HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

enjoy your turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce and gravy and mashed potatoes and pies.
or your Tofurky(tm) and stuffing and cranberry sauce and pathetic attempt at meatless gravy which turns out to be a flavorless sauce with no substance (bleh!) and mashed potatoes and pies.
or street vendor hot dog or Chinese take-out or whatever.

hope you get to spend this weekend with people you love who love you whom you can stand spending more than ten minutes with at a time.

gobble gobble gobble
-l.t.s.k.

Remote blogging

Am posting from wilds of the suburbs of The City of Brotherly Love. Just saw Elf and highly recommend this bit of holiday-related fun (with Nazgul chasing Santa!). Not posting more on that, as I am crappy with the reviews. Go watch ET's blog. Or something.

Anywa, speaking of film, Maggie posted the AFI top 100 films (I think it's American films only). Figured I'd mark off which ones I've seen. Maybe make comments. Yeah, with comments. I can't resist. Movies I've seen are marked with an "x".

1. "Citizen Kane," 1941
   x
   this is a highly overrated film. see Touch of Evil instead


2. "Casablanca," 1942
   x
   everyone should see this movie. personally, i think this and number one should be switched. so does my mom and one of her professors at The New School


3. "The Godfather," 1972
   will see


4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939
   x
   lord, but i hate this movie...and the book it's based on. purely exConfederate propaganda: a piece o' poop


5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962
   i've only seen bits and pieces, not the whole thing


6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939
   x
   i have trouble imagining a single American over the age of ten who hasn't seen it, but i suppose such people must exist


7. "The Graduate," 1967
   x


8. "On the Waterfront," 1954
   Kazan trying to explain away his bastardly behavior before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. evil shit


9. "Schindler's List," 1993
   x
   good, but an all-time top film? i beg to differ


10. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952
    x
    i so very love this movie


11. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946
    x
    my elder sister and her husband watch this movie every Christmas, without the kids. which is really sweet and old-fashioned romantic


12. "Sunset Boulevard," 1950
    x
    another movie i enjoyed very, very much


13. "The Bridge on the River Kwai," 1957
    will see


14. "Some Like it Hot," 1959
    only seen bits and pieces


15. "Star Wars," 1977
    x
    uh, like, duuuuh


16. "All About Eve," 1950
    x
    oh, lord, how i love this movie; queen of bitch films


17. "The African Queen," 1951
    x
    eh, it was okay


18. "Psycho," 1960
    x
    fun! fun fun fun!


19. "Chinatown," 1974
    you know what happens to Jack Nicholson's nose in this film, right?


20. "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975
    x
    saw this when i was just a kid; blew me away, but i think it may have messed with my developing mind


21. "The Grapes of Wrath," 1940


22. "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968
    x
    i liked it when i saw it when i was ten or something, but the psychedelic grooviness wears damned thin after you've hit puberty


23. "The Maltese Falcon," 1941
    x
    i was very young, so i don't remember much


24. "Raging Bull," 1980


25. "E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial," 1982
    x
    SheepBoy got me the DVD last year for Christmas. it's just as good as it was when i saw it when i was little. i still cried, a little


26. "Dr. Strangelove," 1964
    x
    oh, lord, but this is a damned funny movie


27. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967
    whee! fun wtih guns. probably won't see unless catch on cable. prefer History Channel summary of real life events


28. "Apocalypse Now," 1979
    x
    i was too young. way, way too young


29. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939
    x
    i looooooooooooooove this movie. i'm such a sucker for Capra-type patriotism


30. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948
    will see


31. "Annie Hall," 1977
    will see, even though it's a Woody Allen film. after all, he made Purple Rose of Cairo and What's New Pussycat?, so he didn't suck all the time


32. "The Godfather Part II," 1974
    will see


33. "High Noon," 1952
    will see, even though it's a western (i hate westerns)


34. "To Kill a Mockingbird," 1962
    x
    i wish Atticus was my dad. or my husband. or our president. something.


