JSweeney

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Shine a Light - Wolf Parade

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Sing me Spanish Techno New Pornographers

Re: "This is Aleph, and you're on the Global Frequency..." I just finished watching the pilot...Not too bad. the first half was kind of weak but I did end up enjoying it in the end. The chance of it actually making it to air would be exceedingly remote especially since they have already turned it down once. It's amazing what gets cancelled and what gets renewed sometimes.

Re: Inspirational Reading I have recently motored my way through Hardcase and Hard Freeze by Dan Simmons. They are short and pulpy...nothing at all like the Hyperion books. Joe Kurtz is one tough mother. I read alot of the Burke stories a few years ago and kind of lost interest. The best line in them though was about Max the Silent...something about him being a "life-taking widow-making silent wind of death."

Re: Spiffiest Power Name? I liked "One Tough F@*ker"

Re: DC: Queen & Country You can't go too far wrong with John Le Carre...Start at the beginning with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Although the settings are not modern, Alan Furst has given us some great novels about the intelligence operations of the 30's and 40's throughout Europe. Night Soldiers follows its protagonist from recruitment into the NKVD in the 30's to the end of the war. Great stuff.

Off topic, but could someone tell me where I can get copies of some of those old titles...I'm not interested in ebay.