Friday Linkage

This isn't new, but is definitely the best movie I've ever seen based on a video game.

Oh, those wacky North Koreans, always good for a forced, nervous laugh.

I recently discovered that the music review column The War Against Silence is back from hiatus. I'm not quite sure if it's really excellent or just really comically pompous, but I have to agree with him on one of my favourite albums.

I shouldn't have to play this album a dozen times to fill a day. Why should time be so inelastic? If I want to give this album a day of my time, a week, a month, I should be able to. It's worth it. If it will have me for that long, and I it, what right have clocks to hinder our contract? This is between me and the music. Let the world age on around me. I want to live inside the music long enough that when I come out, the world will seem new to me again.

And here's my second favourite music columnist, Dr. David Thorpe. (Warning, site not entirely SFW.)