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Missed the beginning of True Blood, but it's being recorded...have to wait until it's done before watching it. So to kill some time, I want to announce that Inglourious Basterds is freakin' amazing.

If you love Tarantino, if you hate Nazis, if you want to see Brad Pitt as a redneck, if you like to laugh and be totally grossed out by B-movie gore at the same time, see it! There were a lot of really great supporting characters, especially Austrian-born Christoph Waltz as a smarmy-yet-deadly Nazi Colonel and French actress Melanie Laurent as an escaped Jewish survivor with a taste for revenge. I won't ruin all the surprise cameos, but see if you can spot a minor character from Kill Bill: Vol.I (hint: French!) and a guy known for his role as a terrible British spy...

The "Basterds" themselves had a few familiar faces among their ranks, too: B.J. Novak (Ryan from The Office), Omar Doom (Butterfly's makeout partner in Death Proof), Michael Bacall (one of the guys from the bar scene in Death Proof, and, if you're nerdy enough, Perry from Free Willy), Samm Levine (annoying kid who makes fun of Putman in Broken Lizard's Club Dread), and Eli Roth (director of Hostel, also appeared in Death Proof--lovvve!).

In other news, we did pub trivia at Opal Divine's Marina last night (see Geeks Who Drink if you're thinking 'wtf')...it was a lot harder this time. Instead of 90's songs and commercial jingles for the audio rounds, it was Country music and Punk music (nothing remotely current--I'm talking '70's Brit-punk that no one had heard of. One team put down The Ramones for everything, which I thought was a fair strategy). And since we were in Texas but not FROM Texas, we were at quite a disadvantage with the Country... 

The round we did the best on was "Fashion and Fascism." Sad.  Hoping next week will be 80's music or "dirrty" rap from the year 2005. You can suggest categories for the different rounds, so we're thinking of voting for a When Harry Met Sally theme. Seriously, my mom and I would KILL that.  And hey, they did a whole round on a Jefferson Starship song, so why the hell not?

I hope everyone in Tixiss got a chance to go shopping this weekend (everything was tax free all weekend for back-to-school shopping). Brittnee and I went out today and made some nice finds, thanksverymuch.

Okay, now I'm gonna' go watch True Blood.  

Update on Monday, August 24, 2009 at 1:46AM by Maren

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Annnnd it was amazing. I can't believe there are only two episodes left! :(