Remembering Charlton Heston

Well, we lost another one last night. Just do a Google News search for several articles about him. I always had mixed feelings about him. Sometimes I really enjoyed watching him and other times I kinda wondered how he ever got a job acting. But I guess I’m that way about most actors so it doesn’t say anything about Heston’s talent. And he was talented.

And we recently watched Solyent Green and last week I recorded the first three ape movies. May have an ape marathon tonight.

I do think he was a great NRA president, in spite of what the basement babies on KOS are saying. What a living pile of dog shit those people are. I won’t link to that bunch of ass wipes so if you have a desire to self-flagellate your brain, look it up.

I’m on the Verge of Not Likin’ ‘em Anymore

Norah Jones and Tori Amos, that’s who. I mean, I know I should separate the art from the person but I really have a hard time doing that. Actually, I’m not real fond of the ones who think like I do using their art to spread the word. When Jones came out with her Not Too Late CD last year with the song My Dear Country in which she laments about George Bush winning the election that just about did it. I did delete that track from the MP3s I burned for my MP3 dingus but damn. I still have a hard time listening to anything else she does because of it.

And now Tori Amos is doing an anti-war track called Yo, George in an anti-war film called “Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran”. It’s a 30 track deal in which she’s joined by other foreign policy experts Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Pearl Jam. None of who I ever listened to anyway. But Norah and Tori? Just damn. Think I may just stick to instrumentals from now on.

Just Sittin’ and Chillin’ on a Beautiful Sunday

We had some rain yesterday. Not too bad in my part of the world. Friday night on the 5 o’clock news the weather guy was showing his new model that he was convinced was the cats nuts. It showed nearly all of southeast Texas getting blown away yesterday or destroyed by hail or tornado. And this after he made the comment about his philosophy was “prepare ‘em, not scare ‘em”. The morning guy showed it yesterday at 6 am and it wasn’t quite as large an area or as long lasting. And I kept waiting all day long to get blown away. We got a couple or three inches added to the pool but that was it. No serious wind or lightening. Just some rain. Guess he needs to recalibrate his new model, huh?

And the chillin’ part? I was listening to pandora.com and heard some Tangerine Dream. Thought you might like some. Who’s that you ask? Well, it’s a German group that’s been around for 40 plus years and has scored a bunch of movies. Here’s their Beach Theme, a track from the soundtrack album from the 1981 movie Thief, which they scored, starring James Caan and Tuesday Weld. Great track that was not used in the movie, by the way. Hope you enjoy.

Coming to a Theater Near You

This is gonna be a gooder. I’m thinkin’ anyway. But I’m gonna miss Sigourney, come on. Who can ever forget her in her skivvies getting in the life boat in the first Alien. I mean, that was a real artistic statement regarding Ellen Ripley’s current predicament in the story, wasn’t it?

And now comes Aliens vs Predator Requiem. Click here for a taste.

Can’t wait to see these bad boys gettin’ it on.

Women in Film

Another video by eggman913 who did the 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art video below. Just so you’ll know who you’re looking at, I’ve copied the list from the YouTube page. Enjoy.

Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry

Music: Bach’s Prelude from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Wanna Be Hell’s Angel???

Or just another drunk actor? Mickey Rourke arrested for DUI on a -wait for it- Vespa. A.Fuckin’.Scooter. Where have all the real bad asses gone?

Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer

I’ll admit I was in my 30’s but I would watch with my kids when I came home in the morning off graveyards. And I see where the Wachowski brothers are going to make a big screen version.

“Speed Racer” — or “Mach Go Go Go” if you want to be old school about it — was created by Tatsuo Yoshida and premiered as an anime series in Japan in 1967. American audiences fell in love with the speedy dubbing and catchy theme song. The cartoon’s story centers on a teenaged Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) who encounters intrigue and danger on his road to racing glory. He is aided by parents Mom (Susan Sarandon) and Pops Racer (John Goodman), girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci), little brother Spritle, his monkey Chim Chim and the mechanic Sparky.

Another Tommy Cox Video – Take Her Deep

Also known as Big Black Submarine

Did You See “The Interpreter”?

That’s the movie where The Interpreter, played by Nicole Kidman, overhears a plot to assassinate a visiting tyrant. Turns out he was the tyrant that ran her adopted country in Africa. The Secret Service Dignitary Protection bunch were brought in to investigate and take necessary precautions. In comes Sean Penn to save the day as the lead agent. Other than having Sean Penn in it and playing a little loose with who can be deported it was a tolerable movie. Thanks to having Nicole Kidman and Catherine Keener in it. The main problem I had was every time Penn was in a scene, I kept getting flashbacks to the news footage from Katrina of that idiot in his 14′ aluminum fishing boat bailing it out with a $2 beer cup or whatever.

A New Favorite Movie

You’ve probably seen The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. At least if you’re more of a movie watcher than I am. But then Mrs Myron and I do wait for them to come to HBO, Showtime, et al before we see them so we only saw it this week. If you’ve seen it then you already know Tommy Lee Jones directed and starred in it. And I have to say, this is one of his best performances.