I'm scared for Wisconson Liberal Rant

Why is it the Unions fault? Was it Unions that caused this mess? No I believe it was massive banks and hedge funds that wrapped up shitty mortgages and sold them as triple A. Was it Unions that caused Enron and the rest to cheat their employees? Was it Unions that still made 6 billion after the oil spill? Remember when the Good old days were the 50’s and 60’s. That’s right America was union. When America was Kicking ass it was all done with Union Labor. We do not manufacture stuff here because of Unions you say? Well ask the companies who shipped those jobs to other countries how much their profits expanded? Business is there to make money no matter what product that they make. Unions are there to protect their workers and get as much as you can for them. Eight hour work days, Medical benefits, workers compensation vacation days and holidays all there because of unions. Do not think that business owners would have done any of that unless they had to. Oh wait go to China or Thailand or Mexico or any of the countries that are now manufacturing and see what they make. Remember in America people used to work in factories and be able to but the items they produced, thank you Unions and Henry Ford. Now business would rather build a factory in another country pay their workers a pittance (great word I know) and import it to America to increase their bottom line, Nafta did not raise the wage in Mexico but instead let business go there and increase their profits. We are not broke because of Unions, yeah it’s the Cops Teachers and Firemen, no it is all the MASSIVE lobbyists that manipulate bills and laws for their gain. Are you really against a tax on the top 2 percent of Americans? From 36- 39% REALLY??? We as a people need to wake up and start figuring out that for ourselves.

I know I sound like a liberal and that is bad, but remember, my Republican Friends the President who was labors friend as well as the people was Teddy Roosevelt, big supporter of the people. Author of the Square Deal, you know the idea of fair and square, not equal, but fair.

Is it unions, the people, or other interests? By the way did you know that in the governor’s bill there is a proposal for a no bid contract?

16.896 Sale or contractual operation of state−owned heating, cooling, and power plants. (1) Notwithstanding ss. 13.48 (14) (am) and 16.705 (1), the department may sell any state−owned heating, cooling, and power plant or may contract with a private entity for the operation of any such plant, with or without solicitation of bids, for any amount that the department determines to be in the best interest of the state. Notwithstanding ss. 196.49 and 196.80, no approval or certification of the public service commission is necessary for a public utility to purchase, or contract for the operation of, such a plant, and any such purchase is considered to be in the public interest and to comply with the criteria for certification of a project under s. 196.49 (3) (b).

Just so you know that Koch Industries is the Governors biggest donators with over 43,000 donated from their PAC. OH YEAH ONE MORE THING

The Koch-funded group Americans for Prosperity has also been standing with Walker throughout his budget battles, busing in Tea Party activists and launching the site, Stand With Walker. After the election, Walker and other Republican governors received guidance from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that is also funded by Koch dollars and has pushed anti-union measures

Critique of the Week

Since Frenchie A.K.A. Rick was kind enough to give me the title of Social critic It has become my duty to Criticize everything that I deem unfit , or shit that I think Sucks or bothers me. Sometimes I also like stuff so I will applaud those that need to feel even better.



SO here is my Critique for the week.


Politics – Well another State of The Union came and went and my love of the government continued to leach out of me, I feel helpless knowing that I have no say and that for all of the sanctimonious Kvetching done by both sides that no one means any of it. Lobbyist control money flow and ideas in Washington and nobody even acknowledges it anymore. Until that changes then nothing will ever change.


So while that was going on it turns out that Clarence Thomas’s wife worked for Heritage Foundation a conservative policy group and also worked for a conservative think tank. Well big deal right, well he did not report her job status or income for at least the last 5 years. Maybe he didn’t know you say; well he knew to file it for the 13 years before. Does it change anything? No but it does seem like Thomas is devious and is a charlatan. We all know that he is a conservative and we know how he will rule but be on the ups man.


Sports – OK JETS LOST, But hey let’s get over it, two years in a row being good with two different types of teams, I feel good about Rex and the Jets and say; cool can’t wait till next year if there is one.


Hockey - I made a major trade in Fantasy Hockey giving up Crosby for a ton of players, he is hurt and a very miniscule part of me wants him to stay hurt for a while so I do not feel as bad for trading him. It’s All – Star week and I really like it more than the NBA. Will get to that eventually. The Rangers are still hanging in there and get back Callahan after the break. Would be great to get the 5 or 6 slot rather than the 7, 8 like so many of the past years. If Frenchy Deux wants me to start believing then I thinks a 5 or 6 would make me as a fan feel that the team I root for took a small step up.


