I went to go see Hancock while in Tennessee on July 5th.  It wasn't exactly what I was expecting and while it wasn't a super awesome blockbuster it was enjoyable.  With that being said if I knew then what I know now I'm petty sure I would have waited for it to come out on video.  Another great idea for a movie where they rely more on the special effects than the story itself.  BUT, still good, just not as good as I was hoping for.  Not disappointed, just not thoroughly pleased.  They left it wide open for a sequel, but I'm not sure if they will.  I guess we'll just have to wait and see.  If they do decide to make a Hancock 2 I'll be waiting for it to come out on DVD. ;)

I got to see Hellboy II: The Golden Army while at home in Arizona on opening day, July 11th.  I wasn't the biggest fan of the first Hellboy movie, but I liked it.  I found it to be theater worthy, but just barely.  Well guess what folks... it turns out that Hellboy II is even better than the first.  This is such an amazing trend as of late (sequels being better than the originals).  Hellboy still hasn't attained the comic book movie quality of a Marvel (Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men...) movie, but it seems to be gaining momentum.  Hellboy II was also left wide open for another installment, and I see no reason for them not to do this one.  I'll be standing in line of opening day for Hellboy III when the time comes. :mrgreen:

Sorry guys, no rage reviews this time around.  Two good movies, but only one good enough for the price of admission, and that's only if such movies are your cup of tea.  If you're thinking of going to see one of them, I suggest Hellboy II be the one. ;)

Giant Aliens Rocking Out In Gatlinburg

Gatlinburg is a little city nestled at the foothills at the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Plenty of fine dining, breath taking scenery, and local country bands that fill the night air with music and song.

But the secret is out as giant aliens have begun appearing in Gatlinburg on the weekends kicking back to listen to the country music from the bands on the street.

The Grassy Knoll Institute was lucky enough to photograph a rocking chair left behind by an elderly giant alien. Strangely, there wasn't a single cat in sight.

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LURKING, AND ROCKING, ON THE GRASSY KNOLL

Cookie's photo frame was the only thing that could motivate me to tidy my table.
I just had to find a spot to place it.
so I get to see her face every time I'm at my table.
(:(:(:
and voilà, my spanking new table.
everything done in half an hour.
including the wall.
My bro said my wall looks awesome.
I wonder if my future students will ever know that they have such a cool teacher.
Gee.
How to influence them to like ACDC.
Hmmmm.

"Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost
Doesn't mean I'll stop
Doesn't mean I will cross

Just because I'm hurting
Doesn't mean I'm hurt
Doesn't mean I didn't get what I deserve
No better and no worse

I just got lost
Every river that I've tried to cross
And every door I ever tried was locked
Ooh-Oh, And I'm just waiting till the shine wears off..."

Lost - Coldplay

Gay's right. Their new album is insane.
One Avenged Sevenfold. One Coldplay. Two Incubus.
and a dozen other random songs.
Now, I'm just waiting patiently for B4 to come out of Tekong.
SO HURRY COME OUT ALREADY ):
2am's just ain't the same.

It's Sa-tur-day ya all.

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subsubtitle: prelude to the engine of perfection

subsubsubtitle: on the shattered dreams of other human beings

Fair warning, this post could be even more offensive than "The Anti-Christ is White!". You have been warned.

Have you noticed it yet? I mean, usually, all you normals seem alike to me. But lately, everywhere I go that black people go too, they seem...different. Just since Obama became the Presumptive Democratic Candidate. There's a new bounce in their step, a new sparkle in their eye, a new almost aggressively "happy" to their presence. It's like all of a sudden, black people are the new White!

Actually, the only time I'm around a lot of black people now is when I go to Walmart. Try going to Walmart on an early Sunday afternoon when the "black" churches here in OKC have obviously let their congregations out, and you'll see what I mean.

Maybe it's just my suppressed bigotry showing. OK then, let's play Ask The Aliens! I mean, they're all homogenized now. (Sorry LC, but this is where being the 800lb. gorilla in our blogging neighborhood makes you the obvious target. grin)

We got Scott Williams, who is black, as the Campus Pastor of the NW OKC Campus LifeChurch, the NDUB, which is what, 90% or more white? We got Southside Campus LifeChurch which is a mix of Whites, Blacks, Browns and Yellows...uhm...OK, so trying to stay within acceptable PC boundaries, I'm pretty sure it's OK to call Caucasians "Whites" and (can we even say Negroes anymore? Bobby Kennedy did, but that doesn't make it alright, does it? Oh well, I'll just play it safe) it's OK to call Blacks "Blacks, but is it OK to call Hispanics "Browns" or Asians "Yellows"? I'm up enough on my PCness to know that you don't call Hispanics "Mexicans" because, get a clue, "they're" not all from Mexico. And it's decidedly bad, bad, bad to refer to Asians as "Orientals". I'm not sure why on that last one, but it is.

So, what's the frequency, Kenneth? Are all you Okie Aliens one big multicolor, multicultural multi-campus? Or are you more comfortable being "multi-site" segregated? Oops, that wasn't nice of me. Can I take it back? (grin)

I better get off the topic of race and color before I get into any more trouble. I know! Let's talk about women! (can you say out of the frying pan and into the fire? grin)

Have you noticed it yet? I mean, usually, all you normals seem alike to me. But lately, everywhere I go that women go too, they seem...different. Just since Obama became the Presumptive Democratic Candidate. There's a new rage to their glance, a new determination in their voice, an old, but increasingly rebellious acknowledgement to their acceptance of being sidestepped.

White Liberal Feminist Women are going to vote for John McCain in droves. No really! That's all the talk on MSNBC, CNN, AND FoxNews! White Liberal Feminist Women are going to elect John McCain to the White House because the Demonocratic party has thrown them under the bus by choosing Obama over Hillary. All of a sudden, the pecking order seems to have changed. Unless of course your a black woman. Then you have to make a choice. But at least you have "it" to make. White women seem to not have "it". All of a sudden, it's like White Women are the New Black. And it's not a fashion statement. (This part is a little dated. At least for now. grin. What? Don't you watch jibjab?)

Well aliens? What do you think? Or are the topics of Race and Sexism still too close to the bone for you? Too bad, huh? Welcome to the 2008 Presidential Race, you Holders Of the Sacred Moral Majority Flag! Don't you miss the Good Old Days when it was all about Abortion and Gay Marriage? (grin)

OK, OK, I'm a nicer, kinder paravane these days. I can't leave y'all hanging like that. How about a little white/black/brown fusion music to go out on?

