Food Network must hate me.
I like Good Eats. It's a show on Food Network by Alton Brown, whom I've mentioned before (long time ago though) for being one of the coolest TV show people period, let alone a decent cooking show cook guy. So imagine (really stretch your brain for this one) my surprise when I see Good Eats available for immediate piracy and viewing over on Suprnova! After the double-take, I snatched up all the files, but being so intruiged, I decided I needed more. A quick Google later and I'm at the site for the release group, clicking madly at all the episodes I can possibly get. I'm not sure if there's a way to rationalize this in my mind. See, I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to give up most forms of pirating. Music, of course, will always be done, simply because I'm spiteful and resentful, as you may have already read. Movies, since I (techincally) can rent them a lot* are not usually my choice of targets for download due to the joint reasons their size, the fact that I am waiting to see if Hollywood will be stupid like RIAA, and my sentiments to watching films on my PC. I just don't like it. A movie needs a comfy seat and suitable distance to the screen, and watching from a desk chair 8 inches from my monitor/cancer-ray-box is only to be done as a last resort. This leaves comics, games and TV, and the comics I can at least make happy in my little world by seeing it as a library. I don't see that large a difference between going to the library and downloading a comic, reading it and then deleting it. I'm not spreading the joy (so to speak) and at one point a copy of the comic was bought (I hope). Games are usually the domain of my PS2, with the sole exception of UT2k4 right now, so it's usually not a problem, and when it is, it's an old habit I can just shrug off. TV shows are the only ones that cause slight problems, since I probably would pay to see them on TV if I could. I don't, however, want to pay for all the rest of the crap shows out there that I could watch, should I choose. As a result, the few series that I like, I pirate. Trailer Park Boys, Family Guy (although I do plan on purchasing the DVDs for that one, along with...), Futurama, Invader Zim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Good Eats, and so on and so forth down my list of immensely qualitous, yet equally bizarre television tastes (you can Google those yourself, I'm too lazy to link them all). I'm also downloading the pilot to Deadwood, since it looks kind of neat, for a western and all. All in all, I'm really glad I have unlimited bandwidth, since Bittorrent is going nutty tonight!

*I put the caveat in there, since Zip has been so far unsuccessful in updating my rental queue and sending me the next titles on my list. The ones I have "rented" and are currently impeding this process were eaten by the vicious postal service and have not been cleared yet. My ire increases.

On a similar, but lesser beat
You might recall the Grey Album, which I mentioned a while ago, as being a remix of Jay-Z's Black Album. Well some other DJ has now made another, similar remix, only this time it's of Metallica's Black Album, aka their self-titled. I've only heard the preview track, but it is in my queue to download. I only mention this because on his site, DJ Halfred gives thanks to people, including Metallica. He also asks that they "please don't sue [him]". Which, of course, as we all know, due to the link being on some prominent blogs, will eventually reach Metallica and they will respond with a vicious lawsuit to the face. With a knife. Made of poison. Such is the extent of their hatred of people that take their music without persmission, which I'm guessing the poor DJ did not. I'll let y'all know what be his fate, whether it be boiling oil, or the mere death by a thousand cuts.

Being a big fan of Brazil, I thought I would recognize Jonathan Pryce should he turn up in other roles. I tend to do that with the actors that are in leading roles in my favorite movies. But when I was reading Tagline (on the sidebar now) I read that Britney Spears wanted to be a Bond girl. Totally ludicrous in my mind, but in the same page, Al (I think...) challenged me (as in readers, not me personally) to name the Bond villains or the henchman from the Brosnan-era films. I was immediately able to say Janus, since Sean Bean rules, but kind of stuck for the rest. Renard, from The World Is Not Enough, eventually surfaced as another, but being stuck again, I clicked the link to the "dopey guy from Tomorrow Never Dies". Guess what? It was Pryce! Scrolling down his filmography, I also saw he was the governor in Pirate of the Caribbean! This probably seems dumb now, but lemme tellya, it floored me about 3 hours ago.

Make with the links already!
Fine. For your impertinence, I command thee to gaze upon the FROG!!!! I don't know how it happened, and this thing creeps me out. It's like a Biblical sign of the apocalypse or something. Maybe we can start expecting giant flaming censers to fly at us from space, and locusts can rise from the Abyss to attack the sinful, and the 7-eyed, 7-horned lamb can- Ok, I'll stop.

An interesting musing I found on Alas. Why are people so fixated on the crucifixion? Unfortunately, if there was some profound comment on this, it has vanished since I put this in my link-list. Give it a read, or don't.

Are you an activist? Do you feel lonely? Want a quick fix through online dating? Your fears have been allayed. This is so niche, that I don't know if I can give an opinion on it, but I'll try. See, I read somewhere that if you put something in your blog, it should have your opinion along for the ride, because otherwise, why post it, right? So that's what I try to do with the links. Sometimes, it doesn't work, mainly due to either forgetting what was so special about the link, or just not feeling like it at the time, but mostly I think I give my spin on things. Well, look at that. None of that was about actforlove.org, now was it? Silly me. Mustn't have tried hard enough it seems.

So that's that. Now if you'll excuse me, I must learn how to make better potatoes from Alton.  ¶ 5:34 p.m.