Currently Listening Five Score & Seven Years Ago By Relient K see related

One Piece got licensed by Funimation. The "bloodless, smokeless" oppression of 4kids against the Straw Hat crew will finally end. And Usopp can sound a not-moron for once.

Naruto ownz.

I'm finding that I actually like some of the stuff from the newest albums from Relient K and Switchfoot, whom I had formerly unofficially sworn off. Relient K's poppy single, "Must Have Done Something Right" is melodic and fun, if not slightly intellectually bankrupt. I'm trying to figure out if they're actually trying to do something a little different, or if the state of pop changed while I wasn't looking.

Sufjan Stevens makes me happy.

Frankenstein's monster has been grossly misrepresented in popular film and culture. He was huge, yes. Eight feet tall and proportionately large, Victor tells us. But we're also told that the monster bounds across mountains at superhuman speeds. Victor attacks his monster, and can't even land a blow for the monster's swiftness. The creature is a genious too. He educates himself on three texts: The Sorrow of Werther, Plutarch's Lives, and Milton's Paradise Lost. With just these texts and the ability to listen in on the conversation of some cottagers, the monster becomes a master rhetorician.

So he was super big, super strong, and super smart. His only flaw was that he was ugly. And, eventually, evil. Honestly, this ghastly doppleganger would've made a great arch nemesis for Batman.

EDIT: I just realized from reading two sentences of IGN's review of Pathfinder that the Vikings have been constructed as "the other" in this film, despite the main character being a white man (keep in mind that he is enlightened, having lived with the peace-loving Indians). The Vikings are faceless crazy monsterish guys, just like the Persians in 300. Where's the outcry now, you smug left-wing academics?