Am I good, or what? (grin) I tried to find something white/black/brown/yellow fusion, but mah mad searching skillz aren't quite that good. Oh well, three out of four ain't bad, right? Wait yer turn! Oh my, that was uncalled for...

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Editorial update. I started this post 6/12. I didn't finish it because of the death of someone I admired a great deal. Humor seemed out of place at the time. I'm trying to write a very difficult post because it's just as much about me as all of you. To me it seems obvious. But if that is true, then why hasn't the Engine of Perfection completed it's work on me? Or even gotten started? I could sum it up simply by stating that if greed is the root of all evil then fear is the root of all weakness, but I don't think that would really get it all across. So, here's a prelude, in all it's layers. Let's finish it up in this "it's a never been attempted before brand new political thingy" season by showing the first attempt at this "brand new thingy":

Don't you love the phrase "xxx is the new black!"? I love layers. (grin)

"Jimmy, why all this stuff about women and blacks? You are trying to be funny, but some people will probably be offended!" Yep. That's exactly my point. At least this time(grin). If you believe that your subjective point of view, your history, your experience is or should be what everyone else is shaped by, then you don't know where you are. This is not your heaven. This is not the land of opportunity. This is not peace on earth. This is hell on earth.

But it is also the Engine of Perfection. IMHO, as always.

When did all this begin ?

UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) sightings have been taking place with alarming frequencies (at an average of 1 every 3 minutes). According to Wikipedia, the first sighting took place as way back in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, in the Atlantic Ocean, saw "a light glimmering at a great distance." It disappeared and reappeared several times during the night. However, not much was made about this. Apart from this, there were a few isolated cases that sprang up around the world in the 1920s. In the 40s, however, there came about a resurgence in these "UFO" sightings, with such cases being reported at an alarming rate which continued till the late 80s. Many scientists questioned the authenticity of these sightings, as these sightings took place at around the same time when "Aliens" and "Extraterestrial Life" was a popular theme for most films. However, these controversies refused to die down and thus, extra terrestrial life is pretty commonly known today.

Why are scientists interested in alien life?

Man is a social animal. He needs to be in a society where there are other human beings in order to mingle and socialize with others. In the same pretext, a question arose among leading astrologers about other life forms. They wondered whether the humans were alone in this universe, or are there other creatures in our galaxies? Is there someone more capable,more intelligent than us? Would they be friendly or hostile? These questions led to scientists confidently asserting that there can and may be extra terrestrial life on other planets due to which they became interested in finding out the possibility of the existence of such creatures.

Can there be alien life on earth?

This question is a bit tricky as astronomers and scientists alike are unsure. The following are the most relevant examples which provide some answers to this question:

The Crop Circle Phenomenon is one of the most widely used fact to endorse claims of alien life. Such circles were observed around the world in the 1970s, where the crops on the field were in a pattern which resembles complex geometric figures which were claimed to be the work of alien life. Scientists rubbished these claims, citing that they are merely pranks to fool the public. Some even claimed that they could make crop circles themselves, and they were the ones who played the prank. Whatever may be the truth, this phenomenon has certainly fueled thoughts of alien life forms on earth.

The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt is said to be a wonder of engineering, with historians predicting that during its hay days, the sides of the pyramid were said to have pin-point accuracy. What amazes historians is that they never concieved the idea of a civilization as advanced as this in the 2000 BC. Even this, however, as some groups believe, is the handiwork of alien life forms. They believed that human civilizations were not intellectually capable of building such wonders during that time period, and that alien life forms "supposedly" descended on earth and built this structure. Although historians (as usual) have rubbished these claims, there are a fair no. of people who think otherwise. This site provides some questions challenging the claims of historians.

The Nazca lines are another example used to endorse claims of alien life. They are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches more than 80 km (50 miles) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. They are believed to have been created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and AD 700. There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, llamas and lizards. There are some groups that claim whether humans can make such creatures with minute details visible when only viewed at a distance above the ground. They claim that this also was made by aliens and is supposedly their landing strip.Whether or not this is true, this has created quite a stir.

(to be continued)

Fear of People, Fear of death, Fear of the unknown, Fear of the future, fear of the past, fear of going crazy, fear of loss, fear of failure, and much, much more. 

The origin of fear is the same, satan. The results of fear can be many different things. Fear is so big in these las days that many will not have the courage to continue. Many will even commit suicide. The bible says in Luke 21:26 that men’s hearts will fail them for fear.  So weather that means they will commit suicide or their heart will stop beating, the results of fear are the same. SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT MAKE IT TO THE END. (The bible says those who endure to the end shall be saved. 

Fear is an emotional response to threats and danger. Fear is often related with pain, you may have fallen in the past, so you are afraid of heights. Or you were hurt by someone or something, so now you are afraid of things and people. 

Research shows that people can get sick from fear. They even say that death can come from fear. Even healthy people have been known to be “scared to death”.  Fear often starts out a being concerned about something and can grow into where you are so afraid even to move. Your heart starts racing and you become sick. You can become fatigued and experience many physical symptoms in your body because of fear. 

People see all the things that are going on in the earth and that fear will overcome them if they submit to it. Luke 21:9 says that people will hear (the other verse said see or looking) & they will fear, but if tells us not to become alarmed & panic stricken & terrified: for all these things must take place first...

For Christians we should have great joy because we know that Jesus will be coming soon to take us home. So rather than being terrified of what is happening in the world, we should confidently & joyfully await the return of Christ. 

So in the last days DON’T QUIT, DON’T QUIT QUITTING! DON’T QUIT TURNING BACK TO GOD! DON’T QUIT REPENTING! SIMPLY DON’T QUIT.

Next, another result of fear is bondage.

Rom. 8:15 For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!

People are slaves to fear. They even serve fear. There are people who can’t even move or do what they want because fear has such a hold on them, they can only move as fear moves them. Fear imprisons, fear paralyzes, and much more. 

Fear has torment.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Fear respects no one. Many people from all walks of life live in fear. Fear strikes the mind and holds it captive so you will not be effective for God or man. Fear can paralyze someone so much that they will not do the things God has planned for them. Fear breaks communion with God. A fearful person cannot live in the presence of God. And that is satan’s ultimate goal, is to get you so fearful that you will not be with, experience, or even turn to God at any moment in time. 