35. "It Happened One Night," 1934
    x
    saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. very charming indeed


36. "Midnight Cowboy," 1969
    the guy's name is Ratso Rizzo. i guess i'll just have to see it, huh, in spite of the year


37. "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946
    x


38. "Double Indemnity," 1944
    i have to see this, and Laura


39. "Doctor Zhivago," 1965
    my brother and mother both insist i have to see it


40. "North by Northwest," 1959
    x
    but with commercials, so maybe that's a half-x


41. "West Side Story," 1961
    x
    i love this musical, but this isn't the best version of it


42. "Rear Window," 1954
    x
    oh, i really loved this one. yay Hitchcock!


43. "King Kong," 1933
    i think i might have actually seen it, but it's hard to say, so that means i'll have to watch it "again"


44. "The Birth of a Nation," 1915
    you know, i've heard a lot about how this is one of the greatest films of all time, but it's entirely KKK propaganda. fuck the critics. i'm not going to watch anything which glorifies the KKK


45. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951
    i really want to see Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in this adaptation of the play


46. "A Clockwork Orange," 1971
    will see


47. "Taxi Driver," 1976
    um, maybe. (ngh...probably not)


48. "Jaws," 1975
    x
    whee! fun!


49. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937
    x
    it's not a feminist's wet dream, but it's beautiful and sweet, so :p on the feminists


50. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969
    another one i will see in spite of it being a western


51. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940
    x
    very much like


52. "From Here to Eternity," 1953
    famous love scene, yeah, but i'm not going to see it


53. "Amadeus," 1984
    x
    oh, this was one of my absolute favorites when i was a kid. haven't seen it since it was in the theaters


54. "All Quiet on the Western Front," 1930
    x
    gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. it's very, very good. seriously. see it.


55. "The Sound of Music," 1965
    x
    doe, a deer, a fe-male deer


56. "M*A*S*H," 1970


57. "The Third Man," 1949
    most definitely will be seeing this one


58. "Fantasia," 1940
    x
    uh, like, duuuh


59. "Rebel Without a Cause," 1955
    my mom remembers worshipping James Dean. i'd like to see this, but i'm not in a rush


60. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1981
    x
    seriously, though. duuuuuuh


61. "Vertigo," 1958
    will most definitely see


62. "Tootsie," 1982
    x
    just saw the beginning again a couple of weeks ago (to be interrupted by a call from a bored ET). i'd forgotten how much i liked it. woo! I Love The `80's Strikes Back!


63. "Stagecoach," 1939
    western. bleh. no.


64. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," 1977
    x
    i'm a dork. i hum along to the music


65. "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991
    x
    fava beans go with so many things


66. "Network," 1976
    will see


67. "The Manchurian Candidate," 1962
    um, huh? checks IMDB uh, no


68. "An American in Paris," 1951
    x
    love it! eeeeee!


69. "Shane," 1953
    i think i need to see this one, in spite of it being a western


70. "The French Connection," 1971
    uh, probably not. it's a `70's movie and has car chases. bleh


71. "Forrest Gump," 1994
    x
    oh, good god, what an overrated piece of shit this was. i cannot believe it won the Oscar. it's appalling that it made this list. it sucks


72. "Ben-Hur," 1959
    well, i kind of have to see it now that i've seen Gladiator


73. "Wuthering Heights," 1939
    x
    better than the book, but i'd rather watch Laurence Olivier in Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson


74. "The Gold Rush," 1925
    well, everyone's seen the scene where he eats his boot, but that's all i've seen


75. "Dances With Wolves," 1990
    x
    not all that great. i'd rather watch Field of Dreams if you're going to make me watch a gooey-type Kevin Costner movie


76. "City Lights," 1931
    i really need to see more silent films


77. "American Graffiti," 1973
    x
    i don't remember much, except for 1950's hair and cars


78. "Rocky," 1976
    i don't care how good my mom says it is, i'm not watching a flick about boxing with Silvester Stallone in it