I have seen 8 out of 10 best picture nominees and will make my picks soon. Winters Bone looks interesting. Will talk more movies later and music but first


Books – I am totally digging the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and am now reading Plays with Fire, am totally digging it too. Have Started the Keith Richard book Life so I will check in on that


TV – am totally bummed that Fringe moved to Fridays. No I am really not but I give me a chance to say I love this damn show and Walter is the Nuttiest Professor by far. I really like Southland as well it, on TNT Yeah but is pretty cool so give it a peep. Am totally done with Jersey Shore on the regular, am getting tired of it. Top Chef Rates and I am totally torn at night between Daily Show and Conan.

The Greatest Bands of all Time

I have been facebooking about music and bands and such recently and I feel that I did not do justice to the subject, so I am here to write that wrong. In my love of music and its impact on my life I feel that I am entitled to have an opinion, and I consider it at least semi- knowledgeable. Do I feel snobby or do I like bands that no one else does, well of course I do, and every pompous ass does. I will say that The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and The Clash are in a class by themselves. I will elaborate



The Beatles – Why were they just the shit of all time? They made rock and roll and made it different. Yes you have Elvis and all of the others but they only took it so far. Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis will be doing the same songs for ever(same for Elvis if he were alive) The Beatles started as a Pop Rock band With Meet the Beatles to Revolver to Sgt. Pepper to Yellow Submarine to The White Album they Evolved changed and grew as their interests grew. They weren’t a Band they were The Beatles


The Same could be said about Led Zeppelin, they started out as a heavy blues Rock Band to Hard Rock to Acoustic to Physical Graffiti to In Through the Out Door . Every album was different and had a distinct voice and they never made the same album twice. Plus they had a kick ass Concert Movie that was a staple of Midnight Movies.


The Clash- Well they were the anti – punk, punk band they did not burn out and die, and they did not become an act (sorry Ramones). They started out as young angry political and inexperienced and wound up The Only Band That Matters. From Punk, to pop, to rock, to ska and dub and any and everything else The Clash tasted it all. Double Albums, Triple Albums, and singles they did what they wanted. This includes a short run on Broadway. I love The Clash


Now if you made it this far you are crazy as me or just bored to death. Now I bring it up again because as I was driving home tonight, some newer Metallica came on the air The Day that Never Comes and I think to myself, how different is this from Master of Puppets or the Black Album and I say not much really. Metallica is a great Band but that can’t be an all timer because to me at least the albums style and structure are all the same. You can’t tell me that James and Lars have not listened and grooved on new things, I am sure that they have but they have also made sure that none of it has creeped into their music. Hey I like, and used to love Metallica but they are like the girlfriend that never ever changed. I mean I listen to way more variety than I used to and while I enjoy a set or two from the boys I can also listen to other things I am not waiting anxiously for the new disc to drop. There are a lot of bands that fall into this category and could List bands like Aerosmith, Motley Crue, the Cure, U2(tried a little but not enough, Edge really only gets his sounds from effects and layers) Green Day etc etc. Now this does not mean I don’t like or even love them in some cases. It just means that you know what you are getting.


Now there are a few bands that deserve a mention either because they are overrated rated or even underrated. So without writing more filler then a Twinkie


The Stones- Now they are Great but they really have stayed too long to be respected unlike Aerosmith(not to say they are more respected just that they did become relevant again) who did have a second MTV type of career. Really if you even count Some Girls from 1978that was the last really good one, and they have put out a ton of shit that no one cares about. And they are Tour Whores who are just in it for the Money, and if you go see the stones for more than 50 bucks you should be smacked around.


The Crue and Van Halen – god you guys were so much fun all the chicks wanted to do you, and all the dudes wanted to be you. Great Front men with crappy voices some really good hard rock music (Halen better) and songs that just made you rock even though they really weren’t about much(especially VH) but such fun.


Costello – a personal favorite of mine Great Great song writer who has jumped around to so many styles that he can’t be pinned down. Sometimes they hit (Almost Blue and others) And sometimes they don’t (the Juliet letters) but he is an artist that keeps himself immersed in music and keeps coming out a different side. Love him to death.


Public Enemy – Great bombastic politically charged rap that defies anything before and most after, Just not long enough of a career.


Beastie Boys – Might Have to Look at them for the biggies I mean really from Licensed to ill. And the Greatest Hip Hop Disc ever Paul’s Boutique, To the 5 Boroughs playing their own instruments. Do that Dr. Dre.


I could go on and on and maybe I will I just had this in me and had to get it out.