Men in the bible had results of fear, but they knew if they turned to God, they would be set free. See here that it made him suffer in his body. 

Isaiah 21:3-5 

 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Fear NOT, for I am with thee:

Isaiah 35:4

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.

Isaiah 41:10

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 41:13

For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

Isaiah 43:1

But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

Isaiah 43:5

Fear not: for I am with thee...

Isaiah 44:8

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

We will talk more at another time what our response to fear should be, but just remember that Fear is a Spirit, it is from Satan, & God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. He wants you to walk with Him without any hindrances. He wants you free. That is why Jesus came. Without Jesus you do not have any hope. 

Ephesians 2:12

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world...

So do not act like you are like those without hope. You have the one who created the world behind you and in you. He is your strength! He is your hope! He will not leave you, not forsake you!! Look to Him!! Be FREE!!

Fear of People, Fear of death, Fear of the unknown, Fear of the future, fear of the past, fear of going crazy, fear of loss, fear of failure, and much, much more. 

The origin of fear is the same, satan. The results of fear can be many different things. Fear is so big in these las days that many will not have the courage to continue. Many will even commit suicide. The bible says in Luke 21:26 that men’s hearts will fail them for fear.  So weather that means they will commit suicide or their heart will stop beating, the results of fear are the same. SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT MAKE IT TO THE END. (The bible says those who endure to the end shall be saved. 

Fear is an emotional response to threats and danger. Fear is often related with pain, you may have fallen in the past, so you are afraid of heights. Or you were hurt by someone or something, so now you are afraid of things and people. 

Research shows that people can get sick from fear. They even say that death can come from fear. Even healthy people have been known to be “scared to death”.  Fear often starts out a being concerned about something and can grow into where you are so afraid even to move. Your heart starts racing and you become sick. You can become fatigued and experience many physical symptoms in your body because of fear. 

People see all the things that are going on in the earth and that fear will overcome them if they submit to it. Luke 21:9 says that people will hear (the other verse said see or looking) & they will fear, but if tells us not to become alarmed & panic stricken & terrified: for all these things must take place first...

For Christians we should have great joy because we know that Jesus will be coming soon to take us home. So rather than being terrified of what is happening in the world, we should confidently & joyfully await the return of Christ. 

So in the last days DON’T QUIT, DON’T QUIT QUITTING! DON’T QUIT TURNING BACK TO GOD! DON’T QUIT REPENTING! SIMPLY DON’T QUIT.

Next, another result of fear is bondage.

Rom. 8:15 For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!

People are slaves to fear. They even serve fear. There are people who can’t even move or do what they want because fear has such a hold on them, they can only move as fear moves them. Fear imprisons, fear paralyzes, and much more. 

Fear has torment.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Fear respects no one. Many people from all walks of life live in fear. Fear strikes the mind and holds it captive so you will not be effective for God or man. Fear can paralyze someone so much that they will not do the things God has planned for them. Fear breaks communion with God. A fearful person cannot live in the presence of God. And that is satan’s ultimate goal, is to get you so fearful that you will not be with, experience, or even turn to God at any moment in time. 

Men in the bible had results of fear, but they knew if they turned to God, they would be set free. See here that it made him suffer in his body. 

Isaiah 21:3-5 

 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Fear NOT, for I am with thee:

Isaiah 35:4

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.

Isaiah 41:10

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 41:13

For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

Isaiah 43:1

But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

Isaiah 43:5

Fear not: for I am with thee...

Isaiah 44:8

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

We will talk more at another time what our response to fear should be, but just remember that Fear is a Spirit, it is from Satan, & God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. He wants you to walk with Him without any hindrances. He wants you free. That is why Jesus came. Without Jesus you do not have any hope. 

Ephesians 2:12

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world...

So do not act like you are like those without hope. You have the one who created the world behind you and in you. He is your strength! He is your hope! He will not leave you, not forsake you!! Look to Him!! Be FREE!!

Nothing I have ever heard before sounds anything like The Aliens. These psychedelic garage rockers belt out rhythms like the Seventies never occurred. I stumbled across their single – I Am Unknown - on some random mp3 blog and three minutes later, I was hooked.

Imagine The Who’s jamming sessions after thirty hits of LSD…no wait, they’ve probably done that. Ah screw it, just download it and take a listen. If the first solo doesn’t get your feet tapping or your head nodding, something is seriously wrong with you. Every once in a while, there comes a band whose aspirations to kick out the jams are inarguably larger than their persona. And The Aliens know it well enough.

The Zombies knew it during early Sixties. Ten Years After toyed with the notion during the summer of love. Springsteen even famously forgot about it to become one of the best-selling tour acts ever. More recently, Aussie rockers Wolfmother almost realized it.

As for The Aliens…well, they just fucking nailed it.

I went to see the movie, essentially because I had to. I was pretty much forced to go by family and friends, and obviously I’ve stopped talking to all relatives and acquaintances because of it.

I was forced to sit through an eternity of inanity. While my physical body sat in the movie house for little over two hours. My mental state withered and died a thousand deaths, and lived for a thousand eternities. Each and every second was elongated, into a timeless vacuum, a vacuum of dire, tired, meaningless condescension.

I’d never contemplated suicide before I watched this movie, but as I sat, bored shitless, cringing at every one liner and each forced monotonous grunt from Harrison Ford I started wondering,

“Would it be possible to drive this straw through the arteries in my neck? Could I somehow strangle myself with my own tie? Maybe, if I eat enough Minstrels, and sweet candy treats, I’ll die from a cardiac arrest…”

Alas, it was not possible to drive the straw into the arteries in my neck, I tried, a lot.

And each and every time I tried to strangle myself with my tie I found only that when I passed out, my grip loosened, much like the skin on Mr. Fords withered face, and I was welcomed to the realms of hell 5 minutes later by Harrison Ford’s visual battle with arthritis.

Watching Indiana Jones IV, is like watching a sky diver jumping out of a plane, without a parachute, landing flat on his face… Before the plane even takes off.

I think I would have found more enjoyment in watching my parents have sex than I found in watching this movie…

In fact, I’m so confident in this fact, that right now, I will rate Indiana Jones VI 2/10, whilst I will rate watching your parents having sex a nice round 9/10.