79. "The Deer Hunter," 1978
    see that year? so, like, no, i won't


80. "The Wild Bunch," 1969
    westerns. bleh-phooie


81. "Modern Times," 1936
    must see


82. "Giant," 1956
    "a sprawling epic following the life of a Texas cattle rancher...". oh, dear lord no


83. "Platoon," 1986
    no. i've seen enough Vietnam War movies to last a lifetime. they are rarely watchable. i'll go watch All's Quiet On The Western Front instead


84. "Fargo," 1996
    i just realized i never finished watching the video. i am an idiot.
    so, like, no x. dammit


85. "Duck Soup," 1933
    must. see. this. film.


86. "Mutiny on the Bounty," 1935
    sorry, not interested


87. "Frankenstein," 1931
    x
    but of course! Bride of Frankenstein is even better


88. "Easy Rider," 1969
    x
    my parents made me watch it so i could understand the `60's a little better.
    the `60's sucked ass


89. "Patton," 1970
    nah


90. "The Jazz Singer," 1927
    it was the first talkie. that makes it great?


91. "My Fair Lady," 1964
    x
    this was my grandfather's favorite film. completely out of character for him, but it was.
    i like it, too, even though the ending's better in Pygmalion


92. "A Place in the Sun," 1951
    Mom tried to make me watch it. i got bored


93. "The Apartment," 1960
    i keep hearing how good this is, but it's not at the top of my list to see


94. "Goodfellas," 1990
    x
    ugh. that is an awful way to die


95. "Pulp Fiction," 1994
    will see. just getting up the gumption to deal with the hypodermic needles


96. "The Searchers," 1956
    western. yuck


97. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938
    x
    adorable. i love this movie. there should be more `30's comedies on here


98. "Unforgiven," 1992
    it's a western, so i've been reluctant to see it, but i might break in the future


99. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1967
    it's late `60's, almost as bad as `70's, so i'm not hot on seeing it, in spite of how good i'm told it is


100. "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942
     x
     this is in the top 100 because why?

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Total: 48/100.

Almost half. Not bad. Some of these choices are, though. Ick.

I just love saying this word...mostly 'cause it sounds like I'm sneezing

The Word of the Day for November 22 is:

eschew \es-CHOO\ verb
: to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical
grounds

Example sentence:
In his stand-up comedy routines, Michael eschews the vulgar
language and gross humor frequently used by his colleagues.

Did you know?
"Eschew" derives from the Anglo-French verb "eschiver" and
is akin to the Old High German "sciuhen" ("to frighten off"), an
ancestor of our word "shy." In his famous dictionary of 1755 Dr.
Samuel Johnson characterized "eschew" as "almost obsolete."
History has proven that the great lexicographer was wrong on
that call, however. William [Makepeace!] Thackeray found "eschew" alive
enough to use it almost one hundred years later in his classic
novel Vanity Fair: "He has already eschewed green coats, red
neckcloths, and other worldly ornaments." The word swelled in
usage in English during the 19th and 20th centuries and is now
common enough to be included even in small paperback
dictionaries.

Curry!

Hey, did you know that S&B Curry comes in a convenient heat-and-eat pack, with chopped veggies already in it? Whee! Lord bless those clever Japanese curry packagers!

On not posting

First off, I was away in Boston this weekend, so I couldn't. But mostly I'm stuck trying to write this one post I'm not even sure I should post. Something happened to me and I'm not sure I want to write about it. I'm just not sure if I really want to share it with the world. Such is the plight of the blogger.

The Word of the Day for November 12 is:

ennead \EH-nee-ad\ noun
: a group of nine


To the ancients, nine was a very special number, one often associated with gods and divinity. Legends and literature have long characterized groups of nine as having a special, in some cases magical, significance. Ancient Egyptians organized their gods into groups of nine; even today, their principal group of gods (headed by sun god Re-Atum) is called the "Great Ennead of Heliopolis." The "Ennead" English speakers use in that name traces to "ennea," the Greek word for "nine." "Ennead" is also used generally to refer to other groups of ancient gods. Furthermore, it is the name given to six sets of nine treatises by Greek philosopher Plotinus that were collected and organized by his 3rd-century disciple, Porphyry.

