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1. Daughter 2. The Rural Alberta Advantage 3. Angus & Julia Stone 4. Depeche Mode 5. Jeff Buckley 6. Fink 7. Carina Round 8. Yeasayer 9. Arcade Fire 10. Bon Iver

Black and white morality is common in American television because it's easier to write and these seasons need to be churned out. You can sometimes see more nuanced characters on the premium channels (Showtime's Dexter, HBO's Game of Thrones), but that's not always a guarantee. AMC's The...

I'm absolutely aware. Whether or not it bothers me depends on the situation. I live in an area that's very hot for most of the year. I work outside. As such, I wear tanktops not for anyone else's viewing pleasure, but to avoid passing out from heat stroke. I'm not wearing anything...

Scarface? The Al Pacino version is at least more widely known than its predecessor. Whether that makes it better or not is up to the viewer, though having seen both versions, I'd say it is.

"Landslide?" Really? Not because it's overdone or anything. Not because I don't like Fleetwood Mac (I do). But it's a song about a woman who's spent all her life married to a man she doesn't really love anymore, afraid to separate from him because he's all she knows. It's a midlife crisis from a...

Personally, I see nothing wrong with it either. But in the ME universe, Shepard's the first of his kind to undergo something like the Lazarus project. So it makes sense that people would be fascinated by his coming back from the dead. And they're not, which is immersion breaking to me...

What annoyed me most about the writing in Mass Effect 2 was how many big, pivotal concepts they introduced and then glossed over. Consider Shepard's resurrection. The guy came back from the dead. In our culture today, we obsess over anyone who's been dead for a few seconds. They make the talk...

1) The Rural Alberta Advantage 2) Angus & Julia Stone 3) Arcade Fire 4) Wye Oak 5) Spoon

Easy? Perhaps on normal. Too bad there's not higher difficulties you could bump it up to...oh wait. I'm never quite sure what to make of reviews that mention something is too easy but then don't try it at a harder level. Hard or nightmare makes this a challenge. And the real value with Legacy...

Drama for me. What hooks me into any TV show, film, or book is the emotional resonance and character interaction, and that's what drama does best. Drama/thrillers are even better, but the drama elements are crucial.

This one's from Emma Louise's awesome song, "Jungle:" My love is wasted, sorry for this, I never meant to be Hurting ourselves, hurting ourselves. I'm complicated, you won't get me, I have trouble Understanding myself, understanding myself. Not only does it completely get me every time...

Only when I was a kid. I was a complete tomboy who dressed in typical "boy" clothes, so I was mistaken for one a few times. It didn't happen once I hit my teens/twenties.

True, true. But I also believe there has to be some sort of willingness and trust on both parties' part to "fall in love" so to speak. I don't believe in love-at-first-sight or fairytales, which is what I was trying (and likely failing) to convey in my post.

No, and I'm not entirely sure it exists beyond a surge of chemicals in the brain that eventually fades over time. It's better to date people whose interests you share and with whom you feel comfortable and can be yourself. Those, in my experience, are the relationships that last. But I'm also a...

If you're into the classics, you can't go wrong with PKD. Start with A Scanner Darkly, The Man in the High Castle, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? If you're looking for more recent books, consider: Warchild by Karin Lowachee. (Hands down one of my favorite books of all time. A...