Don’t trust me? Watch your parents having sex, then watch Indiana Jones, come back and tell me, which sucked more?

“What was so wrong with the movie?” You ask, in a weary tone, as if tired of hearing people like me, who are never satisfied.

Well there was a lot wrong with this movie, here’s a list.

1. Harrison Ford.

Harrison Ford is the biggest problem this movie suffers from. He’s like a cancerous, scabby, puss satchel, growing just behind your ball sack. You want to get rid of it, you want to scratch it, but you know it’ll burst all over your balls if you do, so you’re stuck. In an endless indecisive battle with your own will. Until you eventually convince yourself, “it’s not that bad.” Having Harrison Ford in this movie, is as bad as having a cancerous, scabby, puss satchel growing behind your balls.

The man seems so dead inside, like he’s given up on acting, in every seen you get the distinct feeling that Harrison Ford doesn’t want to be there, he doesn’t want to be acting. Every line he delivers sounds so weak and forced that the only comparison I can make is the squeak of minor, feigned “joy,” a woman gives, when a man with a 2 inch penis is penetrating her. That’s how much strength Mr. Ford delivers his lines with in this movie. The strength of a bored, dry, unsatisfied, woman with a 2 inch penis inside her vagina.

At first I thought, “it’s just because he’s old, he was great in all the old ones.” It took me a while to realise this, but that thought, was nothing more than my inner child grasping for an explanation, an excuse for Mr. Ford pissing all over a part of all that I nostalgically held dear. I went home and watched the old movies again… He sucks in all of them, he delivers his lines with just as little passion in the previous movies.

(A snippet of advice, if you see this movie, and are disappointed, don’t watch the old ones again, let yourself believe the lie that they were the best thing since strawberry toothpaste. It’s better than realising you were a dumb-assed kid who watched trash.)

When will people finally accept that Harrison Ford is old. He is too old to be accepting starring roles, he needs to learn to accept that he needs to take the back seat from now on, but he will never learn to do that, unless the public stop pandering to him. Ladies. Harrison Ford, is not hot, I hate to tell you this, he might have been “cool” and “classy” when you were 16, but not anymore, he’s old, his face looks like a melted bag of candle wax, and he’s neither as manly nor as grizzly as you like to think he is.

Let me put it this way, you wouldn’t let an elderly man, working past retiring age, who was clearly confused and lost in the whole process handle your bank accounts and your mortgage, so why do you accept it in cinema? Acting is no different from any other job.

Harrison Ford is a terrible actor, I realise this movie could not have been made without him, but perhaps that's just it, maybe this movie should just not have been made…

2. The CGI Gopher.

As the movie begins you are literally invited to a dirge-fest by a CGI piece of computerised dog shit. Why do we need to use CGI in everything? It’s so dire. Believe it or not guys, good movies are made without insanely up to date computer graphics, the worst part is, I’ve seen far better CGI in far less known movies. The CGI was truely terrible and just makes everyone feel awkward and slightly sick of George Lucas’ wave of bullshit.

The thing that gets me, is they could have trained a gopher to do what the CGI gopher did, and kept the entire screen looking real, instead of some half and half mix of space-jam like twat juice.

3. Indiana Jones‘ dad is dead. Sorry for spoiling the surprise.
This was re-affirmed by the truly moving line, “it seems we’ve reached that age in life where life starts taking away instead of giving.” Yea, great script writing you cock, let’s summarise the death of this man’s father in some semi-intellectual bullshit you got from a woman’s health magazine…

4. Area 51, for some unknown reason is guarded by about 7 or 8 men.

Why? All America’s secrets, even at that time, would have had considerably more men guarding it. Instead of seeing what anonymous, eye-witness reports of the area have said to be, “confined by walls of barbed wire”, “surrounded by dogs and armed officers,” we get two men at a toll booth with a sign that says they’re authorized to shoot any civilian who walks into the area.

Which is a bit defunct considering you’d probably also have to shoot any civilian who saw said sign on an American military installation. So in essence it probably would have been easier on the days work, and the conscience of the American military as portrayed by George Lucas to not have the sign up…

Also, Area 51, according to George Lucas has a shit storing policy. It’s just boxes everywhere in a warehouse with no organisation. Although now I’m admittedly just nit picking like a prick.

5. The Russian accents are shit.

I’m pretty sure this is meant to be an inward reference to past movies where the accents were all abysmal, but to be honest I just don’t care, 2 hours of, “you vil find for uz de creeestal skol” does start making a man want to rip off his own genitalia and jam as much of it in his ears as he can…

6. Crystal Skulls are dumb, aliens are dumb, claiming the aliens are actually inter-dimensional beings just so they’re not technically aliens, and you can claim you didn’t just live off your sci-fi legacy, is dumb… Take all that shit out and replace it with something good.

This point speaks for itself.

7. Masses of poorly thought out scenes and physics.

It’s a crystal skull, it has special properties, we get it. What we don’t get is why your movie defies basic laws of physics at every twist and turn through it’s labyrinth of illogicality.

First off, In one of the first scenes Indiana has to lead Russians to a box in Area 51. The box is supposedly massively magnetised, so much so that he can throw gun powder in the air and it will fly towards said box…

Ok, I buy that, except that being around something that powerfully magnetic would cause side effects in people somewhat similar to sea sickness, and I saw no sea sickness from anybody. I could have over-looked this fact if when they got to the box there weren’t so many illogical happenings around it.

A mans glasses are sucked onto the lid of the box. Why would a metal box become magnetised because of what’s in it that’s magnetic? That only happens when metal is perfectly suspended inside a round hollow magnet of massive strength. Why does everyone’s guns work beside something so magnetically powerful it can drag gun powder hundred of metres? Why does something that can draw all the hanging ceiling lights, in the room, in the same direction as it, when they move the box do little more than make dog tags levitate when the soldiers stand beside it.

People should have felt sick being near it too long, dog tags should have been ripped off, guns should have stopped working, and the cars they loaded it onto should have stopped working.

(This is all within one of the first scenes remember.)

How do you manage to fall off three massive mother-fucker water-falls without dying or even sustaining a minor injury?

Is it just me, or would Indiana Jones, or would he not, be fucking dead after being shot into the air by a nuclear blast, regardless of whether or not he was in a “lead lined fridge?”