Road House Rules

Roadhouse is the quintessential movies of the 80’s it belongs in the top of most every movie list. Now it is true that there are other movies that belong in that quintessential spot as well because that means that it belongs in the hall of fame of the 80’s movies. Now there are many movies that are good some that are very good and some are Hall of fame, think about how many movies were made and how many you can name so with much fanfare and delight here is the list of hall of Fame movies of the 80’s
Action Movies:
1 . Road House – Drinking and Fighting and martial arts Dalton is not that big but he still can fight one two three it does not matter, the best cooler in the business (next to wade Garrett) is ready to kick some ass at any point
2. Die Hard – Created the wisecracking action star, A one man demolition, crew that created more destruction than lives saved but it was worth it Yippee Cay Yeaah Mother Fucker
3. Terminator –“ I’ll be back”. Made Arnold the Man No Jokes just relentless. My name is Reese Kyle and you have been targeted for termination.
4. Empire Strikes Back – Leah rocks the Bikini, We meet Yoda, and Darth Cuts his own kids hand off. That is the Hard Core
5. Road Warrior - The man with no name, Ferrell Boy, Gyro captain, and Humongous Gay Punk Rock Bikers and custom cars looking for gas ”two days ago I saw a rig that can carry that tanker out of here you wanna leave, you talk to me”
Love Stories
1 . Road House – The romance between Dalton and Doc is so touching and breathtaking that it transcends love
2. Lethal Weapon – Come on we all know that underneath everything Riggs and Murtough were in love with each other.
3. Say Anything - But in fact it ruins the whole Genre, I mean really could anyone really ever be Lloyd Dobler? I do not think so, but now every woman really wanted that, thanks Cusack you dick
4. Sid and Nancy- Gary Oldman at his Best and the Sex Pistols, it’s over the top with a doomed romance but pure romance none the less.
5. Top gun – the stifled romance between Ice Man and Maverick just hurts to watch 2 men so obviously in love but because of military protocol it is unspoken and unacted upon
Comedies / Teen Movies
1, Spinal Tap – Eleven is louder than 10. Stonehenge and exploding drummers Big Bottoms.
2. Ghost busters – Come on, Dr. Peter Venkman is Funny end of story.
3. Fast Times at Ridgemont High – Spicooli, Damone, Hamilton, and Phoebe Cates topless
4. Heathers – Christian Slater, doing Jack Nicholson, High School Cliques and Dead “Gay” Football players
5. Breakfast Club- John Bender and his corruption of all the cliques in High School
Honorable mention – Road house –I thought you’d be bigger, plus you could be my Regular Saturday Night.
Drama
1, ET –Help, the dude he needs to get home and the government won’t let him. I thought we didn’t allow illegal aliens in the country
2. Raging Bull – Yeah I fucked your brother, and I sucked his cock, and his cock is bigger than yours.
3. Road house – What will happen between Dalton and Doc, or Dalton and Wesley, or Wesley and Red. It is never ending drama in Jasper.
4. Scarface – Yes it is over rated and should not be here but you have to give it to Al and Michele Pheipher
5. Platoon – Come on Chris was Vietnam, from naive to cynical, from, good too bad the tension and love hatred and despair. More complete then Full Metal
Horror
1. Shining -Heere’s Johnny Jack at his best and Scatman gets an ax in his chest.
2. Henry Portrait of a serial Killer – I really use this as a hand book
3. Nightmare on Elm Street – Horror with the funny
4. Friday the 13th – Sorry Mrs. Voorhees But your boy Jason became the big star, but don’t worry he kept your head in the fridge so he would not forget you every time he got a soda
5. Near Dark – Vampires who travel the west in a Winnebago and kill people including man child, Homer and Bill Paxton as Sevrin. This movie is what the Lost Boys wanted to be but did not have the balls
As you can see by going through the list that road house comes up time and time again it is for this reason that Road House should be considered on the Hall of Fame and one of the quintessential movies of the eighties

In Search of the Perfect Shirt.

So I am here, where ever that is and I am wearing my standard three shirts, yes I know that it is summer and it sometimes gets hot and I will drop down to two shirts but that IS NOT THE ISSUE HERE RIGHT NOW. Ladies why must you insist on wearing sleeveless shirts all the time, are you showing us your lack of muscle? Well don’t because unless you are Linda Fucking Hamilton from T2 then there is nothing there. What, have a nice shoulder tat for us to see, well I have one too as does millions of people it’s not that original. Do you think it looks good? Well look around at some of boys walking around with their wife beaters and colored undershirts on do they look good? Most likely not unless they are jacked, even then they are probably just a meathead and have no brain. If that is your style then you are not mine. Well for a week or two but then that’s it. Anyway I like a sleeve and something that creates a little cleavage and covered the shoulder Men that we are, we are idiots and most of them will wear what you tell us to, so now that you have told your boyfriend or whoever that you did not like this and to wear that, well now it’s your turn.

Rule 1. Stop going out in Pajama pants you fucking slob it is disgusting and makes us all feel sceevy, I don’t care if you just got up, stop it.

