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The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. It was one of the best reading experiences I've had in a long time - it was like the book was written by Bolaño specifically for me.

I'm reading some of Leopoldo Maria Panero's poems, but I can't wait to get my hand on 2666.

I didn't, but I read some reviews from Venice's Biennale and pretty much everybody agrees its great. I wasn't expecting that from a movie starring Vanessa Hudgens and Demi Lovato.

So apparently Spring Breakers is really good. Who would've thought?

Just finished books 1 and 2 of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. It took forever to get going and hook me and it didn't help that the perspective changed between chapters - when I got invested in a character, the chapter ended and I had to read about the other one. I can't even say that I could have skipped the first 400 pages, because they were important, but they didn't feel like that while I was reading them. Also, the dynamic in the dialogues was really weird, but I think that's more of a cultural clash.

Wasn't the butler in the room when he said it, though? IIRC, when Thompson interviews him, he's all "Oh, I know what you want to know - it's about 'rosebud', right?"

Sight and Sound's critics and writers go for older, obscure, and/or foreign language films as they are the ones normally described as 'intellectual'.

Or because films have been made for 100+ years all around the world. I think it's not as much going for "intellectual" films as critics having a global vision of the medium they are analysing. Of course older films or non-American films dominate, there's more material from 1898-1970 than 1970-2012 or from the rest of the world combined than just the US.

It reminds me of how music criticism disregards everything remotely new (that is not Radiohead) when looking at the 'greatest of all time'. If The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin started today, would they get instant recognition of being 'the greatest', or would they too fall for the underlying argument that "everything was better in the good old days"?

That's just how critic works. Once you get to judge a piece of art as a part of the canon, you need some perspective. The Beatles, Hendrix or Led Zeppelin are regarded as the greatest because they have proved to be time-proof, which is something you can't say for any modern band or singer - just because you don't have that perspective. Also there's the fact that when you look at the past, there's already a defined list of what's "worth remembering", so most people have listened to Led Zeppelin.

I've just read The Great Gatsby after I found a really cheap edition. Well deserved fame, although the finish is kinda convoluted - the fact that all the factors are introduced in advance redeems that, though.

Before that, I read Yasunari Kawabata's The House of Sleeping Beauties. I have this weird thing with Japanese prose where I struggle to completely get it and I don't know if it's because of the translation or Japan's culture. I liked it nonetheless.

Speaking of Japanese prose, I'm starting 1Q84 now.

So, I watched Was Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom today and it was pretty good. I loved the first half of the movie, especially

the scene at the beach with the earrings and the dance the day before the kids are found. The storm was cool too.

WinZip or WinRAR should work fine.

1. The Tree of Life
   
2. Bridesmaids
   
3. The Muppets
   
4. The Skin I Live In
   
5. Le Havre
   
6. Attack the Block
   
7. The Artist
   
8. Guilty of Romance
   
9. The Double Steps
   
10. L'Apollonide

I usually try to be a good guy. However, it isn't easy when you're playing Total War and your population start thinking it's a good idea to revolt against you. Once you kill half the people in the city, the survivors won't feel so tough

Frank Gore throws better than Mark Sanchez.

Has anyone stats for Kana around summer 2008? Thanks in advance.

Edit: Nevermind, she's already in the game.

I can't help but remember how Oporto won his semifinal against Deportivo the year the won the Champions League every time I hear Mourinho complain about how referees favour Barça.

It's obvious that Real has forgotten how it is to win cups

Gone in 2010:

- Smoky Mountain Wrestling

- Vancouver Championship Wrestling

- Big Time Wrestling

- Xtreme Fight Club

New to 2010: (So Far)

- Federacion de Mexicana Lucha Libre

As always any suggestions are both encouraged and welcome. Especially in the International and developmental scenes.

What!? No more XFC and BTW? Come on.

As for the mexican promotion, it was misspelled, if you need any help with the Mexican promotion and wrestlers/staff, etc. I'll gladly help out.

It's still misspelled, it should be Federación Mexicana de Lucha Libre or Federación de Lucha Libre Mexicana.

We Want War - These New Puritans. I've first heard them when they were presenting their new album here in Spain and now I love them.

Not very good with fonts ^^U

First match of the Supercup:

Athletic de Bilbao 1 - 2 FC Barcelona

OMG @ Pedro's goal

PD: Deportivo FTW

I really think WWE workers must be removed (they aren't going to work for another promotion), and the American's workers charisma must be lowered, since a lot of them don't speak Japanese.

You should look to Moeru Toukon Jr. ^^

For Hayabusa

OVER 65 B10 V0 T10 C65 Age 40

Hight Spot, Superstar Lock, Fronz Factor and Trainer Checked.

Well, those are uh... probably okay for his current stats, I guess, lol. I would imagine he meant stats when he was a wrestler, though I wouldn't give Hayabusa Fonz Factor today. I probably wouldn't leave Superstar Look ticked either, or High Spots for that matter. I doubt he's going to ever wrestle again, and if he did, I can't see him taking a sick bump in his condition.

In fact, I want his current stats. But as you said, he isn't going to ever wrestle again (Why he did that Asai Moonsault? ;_, and he is on an armchair, so I'll put him both 0s in Brawl and Technical.

Thank you ^^

Stats por Randy Robinson: http://www.ewbattleground.com/forum/index....t&p=1657902

I need Stats for Hayabusa.

Thanks ^^