One more thing

(Every time I think or hear or read that phrase, I hear it in my head in "Uncle"'s voice.)

People have not been using the smilies provided by Enetation.co.uk in my commenter-thingie. Perhaps readers are as yet unaware of the codes. Here is a link to a post which listed the codes and corresponding smilies.

Have a blast, children.

Satisfied?

Seeing as I have, like, one loyal reader (ET) and one very occasional reader (Halifax), I suppose I ought to give reader complaints more attention and respect. But I'm feeling especially bitchy right now due to problems with medication, stress, and exhaustion, so I will, instead, be sarcastic and rude.

I've now posted three, long, multiparagraph, pointless posts to my blog today. This is the fourth. I've also uploaded six pictures to my phlog.

There. Are you happy now?

DVR is eating my life away

I can't get the VCR to tape off of the cable upstairs. The VCR downstairs works, but the wiring is gummed up in the living room where the DVR box is set up. This means I've been holding onto blocks of movies I DVR'd off of TCM (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Dracula, A Star Is Born, Pride of the Yankees, etc.) on the DVR instead of clearing up space to record new shows and movies.

I've missed out on a bunch of movies I wanted to see/keep on TCM as well as Starz! and Showtime and HBO. More importantly, I've had to watch the shows I record soon after they've been recorded so I can clear up space to record the other shows during the week.

This has made the whole point of having a DVR, as in you control when you watch what, moot. I have to watch the shows shortly after they're aired, as opposed to days later when I have the time and inclination. It's stupid and wrong, but I'm up until all hours clearing off shows, one by one. I've stopped recording some shows just to clear up space, but I refuse to give up my Sunday night Adult Swim, Alias, or the Smallville/Angel block on Wednesdays, as well as a bunch of other shows (some of which I would never, ever admit to watching to even my dearest friends).

This means my schedule's completely screwed and I haven't been sleeping right and I haven't been getting work done. All so I can watch television. That is just so...sigh stupid.

Mmm, curry-rific goodness

ATTENTION READER: You will, in all likelihood, be thoroughly grossed out by the cooking/eating habits detailed below.

You have been warned.

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About two years ago, maybe two and a half years, I went grocery shopping with ET. This, of course, took place in Chinatown. I picked up udon and tastier flavors of ramen not available at round-eye outlets and some S & B Medium Hot Golden Curry Mix. I finally got through all the ramen about two months ago. (I discovered I liked it with soft tofu squished into mush into it, so that the tofu acted as a thickener and a source of protein. I put the squished tofu and spices and oil and ramen into the pot together so everything tasted like the spices and oil instead of ramen and tofu. I'm also too lazy to try to remember to put in the different things at the appropriate time. Lazy round-eye, remember?)

A couple of weeks ago I looked in the little cupboard where I keep the food which I brought up with me when I moved and discovered I had only the curry sauce mix, the udon, and a can of Spaghettios. Mom was feeling poorly so I figured I only had to make dinner for myself. Did I heat up the can of delicious pasta product? No, of course not.

I stuck an onion in the food processor (on the wrong setting, so instead of finely chopped onion I got thin onion strip-type things), then tried to atomize some baby carrots in the food processor (only to discover that the lid is broken so the carrots and bits of carrots splattered all over one side of the kitchen). I squished up the last box of tofu and start up the process of makin' curry. When I finally cracked open the package of curry blocks, I put my nose next to the bullion and sniffed. Oh, but it smelled delicious. It smelled like everything I miss most about New York. It smelled like sitting in line for a blockbuster on opening night with friends. It smelled like walking along in time to my CDs, going 10 minutes per 20 blocks. It smelled like having twenty different choices of where to eat out. It smelled like easy transportation. It smelled like...Japanese-style curry, really. It's tasty-tasty, though sauce-phobic Halifax would sooner throw his toenail collection at your head than eat the stuff.