Rule 2. Do something better to your hair please. Those hair up in a ball while there are loose pieces all around is really unattractive, I know you are saying it looked good on Pebbles Flintstone, well Pebbles is a cartoon you are not.

Rule 3. Flip Flops. – Stop wearing them. They do nothing to make your feet or legs more attractive in fact it does the opposite it makes you look squat and dumpy. Wear Sandals O.K. but flip flops come on, ask yourself this ladies “do you think Playboy models would wear flip-flops?” I don’t thinks so and neither should you.

Rule 4. Never combine rules one, two and three. Failure to adhere to this rule could cause severe punishment or even death.

Albums and their Covers

I am sitting here on my deck the lawn is moved the weeds are wacked (as I am) and its all blown away (insert own joke here please) just having a diet Pepsi and listening to Pandora as I look around the net and as All of My Love from Zep came on it reminded me or how cheated our little brothers sisters and children have become. And no I am not even talking about the greatness of Zeppelin which can be debated for hours but that might be another blog. I am talking about the coolness of the album In through the Out Door, I am sure you remember the weird brown wrapper that felt like a waldbaums bag and the 4 different sleeves inside. Also the sleeves were able to change, if you put water on it a watercolor appeared. Not only did you get all that you got the album too, maybe not one of their best but still. Albums were cool some really sick shit, Kiss Destroyer tell me that didn’t tell a story any Pink Floyd album, come on. But even as late as 87 when Appetite for Destruction came out the original album cover had to be recalled because of the cover. I remember parts of my youth where I spent hours in the Record Stop in Ronkonkoma and buying shit because of the album cover( Judas Priest) or not buying it because of the cover( Poison) or reading Kerrang and Circus Magazine and watching a band before the popped and became huge and I think that because our stupid kids just download they are missing so much and it hurts them. I mean those of you with kids what do they listen too? How did they find it? I know that there are kids out there that do it I mean I know some of them but too many are just so fucking blind to what they are missing. I loved chilling out in my room with headphones on Not ear Pods that ping everything out and listen to a whole album by a band and I did it with all of them I knew every song on every album. I miss albums I miss the liner notes and the cool pics inside, I miss looking for the special release with the poster inside or the stickers or just liner notes. The Crue and this album was made on Jack and krell come on we all knew what they were talking about and doing and it made you feel like part of something. What do we get now; downloads and twitter that is not even run by the band but by a publicist. I love my iPod and all the shit that I have at the tips and I totally use them sometimes for the new and sometimes for the old but I still miss albums. I do like crazy and enjoyed Britney’s crazy and Gaga for a bit that’s all I got for now and hey it’s a long summer some will hit some will miss

New Sneakers Part One

Sometimes things just make you feel good and I think I know what I need to make me feel better. I need a nice new pair of Nike Shoxx or some other cross trainer or running shoe. They make me feel better, always so crisp and white just begging to be put on and worn. New sneakers are like a new beginning with a new girl friend you look at em and think how crisp and sexy they are. Look at those babies I might be the first one to put my foot into them yeah. I think about the future of my shoes, the possibilities yet to happen, hoping that these new Kicks will motivate me to new heights. They will demand that I run in them they will not allow me knees and ankles to hurt it will be wonderful. They are Beautiful and white they have splashes of color to entice me even more. They will help me run faster jump higher and do whatever I want the future possibilities are endless. Now I believe that sneakers should be white I know Chuck Taylors were Black but Keds All-Stars were white and that’s what I wore. It is not a racist or sneakerist thing I do not have anything against other colors of sneakers I just love White Sneakers. So the sneaker that is new is a new beginning the future is unworn and unwritten like a relationship that us just starting. They feel different and great and you hope they will be the best pair ever and you hope that the feeling of your new shoe never changes.

Movies

Welcome back it has been awhile since I have had the desire to say or spread anything and while it still is a struggle I will try to get back into the swing of things for both of our sakes. Well lets talk about whats new and how I feel about that.
New movies that I have seen have been ok I really like paranormal activity but that was probably because it was interesting and done from a different perspective for 11 grand or whatever they made it for it sure as hell was more interesting then Public Enemies and that standard ass bullshit. Brothers looks good because of the actors in it the story looks standard brother love hate with wife of one in the middle I have yet to see it because I just can’t be bothered. New Moon come on now that is just bullshit made for the masses and by masses I mean stupid ass teenagers who can’t tell their ass from their elbow. I guess I could have been the same way, but I wasn’t I always tried to look for the thing that nobody else was into or then next thing yea I rocked a lot of the stupid fashions and music but I was there in the beginning for a lot of other what I think to be cool things. Avatar I do not know and I am not that interested in we shall see.
What appall me the most is that so many of my younger steeds have not seen or heard of so many movies that need to be seen and heard things like
Goodfellas- I was gonna put in Godfather but too slow for ‘em
Jaws – how have you not seen this movie
Seven - What’s in the box?!
Fightclub- what the first rule of fight club?
Cadyshack – nooonan
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs and almost anything by Quinton
Memento
Departed – Quickly becoming an all timer
Clockwork – No time for the old in out love got to read the meter.
Raging Bull – yeah I fucked your brother and I sucked his cock
Snatch
Big Lebowaski
Twelve Monkeys
Good Will Hunting
And others but there is more to follow

