{"id":1229,"date":"2008-05-27T02:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2008-05-27T02:07:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:07:20","slug":"a-time-to-watch-a-lot-of-fictional-people-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"A Time To Watch a Lot of Fictional People Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet, <\/p>\n<p>Stop trying to please me.  <\/p>\n<p>These lists you insist on making in order to fill content on your sites and evoke some kind of reaction(see insane Nerd Wars), at first I found them distasteful. At worse they were lazy and unimaginative. But now you&#8217;re showing me things, wonderful things that I can actually agree with.  It&#8217;s becoming very disturbing.  Are you becoming more like me or am I becoming like you?<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t answer this.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll sit back and try not to drown in either possibilty. Instead, I&#8217;ll reflect on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alwayswatching.org\/features\/top-5-pre-death-monologues-in-film\">list of cinematic death<\/a> you&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/movies\/The_Top_5_Pre_Death_Monologues_In_Film\">placed in front of me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll call it, &#8216;good.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Groonk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 5:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alwayswatching.org\/features\/top-5-pre-death-monologues-in-film\"> Pre-Death Monologues in Film<\/a><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Blade Runner: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YOphFl88U-g\">Rutger Hauer Breaks Your Heart<\/a>\n<li>Star Trek: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hFyl4GxBzEw\">The Wrath of Khan: Leonard Nimoy Propsers<\/a>\n<li>Se7en: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pzAIZN9HuFg\"> Kevin Spacey Gets Philosophical About Death<\/a>\n<li>American Beauty:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sYrgHju3d-E\"> Kevin Spacey Gets Philosophical About Life<\/a>\n<li>Deep Blue Sea: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HLGaTELIfHw\">Samuel L. Jackson Gets Consumed By The Moment<\/a>\n<li>True Romance:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pm_LbJTvTWA\"> Dennis Hopper Teaches Genealogy<\/a>\n<li>The Shawshank Redemption:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3_n0-Ab7xCo\"> James Whitmore Gets Busy Dying<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YOphFl88U-g&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YOphFl88U-g&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>PS. It was a tough decision but I believe you can figure out my favorite choice from the list. Although, that Dennis Hopper bit is a damn close second.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;re done dying, have a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hWUfFwoe8ko\">hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet, Stop trying to please me. These lists you insist on making in order to fill content on your sites and evoke some kind of reaction(see insane Nerd Wars), at first I found them distasteful. At worse they were lazy and unimaginative. But now you&#8217;re showing me things, wonderful things that I can actually agree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[131,148],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-internet","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}