very strange weather

i haven’t been watching as many movies as i usually do.  i attribute this to the us open and the amount of time it takes to make a record.
speaking of records, fight and i made one.  satan’s trigger by satan’s joystick.  as you know, i sold we sold our soul to the [...]

Vamanos Compañeros!

Sergio Corbucci’s Compañeros has everything we’ve come to expect from our Spaghetti Westerns: a morally ambiguous hero with a nickname (this time unoriginally called The Swede, seeing as he’s from Sweden), a rockin’/whistlin’ soundtrack from Ennio Morricone that bursts in whenever some wicked action starts up, dubbed English from half of the main characters and [...]

Rescue Dawn!

Lately my days have been going a little something like this:
8:30 – wake up but lie in bed until…
10:00 – at which point I take an extended shower, eat life cereal with bananas (attempting to suck the milk out of each bite before chewing), brush my teeth for the full 30 seconds, drink a full [...]

p. o. e.

sterling hayden: part-time actor, full-time adventurer and some-time communist.
if i can trust infomation i find on the internet, hayden ran away from home to sail around the world.  later he joined the marines under a fake name running guns to yugoslav  partisans.  this lead to hayden joining the communist party for a while.  he later [...]

A Campaign For More Online Pictures of The Wild Thing

So the plot for The Brother From Another Planet goes a little something like this:
A black guy from outerspace that looks a lot like Mos Def (just as handsome)
crash lands on Earth after escaping from slavery on his home planet. He has the ability to heal wounds, fix electronics, and grow back his own missing [...]

The Best Minelli Isn’t Always Lucille 2

I’m so happy about Vincent Minelli right now.

I used to avoid him because of Meet Me in St. Louis – which I hadn’t seen at the time, but now that I have seen it I hate it even more. Then I watched the Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese doc about all the old american films [...]

we’ll show him that he can’t murder us and get away with it

this is what i believe: tcm is the greatest television channel ever!
that’s a strong claim, one that actually can’t make. i mean, i have no idea what tv is like in holland or brazil. then there’s the possibility that there is tv on other planets. and don’t forget about the unknown future [...]

i could too break out of hand-cuffs

yesterday i met a friend for lunch.  she had this book with her that was maybe called the future of nostalgia.  (according to my google search, my memory checks out.)  skimming through the chapter titles, i noticed a chapter titled dinosaurs: nostalgia and popular culture.  without reading a single word in the chapter, i decided [...]

In Love With Lauren

Lauren Bacall has to be the most beautiful woman(lady) there ever was. It’s something about the way she talks, I think. It’s like she’s constantly sneering, a very sexy sneer. And it’s her bottom teeth that show. As someone who is self-conscious about her big front teeth, I’m fascinated by Bacall’s mouth.

But I’ve always been [...]

they are the future

the other night fight and i were trying to decide what movie to watch.  this happens a lot.  we had already narrowed down our choices to three: the in-laws (starring peter falk and alan arkin), . . . if (with malcom mcdowell) or this low(er)-budget sci-fi film called robot monster.  we ended up watching the [...]