Why the hell does Indiana Jones run after the Russians who were just trying to kill him shouting “Wait for me!” When the nuke’s about to go off? Only 5 minutes ago he was running away from them, and they were trying to kill him. Why would they wait?

Why the fuck does Indiana Jones’ son command an army of monkeys, and where the fuck did he learn to swing from vines, and why the fuck has this movie turned into fucking Tarzan?

How in God’s name can Indiana Jones translate a language that hasn’t been seen in thousands of years in a matter of seconds?

8. This movie is “just another sequel.”

I think I speak for every man woman and child on the planet when I say, “no more fucking sequels, prequels or remakes, please for the love of God, we have a mind which has an inexhaustible imagination, and all Hollywood can throw at us is sequels, prequels and remakes, and on the odd occasion that it doesn’t, we’re given a regurgitated story, with slight differences in location and characters in the hopes we wont notice, AND I’M FUCKING TIRED OF IT.”

I download movies now, on principle, fuck the movie industry, it abandoned me, and people like me a long time ago, they pissed on my childhood memories, they ruined my favourite movies and then they wonder why the general public download. We download, because it’s like eating a grape from the supermarket as you do your shopping. We don’t care about your jobs or your movies anymore, you’ve lost that level respect. We do it because we know we’re going to be completely and utterly disappointed by your dirge, and instead of wasting £20 on a completely over-priced DVD we’ll just steal your crap until you start making something good.

You make a good movie, and I swear to God, I will go pay to see it, and I’ll buy it, but until that day, I’m gonna keep downloading, and you brought it upon yourselves.

9. Ox is dumb and pointless.

The way he is introduced to the story is so fucking annoying. Why is it, in every movie, it has to be spelt out for me who new characters are. You either develop their stories, or let me figure it out myself, you don’t throw in two lines of direct explanation, almost in narrative form, from Indiana Jones, about his past with a new character, it makes your audience feel stupid, when in reality, they aren’t, you’re just shit at making movies.
Ox is, and probably will be, for the rest of my life, the worst character introduction I’ve ever seen in a movie. BAR NONE.

10. This movie suffers from all the exact same problems as the last crusade does.

Remember The Last Crusade? When we were fed 20 minutes of crap about Indiana Jones as a boy, getting a scar, and developing a fear of snakes that we really didn’t fucking need at all. Remember when under the library Kazim threw a match into a catacomb that Indiana had a lit torch in and the whole thing erupted in flames because of gas build up? This movie is filled with inane, non-sensical, nostalgic, backtracking crap like that, on a less grand scale, instead of a 20 minute sequence, we’re given a bad script which has the 20 minutes spaced out at 5 minute intervals, every 5 minutes the plot is explained for us, new characters are given a back story through some weak assed narratory lines, from Mr. Ford, that nobody needs, and every past joke is played on beyond all fair reasoning.

11. Every one liner in this movie sucks. Every. Single. One.

The one liners of this movie, are not one liners, because they are funny one line statements, they are one liners, because nobody will ever fucking use them again.
“I’m getting too old for this.” - Just because you’re using it in reference to how much everyone else uses it, doesn’t make it God damned funny.
“You’re a teacher?”
“Part-time.”
The delivery of this one was poor, “part-time” was delivered in such a matter of fact way that nobody could ever find it funny.
There were more, I just can’t be bothered remembering them, because it sickens me to even think about this movie and write about it, let alone having to remember it.

Things that are more enjoyable than watching this movie:

Shitting yourself in public.
Watching your parents have sex.
Suicide.
Watching your parents have sex with animals.
Giving yourself an enema.
Cutting off your nipples and gluing them to your face.
Suicide.
Mowing the lawn.
Catching Scabies.
Going to work.
Not watching this movie.
Suicide.
Fighting a badger.
Gouging your own eyes out with a rusty butter knife then asking a fat lady with herpes to urinate in your eye sockets…

Other movie titles considered for Indiana Jones IV were:

Indiana Jones IV : Why we should never have made a new movie.
Indiana Jones IV : The quest to fill our pockets with cash by pissing on what you love.
Indiana Jones IV : The battle with arthritis.
Indiana Jones IV : The never ending story.
Indiana Jones, and the search for a plot that doesn’t crawl up it’s own ass and die only to shit itself out in it’s own ass, creating a ridiculous shit-stained paradox.

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you're all welcome.

to be honest, the lack of posts lately means the marketplace is full of uninspiring shit.  i dug deep on the travel tip and found this extra terrestrial carry bag though.  perfect for that virgin galactic flight, when you get your cake up of course.  PAM is still official.  get it at boundless.

Bury his body in the old sink hole Bury his body in the old sink hole

Bury his body in the old sink hole under cold November sky

Then damned if I wouldn’t go to church on Sunday

Damned if I wouldn’t go to church on Sunday

Damned if I wouldn’t go to church on Sunday

and look the Preacher in the eye.

"Sinkhole," Lyrics by Patterson Hood / Music by Drive-by Truckers
©2003 Soul Dump Music (BMI)

It's should come as no surprise that Florida leads the nation in assholes, but we also have a lock on sinkholes.

Seems that our limestone substrate makes for a fascinating array of holes in the ground.

It's good to be on top. Unless you fall in, in which case I recommend falling into a vulva-shaped one to preserve your masculine image, like the fellow above.

I started researching sinkholes for a story idea I've toyed around with for a while. These voids in the terra firma look like they're waiting to be filled with my creative juices. Okay, okay, I'll try to calm myself.

Here's a useful guide to Florida sinkholes with some pictures and explanations of each type.

Fascinating. No, really. Of course, the sinkholes in my story are created by a race of subterranean aliens, percolating through the porous limestone aquifers, reconstituting here and there in the form of... well, don't want to give the "hole thing" away, do we? They do have a taste for livestock, however.

Ouch.

Smuggled Immigrants Raise U.S. Terrorism Fears Concern about a terrorist threat to the United States is growing among American intelligence officials due to a recent upsurge in the number of East Africans who have been caught trying to enter the US illegally.

Citing an "internal government assessment" that it had obtained, the Associated Press reported last week that the US is focusing new attention on networks that smuggle people from Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan.

These four countries are among 35 confidentially listed by the US Department of Homeland Security as being of "special interest" due to the alleged presence of terrorists in their territories.

