Stop with the hard sell.

These lyrics here are self-explanatory, but I think them every night before I go to bed.



You think they could've afforded a thinner horse-riding stunt double, but oh well.

We lost one of the greats. He set a standard that will never be equaled.

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

I don't play golf anymore, though.

The following list are signs I see probably within a 5 mile radius of each other on 85 north from Newnan to Union City as I drive to work every morning.


1) "Left Lane Closed 1/2 mile"
2) "Right Shoulder Closed"
3) "Right Lane Closed 1000 Feet"
4) "Road Work Ahead"
5) "Left Lane Closed 1/2 mile"
6) "Right Shoulder Closed next 6 miles"
7) "Road Work Ahead"
8) "Left Lane Closed 1/2 mile"
9) "Right Lane Closed 1/2 mile"

It almost seems laughable. I hate construction.

Perhaps I will lose it one day and do this:

A new RED BAND trailer for The Happening. Blink and you'll miss the bloody one-armed man!

Last night at the tavern where I play trivia every Monday, this popped up on one of the widescreen TVs on the wall:



Immediately suffering from a 1991 flashback, can somebody please tell me the following:

1) How can this video be so awful and yet the song be so catchy?

2) Did the so-called "writer" of this song just run out of lyrics and couldn't figure out a way to end it so they just had a woman yell "Heeyyyyyyy-heyyyyyyahhhhhhh!" for the remaining 4 minutes of the video?

3) At 5 minutes and 14 seconds, what exactly is that dance that the homies appear to be attempting? Is it an Urban Bunny Hop? I cannot tell.

4) How does one actually become, as it is stated..."Too Legit To Quit"? Is there a certain course that must be passed? Must you wear a badge? And do you receive a diploma for your efforts?


Your comments are welcomed.

It's one of the best horror movies I've ever seen.





The trailer:

Ha ha, I never noticed this.

Well, taking a cue from toddskyfire, here are a few pics of my office.

( Not Dunder Mifflin )

It just occurred to me that in all the years of posting on here, I've never displayed pics of the place I call home. Granted, it's not the most fascinating dwelling place in the world, but I love my apartment. I love where I live too because it's just so quiet. (No booming rap music to wake me up and the dog from upstairs seems to have left or gone to the Purina One factory in the sky.)

*Note: These pics aren't the greatest. I just used my camera phone, and it was early in the morning, so I still had eye crusties going on.

( Home again, home again. )

BEFORE:




AFTER:





And don't forget "Sooky's Wigs & Etc." a few doors down.


Ah, Fayetteville, what happened to you?

I have started another blog dedicated solely to movie reviews, which hopefully means you'll see less and less of that particular subject within the confines of this LJ.

Check it out if you even care:

http://www.fumor.blogspot.com


"It will make you gaze in wonderment."

I will now take a cue from the lovely meropa. As she sometimes uses her LJ to demonstrate her love (or lack thereof) of certain music and/or music videos, I will now say that last night I saw what probably will become one of my favorite movies of all time.



To be honest, I left the theater out of breath and on the verge of tears. Not necessarily because of the film's subject matter, but because I have been so angry at Hollywood lately for producing so much vile crap, that this restored my faith in the medium. Unfortunately, I will not recommend this movie to most of my friends because I know they will mostly find it dull and boring, which is fine. The film is not intended for a wide audience. And my tastes in the cinema are so bizarre anyway that nobody would probably trust me if I told them "RUN RIGHT OUT AND SEE THIS!"

Strange I know, because I am a horror-movie junkie as well, and I know that horror movies these days get such a bad rap because everyone thinks they are all the same. I said I was weird when it comes to the movies, as everybody already knows.

But back to Blood. There is a reason why Daniel Day-Lewis "comes out of hiding" every 5 or 6 years to do a film (his last major performance was 2002's Gangs Of New York), it's because he wants to find a major challenge with a good script. His Daniel Plainview in Blood has to be one of the most fascinating characters I've ever seen onscreen. His presence is amazing, and it often reminded of the late John Huston's performance in Roman Polanski's Chinatown.

Many critics and audiences have over-analyzed the film trying to find a deep hidden meaning when to me, the story is very simplistic. It's an amazing battle between good and evil. The first 15 minutes of the movie have no dialogue at all, instead it begins underground, as we see Daniel Plainview mining, and rising up from the allegorical depths of Hell in order to conquer the being which is Man. At one point, he even says..."I can't keep doing this on my own. With these, um........PEOPLE.". It's a strong point to make, and a key point in the film. He is at war with a young minister played by Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) and the two of them engage in what can only be described as a masterful battle between the Heavenly and the Hellish.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson keeps things going at a slow pace, but in the end achieves something that can be compared to the best of Kubrick and Altman.*

I will not end this by saying, "Go see this movie." I cannot. It's just not a movie I can recommend to people. I can only say that I was amazed, flabbergasted, stunned, scared, and in the end, so appreciative. In the words of Daniel Plainview, "I'm finished."

The trailer:




*Anderson dedicates the film to the great Robert Altman, who died in 2005. A fitting tribute to a maverick director of the medium.

OK, most of you who know me know that I hardly ever get on here and gush about movies I really like. Yeah, sometimes I'll say, "I liked this, you should see it," or whatever, but I need to tell everybody here that you should see this little-seen movie called Joshua.





Of course, I'm sure nobody will like it as much as I did, if at all, it flopped in the theater big-time, not even grossing $1 million. And I'm already a little bias against it because it's very much like The Omen, one of my favorite horror movies, (the film even lifts a shot from The Omen almost identically). What I really liked about it was that it was shot very much like a 70's movie, an era when I think a lot of horror movies were at their peak. Also, there are no supernatural elements to the story, which I feel made it all the more creepy, and of course, one of my favorite things in great horror films has always been the power of suggestion. We never actually really see any of the blood or terror, it's just all implanted in the mind of the audience, which I think, subtleties like this contribute greatly to the elements of what makes up a good horror film.

Anyway, if you're interested, you should check this movie out. It's one of the best films of 2007, and the film's final shot was intensely creepy.

The trailer:

Favorite Horror Movies of '07 with trailers:

( There will be blood... )

Well, I didn't end up being Patrick Bateman this year. Actually I was lazy...so instead of going to Party City and being some stupid ghost....I came up with this last night:



That's a TV. And I'm the ENDING OF THE SOPRANOS! Get it? Andrew? Get it?

Anyone?

Interesting list of the top 100 "Scariest Movie Scenes Of All Time".

http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/scary/

And it's even weirder that a David Lynch movie is at the #1 spot.

Well, I've picked out my Halloween costume for this year. I actually came up with this idea last Halloween as I was driving home from work, because I figured it would be a very simple costume to do...and with a little help from freddys_son it will be perfect:





All I need is the clear raincoat and a fake axe. I pretty much have everything else.
freddys_son will supply the fake blood and a severed hand. The severed hand will
stick out of my briefcase and it will be holding this:





I guess I need some practice, so I will watch this scene in order to get in the groove for October 31st: