ROCK ON

Audioslave - Show Me How To Live

Is this what Rock Stars look like?

A Face Only Tony Could Love

Ms. New face of L'Oreal, not so made up!
Wow, they should use these pictures as before and after, bet they
could sell more product that way.

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Just Wrong

My day at work might be summed in this picture.
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Over & Out…

Five Movie Characters

Character: Ellen Ripley
Played by: Sigourney Weaver
Appeared in: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection
Quote:
Hudson: let's just bug out and call it even, ok? What are we talking about this for?
Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Hudson: Fuckin' a!
Burke: ho-ho-hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.
Ripley: they can bill me.


Character: Leonard Shelby
Played by: Guy Pearce
Appeared in: Memento
Quote:
Leonard Shelby: I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I’m no different.


Character: Marv
Played by: Mickey Rourke
Appeared in: Sin City
Quote:
Cardinal Roark: Will that bring you satisfaction, my son? Killing a helpless, old fart?
Marv: killing? No. No satisfaction. Everything up until the killing will be a gas.


Character: Morpheus
Played by: Laurence Fishburne
Appeared in: The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions
Quote:
Morpheus: throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.


Character: Sam
Played by: Natalie Portman
Appeared in: Garden State
Quote:
Sam: I have three Dobermans, and if I didn't kick them in the balls on a regular basis, I’d never get anything done.

Five Movies I Love

Movies I Love, are those movies that on a Sunday morning you will be walking by the bedroom TV, see the movie is on and you will spend the next hour or so glued to the TV; regardless of when the movie started.

FIVE: Conan the Barbarian.
James Earl Jones. SonT (Snakes on a Temple). I've read a few philosophical essays on the metaphors between the steel forging and the molding of Conan's body & temperament. But really the blood and hacking is what I love the best.

FOUR: Independence Day.

I hate when movie makers target me so well. This movie has it all: Patriotism, Sci-Fi, Morality, Love, Alex Reiger. Someone mentioned to me that the F/A 18 Hornets used in the movie could not maneuver the way Will Smith drove them in the canyon scene, but the movie is far more than that, the movie really can be summoned up in the President speech near the climatic battle:

"President Thomas Whitmore: Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day! " Kick ASS!

THREE: The Hot Spot.
Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly. Crimes (blackmail, theft, murder by proxy). Sins (adultery, lust, avarice) all set in Texas in the summer. Directed by Dennis Hopper in a long drawn out way. Love it!

TWO: Joe Dirt.
At first, I thought this movie was about a dood with a mullet. But the movie has heart. It's well written and leaves you feeling good. I've caught myself saying: "you got to keep on keeping on" and "life is a garden, dig it". The scene with Buffalo Bill playing a psychopath like the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs is just great and the movie itself keeps referring to it with comments like "that is not what I heard..." Also Joe Dirt is sweetly driven to help everyone he meets, while he looks for his parents, I like people like that.

ONE: Rushmore.
Overachiever in everything but the things that matter. Max Fisher during adolescence identity crisis uses his charisma to woo his teacher and ends up going against Bill Murray’s character for the affections of the teacher. Fresh characters in a comedy of juxtapositions.