I’m so excited. I just can’t hide it. I have a computer that does not have Microsoft office. I found a copy of MS office at home. I got it at an old job. I just threw it in and now I have Microsoft word on my computer. I love MS word.
Well if you live long enough, you will do a lot of things. Today I did a first. I went to a movie alone. I don’t think I’ve ever gone to a movie theater and paid to see a movie all by myself. I’ve seen movies alone in college, for classes, but never gone to the theater and paid. Today I did.
Now let’s get to the nitty gritty. I just saw the Hangover. Overall, I liked it. Please don’t read any further if you don’t want anything spoiled. I’ve said it in the past, I like art that takes me somewhere and shows me something. It has to make me feel something or empathize with someone. It has to move me. It can be Hilarious, like Borat, but it has to work. The characters have to work. The situations have to work, the whole thing has to be a cohesive unit, or cohesive enough to make me buy into the story. The Hangover didn’t do that for me. I just didn’t buy it. The Allen character played by Zach Galifaniakis, was funny, he was classic like belushi, but he just wasn’t believable. It was annoying how they messed him up. Was a he a savant? Was he intelligent? I didn’t buy that he didn’t know that Caesars palace in Vegas was not really Caesar’s Palace. Little things just threw me off. Maybe it was the other actors. I didn’t buy the relationship between the 3 friends. All 4 main characters might as well have been strangers before the beginning of the movie; the movie just didn’t sell me that they were lifelong buddies. If you don’t get the 3 versus 1 thing right, then it kinda messes up the chemistry of the movie. They didn’t play up Allen as the foil to the three and it would’ve been difficult because the 3 weren’t properly developed enough to do it. Am I really supposed to believe that it was possible that the 3 of them took a cop car and checked it in at the hotel? Without being caught? Would the hotel really not look into it if 3 or 4 or whatever guys showed up annihilated and tried to check a cop car? How did they get the tiger up to the room? That tiger would’ve killed them. Am I supposed to believe that a guy would walk into a bathroom, with a tiger in it, holding a steak? He’d be ripped to ribbons. I mean, I might be an old fuddy duddy, but I just didn’t buy into this shit.
Ok, I know it’s a movie, I know that movies push the realm of believability, but what about the pacing of the flick? I don’t know if the looking back in time element helped the plot or hurt it. It might’ve been a better movie if it was done in real time and we saw all the things that we didn’t see. They needed to really draw us into caring about what happened, I didn’t get drawn in. If there were more characters, especially scantily clad women, that would’ve been better. More sex, more intrigue, more drugs, more rock and roll. I just didn’t get sucked in like I could have. I give the movie credit, it was clever, and it tried to pull something off that was very difficult. I think the character development was a flaw, and the pacing. It was fun, it was just too difficult to believe some of the situations. I kept thinking about Sideways and how this film should’ve tried to be more like Sideways. If I believed in the character’s friendship, then if they played up the contrast between them and Allen, it would’ve been better. Maybe cut the tiger out, it was just unnecessary and it took the film from outrageous to ridiculous. How did Mike Tyson not end up on the cutting room floor? He was horrible. It’s easy to go back and see what worked and then suggest how to improve it, but Allen was intriguing. What was his deal? He’s like a trust fund baby, did he go to school? I didn’t think he was dumb, and if he comes from money, then his parents must be intelligent, why did they make him dumb? That bothered me. Eccentric is ok. Borderline mentally deficient, that’s ok. They should’ve given him a quantifiable disorder, make him a character, not a punchline. I dunno. Maybe I need to see it again.
SLFTD: Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head.
VFTD: http://www.mtvmusic.com/wolfmother/videos/83414/woman.jhtml
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Jacko and Farrah RIP
Rest in Peace Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. I can’t think of a day when we lost two major personalities to the affliction known as death. I don’t know about you guys, but I had phases where these people were important to me.
I was probably 7 when the Farrah Fawcett poster came out and she was all over the place. I badgered my brother to get the Playboy with her on the cover, and once I got it, it turned out to just be an interview. Major disappointment. I never missed an episode of Charlie’s angels. Even after Farrah was gone I still dug the show, but not as much. It didn’t hurt that it was on the same day as the bionic man or the bionic woman or both, but I loved those shows too. Farrah was huge, she was so beautiful and natural, she was the precursor to Bo Derek, Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Teigs, Pam Anderson, you name it, Farrah was the first. It’s funny that after a while she sorta became hideous. I don’t know how that works, but her face was less wholesome and more jagged and manipulated. I’m assuming she had surgeries, in the end she sort of looked like the scary sister from Pet Semetary. You look at the scary Farrah and look back at the old Farrah, and you sort of have the scary farrah on your mind and the features that became distorted in the scary farrah were there even back in the day. The kind of hooked nose, she wasn’t as emaciated back in the day, so her roundness made her more wholesome. I guess time passes and once plastic surgery took over our ideas of beauty changed. No question though, in the late 70s, Farrah was the shizznizzle.
