o that we had here but ten thousand of those men in Texas that do no work today!

lazy bastard

so, yeah… I should have posted, like a week ago, but damn I’m a lazy bastard. even with a nazi pope, delay attack the separation of powers and three calls from my sister I just couldn’t put finger to keyboard this last week. but, I guess I should say something for the last week…

nope, nothing comes to mind…

wait

ah, nope still nothing, try back tomorrow…

slippery slope

American Splendor
skipped this one in the theater and now I’m not sure why I did. I really liked this movie, and now when ever I’m feeling to good about my life I can watch American Splendor and knock myself down a couple pegs.
Apollo 13
when I was in the 10th grade I was in the marching band, I played tuba.

I’ll give you a moment to laugh and point.

…

done? good.

our marching show that year was based on the music for Apollo 13, and I had to march this one part in the launch backwards fifteen yards, ten steps, while playing, in the sleet and snow, and…
Conspiracy
as my father put it a movie with out a single hero or sympathetic character
A few Good Men
tom cruise and demi moore making jack look better than ever. not that he needed the help, but it didn’t hurt.
The General’s Daughter
I can’t explain it, but I have a hard time not watching john travolta, I won’t say he’s a good actor, but I really like this one.
Groundhog Day
$10! bill murray at his best. I’ve seen it 137 times, and it just keeps getting funnier, ever time I see…
Killer Klowns form Outer Space
the ventriloquist act with john vernon is worth the seven fifty alone.
Mystery Men
I saw this in the theater, and didn’t like it all that much, but it has grown on me since, I’ve even gotten used to the Smash Mouth song that was played fifty billion time over the last six years.

however, ben stiller just hurts even today.
The New Guy
four words: eliza dushku zooey deschanel
Orgazmo
the funniest send up of the porn industry since Boogie Nights, except this is also fun to watch and doesn’t have the shitty third act.
Real Genius
guilty pleasure, but it allows me to go into my theory on life.

everybody wants to be chris knight or mitch taylor, but most of us are going to be ick or lazlo the quirky side-kicks. or we turn out like kent or dr. hathaway, the assholes. the point is we can bitch and moan about how we get cast, or we can make the most of our lot in life and enjoy the popcorn.
The Replacement Killers
the fifth john woo/chow yun-fat movie in my collection. pretty good, if a little rushed at time.
Sleepy Hollow
not everybody liked this update of the old story, but I did. I liked the layout of the town the character development, where there was any, and even christina ricci. plus it was also $10.
Sneakers
probably the last robert redford movie I liked, this one was $5.
Trading Places
the first time jaime lee curtis showed her breasts on film, it was worth wait, trust me.
Vanilla Sky
I would have cut this one differently, but I didn’t get asked to do the edit, so what can you do. the ending is contrived and comes out of left field and the crap with Cameron diaz really hurt what could have been a great movie. as it is this was just buyable on dvd.
Young Sherlock Holmes
complete accident, I walked into a wally world to buy Holbrook a dvd and I spotted this in the bargain bin. I didn’t even know this was on dvd, seriously came out of nowhere. but now I got it and they actually did make a widescreen version, I shit you not.

great tv turn off

well this is an interesting idea, and the good part is that I don’t actually watch a lot of tv anymore. in fact I only watch two tv shows with any regularity and Enterprise has been cancelled.

so with the exception of Good Eats I will abstain from tv all next week.

of course I own almost 200 dvds and I have half a dozen movies planned at the drafthouse.

so no biggie…

san jacinto

another reason for the stateworkers of Texas to take a day, and the inspiration for tonights quote.

fin

whose mortal taste brought Death into the world?

Death becomes her...

so I was out futzing about last friday night, waiting for Sin City to start, when I walked into my local comic shop and saw this little bust sitting in the glass case. I used to think that fry's had a good impulse aisle, but the dragon's lair in round rock just kicked fry's ass.

so I know have a little bust of death...

and there I broke rule one and two again...

the answer to my little puzzle from the last post is Fight Club

and because the sister formally known as podunk asked for it

Gloomcookie Vol. 3, and sorry about the name I still don't have anything better...

surprise! china doesn't like japan!

well big surprise there, this latest round of protests are over the fact that a japanese history text book was printed that left out the fact that the japanese military used chinese civilians and pows as guinea pigs for chemical and biological weapons. some of these weapons were even set to be dropped on the west coast of the u.s..

so naturally the chinese are not happy that the japanese have left out such a big part of the history of the great patriotic war.

here’s something though, think back to your high school history class. did your teach mention anything about these japanese war crimes?

now think back to history 1302 in college?

nope? I had to read about it in a book years after the second half of american history. the japanese also had a couple of working submarine-aircraft carriers. and were ready to drop enough anthrax on california to kill ever animal from alaska to baja.

of course the chinese are not without their own sin. how about one hundred million chinese killed by starvation, a brutal revolution, cultural cleansings, and political assassinations. china also has nuclear weapons and has stated that they are willing to invade taiwan to prevent independence, in direct violation of human rights. they also repatriate north korean refugees to certain death, also a violation of human rights.

and how does a country known for its inhumanity allow rioting in its streets? where is the red army we have come to enjoy watching on cnn beating small children? well I guess hating japan keeps the people of the people republic of china from noticing the lower wages, lack of food, wide spread bird flu and sars outbreaks, deadly mine accidents, land slides, earthquakes, and loss of dignity.

but, hell, let’s make japan apologize for an eighteenth time...

or how about not, why don't we let china go fuck itself. and maybe we can start paying a little more for our clothing and the let the starving 1.3 billion chinese eat more than once a week.

just a thought.

one last thing...

you have to watch this: UN PSA

its fucked up

fin

life, liberty and the pursuit of property

bulldozer and dynamite

this was a big weekend for me, I got a new couch a took down a bed.



fig. 1 shows my old room, filled the rim with a huge bed, dvds and my clothes.

fig. 2 shows my new room, no bed and lots of open space.

fig. 3 is my new couch, scale is hard to demonstrate in 2 dimensions, but this is an 8 foot couch. and with a little help from my parents this is the newest thing in my room.

now here is the big news: the room in fig. 1 is not the same as the room in fig. 2. the couch, that I really like and is way too comfortable to be legal, was too damn big for my old room. the movers tried, I tried, but we could not make it fit. god scorched a little more earth with me on this one, but there was no way I was going to send this couch back.

the result it that I’m now upstairs.

gnut and I have switched rooms, he gets a tv room, and I get a room my couch will fit into. the down side it that gnuts room doesn’t have cable or internet. we had to run a long cat. 5 cable into the room for me to post this.

in the background of fig. 2 you might be able to spot my tower of dvds, that's about 105 in a three tier dvd stand. that towers makes up about 2/3 of my total collection, and is why my next purchase will be a couple more dvd stands and a shelf to hang on my wall get some of the cases off the floor.

also in the fig. 2 you might notice my 19" tv, and as everyone knows that tv is too damn small. my next tv will have to be a 16:9 flat screen. that is much farther down the road.

special prize to any one who can name the dvd playing on my tv in fig. 2

better to err with the pye, than shine with the pope

pope john paul ii

October 16, 1978 to April 2, 2005

...good riddance