TICKLE ME EMO.

LOL. This is funny funny. Hahahaha. Emo video.

BONNIE & CLYDE + BOOK ON THE WAY.

I just pre ordered Bonnie & Clyde and I ordered the book about the 1967 Best Picture Oscar noms. It should get here about 5 days before the movie gets here. That will be nice.

I am also going to read Pauline Kael's famous review of the movie. In it she defended the film because of negative writing on it by other critics. Her review was a 10,000+ word answer that catapulted Bonnie & Clyde to good box office and 10 Oscar nominations.

KEEP UP WITH THE 2008 ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT.

Four years ago I found a web site that I checked daily during the race for the White house. It gave the standing of each state and the Electoral College vote based on polling data. The site is up again this election year and I can't wait to follow all the numbers like last time. Here is the page. Its called Electoral-Vote.com. It is now focused on the delegate race. I hope you find it as useful as I do.

BONNIE & CLYDE: 3.25.08

"We rob banks".

After years and years of waiting Bonnie & Clyde [1967] is to be released as an Ultimate Collectors Edition on March 25th. There will be docs on the discs but sadly there will be no commentary track. I know it would have been nice to have. Thank you Warners for the great work again. Can hardly wait. Link to DVD on Amazon.

Also there is a book on that film to be released at around the same time: Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. I read on Amazon that the book is good. I'll let everyone know what I think of it after reading it. Link to the book on Amazon.

I'M BACK!!!!

Yes after some months of getting my life together I shall post again. :-) Happy 2008 to all who read this.

Times are not good.

I'm sad to report that my world has darkened quite a bit since my last blog entry. Where do I begin? LOL. I had had car wreck where someone slammed into the back of me. I was not hurt but the car is no more. :( Because of the credit/housing crisis in the U.S. I am now on two expensive payment plans for back taxes. Property taxes and back state taxes. Ouch! Things are grim this Fall and its not expected to get any better until mid 2008.

I'm still trying to wring a fair settlement out of the other driver's insurance company. I'm only asking that all my towing and storage bills are paid and whatever the blue book value of my car was. I am going to pay half of my property tax bill with any of that money. Wish me luck for this fall. Money is going to be tight. :( I think the quote from my August post sure fits my sittuation now. Hahahahaha.

MY WEEK PART 2.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

I HAVE BEEN BOURNE AGAIN!

I purchased the Bourne Identity and the Bourne Supremacy on DVD at Best Buy. The orignal rocked and had me on the edge of my seat when I saw it in the theater. The second installment of the Bourne trilogy was good at times but dumb at others. It seems thrown together/film school grad kind of lame in some of it. Slick when it should have been tense and jarring.


Link to the Bourne Files on DVD.

STAGE DOOR [1937]

I just ordered the Gregory La Cava comedy Stage Door on DVD. Katherine Hepburn is in it and it is was a 1937 Best Picture and Best Director nominee. A classic of the studio era at its best. Stage Door on Amazon.

The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection IN SEPTEMBER.

I'm getting this set in September. I thought Babes In Arms was wonderful when I first saw it. Since I'm running out of things to buy on dvd I'm not being that choosy this year. I am going to be getting more comedy in 2008 [ Blues Brothers, Animal House, Theres Something About Mary, American Graffiti, and maybe Dazed & Confused + a few more titles].

The Mickey Rooney Robert Osborne TCM show is on the bonus disc. Thats going to be great to watch. Rooney also gives intros to the movies in the set. Nice.
Link to set.

BLADE RUNNER DVD IN .DECEMBER.

Here is a link to the discussion of it on the HTF. I'm probably going to get the 4 disc set unless the 5 disc set with the famous "work print" does not cost above $50 U.S.

I'm hoping the image and sound are all that we BR fans have hoped for. They certainly will have plenty of versions [3+ a possible work print on the disc 5] to love or hate. Which one is the definitive Blade Runner? We will know in October or maybe September. Let the debate begin.

In anticipation of the release of the movie I'm going to be ordering and reading Future Noir: The Making Of Blade Runner. I will then be ready to for the replicants and replicant hunters.

There is also a forum I found relating to Blade Runner. Enjoy.

Thanks for the Vidor book!!!

I am getting a book of interviews on King Vidor in the mail. A prominent movie preservationist [can't reveal which one due to privacy concerns] is sending me a copy of it. I hope its more than a pamphlet. Its was reported to be worth $50 and I'm getting a copy for $14.