A total of 159 citizens of the four East African countries have been captured in the past several months as they tried to enter the US without permission. That compares to 125 for all of last year and a total of 22 in 2003.
Of the 159 caught this year, 138 came from Eritrea, the AP reported.
The United States has a particularly thorny relationship with Eritrea, which Washington accuses of supporting an Islamist force inside Somalia that the US also labels as a terrorist organisation. A senior State Department official warned last year that the US may designate Eritrea as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Djibouti, on the other hand, is among the United States' closest allies in Africa. The tiny country strategically situated on the Horn hosts a US military base that conducts counter-terrorism operations throughout the sub-region.
American officials acknowledge that most of the East Africans trying to enter the US illegally have no ties to terrorism and are motivated by hopes of achieving a better life.
The four East African countries listed as of "special interest" to US security agencies are part of a group made up mainly of majority-Muslim states.

Intensified worries about aliens entering the US from East African "special interest" countries stem from a court case involving two Ghanians who specialised in smuggling East Africans into the United States.

One of the two men, Sampson Lovelace Boateng (known as Pastor), recently pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to charges that he recruited East Africans who paid for his assistance in attempting to enter the US.
US authorities charged that Mr Boateng, along with alleged co-conspirator Mohammed Kamel Ibrahim, provided the East Africans with phony Mexican visas that enabled them to travel from Africa to South America and Central America en route to the United States.
The pair also arranged to bribe African officials to facilitate their clients' efforts to reach the United States, the US indictment charges.

Particularly alarming to US officials is the apparent success the smugglers enjoyed in bringing citizens of "special interest" countries into the United States.

"Getting into US is no problem at all," Mr Ibrahim boasted in an e-mail message intercepted by US authorities. "That's what I do best."
Mr Ibrahim and Mr Boateng were arrested last year. Their activities are said to have accounted for most of the East Africans who entered the US illegally in the past couple of years.

"Criminal smuggling organisations earn millions of dollars through the ruthless exploitation of illegal aliens," Julie L. Myers, a security official for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, told the Associated Press.

"By attacking these organised criminal networks in a comprehensive way, we are shutting down vulnerabilities in our country and in theirs."

Anti-immigrant fever grips the nation

U.S. needs reasonable immigration reform

African Smuggling Rings Pose Threat

Lets take our paranoia to the next level. Not that there is NOT a problem, there certainly is! America is still guilty of knee jerk, treat the symptom and not the cause. All I hear, is how "terrorists and criminals" are infiltrating the US to cause us harm. Wow! That's the baby in the bath water ... Nurturing this attitude is a ploy to cover up inadequate US policies. There has always been resentment for anyone different. The United States is becoming less and less "United" over the immigration issue. Every single one of us whose ancestors arrived AFTER 800 A.D. is an immigrant, invader or accidental tourist! Arrivals AFTER the 1600s (criminals, misfits and the persecuted), decided to set up their own country, declaring freedom and equality in the 1700s (with the exclusion of the host population). NOW from the early 1900s to present, America has decided to FILTER any further immigrants onto this land. The land of freedom, democracy and hope is an exclusive club that is suffering from their past myopic, elitist decisions. Decisions, (based upon Europe's imperialist mindset) that were exclusive to those privileged few invaders, who set up a powerful nation, but, failed to make adequate provision for the indigenous population and future immigrants. The American Myth has attracted the hopeful and desparate world wide ... the advertising has been awesome. Now, the infrastructure shows inadequate accomodation. Calling to the world to taste our wine, then denying them a place at the table is cruel. The land of opportunity is a scam. Opportunity is available to only the invited.

America has become the world wide poster child for bait and switch. We build fences ... we chase and encarcerate. We are NOT addressing the problem by scapegoating immigrants as terrorists or "low lifes". Drug criminals are a different problem and are NOT being impacted by the "crackdown" on those poor suckers trying to support their families back home. The dragnet is targeted on the southern border. Canada "is more like we are", no fence needed. Al Qaeda flies in from Europe and points EAST under tourist and student visas with plenty of cash in their pockets. Africans and other 3rd world immigrants, fleeing for their lives, must use the discount method, Mexico. Again, criminals are NOT impacted by fences, but they do take advantage of those travelers, fleece them, then smuggle them across the border in horrid transport, into slavery or worse. America's paranoia allows the criminals to charge more for their services. They recruit travelers for criminal operations for payback. Throwing fences across the southern border is NOT the bullseye of the immigration problem, it is another racist calamity. Because, forced to live UNDER the legal radar, has created MORE criminals. They have to eat, feed their families and try to assimilate without drawing the attention of the authorities. The immigration issue must address the causes and actual circumstance before a real solution can be proposed.

Now, after about 4 or 5 years of wanting, I finally own every single X Files season, including the first movie. I've been counting down since March for this movie, and now its only a week away!!!!! I'm seeing it as soon as it comes out, literally, the first session available on next Thursday. I'll probably see it twice...SO FUCKING EXCITED!!! Expect a review.

John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

Petra Not Of This World lyrics
Words and music by Bob Hartman
Based on 2 Peter 2:11, John 15:18-19, John 16:33, Matthew 16:18, John 14:3
We are pilgrims in a strange land
We are so far from our homeland
With each passing day it seems so clear
This world will never want us here
We're not welcome in this world of wrong
We are foreigners who don't belong
(Chorus)
We are strangers, we are aliens
We are not of this world
We are envoys, we must tarry
With this message we must carry
There's so much to do before we leave
With so many more who may believe
Our mission here can never fail
And the gates of hell will not prevail
Jesus told us men would hate us
But we must be of good cheer
He has overcome this world of darkness
And soon we will depart from here
Petra Not Of This World lyrics

If this is a vast government conspiracy, how have the hundreds of thousands involved in this cover-up been made to stay silent for all these years?  Surely someone would have talked by now.

Secondly, if these little grey guys are so smart, and can travel hundreds or thousands of light years across interstellar space, why do they keep crashing their saucers when they get here?

Here's Mr. Helleyer:

I just came across this top secret, never before seen footage of Mr. Bush's Moon Base:

Well, seems like Pres. Bush has it all under control.

My therapist knows of my interest in science, and since I wanted to maintain whatever credibility I had in that department, I tagged my admission with a "not that I necesarily believe in it" disclaimer. Turns out that the disclaimer wasn't really necessary.

