I’ve had a heavy feeling about the way my theme has turned out, and I’ve finally decided that I do not like it. Well, I don’t like the flow of it. I think I’ll spend the next few days looking for another theme and just modifying it to fit instead of making my own. I know I’ll have a great idea and put a lot of work into it, only to dislike it later, and that’s just not worth the effort to me.

I’ve been lazy these past few days. Well… I guess I’ve been lazy this entire month! I’ve only made six posts this month – this being the sixth – and I’m not too happy about it. I haven’t even managed to update TSE in over two weeks! I really need to get my shit together.

While thumbing through the fixed tickets in the new version of WordPress, version 2.7.1, I came across a ticket regarding Word 2007 and WordPress.

Was I the only one that didn’t know that Word 2007 could post to WordPress?

I had to try it out, and this post is the result.

Not that I plan on using Word 2007 to write my posts, but it would be a great option if I ever had to go back to a dial-up and had minimal bandwidth. Not that I plan on that happening, but just in case.

You lure me in with your well written ideas turned TV gold, the sci-fi threads spun and woven tightly producing the black bag that is pulled over my head as I’m taken someplace from which I can’t return – and I’m not sure I want to leave anyway. You tease me with the promise of more to come, as Firefly is dancing across the pleasure center of my brain, and FOX heaves the axe – cutting loose the thread keeping me entangled in your story lines – and Firefly is extinguished. I am left sore, feeling betrayed and forsaken.

Then, Serenity arrives as Firefly reborn, bringing an idea of closure to the things left unsaid in Firefly. Soon, the light of the big screen is replaced by the smaller set of my television and DVD player as I replay the scenes in my own home, returned to where I once enjoyed Firefly.

But I know these scenes, all by heart. No longer do I feel virginal while watching, as I’ve grown fond of reciting the lines of the characters in unison. I know what they are going to say next, even before they say it. I long for the days where adventure lay ahead, and each week brought new life to the characters and a further unfolding of the story. Those were the days.

Now you tempt me with a new lure. You dangle a new series in my face, waiting for me to bite, knowing that it is nearly impossible for me to resist. Dollhouse is tempting and illicitly provocative. You know you had me at Eliza Dushku.

Still, I’m afraid. Dollhouse is a psychological sci-fi series, too smart for the common reality-TV-watching sheeple needed to draw the larger numbers, and FOX has cut you loose before. They rearranged and dictated the flow of Firefly, and you seem ready to forgive them for that. Am I to expect the same with Dollhouse? I need reassurance, yet still you tempt me.

But this time I will fight you. I will give you the best five minute struggle you have ever seen. I will rationalize and resist for all 600 seconds before finally giving in and admitting defeat. In a few minutes, Dollhouse will premier, and I will curse you as you draw me in again. Don’t you break my heart, or I will not be so forgiving next time.

Damn you, Joss Whedon. Damn you.

A Tale of Two Sisters (장화,홍련)

• Title: 장화,홍련
• English Title: A Tale of Two Sisters
• Language: Korean
• Trailer: Here

Plot: When two sisters, Soo-mi and Soo-yeon, return home after spending time in a mental institution, they are coldly greeted by their stepmother and all but dismissed by their father. Strange things begin happening in the house, and Soo-mi begins to suspect the stepmother is abusing Soo-yeon. When Soo-mi confronts the stepmother, she is reminded of a previous meeting between them, and her reality begins to fall apart.

After I watched this movie, I was very surprised to find out that this movie was remade into The Uninvited, an American turd attempting to be as glamorous as its Asian counterpart.

A Tale of Two Sisters is a psychological horror masterpiece that kept me guessing all the way to the end. I had an idea of what was going on, but the final reveal was more than I was expecting. It’s not about ghosts and grudges; It’s about how the past can haunt you, and how trying to forget can make things worse.

If you have a chance to see this movie, I highly recommend that you do. And, by all means, avoid seeing the remake.

Sex Drive
UNRATED DVD

Have you ever bought the UNRATED version of a DVD, only to be disappointed that there was only 7 seconds of extra footage and the UNRATED part was the addition of an extra curse word in a scene that wasn’t needed?

I thought Sex Drive was going to be another one of those UNRATED “buy this DVD” promotion just to suck in extra sales, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it’s not! See what’s different »