of books during a move.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 3:10 PM on April 21, 2008

September - Earth, Wind & Fire.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 4:16 PM on April 4, 2008 marked best answer

Check out the movie Brick. Like Veronica Mars, it's hard boiled High School but taken to the extreme.


And I'd like to give a hearty 3rding to Burn Notice, one of the coolest unwatched shows on television right now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 6:41 PM on March 21, 2008

Target, Best Buy or Fry's when it's a day one buy. More often Best Buy because of the inventory tracker on their site. (I work for a video game developer so game releases are usually the news of the day. Refreshing the Best Buy inventory page and waiting for the grey "Unavailable" to switch to a shiny "Add to Cart" button is the norm on Tuesdays.)

I'm in the San Fernando Valley, so when I'm looking for something older or rarer, I head over to Game... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 9:52 AM on March 21, 2008

I don't have an answer to the question, but I have a feeling, besides the two Prez incidents, that it's very close to zero.

If memory serves me correctly, Dan Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets has a bit about Baltimore homicide police commonly forgetting to take their guns out of their desk drawers before answering a call.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 1:29 PM on February 7, 2008

Requiem for a Dream followed by Dark City.

Two separate protagonists yearn to see Jennifer Connelly at the end of a long pier.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 12:17 PM on February 7, 2008

p.s. new york is burning - jawbreaker
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 8:08 PM on March 15, 2007

Stupid Creatures. Custom sock creatures.

Here's mine, and my sister-in-law's -- an xmas gift from my wife a few years ago.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 1:42 PM on November 15, 2006

Here's two:

Attack el robot! Attack! - Calexico (instrumental)
Robots - TV on the Radio (a song about robots enjoying themselves)
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 9:57 PM on February 20, 2006

If the iTunes visualizer is anything like Milkdrop or any of the Geiss visualizers for Winamp (which it seems to be trying to mimic), then it's a combination of a bunch of different wave styles, effect filters and color palettes. All of them play over one another randomly, in iTunes case. As you say, certain aspects repeat, but the number of different variables make for a few hundred (thousand?) combinations. If you want to see it in action, and you have a Windows machine handy, download Winamp... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 11:08 AM on May 21, 2005

Actually, eyeballkid, I do believe you have your chronology reversed. Geiss didn't start working on visualizers at Nullsoft until 2001.

" The latest version of Geiss is 4.24, released January 4, 2000."

Which, if my math is correct, is before 2001. I recall the Geiss visualizers being around a while before that, 1998 maybe? I don't know when he started working for Nullsoft. I didn't even know he worked for them, I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 3:27 PM on May 21, 2005

I'd take Ennis' run on Hellblazer, which comes roaring out of the gate with the excellent "Dangerous Habits" story arc, over any of his Preacher storylines. (John Constantine, coincidentally, also a Moore character from Swamp Thing).

Any of Gaiman's Sandman, the "Season of Mists" arc in particular, is as good as Watchmen.

If you're looking for stories like Watchmen, you're probably not going to find many. Watchmen was one of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 6:40 PM on January 3, 2005

"No one makes me look bad and gets away with it. You understand that I can make your uppity ass disappear with a single phone call, right?"

"Don't worry I'm going to throw it in Ohio. I'll tell 'em I'm gay or something. It'll be all over the internet by morning."

"That's 'internets.'"
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 6:34 PM on October 14, 2004

How about in Final Fantasty 7, at the end of the final movie, when you see Aeris looking down on all on the rest of the characters?

I've never felt closer to iconomy than this moment.

I also felt an emotional attachment to the characters in Skies of Arcadia (dreamcast, gamecube) but I couldn't tell you why.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 9:57 PM on August 12, 2004

I'd suggest a record store. There are websites that sell compact discs that contain music as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 9:40 PM on August 4, 2004

I watched about 20 minutes and got bored.

I really though there was something wrong with me. I'm glad I'm not alone.

The beginning of MA was interesting, the idea of taking the interviewer and assistant and having them chase her around her memories was cool at first, but it just got dull.

OT some more, if anyone watched Madonna's concert on HBO within the last two years, you may have noticed the rape... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 3:09 PM on January 20, 2004

Try and find out which team God is backing.

Also, if you can't decide, just fell good with the fact that this was the best year EVER for the Raiders and hope that Oakland repeats this trend for the next decade.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 7:40 AM on January 20, 2004

Alternately, you could "feel good"
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 7:41 AM on January 20, 2004

Wait a minute. Isn't Equal Rites the prequel to this book? Oh. Hold on now. These are different authors. I wonder who published first. Hrmmm.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 10:10 AM on January 2, 2004

Spybot or Ad-aware.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 8:08 AM on December 26, 2003

None of my dreams involve vehicles with motors. I always have to pedal.

I have recurring dreams of high school.

I've said too much.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 3:39 PM on December 16, 2003

A vote for EAC and CDex, as they both have great qualities. I prefer CDex only because I've been using it longer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 3:37 PM on December 16, 2003

I tried OmniRemote with a Handspring Visor. I didn't have a problem with the IR range (occasionally I had to lean forward a little) as much as how small the buttons on the screen had to be. Once I added 10 digits for channels, a button for power, two for volume and and up/down for channels, I found that I was having to use the stylus quite a bit just to hit the right buttons (and my fingers aren't all that big).

I've since moved up from a Visor to a Sony Clie and the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 10:26 AM on December 13, 2003

I usually very quickly hide the tissue and hand lotion and explain to my manager that it's just a mayonnaise stain from lunch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 4:01 PM on December 12, 2003

I'm sure you'll find some good suggestions here and here as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 9:19 PM on December 11, 2003

I don't know whether to thank you or curse you for those tasty links monju_bosatsu.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 7:10 PM on December 9, 2003

Babelfish was the first thing I tried, but the order form only allows for Japanese Zip Codes and Districts. :(
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 9:07 PM on December 9, 2003

Thanks planetkyoto. You rule.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 4:52 PM on December 10, 2003

ask.MeFi is worth it to me now just for machaus' Squeezebox link.

The SlimServer is cool.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 1:53 AM on December 9, 2003

Perl is a language popularly used on webservers for server-side applications. O'Reilly makes great beginner books on any language. Here's Perl.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 6:57 PM on December 8, 2003

Yikes. Let me clarify. Just grab the frontpage. Please don't loop through every post from the begining of time in order.

Shit! Too late! Damnit y6^3! ;)
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 8:39 PM on December 8, 2003

I'm with juan on the fight club commentary.

I've been watching The Shield Season One DVD collection and the commentary by Shawn Ryan and various stars is really entertaining.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 7:35 PM on December 8, 2003

Everything I know about CSS I learned from the source @ sixfoot6.com (1 | 2) .
posted to Ask Metafilter by eyeballkid at 6:16 PM on December 8, 2003