What about Jacko? Geez I don’t know where to begin with this guy. He’s whacko for sure. Even back in the day, he wasn’t all there, but it didn’t matter. Thriller came out in 1982. I just read the wiki about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(album), def check it out. It was an unbelievable sensation. 7 of the album’s 9 songs made the billboard top 10, that’s nuts. Most top ten songs from one album: Michael Jackson, Thriller; Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA; Janet Jackson, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (7 each). Another Jacko tidbit, Bad had more number 1s than Thriller or any album ever. As you all probably know, ....Jackson.... was huge in 1983. He seemed like a fairly normal guy. He was a huge sensation and the videos were on 24/7. His style became ubiquitous. Everywhere you went people had Michael ....Jackson.... jackets, gloves, pants, hair. Weird al did some great ....Jackson.... parodies, but back in 1983, you would see white guys that looked like weird al walking around all over the place: Jacko’d out even with the geri curls. I think I admitted it way back in the day, but I must own up to it again, I had an MJ Thriller coat, red with the black leather. It was a nice coat. Seriously though, I wasn’t alone. Everyone had them. A lot of people even had the sequined glove to go along with it. I used to carry around a ski glove liner which was a decent facsimile and bust that during the sockhop when they played ....Jackson.... stuff. What can I say, I was a slave to fashion. The crazy thing about the ....Jackson.... jackets was that you couldn’t get them. You would be running all over town. Between Jackson Jackets, Parachute pants, and Air Jordans, you’d be running all over in a 20 mile radius just to be hip. I guess when you go too far in one direction, you often get propelled in another. It wasn’t too long after I got over the Thriller obsession and moved on to U2. I guess succumbing too completely to the mainstream pushed me in the other direction. I got into underground music, it was underground in 1985, U2, REM, The Smiths, The Replacements, The Dead Milkmen, Violent Femmes, the list goes on. I dunno if it was a knee jerk reaction to my Thriller phase, or just the normal progression of things, but I’ve been into more underground music ever since.
Sorry about the layoff, I’ll holler back at you soon.
SLFTD: Side by Side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why can’t we?
SFMTFTD: Almost naked, always stud
VFTD: http://www.mtvmusic.com/jackson_michael/videos/206759/man_in_the_mirror.jhtml
TFTD: Michael, Thanks for the music. Farrah, Thanks for being beautiful.
I was probably 7 when the Farrah Fawcett poster came out and she was all over the place. I badgered my brother to get the Playboy with her on the cover, and once I got it, it turned out to just be an interview. Major disappointment. I never missed an episode of Charlie’s angels. Even after Farrah was gone I still dug the show, but not as much. It didn’t hurt that it was on the same day as the bionic man or the bionic woman or both, but I loved those shows too. Farrah was huge, she was so beautiful and natural, she was the precursor to Bo Derek, Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Teigs, Pam Anderson, you name it, Farrah was the first. It’s funny that after a while she sorta became hideous. I don’t know how that works, but her face was less wholesome and more jagged and manipulated. I’m assuming she had surgeries, in the end she sort of looked like the scary sister from Pet Semetary. You look at the scary Farrah and look back at the old Farrah, and you sort of have the scary farrah on your mind and the features that became distorted in the scary farrah were there even back in the day. The kind of hooked nose, she wasn’t as emaciated back in the day, so her roundness made her more wholesome. I guess time passes and once plastic surgery took over our ideas of beauty changed. No question though, in the late 70s, Farrah was the shizznizzle.
What about Jacko? Geez I don’t know where to begin with this guy. He’s whacko for sure. Even back in the day, he wasn’t all there, but it didn’t matter. Thriller came out in 1982. I just read the wiki about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(album), def check it out. It was an unbelievable sensation. 7 of the album’s 9 songs made the billboard top 10, that’s nuts. Most top ten songs from one album: Michael Jackson, Thriller; Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA; Janet Jackson, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (7 each). Another Jacko tidbit, Bad had more number 1s than Thriller or any album ever. As you all probably know, ....Jackson.... was huge in 1983. He seemed like a fairly normal guy. He was a huge sensation and the videos were on 24/7. His style became ubiquitous. Everywhere you went people had Michael ....Jackson.... jackets, gloves, pants, hair. Weird al did some great ....Jackson.... parodies, but back in 1983, you would see white guys that looked like weird al walking around all over the place: Jacko’d out even with the geri curls. I think I admitted it way back in the day, but I must own up to it again, I had an MJ Thriller coat, red with the black leather. It was a nice coat. Seriously though, I wasn’t alone. Everyone had them. A lot of people even had the sequined glove to go along with it. I used to carry around a ski glove liner which was a decent facsimile and bust that during the sockhop when they played ....Jackson.... stuff. What can I say, I was a slave to fashion. The crazy thing about the ....Jackson.... jackets was that you couldn’t get them. You would be running all over town. Between Jackson Jackets, Parachute pants, and Air Jordans, you’d be running all over in a 20 mile radius just to be hip. I guess when you go too far in one direction, you often get propelled in another. It wasn’t too long after I got over the Thriller obsession and moved on to U2. I guess succumbing too completely to the mainstream pushed me in the other direction. I got into underground music, it was underground in 1985, U2, REM, The Smiths, The Replacements, The Dead Milkmen, Violent Femmes, the list goes on. I dunno if it was a knee jerk reaction to my Thriller phase, or just the normal progression of things, but I’ve been into more underground music ever since.
Sorry about the layoff, I’ll holler back at you soon.
SLFTD: Side by Side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why can’t we?
SFMTFTD: Almost naked, always stud
VFTD: http://www.mtvmusic.com/jackson_michael/videos/206759/man_in_the_mirror.jhtml
TFTD: Michael, Thanks for the music. Farrah, Thanks for being beautiful.
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