4.10.07

Category: dribblings

okay, so i saw Grindhouse Double Feature twice this weekend. me. i willingly, gladly even, sat through a three and a half hour movie. twice times. and i must now share that Death Proof is my new all-time favorite movie. i love that movie. i love it so much that i want to see it again. Kurt Russell should win an oscar. Zoe Bell should win a Crazy as Hell Stunt Person award.
the movie is perfect. it’s perfectly cast, perfectly funny, perfectly suspenseful, and perfectly over the top.
best. movie. ever.

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over the weekend i had some kind of stomach thing. a virus or ulcer or something. it hurt REALLY bad when i moved or laid down. as long as i sat in a chair not moving it seemed okay. on sunday i sat around all day and watched approximately ninety thousand documentaries on ancient egypt. i couldn’t change the channel. i wanted to change the channel. but i couldn’t. and i remembered that one time back in the 3rd or 4th grade i went on a field trip with the gifted class (*shudder*) to the b’ham museum where they had an exhibit on egypt and mummies. i remember being thoroughly skeeved about the mummies, but the teacher (a huge bitch who hated children) was all, “you look at those mummies! most people NEVER get to see a mummy or ANYTHING from ancient egypt in their WHOLE LIFE.”

which is kinda like education through the There Are Starving Kids in China routine. so now when i see tripe about ancient egypt on the tube, i can’t help but think, “some poor bastards have never seen an actual mummy, close up behind a clear plexiglass box. their lives must be completely unfulfilled.” of course, i can’t seem to turn the channel either.

there are SEVERAL topics actually, that if i run across a documentary on Discovery or PBS or whatever i cannot look away. even if i’ve seen it before. it’s morbid really. in fact, i came across one last night on PBS and yep, i watched it. it’s a fact, i’ll watch anything about Jim Jones and the People’s Temple.
other topics i’ll watch every time:
vampires
vikings
baseball
SLA
cars or motorcycles
sarah winchester house
apparently anything ancient egypt-y
manson family murders
anything greek mythology
prohibition/speakeasies/the untouchables
most conspiracy theory junk
any kind of old hollywood shenanigans

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in other blather:
i watched the Karate Kid the other night. it was on ABCFamily. and jimmy and i watched it together. how… romantic? i haven’t seen it since, probably the year it came out. although i’m sure my brother and i watched it about a hundred thousand million times when it came out.

anyway, so having seen it recently i had one of those “moments”. i think laura would call it a “fortune favors the prepared mind” moment. so i’m at the movies with dad and flippy (i’ve mentionted Death Proof, yeah?) and this song comes on. it sounds like all the other crap songs that are on the radio and then the chorus hits, “sweep. the. leg….johnny! sweep. the. leg….johnny!”
me: did they just sing, “sweep the leg, johnny?”
dad: i dunno. i’m not listening to this shit.
me: wait…he did! dude! i just watched karate kid the other night!
dad: you did? why?
me: the ballgame was over and i flipped channels and blam, there it was.
dad: but you didn’t have to watch it.
me: dad, i know you won’t understand, but i really did have to watch it. it’s the fucking karate kid. i mean, how many times did justin and i watch that movie?
dad: that’s what i’m saying.

anyway, you can hear the song AND see the hilarious video at the No More Kings website.

and the thing is, you really should.

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