I added too much butter to saute the badly-sliced onion (which stoutly refused to brown no matter how I tried), but that turned out in my favor as the reheated curry cooked up quickly and well later in the nuker. Or something. Anyway, I thought it tasted good, but I'm a big dairy fan and have no issue with oil from butter as I believe it to be a super-tasty kind of oil. (I also am fond of dipping bread into herbed olive oil. I'm a freak.)

At a certain point (I think it was just after I put in all of the water), I decided I wanted to put some of the udon into the curry, too. I'm not sure why I did this, except I wanted the noodles to taste especially curry-y (and didn't want to bother with a pot of boiling water, I suspect). I had to add a LOT more water to the mess in the saute pan, but it worked out okay in the end. As a matter of fact, I managed to extend the curry much longer than usual because I'd added so much stuff to it (in the form of udon noodles).

This curry lasted me until last week. Two weeks' worth of tofu curry with udon. I had it mostly for lunch on days when I got home early from class and during weekends. It smelled sooooo goooood. And now it is gone. And there is no freakin' way I'd spend shipping on buying some more.

But then, I'm going grocery shopping in Boston this Friday with C--, and I'm sure the Chinese grocery will have my S & B.

Ooh, and gummis! Cheap Japanese gummis! Mmm. And strawberry Pocky and curry Pretz and those koala bear things with chocolate inside....

Because she told me to, that's why

ET has complained over two media of communication (in the comments on her blog and over the phone) that I haven't posted enough of late on my blog. Never mind the long-winded disclaimer I posted, um...when was that? Oh, right, October...about not posting as frequently anymore 'cause I'm, like, you know, busy with school and houseslave work and such.

I have a chapter test tomorrow in Japanese and cannot remember most of the chapter. I have an essay test on Dante's Inferno which has to incorporate a critical essay I was assigned, criticizing the criticism (which sounds like half-way to an English Ph.D. candidate's wet dream to me). I'm waaaay behind on my reading for three classes out of four, have to write five papers which I didn't hand in on time in three classes, have research to do on another, a proposal to write on a final project, as well as actually getting my arse in gear for the project (final total of pages: 7 creative work, 9 analysis of failure/success of creative work). My brain's about to bust.

Yes, it's still better than working for Evil Incorporated, a.k.a. my former job. Or for Evil Ltd., my job before that one.

I have nothing to write about. Really. Um, go look at the new pictures I posted this morning. My Hallowe'en pumpkin is there, looking stoned.

Stoned. That's the word I was looking for. I couldn't remember it. I wrote drugged instead. I knew it wasn't right, but I couldn't remember stoned. I wonder if I can change the subtitle on the pictures. D'oh.

Um, other than school. Um. Well, I've met a bunch of writers through one of my classes. Ha Jin showed up near the beginning of the semester with Leslie Epstein, who's not half as nice as Jin. Tobias Wolff came yesterday. I got a huge pile of books signed by him. Sorry, only family members. I couldn't figure out who else might like to read Tobias Wolff's new novel. Signed first editions, though. That's nice, eh?

Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner are coming to Books of Wonder on November 15. Unfortunately, they won't be signing anything but their new books. Which sucks for those with Sendak collections (I wanted my The Bat Poet signed) and copies of Angels In America. I'll be in Boston that day, so it's a moot point for me (I was going to send Mom in with The Bat Poet).

Cornelia Funke, author of The Thief Lord will be there for a publication party this Thursday (I have class late in the day and can't make it) for her new book, Inkheart, while James Howe (Bunnicula was one of my favorite series when I was a kid), Tamora Pierce and Holly Black will be there November 16 (I'll be travelling back from Boston).