Whip it

I know it has been a while, but hey I get busy. No not really just can’t seem to follow through on much lately, I won’t get into the dirty details but those of you who know, and well you know. Ok but for the real reason for the latest blog Yes I saw a movie, well two actually so I will review one at a time in the order that I saw them in. Whip –it comes first. Blah blah blah it’s not a Devo song nor is it about masturbation. Its about roller derby girls, yea that right dyed hair lots of makeup and tattoos as well. I know that I am supposed to mature and get over things like that but holy jees that look just absolutely kills me I don’t know how I wound up where I am (well I do but that’s a another story for another blog.) So anyway there is Juno who of course is a smart outsider teenager who is also a nerd. I know it’s shocking anyway her and her mother don’t get along so blah blah lies about her age tries out and makes roller derby team becomes sensation gets found out and collides with her mother dad helps everyone happy. Like I said seen it before and even before that. Did like the roller derby chicks cause they are hot.

new rules for the new year

So I want some new rules to live by, when you are born you get all these gifts and money, that’s yours not your parents but yours, same for the first 4 birthdays that money is yours and is kept for you. When you turn five you get to look at the balance and see if you want to withdraw the money and buy some stuff. Now if you do this your parents can not say no, so if you want a weedwacker at 5 then it’s yours. You want candy same thing. Now you do not have to spend any of it or you can spend all of it but that is the rules. You can spend it as you wish, no interference, now if your parents spend any of it you get to garnish their wages until the debt is paid back and you can spank them too.
Spanking is now allowed but we will all be trained to spank correctly, because there are different kinds of spankings, you are a child and misbehaved spanking all the way to S&M safe word spanking, you will be taught all forms and how they are to be used. Parents may now spank their children in public if they need to strangers may as well but it has to be in front of the parent and the person must have been an expert spanker, this is a qualification you earn through training.
All cars will now have two way radios and the number will be the license plate. Going with government training you are also assigned a skill level for driving, not a bullshit skill level like in school like let’s just pass the kid but a real skill level, where you can use the left lane and other passing lanes and you have more power than other drivers. Also if you get a fruity personalized license plate and people call you on their two -way you have to answer as to why you got the plate and what it means. If you do this in a snarky way then that person has the right to spank you, see the above rule.
As a young man or woman you have the right to own an exotic pet (as long as it is not endangered) now if it bites you tears off your face or genitalia or anything crazy like that well that is the way it is. It’s called you took the risk so that’s what you get rule. Now that not to say your pet would not rock, it probably will but if you have a black widow and it bites you oh well that sucks same for monkeys, alligators, and all shit like that, want a zebra then fine I do not know what you are gonna do with it but have one. And by the way anyone who has a pet can’t say well it’s just like a dog or some shit. That just peeves me to no end. You will get spanked and have your animal taken away.

The Basterds are Here

Inglourious Basterds yes they are. Let’s say this right up front Quentin Tarantino Fucking Rocks. He is my George Lucas. I have been with him since Dogs and Yes I did see it in a movie theatre. Saw The Basterds, I loved it. Jews going after Nazi’s for going after the Jews. The bad guy is awesome Hans Landa is such a dick ,he is great super cool and super ego make for super villain. Loved him, he will snuff you out or sell you out it just doesn’t matter. Pitt as Aldo Raine is simply superb, I love when Pitt puts on an accent you all remember Snatch, well he does another accent here and he plays it awesome, but what makes it even funnier and better is his almost sheer stupidity of his plans and that people follow him. Watch for his facial expressions when the leg injury is mentioned. Eli Roth is Fabulous as the Bear Jew and his Teddy Fucking Williams accent. The dialogue is definitely different as the cool factor had to be replaced,there was no cool in 1944 the facts are all wrong but hey it’s a movie not a history lesson. Biggest complaint characters just go missing like Mr. Blue from Res Dogs there are a couple of Basterds who you go, what happened to him. That and there was not enough action scenes with the Basterds and the Nazis I know that Tarantino is at his best with implied violence but man we saw the Bride kill everybody could we see the Basterds kill some people. This slides right into a tie for number three with Kill Bill ahead of Grindhouse

