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[likethebeer]

Tonight's episode, The Tunnel Under the World--aaaahhh! Very good, and really freaky. Atomic explosions and people's brains put into tiny ro-butts.

Aaaahhh!

I like being freaked out by a story broadcast in 1956, with ro-butts (I'm just transcribing what they say here), and lots of cigarettes.

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[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

That sounds fantastic. Are you gearing up for when "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" comes out?

Also, I was just poking around on the Third Man dvd I borrowed from work, and one of their extras was the Harry Lime radio show you told me about. It was zitheriffic.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

No, I keep forgetting that's coming out. I saw an ad for it when we went to see Kill Bill v.2, but I was overcome by Hero, starring Jet Li.

I'm glad you heard Harry Lime. And now I have that music going through my head.

[djymm.livejournal.com]

I wonder if "robut" is closer to the pre-anglicized pronunciation. I know it's a Slavic loan word (meaning slave, as opposed to "slave" from the Slavic word for "us") but I'm not sure of the pronunciation.

There's a great line from "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" in which the mad scientist talks about how one day it might be possible to transplant a heart, which is supposed to make him sound like a nutcase in the film. "Sky Captain" could be fun, but I've been burned before.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that about robot. I bet there's some truth there.

I wonder if the people at John Hopkins were giggling when they saw that line in "THe Brain that Wouldn't Die."