Um, well. I have to go finish making dinner, so if you'll excuse me....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, C--!

hope all went well with the exams.

sooooo looking forward to your party.
mmmm, C--'s cooking.... drool
that's probably the only time I'll ever drool over someone's vegetarian cooking, by the way.

hope you have a fahbulous day, in spite of it being a workday.

xo-kla.

p.s. hello to S-- and Athena.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

some of you are enjoying the company of published authors.

others are having fun at costume parties.

i'm busy eating chocolates meant for the trick-or-treaters who never came.

mmm, Kit-Kat....

-l.t.s.k.

This was homework

We're studying Dante's Inferno in Literature of the Middle Ages. This test was assigned to my class. We're required to take it.

Please note my results have changed since I last took the test. I'm not entirely sure why, except that maybe I've stopped some of the stupider stuff I did in my twenties. It's good to grow up sometimes.

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The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	High
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	Low
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

Lack of Importance, an update

My Google Rating is now down to 2 out of 10, from 3 out of 10. I am even less significant than I was but a month and a half ago.

sigh It's all so pointless, isn't it? Why bother?

...

Ah, well. Off to bed.

Boston, CHEAP!

I'm going to Boston next month. My friend, C--, is throwing a multi-function party. 1) actuarial exams are over! 2) his birthday. 3) his evil, disgusting housemate is vacating the premises. I shall be taking Amtrak, which is a five-hour ride. This will give me time to do reading for class and sleep, which I cannot seem to get enough of of late (Mom says I'm moving into hibernation mode).

How can I possibly afford to take the train to Boston from Albany? Easy. While round-trip fare from Albany to NYC is about $100, round-trip to Boston is only $38. Cheaper if you have a AAA number. CHEAP! CHEAP! Okay, so there might be a semi-legal bus service which is cheaper, but I like having my own seat and not having to worry about someone picking my pockets if I happen to nap off while reading a textbook.

Yaaaay! I get to see C--! Picture me running about the house a la Kermit the Frog when he's really excited about the start of a particular episode of The Muppet Show.

ooooooooooh! aaaaaaaah!

If you haven't been up to the Northeast of late, you should come up soon. While much of the leaves are gone, there's still plenty left and it's unsually beautiful, even for this region. The colors are intense and varied. I never thought I'd say brown leaves are beautiful, but they are this year.

[END OF TOURISM PLUG FOR NEW ENGLAND AND NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE. WE WILL NOW RESUME THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED POINTLESS WHINING.]

Drunken Bastards

I just saw something which epitomizes the college students at U-Albany: a giant empty bottle of Canadian Molson sitting on the wet pavement under one of the concrete benches between Humanities and Education. I laughed and wished I had my camera with me so I could take a picture. Maybe when I come back to campus later today I can bring my camera, take a picture, and post it on my blog. I'll have to put something next to it so you can understand the scale. It's huge. Huge-ass big. And sitting on campus between two of the buildings.

This is a party school. I'd heard that when I initally applied, but my dad, who was working here at the time, vehemently denied it. He was a goddamned liar.

The kids here drink like `80's frat movie characters. They drink until they get alcohol poisoning and die. They come into afternoon classes on a Wednesday with hangovers. It's amusing at a certain level, like the huge-ass, green Canadian Molson bottle. It also sucks as the professors have to be much harsher than at other universities as the students generally don't give a rat-fuck and need to have even the faintest work ethic beaten into their alcohol-damaged minds in order to make the teaching of the course worthwhile. It amazes me large numbers of people graduate. It amazes me professors don't just throw their hands in the air and give up, reciting from the same yellowed notes they used fifteen years ago (like the professors at NYU). They still care, even though the student body is too fucking drunk to care back.

But, damn, that empty bottle made me laugh.

Trust me, the Donger knows

Yet another example of life being vastly improved by television: "I Love the 80s Strikes Back". All the weird pop culture shit of my childhood, summarized in hour-long years. God, how fabulous. I laughed 'til I cried when they covered Jolt Cola (1985).

Death and Destruction, with lots of swear words

This has audio, so's if you're watching with a bitchy boss looking over your shoulder, you may get into trouble. Or you may have no sound and therefore miss half the fun. Anyway, go watch the end of the world.