Drunken Monkeys

Drunken monkeys are the most fun to play with. There are many different kinds of drunks, the drunks who go quiet and introspective, they are totally un-fun. The fighting drunk they were fun when you were 16 and they just wanted to duke anyone out, sometimes it was you and other times it was somebody else, now they are just assholes. There are funny drunks who make things even goofier then when they are sober cause they are just so clowney. There is the loud drunks, who just do not know what volume they speak at, so they shout everything it’s like they are wearing an iPod at full volume and still wanting to talk. Then there is the drunken monkey, they are loud so loud its hurtful to your whole head, they are also unable to follow any conversation for more than 3 seconds, they are like a kitten with a bunch of toys they just do not know what to play with or what to do. They interrupt, and they are never wrong the drunken monkey can be funny, can be sad, but are never ever wrong and they are as fun as a barrel of regular people. When the drunken monkey is around normal drunk people shenanigans will usually ensue, the regular drunks will be having a conversation that the drunken monkey tries to get in on but does not know what is going on so they yell at you. Then they forget what they were saying and move on, if you make fun of the drunken monkey they do not know how to react, should they yell at you and curse you out or should they laugh? They scan the room but cannot comprehend the situation so sometimes they laugh and others the act out in a negative way. The drunken monkey is a species to behold and they best watched while drunk yourself as to not get annoyed with their conduct you can laugh and joke with them easier this way. So when you go to your next get together scan the room and find the drunken monkey have a couple and egg them on it can only lead to more fun.

CEREAL

So I like cereal, many many different kinds, and when I was a kid I liked even more. now I eat “healthy” cereal that is low in cholesterol and high in fiber, like there is one more thing I need to do is poop more. So I want to know how and who thought of Snap Crackle and Pop. Three gay midgets who make noise when you add milk. Snap Crackle and Pop were not my favorites as a matter of fact that was one of the few cereals I did not eat. But if you gave me a Green Talking Frog and some Sugar Snaps I am in. Give me a giant Tiger with a bandana screaming “They’re Great” and he is talking about kids I think he is a pedi. A talking rabbit who can’t spell Trix are for kids, this is how I got my information as a kid. I listened and wanted Boo-Berry and Count Chocula and wanted to hang out with Captain Crunch I did a lot of crazy shit when I was younger and I blame cereal characters from Lucky Charms who pushed acid to taking rabbits and whatever the hell a Honeycomb was it was. these people that led me out of my youth with no fear what type of drugged out sex fiends were shilling shit for us as kids

District 9

District 9 some of you will hate it but I loved it. It was a movie that has so many layers and so much going on but in a very smart sort of way. First thing I like it does not take place in America. It takes place in Johannesburg South Africa. An alien ship just stops and hover over the city. It is there for three months before the Africans decide to try to make contact and when they do they meet the Aliens. The Aliens are all undernourished and they look like giant bugs or shrimps. They are gathered from the ship and are relocated to a tent or shanty town that is called District 9. The Aliens have been here for about 17 or so years and the people come to despise them. There is much anger and resentment towards the prawns. Politically they have no power and are treated as unwelcome unhelpful and wanted beings all would wish they would just leave. They are, to be relocated to District 10 200 kilometers away. MNU multinational industries are in charge of policing them and relocating them. Wikus Vandermeer is in charge of relocation and the prawns while scavenging are also fiends for Cat food and Rubber. While Wkius is serving eviction notices he finds many strange things including some stolen and scrounged computer parts and what look to be a distillery. Wikus comes into contact with some liquid and begins to metamorphous into an alien. His company rather than treat him wants to use him to see if he can use the aliens weapons system which humans cannot use. It is here where the movie really begins to get even deeper and more complex it shows the inhumanity of business and that it is all about profit even when personal relationships are involved. Wikus is hunted by MNU and by humans as well as unable to trust or be trusted by the Aliens. There is much more that goes on in the movie it has an open and different ending and as the movie builds so does the action. I thought it was an original take on an old idea on a 1-10 scale I give it a solid 7.5

