Actually that's totally plausible in the sort of evangelical mindset underlying the film. Killing is fine, when it's bad people and they started it. Extramarital sex, never. A guy like Eli would pride himself on how he keeps his lust in check, especially compared to the benighted sinners he passes on the road.

I can't say I see the appeal -- and nor would Eli, being blind... 

Plus, there was the time he accepted the same offer from that girl in Tulsa and then everybody teased him because she was no Mila Kunis.

This was great fun. Thanks, guys.

EDIT: around 1:35:00, Fred Armisen should show up and demand "STUART, WHATREYUDOING?" because you totally become an episode of The Californians, talking about California highways and islands and shit.

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Man, that soundtrack really is great

Given that he can echo-locate a cat at 100 yards, I'm figuring he can perv with his ears.

Yeah, great score (that atmospheric 7m first track anyway). It joins the list of titles where the score outlives the movie (e.g. The Mission, Requiem for a Dream).

Unless there's some massive tornado in the cloud (haw) or unforeseen legal reason, the video will be around forever. Not sure if it'll be public or not, but if I ever wanted it "gone" I'd just set it to unlisted.

The problem with this particular video is that I forgot to start the video recording at the beginning of the episode, and only remembered when it was nearly time to do the unpause. So you miss the intro stuff. (Which isn't a big deal in this case, as we kinda blazed through it.) YouTube automatically archives the video as it is broadcast, so I do HAVE the beginning of the episode in video form separately — but I tend not to like those as much as the my-end recordings, for two reasons: 1., whenever the event starts (which is set up beforehand, 2:00 p.m. or whatever; the timer reaches zero, and broadcast begins) that's what ends up being in the video forever, so if we're waiting for someone to arrive, the permanent archive of that video episode starts with me playing guitar or whatever, and, 2., if there's an internet blip or the feed goes down for a minute, the permanent archive has a dead spot in it too. So for safety, I record it on my end and upload that.

In unrelated news about this video, though, I look forward to experimenting with the "technological advance" I came up with for this broadcast. Since Trey would rather not be on camera for these things, especially if the video is gonna be archived, I've been coming up with ways to obscure his image so the painting in the attic doesn't get any older. (Or whatever. Something something Oscar Wilde.) This week I got a wild hair up my ass and loaded up my webcam, pointed it at the empty room, frame-grabbed it, removed everything but a blob of empty couch where Trey would be sitting, and overlaid it in my broadcast software above the live webcam feed. Naturally whenever someone passes behind it they get erased, but I think that's kinda fun.

Plus, so long as I'm prepping those blank spots beforehand, we can kinda do anything with that couch spot to amuse ourselves. In my tests the morning of this broadcast, I set Tokes in Trey's seat for the framegrab, microphone and headphones and all. So for the whole show, it would have looked like Tokes was on-mic. Stuff like that. I could even Photoshop something into that seat. Hell, if I gave myself enough prep time, I could even webcam-film myself in that seat with a bag over my head that says "Trey," maybe fidget around a bit, make it a seamless loop in AE, and overlay THAT. Wee-hee-hee!

Yes, this is all very dumb and wacky — I could just as well pan the camera a bit to the left and be done with it — but it's amusing to me and I like being amused. Plus I think there's something to be said for having SOMETHING in that spot for us to be "looking" at. Maybe I'll just Photoshop Christina Hendricks into that spot.

I have fun.

"It never rains in Dallas." - Teague Chrystie

I beg your unbelievable pardon?

I always suspected organized religion would make me fat.

Best way to re-watch this--ff, tunnel scene, ff, bar scene, ff, street scene, ff michael gambon, out.

I do this with quite a few action movies with great fight scenes but that are not worth a full re-watch. Anyone else, and if so what are they?