Sometimes fiction is stranger than reality. Should reality be in caps?

Miracle at St. Anna
(Spike Lee, 2008)

Buffalo soliders surrounded by the Wehrmacht fight each other, locals, flashbacks.

It's sorta like Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and Buffalo Soliders, but isn't nearly as awesome as any of these. Not even close. In fact not even entirely sure what to say... Sure the combat was pretty decent, tho not as amazing as the three (3) aforementioned films, dialog unintentionally hilarious, and surprise boob shots on two occasions; and yet none of the pieces really came together? What happened here? Well, for starters everyone was too clean for being out in the field. The story far too fantastic; making a film around fact would have really helped here. Wildly unnecessary closeups, establishing shots, intro & outro sequencing, go-nowhere character building, confusing and contradicting messages (within one scene no less!)... The list does go on, but I'd rather get to my fish and make some cookie dough. The film was freakin' 160min! If you're gonna make a film marathon long it's gotta be at least as good as Das Boot and this ain't! You know what. Enough. Time to end this. Tho it is worthy to mention that R.Ebert said "one of the best battle scenes I can remember, on par with Saving Private Ryan." (not even close. not even. jus' sayin' only bein' real) Jus' a lil note to all y'all kiddies out there. Maybe not the most credible source for movie reviews any more. All in all, a fine example of the trouble I get myself into by not reading up on a film before grabbing it/watching any title I hear of.

Verdict:
¡DO NOT WANT!

79min Short

Before I Self Destruct
(50 Cent, 2009)

Former baller struggles to support genius little brother.

If I followed the credits correctly, written, directed, produced, music by Curtis Jackson. So that makes it pretty much awesome. Oh, and the fact it's on disc 2 of the album by the same title equals extra cookies. Action sequences were awesome, fast, brutal. Real life vomiting! Leadin' chick pretty hot. Love scene was interesting. Somehow they managed to show the entirety of the boobs, but never the nipple. The editor deserves a freakin' Oscar for that work since there is no way in hell the cherry on top should have not been visible w/ those angles. There's an interesting mix of "how it is" and fantasy in the film, er short, that adds a bit of whimsy. Such as the scene wherein Fiddy & his grocery store coworker are talkin' about a fly honey who comes into their humble house of employ compared to the wild over the top speech of the neighborhood king pin.

Overall, Hollywood would be wise to take some lessons from Mr. Jackson. 1) Guns 2) Blood 3) Broads 4) Keep it under 90min

Verdict:
If you're the kinda person to want to listen to 50 Cent albums beyond "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" then this film is for you!

YouTube Heroes #3

Brooklyn- and blood-based band The Gregory Brothers have been on an edutaining roll with "Auto-Tune the News," now in its ninth episode.

To my micro-nostalgic mind, though, the series reached its harmonically enhanced pinnacle way back in April of this year, with help from Katie Couric and some very, very thin ice:

BREAK YO SELF

another example of the spendocrats taking away our freedom

"highlights"

* Check-out limit: 50 items
* Interlibrary Loan fee: $5 for each item obtained
* Items designated for children 12 and under: Daily fines of 15 cents per item
* Bring borrowing limits and fees in line with other library systems

but seriously, who needs more than 50--or even 50 for that matter--things checked out at once.

Ron Paul 2012

Poor old Volunteer Tumefika

Original text courtesy of my good friend Abe. Translation courtesy of teh Googles.

English -> Afrikaans -> Yiddish -> Filipino -> Swahili -> Estonian -> Maltese -> Catalan -> Thai -> English

Number seven years ago, but their focus is the Chinese people the freedom that the new focus of all human actions are created equal.

While this country a good part in the war or who are important in pregnancy can be affected. We are limited in major wars - the war area. Volunteer Tumefika at the bottom of the farm for the rest of the lower leg end his life in cattle. Effective way to improve what they deserved what we do.

But in terms of a choice - not holy - holy land - no. I dare and die in this battle of the many dedicated fish we can add or remove poverty. Earth Funny little known L. grieve or remember the set but I can not remember why, here. This is our lives, but their commitment to work is not done here and those who fought and fish art are far better. here. We will be better allocated to other than us - flowers die with remorse services they provide in the final full test - We regret the death of the art treatment of many free Highline Shaka - claims that country. Under the new freedom is God - the people and government employees who die in the field.

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The Friday Mixtape

So here is a thing I have been doing:

http://rrriles.com/mixtape/

Today's installment (the 4th in a pseudo-weekly series) has a fairly obvious and superficial theme, but I guess any theme is better than none at all. I hope you like it.

Mad props, by the way, to the developers of Opentape, an open-source clone of the essentially defunct Muxtape interface. I've been it using for the better part of a year now, and I love it dearly.

Over and out.

check yo' self MAY 11th

http://www.usps.com/prices/pricechanges.htm

* first class up by 2c
* postcards up by 1c

MAY 11th 2009 CE

NOW YOU KNOW

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pure adrenaline

Point Break
(Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)

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This movie is so bad I seriously considered shutting it down just about every other minute while viewing.

NOT recommended

PS - i really don't enjoy being negative, but this is quite possibly one of the worst films i've ever seen

YouTube Heroes #2

I was first exposed to the comic genius of St. Sanders a few months back, but this entry from P.I.S.S. raises the bar considerably. NSFW if your coworkers are disinclined to appreciate stifled giggles and peed pants.



via Kelly and Coilhouse

the new rileymobile

lamborghini from RICHARD Fabrice on Vimeo.