Two for Tuesday

Here's two photos of a mattress beside a dumpster.

Day shot:

Night shot:

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Here's two comic book panels with sound seffects:

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Here's two pictures I took recently:

Are they unconnected? Maybe. Maybe not.

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Here's four quick reviews of films I've seen recently here at Monkey Central.  

Rendition is a very good film with some plot twists you never see coming.  It's a timely topical film that will remain timely and topical as long as anyone is being oppressed by dictatorial regimes and as long as any nation allows torture.  Everyone in it gives convincing believable performances, especially good turns are given by Meryl Streep who plays against type and by our favorite gal from Memphis ever Ms. Witherspoon.  The mini documentary in the extras about the two men who were sucked into our forced rendition program is especially enlightening and well worth the rental or purchase price of this DVD alone.  I highly recommend this film.

We caught this on one of our local PBS stations a few weeks ago.  It is one of those end of the world movies that used to give me nightmares when I was a kid.  Seeing it now almost 50 years after it was made, the film holds up surprisingly well.  It's still a scary and cautionary tale that needs to be repeated over and over again until the rich white guys in power finally do something about making sure we are nuclear weapon free forever.  

The other thing I noticed about this film was that back in the late '50's they did not give a shit about big time Hollywood actors doing credible accents.  Anthony Perkins and Ava Gardner, who by the way was one hell of a beautiful woman, are supposed to be Aussies in this film but neither so much as attempts an Aussie accent.  Fred Astaire is supposed to be British in this film and his accent is as American as apple pie.  The non use of accents detracted a bit from my enjoyment of this film but not enough to make me hate it.  

I hope to one day read the Nevil Shute novel this was based on one day.  

I watched half of this and then I turned it off.  I like the occasional horror film and the odd slasher pic but this was not either of those.  This movie was torture porn.  Ick.  With all the horror and torture our government is meting out in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and odds knows where else I just could not stomach this one.  But oddly enough I'm going to watch Saw 3 and 4 one of these days.

I'm not a huge shoot 'em up action movie guy but I've been a huge fan of these Bourne movies since day one.  It's probably because I was a huge fan of Robert Ludlum's novels, but not the ones they came out with after he died.  These movies finally got the whole Ludlum thing right.  They are fast paced, action and intrigue filled, and they have good performances by everyone in them.  

This latest edition of the Bourne movies is no different.  I quite liked it despite the fact that it was clunky in a few places and the set up for the showdown with Albert Finney was kind of laughable, Finney is told to get out before Bourne can get him but in James Bond villain style he scoffs at the idea of not facing down his nemesis.  As soon as Finney says no to running away from Bourne I turned to Sparky and I said, "I'll kill you Mr. Bond after I torture you."

But even with the odd hiccup or two, I loved this movie.  Who would have thought Matt Damon could kick so much ass and look so convincing doing it?  But as good as Damon, Joan Allen, and Paddy Considine were in this, the star of this movie was Julia Stiles hair do.  I'm not exaggerating, and I don't usually notice these things but this time I did, when I say that she sports the best looking hair do in the history of cinema in this movie.  It was perfect for her head shape, her face, and for her coloring.  And don't get me started on how good the highlights in her hair looked.  But just I was crushing hard on Ms. Stiles and her perfect do, they made her character go and dye her hair and cut it so she could escape the clutches of the evil bastards in the CIA.  They made up for it later when they used Ms. Stiles in one of the last scenes of the film.  

And yes, they left the possibility of making another Bourne film wide open.  I'm betting that in the next one Damon and Stiles hook up and they call it, "The Bourne Pregnancy."

Two for Tuesday

Let's welcome back Two for Tuesday with these two nonsense words:

bleeblesnort

omaxomuffgit

Don't think twice because it's Two for Tuesday

Here's a cheese-tastic duet by the lovely Anne Murray and Glen Campbell. They're doing that Bob Dylan classic Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.


I know you all are dying to know how they've both held up over the years. Well let's take a peek at a two recent-ish photos of them: Yikes! That's Glen's mugshot from when he got caught doing a little drunk driving.
And there's Anne at a Canadian Country Music event from around the same time Glen got popped for driving with ol' Jack Daniels. I'd say Anne held up the best and from what I hear, she's waaaaaaaaay nicer than Glen.

A very late Two for Tuesday

Here's two photos of one of my favorite brunette actresses, Dana Delany:
I didn't watch China Beach much back when it was on because I was heavy into Wiseguy, but I sure enjoyed all the publicity shots they did of Ms. Delany.

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Here's two pictures of an orangutan. Could this be an ancestor of Dr. Zaius? He did come from the future after all. Oh, I'm sorry, did I just blow your mind?

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Here's two pictures of little things I saw in the park recently:

A little doggie.

A little girl on a bike.

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Here's two paintings by one of my favorite modern artists, Gary Hume.

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Here's two pictures of some of the cutest kids ever.

That's Kevin using his sippy cup properly.

This is his little brother Kieran not using his sippy cup properly.

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Here's two business ventures you may want to try from a Popular Mechanics from 1964.

You'll be rich in no time!

A second helping of Two for Tuesday

Here's posters for the first two French films I ever saw:

I saw this one in the late 60's in school one day in Detroit. I loved it right off. I saw it again around 1993 when I rented it on video and it was still magical.

I saw this in 1992 or '93 back when I was heavy into Jim Thompson novels, it got me off Jim Thompson novels for awhile and heavy into Isabelle Huppert.

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Here are two movie posters and a quotes from my two favorite Alex Cox films:

"You read that book I give you?"

"Aww man, I don't read no books."

"Elvis is king."

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Here's two photos of Regina Spektor that I like:


And here are the covers of her two CD's:

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Here's two pictures I took today of some stuff in a local grocery store:

Worst jelly flavors evah!

Anyone care for a guava soda?

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Here's two pictures that show three people in them:

Someone's Mom with her twins.

'60's era MILFs. (The one in the kooky glasses is my fave.)

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Here's two pictures I took while driving last evening. I was on my way to a meeting to hammer out details on our Tennessee Concerned Citizens march/demonstration planned for 9-22. The beauty of roadside Johnson City is almost mythic, isn't it?

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Here's two pictures of a couple of beautiful American women.

Irene Bedard

Salma Hayek

My internets are on for awhile so I'll be blog stalking all of you later and of course my obsessive blogging will continue, sorry Barbara.

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Here's two pictures that sum up how I feel about Charter Cable's so called high spped internet service:

The high speed internet I pay on time every month for has been off and on, mostly off, all day today. I called the customer service line and I spoke to about three or four smirking assholes who seemed to think that if they say "Ok" enough that everything will be fine. I finally got one of them to give me the number for the St. Louis HQ of Charter Cable. But guess what happened when I called it, I kept getting a recorded message telling me that all of their represtatives were busy helping other customers. They must be really busy handling people like me on those phones because I've been getting that message for about an hour now.

Oh how I hate them. If that son of a bitch Neil Smith, Charter Cable CEO, were here right now I'd shove my cable modem up his ass.

On a more positive note I finally figured out how to save MP3 files to my computer, I simply click "Save" before I download them! But hang on, it gets better! I also figured out how to burn a CD on my computer! So I have been busy burning the first Green Monkey Music Project (Total Absorbtion Mix) on to some CD's. I've also been scavenging Beth and Splotchy's blogs for more MP3's to download, when my shitty internet service is on that is.

I know what you're thinking and you're right, I do lead a full life.