A rant on Healthcare

Well it is time for a political rant. I am sick and tired of all this political bullshit over healthcare. Should we have healthcare for everyone? Well it’s a good concept but we must at least accept that some people will totally take advantage of the situation they are in. Whether it is C.E.O. ‘s giving themselves bonuses while asking or handouts or welfare recipients scamming the system it is going to happen. OK so let’s go with healthcare, Should we have a “public option” probably because in the free enterprise system the more competition the better but it will never happen in our system because our system is being run by lobbyists who will tell politicians how to write a bill and then donate tons of money to their campaign both as individuals and as corporations. We want change, we want things to get better for all, now Tim I believe in some of what you say but in simple terms the business of business is to make money. No matter if you are in insurance, oil, building cars or whatever, from the corner bagel place and landscaper you want to make money, even as workers ,we want to do a job and get paid for it. The job of government is to protect the people and provide an infrastructure. They are going to provide safety in an army and military and police and fire department and infrastructure in roads and public and things like that. When business gets out of the government then we can have laws that protect and provide for the people. With the health care bill is discussed and debated every member of congress should list right up front who their donors from the health insurance companies are. The right type of bills will never get passed because of special interests and money so let’s stop playing that one group is better than the other. For me it is all about social issues, so health insurance will change some and our taxes will go up. The illuminati will still rule the world and Obama will fall in line, the reason McCain did not win was that Palin just couldn’t be trusted to play the game.

District 9

So I just saw District 9 and it ROCKED. Done in Documentary style and cinema style mixed, it takes place in Johannesburg Africa. An Alien Ship has floated over the city and after 3 months the humans check it out. The aliens are all messed up and they are taken out of the ship and taken to a relocation camp which turns into a slum. The aliens are treated like second class citizens who are called prawns a derogatory term. So the movie takes a little time to build as we watch the humans denigrate the aliens. Eventually the citizens want the m out of the city proper and the plan to move them 100 or so miles out of the city. As the private company(HMU) contracted to remove the aliens begin to do so, we see that the aliens are scroungers, eat cat food, and are just generally wacky they are restricted to this slums and they eat rubber and just do weird shit. Any way some aliens are “bad “stealing guns from humans and stealing and just behaving badly. As the private company tries to evict the aliens the leader of the HMU The private company gets sprayed by some black juice. He starts to react to the juice in a very negative way. Getting sick and starting to physically change it’s at this point that his own company starts to look at him as an experiment rather than an injured employee. They want to see if this transformation will allow him to operate alien weaponry, this seems to be a theme of why MNU has been involved they are conducting various experiments to the aliens. As the dude that has been sprayed starts to change he finds that he can’t trust the government and that the aliens also don’t trust him he is all alone with no one to help him some pretty heavy themes in the flick racism, antigovernment, corporate corruption and many others plus a little Sci-Fi loved it you should too, check it out

500 Days of Summer Review

500 Days of Summer a boy girl relationship movie that I really liked, I did pass out for 5 minutes but hey I was tired. Story is almost typical boys see’s funky looking chick thinks she is cute but does nothing ,but she opens the door by saying something to him. By the way it was just a comment in an elevator, so ladies just say things to guys and they will think that you like them, this is totally true when a woman talks to a man he believes that he now has a shot, that’s why it’s easy to be a woman. Any way the chick Zooey Deschanel is named Summer and yes she is a little kooky not a lot, just a little funky and free spirited that’s why guys dig her she has this certain bohemian style to her and that can be sexy. Anyway the movie is not told from day one to day 500 but instead jumps around and it tells you what day of the relationship it is and how he looks back at certain moments with longing and others with the Jesus I should have known. It shows beginning middle and end fun stuff and just some stupid goofy stuff, in reality Summer is to blame for the break up cause of her quirkiness, she is not a bad person she is just Summer and he knew that going in. The dude Tom , Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a kid from Third Rock and he is a nice guy not a dick, not a nerd per say just a decent guy who took a job that he doesn’t love but does well. Summer is just a secretary /assistant in the same company I liked that it showed the ups and downs of the relationship at different points and how women can really crush men and yet at the same time inspire them. It was totally interesting and well done some cool old school alt music is involved like the Smiths and mentions of the Clash and stuff so it is not very mainstream in that way .It is a good movie for a date or anyone in a relationship I liked it and would recommend it.

G.I. Joe and the Raising of my lunch

G.I. I don’t think so. Ok the movie has action, yeah but it is not really good action. If it is today they have some pretty unbelievable stuff in terms of weapons, with what they are building I felt like I was in Star Trek with photon torpedoes and stuff like that. There are many spoilers cause the movie is just that bad. Some crazy Scottish type dude, the bad guy from Gone in 60 Seconds (guess he is the new Alan Rickman) is selling weapons to the U.S. Some crazy metal eating bug that they can start and stop, well he steals it with the help of some super hot chick in leather outfit, cause that the way all chicks fight, like they are a dancer in a Vegas show, could you at least put your hair up I mean the men in the military have to shave their hair but not you. Any way she and her crew kill everyone but Marlon Wayans and Tate Channing her old boyfriend (can you see back plot building) they are then saved by the Joe crew with a hot redhead and a dude dressed like the gimp from Pulp Fiction. It turns out that Wayans and Channing are two of the greatest dudes in the army and join the Joe team after some various training scenes. By the way the redhead and Wayans dig each other, duke killed (or so he thinks) his ex-girlfriends brother during a raid (not his fault) and holds much guilt, by the way nobody in this shit can act at all. The bad guys show the power of the bugs by having them eat part of the Eiffel Tower (no more U.S. Damage cause we haven’t even done shit to the trade center almost 10 years later.) They all fight some more the gimp is related in a way to the bad guy ninja. And oh yeah the ex girlfriends brother is not dead he is the evil mastermind behind the bugs. Holy fucking shit did this piece of crap really go nowhere. I can suspend disbelief and enjoy action movies like anyone else but this was hot garbage

