Recent content by arugulino

Especially if it's playing Bach: or in the hands of a master:

Vivaldi to the rescue. He wrote several dozen concertos for bassoon, and a few other chamber works featuring it. Of course there's also grandpa from Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.

Didj is on my list too. I love cello and viola. Recorder, any number of flutes, and pan pipes. Various drums, especially water drums. A large range of plucked instruments, like guitar, lute, bouzouki... my favorite is probably the oud.

This. Nicholas Cage was put on this earth to play squirrely, insecure loser types (Adaptation, The Rock). He has never pulled off "badass" well, even "comedic badass", afaik. What are studios thinking?

Unless our environment changes drastically, it'll probably be behavioral selection that shapes our evolution, more than environmental. If we had to adapt to a Waterworld scenario, for example, we'd probably veer towards traits like improved water vision, etc, like the water gypsies of southeast...

True, but... didn't Willem Defoe almost trick you into thinking he could salvage the whole ugly mess? The man is magical.

The final scene in V for Vendetta was hilariously bad, but in a bitter homicidal sort of way because for the previous 90 minutes I wanted Hugo Weaving to P L E A S E S T F U already. He's so bad sometimes (but not in Little Fish, which is a must see just for his performance).

Tron: Legacy, especially the second half. "USER!" and "...to fulfill MY DESTINY!" and "I fight for the users!" Oh how we laughed until we cried.

A kiwi! Illegal, unfortunately.

You gotta get a slinky... slinky, slinky, GO SLINKY GO! <3

Mostly reading The Stand by Stephen King, and The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

3 isn't as fixated on the bad guy angle as 2 was, and it's pretty much hilarious beginning to end. It deserves at least a Redbox rental. =]

I'm always curious when people describe it as "calm" and "relaxing". O Fortuna (Orff) Mars, Bringer of War (Holst) Agnus Dei (Barber) Dance of the Furies (Gluck) Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) Confutatis Maledictis (Mozart) Confutatis maledictis Flammis acribus...

You're forgiven. Winter: 1 (Gil Shaham, Orpheus CO) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y-Cpd6vYf0] (embedding disabled)

It looks like, by sheer tonnage of mentions, Quentin Tarantino is so far the biggest bad boy in this thread.