Hmmm. I could reupload, but I didn't do any processing in the first place...

• A proper Dungeons & Dragons series of movies (not the cartoon) and only building to an epic battle in the final film.

• A James Bond reboot set in the 1960s.

• A Series of Unfortunate Events sequel. I love that movie and even read some of the books.

3.5 mm microphone jacks on sound cards are generally the lowest quality input. It would probably be like grinding up a gourmet dinner in a blender and pouring it onto a plate.

Samson CO3U USB mike has served me well for 6 years, altho I broke the plastic mount 5.75 years ago and had to wire it together. The CO1U is almost the same and a bit cheaper.

Others swear by the Blue Snoball or the Blue Yeti.

However, if you think you'll ever want to record two or more people at once, consider XLR mikes and a little mixing board.

I absolutely hate effects shots like this that completely ignore the volume of the material. Where the fuck does all that shit go? The ear-fan things alone are a quarter of an inch thick!

Relistening to this now.

I'd like to point out that Eddie says "Your first 8 minutes should say 'This is the ride. This is what you're in for.'" And yet he claimed on Twitter to hate the saying "If nothing happens in the first reel, nothing's going to happen."

WHY DO YOU HATET IT EDDIE IS IT JUST BEACUSE THE WORDS ARE DIFFERNT? THATS RACIST

I'd also like to point out that Pest would have gotten gunk on himself when he shook the female at the girls and yet doesn't become the target of the creatures.

ALSO, I think it's cute that Teague 1) thinks British kids might not have experience riding bikes on wet streets and 2) thinks the DP needed to wet the streets of London to make it look cool.

I can't believe the controversy around this. I just watched it and loved it. Great action, pacing, and humor.

The boys have a terrific arc, especially Moses. They start out as street punks who admire Ron, and they end up completely rejecting Ron and embracing the heroism of courage, even the young boys. They change as much as you can realistically hope for them to, and the film makers allow that that might not be enough in the long run. Fantastic.

And as social commentary, it kind of says "Look, these are irredeemable people, most of them. They really just need somewhere positive to channel their energy."

I think you have the right idea of submitting stuff to io9 and asking us to tweet and blog and so on. Coulton literally just discovered that someone linked to him on Slash Dot with something that spoke to that community and so got lucky. If you want to reproduce that, then writing something funny, catchy, and geeky will have the best shot at getting attention.

From what I've heard of it, tICPoSteve has some potential to go viral, but writing about something closer to home for the nerds would have a better shot. I think Lewis got attention mostly by covering pop songs, which got the attention of young people searching YouTube for those pop songs. But she also did a song challenge where she wrote one about MySpace, which clicked with people who used MySpace and people who had abandoned MySpace, an audience of millions.

Those college kids Josh and Carson that I found thru you haven't had that level of attention yet, but I bet it's a matter of time before they write something that resonates with their peers. Those guys are fucking amazing (and always have excellent audio, not to harp on this). I've passed them on to 5 other people and bought their album, and I DON'T EVEN LIKE THAT KIND OF MUSIC.

There's no magic formula, but I think humor + volume + a bit of promotion in the Internet's nooks and crannies is way better than slaving away in clubs until Brian Epstein develops a crush on you.

Mission: Impossible 1, 1996
Better than I remember, because I remember being really disappointed that it wasn't like the TV show. They basically kicked the TV show in the balls by making it an inside job and making Hunt assemble a team of outsiders to raid a CIA computer. Worse, Bond had gone rogue himself in Licence to Kill a few years earlier in '89. Still, the action is solid, and the TGV sequence, altho it gets silly at the end, is pretty thrilling.

Mission: Impossible 2, 2000
I liked this when I first saw it, even tho it ALSO uses the inside-job trope, because I thought it was hilarious that they remade Hitchcock's Notorious with John Woo action scenes. But it's even LESS like the TV show and even more like James Bond. There's no plan beyond "have sex with the bad guy and give us information," something IMF could have done just by planting bugs in his house. Ving Rhames and the other guy have almost nothing at all to do and always stay on the outside (and mostly in a helicopter). And they're constantly reacting instead of executing an elaborate plan, which is the WHOLE IDEA of the show. The action is still good, but kind of hollow-feeling.

UGH. You suck SO MUCH Teague. You are so close to kicking off a Jonathan Coulton-esque career of endless travel and comedy club gigs making you literally thousands of dollars a year and making you a well-known Internet personality among geeks, who gets to hang out with the likes of the guy who played the PC in the Apple commercials.

*sigh* Sign me up for 3 whatever-you're-doings. I'll watch for the video. It had better be "The Insidious Communist Propaganda of Steve."

1. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
2. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
3. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

I don't think I saw Star Wars until it was on VHS. The other three I saw in the theater.

And before you laugh at 3, keep in mind that I was 11 or 12 and had no idea that all this awesome music was by one band, and that band was not the BeeGees. (Anyway, the ones I loved were "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by Steve Martin and "Come Together" by Aerosmith.)

EDIT: My friends actually made me see Grease twice (with GIRLS!), when I'd much rather have seen SPLHCB a second time.

I would totally be down with Richard Dreyfus playing the Joker's father.

Him or Mark Hammill, of course.