Lazy Sunday

So why do I, and you love a lazy Sunday? Well mostly because we have done so much shit on Saturdays that we need a Sunday to recover. I remember when I was young with long flowing locks of hair from Friday to Saturday was just a haze of Rock clubs waking up somewhere trying to get home. we were rock and roll just without the talent, and fame, and record deal, but he we lived our lives if we had those things. Me and my bitching Camaro filled with bottles of Aqua Net Extra Super Hold and some Aussie Scrunch Spray. I think the reason I never smoked was because I could go up in flames. Well now that I am physically older I still live the hard partying lifestyle, you know doing yard work cleaning shit around the house being a guy. Bar-b-queuing and just getting ready for a night of cards with my friends or a hot movie or something, I mean that compared to nights at clubs like Lamoure’s or Stage Door or Sundance do not rate, wouldn’t you rather hang with a bunch of potbellied men eating sliders getting ready to watch people beat each other up in the fluorescent light of a basement, or be in some dark dingy nightclub trying to get some stupid chick from Bayshore to give you a hummer in the parking lot in your bitching Camaro. Boy do I need my lazy Sunday I mean who does not love waiting in line at the bagel store for your bagels all dressed up in your shorts and ripped up t shirt. Who doesn’t love reading the newspaper and all the ads that entice you to buy shit you don’t want but need. Who doesn’t love doing nothing till 8 o’clock at night then saying holy shit I have to work tomorrow I better…… I love an overcast lazy Sunday it is everyone’s excuse to do nothing so enjoy it remember we are still cool, even as we watch Bridezillas marathons.

the Wickedness of Wicked

So I went to see a Broadway play last night Wicked. First thing you know why it is the great white way? Don’t ask I will get in trouble, plus lots of dudes like me who were dragged there by their significant other. Second of all tickets are damn expensive, up in the balcony with surcharges and stuff still looking at over 350 bucks. You can buy over priced food and drinks, and by that I mean drinkie drinks you know the good ones but you can’t bring them into the show so slug ‘em down before you go in. OK enough with the pregame let’s get to the play. The set was very cool and creative, it was changing and showed some things but you also needed to use your imagination. Wicked is the story of the Wicked Witch of the West and how she got that way. Born Green, not loved, having to deal with a disabled sister, mother is dead, dad did not like her, all of these issues and then some yep it was kinda tough for her Plus , Popularity at High School was also dealt with, even how Glinda the good witch was a “friend” for a while. You know what that was pretty interesting, how someone who has the deck stacked against them can turn out bad all right, and you can still feel empathy for the person even though they are bad. I mean Jesus Tony Soprano had his nephew’s fiancé killed and then later killed him he was not a nice person, but he was a multifaceted person who would protect his family and empire but would kill those who he felt threatened by or betrayed by. Wicked could have been the same way, she could have been protective of her sister, smart enough to gain power be envious, of Glinda and her beauty, still be disjointed emotionally to be heinous, and yet she showed loyalty to her family and would do anything to keep her power base, she knew that they would never love her, so they could fear her instead , that would get the respect she felt she deserved, that could have been a great psychological profile, maybe even have Glinda keep trying to convince her to turn because of some of her good traits that is a bad person we can empathize with. I am not a writer of plays, bad poetry yes, insane ranting, yes but a play or a book highly doubtful. Had they ended the play there having us understand why she was wicked and some of her emotional torment I could be totally fine with it. No that was not enough they had to throw in the whole Dorothy and Wizard of Oz story as well, Frank Baum who I think wrote the book as a political allegory to his times and beliefs, gets put into some bullshit play and by the way they change some of the facts and the ending. We do not need for everybody to have a happy ending I was disappointed in where the story went ,I liked the singing there was not enough flying monkeys for me(there never could be enough flying monkeys) then at the end the whole audience (except for a few including you know who) gave them a standing ovation. I believe that too many actors get standing “O”’s for too little reason and if you read my FB you will know, so the next time the guy or gal at Dunkin Donuts makes your coffee give them a standing ovation they are performing just like those in Wicked.