I'M BACK TO STAY!

I have decided that having a blog is woth all the trouble after all. My blog will be updaed at least 3 times a week no matter how busy I get. So thank you for reading.

CAR TROUBLE.

Yes thats right. Car problems have hit. I smell a burning coming from my air vents. My drive to work today should tell a whole lot about the state of my engine. :( I hope its just a small problem. Any large problem could break my bank account. :( I'm going to stay positive though. Think good happy thoughts. :)

MY SPRING CLEANING NIGHTMARE.

My week has been pure Hell what with the massive amount of cleaning I'm doing. Dust, mold, cobwebs, and just plain ordinary garden variaty dirt are being dealt with. My bathroom is done and most everything else is in various stages of completion. I was excused from a meeting at work so I could clean so I'd better do a good job. I have something to do for work today though. I'll be done yet exausted when I get home from said event.

Next week will be nice because I will be updating my blog, ordering a book, reading, and playing online pc games. The new ram and speakers have made me want to game game game! That shall be done! Thats a certianty. Right after I clean the house. :( Back to work for me. :(

MY COMPUTER IS HAUNTED.

Well not really. Its just skipping and going wierd thing lately. It does not want to boot half the time and I think I'm haveing memory issues. As long as its partally stable I'll be grateful. Is it the new ram? Is it the new speakers? Its not the heat I can tell you that. Pc is just fine. I'll let you know if there are any other problems with my sick pc. Fingers and toes are crossed!

ALL THE NEWS THATS FIT TO PRINT!!!

Yes. I do have some news. I'm not opening my stock trading account untill January of 2007. This gives me plenty of time and money to do other things. Had to buy a new lawn mower because I just can't get the other one to start. I got a good one for $170.

Today I'll be getting up early to get both more ram [512 mb] to bring me to 1 gig and a new 5.1 speaker system. I'm excited about it because I'm going to love playing Operation Flashpoint, Counter Strike Source, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Battlefield 2 with that new setup. My Audigy 2 zs soundcard died on me so I guess I'll just go on board 5.1 audio untill I find the time [and more cash] to upgrade my sound card.

Driving to CompUSA at 10:00 A.M. is not my idea of fun and nore is spending an hour or more before work setting up my new stuff.

I hope my life goes better in the near future. I deserve things to go well for a while! Don't I?

Keep those good thoughts coming!!!

It went well today. I'm not sure if it has to do with my lose battery or what. I am going to try a fix my manager told me about. Tuesday afternoon. I'll try that fix. Everything else is going better. I'll be filling out the brokerage papers on Monday and turn them in tuesday. I hope things go well. Going to try my mower on Wedsday. Thats my day off. I need my mower to run! :)

I JUST PRAYED.

I just prayed a real prayer and I just know in my heart of hearts that God will answer it in some way. :) I'll my blog updated no matter what happens this weekend. :) I have confidence and strength now!!! :)

Dark day ahead?

It was a bad week. My eye was swollen shut for 2 days from the pollen outside. My lawn mower refuses to start after just half the yard was cut. I get to work today and all Hell was breaking out. The resturant I work at is not doing well. The bosses boss is not happy with us. Add to all this my car has a poltergist in it I think. Well at least it has trouble starting. Also the book I ordered online has yet to arrive.

The broker I hope to use for stock trading is giving me a hassle over something. Its really irritating. Why me???!!! What have I done to deserve all this?! I wish I knew. I paid off the IRS [who refuses to send me the money they owe me from over paying them last month]. They have sent NOTHING in response to the fact that I paid them!!! Now what?!

Its all so bad right now. I NEED A MIRICLE OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS!!! Just as everything was going so well. Am I cursed??? Did I piss God off?!

MY PRAYER TO GOD ABOVE: I WILL STRIVE TO BE A BETTER PERSON IN EVERY WAY. I WILL TRY TO BE LESS SELFISH AND THINK ABOUT OTHERS AROUND ME. I'LL PRAY MORE AND BE MORE DEVOTED TO GOODNESS AND HONESTY. THIS IS MY PRAYER AND PLEDGE FOR 2006 AND BEYOND. JUST SEE ME THROUGH THESE TIMES OF STRIFE AND LET ME SEE A CLEARER AND MORE BEUTIFUL DAY!! IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY - AMEN!!! :)