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Post by wulf on Feb 10, 2012 17:56:49 GMT -5
Not a horror movie but still one of the greatest movies ever made.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Feb 13, 2012 22:03:18 GMT -5
Boom Boom is a great song by John Lee Hooker.
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 14, 2012 2:58:57 GMT -5
I have a John Lee Hooker story nobody would believe. And it involves a phone call, a former roommate, and cheeseburgers.
Friday.
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Post by luditesupreme on Feb 14, 2012 13:33:17 GMT -5
Boom Boom is a great song by John Lee Hooker. [/quo tupello is another one very moving . one burboun one shot and one beer is also his , i think . always liked that one as done by the george and the deleware destroyers . forgive me apparently i don't sleep much any more and i don't feel like spelling hiis last name . you know the george i mean
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Feb 14, 2012 23:42:45 GMT -5
Yeah I actually prefer George's version hell that's how I got into some of the older blue's guys.
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 15, 2012 16:33:06 GMT -5
Yep, I like that song, it reminds me off "Bad to the Bone" which reminds me of Gino Hernandez and Dallas wrestling moments with Chris Adams, Kevin Von Erich, and Kerry Von Erich.
Gonna watch Tyson, the documentary. It is a horror show.
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 16, 2012 0:36:44 GMT -5
Watched Tyson. It is a great documentary.
I actually feel sorry, a bit but not too much, for the train wreck of a champion after re-watching this film. What a shell of the deranged unstoppable animal he once was.
I would argue that as a boxer and as a student of boxing, Mike Tyson was a genius and phenom. He was small for a heavyweight and studied the greats of lighter divisions to increase his speed and dynamism. And his entertainment of fans via great, dynamic (short) fights.
I still don't like the man. A very flawed and chemically imbalanced man. He reminds me of an old sad pitbull with a terrible legacy of ripping into other animals.
I drove to the El Paso Civic Center to watch Tyson defend his championship from James "Buster" Douglas at the Tokyo Eggdome on closed-circuit teevee. To this day, that is my favorite fight. Tyson putting his mouthpiece in backwards was my favorite moment, more than the knockdown itself.
This Cheers! is dedicated to James "Buster" Douglas primarily and to Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe. Thank you gentlemen for humbling that pitbull.
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 16, 2012 2:56:55 GMT -5
C.S.A. The Confederate States of America.
This was a great fauxcumentary of what-if the South had won the "War of Northern of Aggression". Well they pulled it off at the Battle of Gettysburg with the help of their allies, French and English soldiers broke the "abolitionist" Northern army. Nice slap at Southern pride. I love it!
Other "facts". Rock and Roll born of Negro-Canadian musical traditions infected the C.S.A.'s youth in the fifties and sixties. Elvis Presley was made to flee to Canada. The John Brown Underground out of Canada began a bombing campaign after REPUBLICAN President Kennedy was assassinated for his "emancipation" views. Oh and Canada's black athletes regularly trounced the C.S.A. in the Olympics. Hitler spoke before the C.S.A. Congress, and the C.S.A. bombed Japan on December 7, 1941.
The whole film was in the feel of Ken Burn's The Civil War. A great watch. Written and directed by Kevin Willmott, and a Spike Lee Presentation.
Here's the first chunk to give ya a taste.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Feb 18, 2012 1:08:47 GMT -5
Watched Scream Blackula Scream which I really liked. The soundtrack was awesome and Blackula is the most sympathetic character of the whole movie.
JAS-5
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 18, 2012 3:07:13 GMT -5
Watched Trading Places with Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy a few days ago. I watched this movie soooo many times as a little kid on the teevee. Still love it, but not counting it. But I recommend it especially in these times of Wall Street scrutiny (more or, I suppose, less).
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 18, 2012 3:11:34 GMT -5
Oh and the actor who played Blackula reworked the initial script of Blackula to make an African-American monster of aristocratic lineage, character, and respectability, to be the kind of character that you described him as.
Smart. Classy. Credit Wikipedia.
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 18, 2012 3:17:39 GMT -5
Watched Harlem Nights for the first time since I was a kid. I watched it a bunch as a kid. Re-watching it now. I like, good times.
To give you a taste, here's the trailer and two quick scenes. An all-star cast with Red Foxx, Richard Pryor, Ella Reece, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, and a number of other familiar faces.
Drinking Pineapple Fanta with Rum from Barbados. Cheers!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Feb 19, 2012 23:08:29 GMT -5
Wathed Burn! which is a very good movie about caribben colonies. Marlon Brando who plays one of the main characters said it was his favorite movie that he acted in.
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 22, 2012 3:16:14 GMT -5
Blackstreet Fighter.
I liked this movie through its shortfalls and high points.
My favorite part of this movie was actor Philip Michael Thomas' two characters, Boom Boom, the Puerto Rican pimp who gets thrashed and repeatedly dunked face first in a dirty toilet by Leroy Fisk, the streetfighter, and Fletch Heineken (I am not making that up, and Hooray Beer!) the crooked cop who has the best lines in this blaxtoiplation gem. For example, when slapped by a black woman and called a honky, he laughs and says, "Honky... No one says 'honky' anymore." and walks off chuckling. His Pied Piper line was the best. MVP of this movie. Made my grumpy ass smile over and over.
Here's a funny review slamming this movie. It's better than Mr. I Hate Everything says, but he is funny, so credit whoever he is for this review, but believe me, it's better than he says.... you gonna believe a cat-owner over me?
Rum with a mix of three citrus sodas, okay stuff, but it ain't almighty beer. Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 22, 2012 4:17:29 GMT -5
So I only love two children, my two nieces. Otherwise I'm allergic to the little bastards and barbarians. They are all awful to me. Except my darling nieces.
So my oldest niece is scaring me. Age ten.
A few months back, after the first GOP debate, she was rooting for Michelle "Batshit Nuts" Bachman. This weekend she said abortion is okay for younger women but for those over thirty it is murder. This shocked my sis-in-law who is a bleeding heart like me, she a dem, me a very green, very liberal, social libertarian constitionalist yet fiscal conservative (or simply, I am G.D.I., Goddamned Independent. Thank you, thank you very much). My sis-in-law mouthed to me that the little one was parroting her dad. Out loud I said "Of course she is parroting her Dad". Gotta shame the little monster.
Well, I'll end that foolishness. She WILL be a linguini-spined, loose-wristed liberal like me, to quote that fat-ass, future coronary victim or diabetic, El Rushbo.
I bought her a DVD today for six to ten year olds from Scholastic Storybook Treasures. Four short historical narratives for the tykes, which combined have won 15 writing awards.
Dr. Christine King Farris, MLK's younger sister, presents the story behind the "I Have a Dream" speech from 1963.
Rosa about the American civil rights heroine, Rosa Parks, whose actions on December 1, 1955 helped usher a just revolution.
Martin's Big Words, a short chronicling some of MLK's most famous speeches.
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, the story of a young slave who mailed himself to freedom.
Watching them now, and they total 69 minutes, so I'm counting it. Tomorrow I give it to her as well as another heartfelt gift she has been requesting. Little knucklehead is almost ten and kinda a classic Twilight Zone fan and very much a Monty Python fan. I loves the little one. Mucho.
Drinking Four Roses Bourbon, neat, sans an ice cube. Laughing Whiskey Spirits.... Cheers!
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