Truth be told, she seemed very much open to the idea alien abduction. She didn't seem to hold the position that I strongly expected a mental health professional to take "there's probably a psychological explanation," or even the old reliable, "they're all just making it up." Just plain openmindedness. Weird.

I asked her if she knew of anyone making an abduction claim, like through her practice. None, she said. According to her, most people with really "out there" mental health conditions tend to have religious-inspired delusions or hallucinations "in this area" (we do live in West Virginia though). Things like "thinking they're talking to Jesus when really they're talking to a tree."

But not aliens. She's never encountered an alleged abductee directly through her job as a mental health practitioner, nor has she known of any encountered by her colleagues. Now I'm not saying that just because my own personal shrink hasn't encountered any abduction claimants through her work that abduction reporters aren't crazy. But, it just seemed like... an interesting tidbit to share.

Our wall is to be 2000 miles long, as long as the low estimates of the length of the Great Wall of China. (Some estimate the other wall to be three times this length.)

Whatever your position is with respect to the wall, people agree that it is certainly symbolic of our era. It is a metaphor, a symbol, which for many replaces the Statue of Liberty. The welcoming beacon of freedom is replaced in the minds of many people with the blank expanse of the wall, like an extended palm signaling "halt." For many people outside the United States our country is seen, not as a sanctuary, and champion, for the oppressed, but as a garrison, walled like a Medieval city-state.

Looking back, Bill Clinton's euphoric descriptions of globalization (one of his favorite terms) seem naive and distant. The purpose of bridging cultures and identifying common interest has been replaced by phrases like "If you are not for us, you are against us," "bring 'em on," "we are on a crusade," and the like. We have turned a blind eye to international opinion, like the balnk stare of the wall.

We have not just invested in walling our country, but in creating a honeycomb of walls within it. Political forces have converted the world's melting pot into a fragmented society in which cultural identity is preserved in part for defensive purposes. We are becoming a society of gated communities which look out at others with distrust and fear.

Our government has a growing list of citizens identified a suspected terrorists. The number of people on the list has apparently passed one million. That's about 5 for each thousand adults. If you go to BellSquare on a busy day, there should be maybe ten or twenty "suspected terrorists" among your fellow shoppers. We have built walls around airports, public buildings and public gathering places, access permitted by guards only after inspection.

These walls of course are not just metaphorical. We have by far the biggest prison population in the world. More people are in prison than there are in Phoenix, Arizona. A staggering number of our fellow citizens have been through the criminal justice system in one way or another.  Prison construction and management has been privatized to a large degree and has become a booming industry. It could become a college major in some schools like hotel and motel management.

These are the costs of security, as we see it. The cry of "security!" seems to be in the ascendancy. It's good though to keep it in context.

I understand we all need to cover up our insecurity and maintain our privacy,but for that you don't hurt others.Well if you think this too normal think again.It is not just a 'few',it is almost everyone!I mean i just can't stand it,no one seems to be talking anything worthwhile.Stupid PJs,blasphemous swearing (by god,I am bugged of 'em,the words have lost their meaning,i mean if every second person is going to scream f*** ,no one si going to get insulted,the word's meaning is buried,very rarely does one even bother reminding himself,that the word has a meaning!) I admit, i too swear,in fact i will say it just caught with me.But i don't use it on people who get offended by it.Anyway leaving that apart,I think everyone is becoming fake.i mean everyone is in a mad rush,no one has time to think why they are alive.

While i might be an extraordinary creature who is always thinking about life,i don't know why people cannot think of themselves for a minute? I mean not in terms of what they are going to be but why they exist.I get ridiculed,nagged,jacked and whatever day in day out for the way i think. Well i think people have given up on me,yes they have,many ignore me,i spend a lot of time alone,like some lost bard,in an alien land,observing everyone as if they were specimens whom i am doing a poetical thesis on.

I am looking for aliens,seriously.I mean,my kind are almost done for.No one can manage to talk with me for more than 10( that is the record i guess,most for a couple ).I mean the times of nice long con have gone(well as if i ever had them).Well ya so i am searching for aliens like i have been for the past 13 something.I have found a few,with whom i have shared a few good moments,then of course i have my human friends,who are a bit different,the reason being,they don't care for anything.

But anyway i am drifting off topic,well what was i planning to write on anyway? I mean i was supposed to write on fake people or people with masks or something of the sort.But then i have generalized a lot by telling " I HATE HUMANS" .Ya no i am going to tell i love a few(they do exist don't worry,but i don't want to taint this post with happiness and love) i mean to say i hate them from my heart.Well not something you might expect me to write about.But make no mistake about it,i am not a hypocrite.I do believe in live and let live and love all but rad all my poems on unity,there will be something which be like " we should try " or " if we can".I do try very hard,but then i can't stand them.It is nice to meet people with out their mask.So now you get it,i hope.i am talking about the masked strangers in humanity(i am reminding myself again,you see it is tough fro me not get carried away when i write on humans) .After all if a person is truly "evil"(ya well....whatever),then i don't mind,i mean they are after all meant to be.But then for the in betweens,who aren't sure if they want to be a pirate or a swear on the sand virtue filled,humanity bogged,pathetic being(well lets say normal).Now Again i think i am making a "negative character look good.Ha well i like the bad better,after all it takes more to be bad then good.But anyway what is the purpose of living? i mean as a society we have to "share" our lives.So why not drop your dumb unwanted mask and be yourself? That doesn't mean fall on the shoulders of every second person you meet and cry,why can't you just accept that the person in front of you too is alive and well has "feelings" and is a creature with a heart,mind and god forbidden soul? i hate it.

Well i haven't progressed much,the i am tired and pissed off,but at least i didn't go acting "cool".The weird thing is,people find me it tough and well even scary to accept me.i mean might be the fact that i always look at thing differently and well might be the fact(should i send this to everyone i know?) ,well i don't know.i have tried answering it and i am not going to get humanized whatever happens,even if i have to die being an alien i am happy.

Hm...again i went off.That is my main problem i guess.If i start writing anything "human" i get carried away.i have found it tough,weird,strange,unreasonable,purposeless to live among humans.I am not hapy to be one among the hoard,i prefer to be the capitol which gets bombed first(well ya ,ya i can't stand others getting hurt) .i seriously am thinking back,seriously,retrospecting into the short 16 years of my life.It is almost over,i mean i am going to become 17,soon.What have become as an human? I had plans for my birthday,but don't feel like going with it, why honor people ?Well i am very fit about calling only my closest frineds,but then why do that too? Ok this turing into more of a rant,so guess i will stop.

And iam not going to read back and edit,no time for that you see.and no pics too,don't feel like it,this is a rant and well no authentication required :)

ya keep smiling,if you can :) It does you good :)

I suffer from insomnia now and then, usually brought on by worry: worry about my health, money, family, non-dating status, etc. All these things have been known to weigh heavily on my mind and sometimes preventing me from getting a good night's sleep. The good news: late night television! I can always rely on some station somewhere showing a repeat. Not all nights mind you (can't tell you how many times I have been lulled to sleep by someone selling the PX90 workout system, a bag of doritos spilling onto the floor as I finally crash) but on those rare occasions, I will find a movie I haven't seen in ages and just have to watch. Like the warm blanket I'm usually already wrapped up in, I lose myself to my familiar friend and enjoy a chuckle or two.

Young Frankenstein is the perfect comedy. A stunning spectacle, this movie captures all of these comedic actors at the height of their powers and timing. Even though I have this on dvd and know the movie by heart, I cannot help myself but stop and watch whenever I see it on tv. Now some quotes:

Igor: You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me.

Dr. Frankenstein: What did he say?

Igor: "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Absurdist humor at it's finest.

Frenchman: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits! [makes taunting gestures at them]

Sir Galahad: What a strange person.

King Arthur: Now, look here, my good man--

Frenchman: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Airplane! Visual gags galore! This movie makes me giggle like a little kid...

Lethal Wapon, the buddy movie that spawned hundreds of imitators and 3 sequels. Mel in a horrible mullet, Danny Glover yelling alot. Unbelievable stoy, destruction and mayhem and lots of dead drug dealers and guns. And only one quote matters for this movie and it's sequels: "I'm too old for this shit."

Four Weddings and a Funeral, OK, I admit it, sometimes I'm a big sap. Saw this movie for the first time on the flight back from England after living there for a year so I'm a little nostalgic and wistful when this movie comes on. And yeah, I ignore the obvious flaws in the film (just what the HELL is Andie Macdowal even doing in this film anyway???) and just enjoy it for the silliness.....

Charles: Sorry.. look. Sorry, sorry. I just, ehm, well, this is a very stupid question and... , particularly in view of our recent shopping excursion, but I just wondered, by any chance, ehm, eh, I mean obviously not because I guess I've only slept with 9 people, but-but I-I just wondered... ehh. I really feel, ehh, in short, to recap it slightly in a clearer version, eh, the words of David Cassidy in fact, eh, while he was still with the Partridge family, eh, "I think I love you," and eh, I-I just wondered by any chance you wouldn't like to... Eh... Eh... No, no, no of course not... I'm an idiot, he's not... Excellent, excellent, fantastic, eh, I was gonna say lovely to see you, sorry to disturb... Better get on...

Carrie: That was very romantic.

Charles: Well, I thought it over a lot, you know, I wanted to get it just right.

Gareth: I've got a new theory about marriage. Two people are in love, they live together, and then suddenly one day, they run out of conversation.

Charles: Uh-huh.

Gareth: Totally. I mean they can't think of a single thing to say to each other. That's it: panic! Then suddenly it-it occurs to the chap that there is a way out of the deadlock.

Charles: Which is?

Gareth: He'll ask her to marry him.

Charles: Brilliant! Brilliant!

Gareth: Suddenly they've got something to talk about for the rest of their lives.

Charles: Basically you're saying marriage is just a way of getting out of an embarrassing pause in conversation.

Gareth: The definitive icebreaker.

  The French Connection. Unabashedly politically incorrect, violent and thrilling, this movie is a throwback to honest storytelling and amazing action. Popeye Doyle is one of the most compelling characters ever put to film. And if you have a fascination with car chases, this film contains one of the most amazing car chases you will ever see.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: All right, Popeye's here! get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!

The Blues Brothers,  unnapreciated in its time, this film is a cult classic of humor, car chases and rhythm and blues! It broke Jon Belushis heart that this film wasn't more succesful or even acknowledged during its release. Word to the wise: see this film but never see the sequel....THAT will break your heart...

Elwood: It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Jake: Hit it.

The Commitments, one of my favorite books and definitely a memorable film. A group of irish try to bring soul music to Ireland. Aside froma a few memorable characters, the entire cast are all musicians who do a damn good job playing up their characters as working class people with nothing but a dream and raw talent. The music is incredible and this film never fails to suck me right in...

Jimmy Rabbitte: Soul is the music people understand. Sure it's basic and it's simple. But it's something else 'cause, 'cause, 'cause it's honest, that's it. Its honest. There's no fuckin' bullshit. It sticks its neck out and says it straight from the heart. Sure there's a lot of different music you can get off on but soul is more than that. It takes you somewhere else. It grabs you by the balls and lifts you above the shite.

Jimmy Rabbitte Sr: Is this the band then? Betcha U2 are shittin' themselves.

STar Wars and all its sequels and prequels...yup, I'm a complete and total geek when it comes to Star Wars and no matter whats going on, I always lose myself when this film appears on the screen. I was a wee child when I saw Star Wars in the theaters. Yup, I'm a little old...

Princess Leia Organa: This is some rescue! You came in here, and you didn't have a plan for getting out?

Han Solo: He's the brains, sweetheart!

Luke Skywalker: Well, why don't you -

[Leia grabs Luke's blaster and begins shooting at Stormtroopers]

Han Solo: What the hell are you doing?!

Princess Leia Organa: Somebody has to save our skins! [blasting a hole with Luke's blaster in the ventilation shaft] Into the garbage chute, flyboy!

Ok, I'm cheating here, but I'm a sucker for sci-fi, action adventures and the blatantly testosterone driven, guns ablazin, "Get to the Choppahhhh!" and "Get away from her you Bitch!" films...Late night insomnia is a great time to disconnect your brain and just enjoy the spectacle and not think about the cerebral or logical and revel in the explosions, screaming and yelling, car chases and improbable story lines.  No quotes here because I think everyone knows all the best lines to these films...