If Stan don't like it, bye bye birdie.....

[Tripp]

sadly, actually going to a prison rated higher.

[bebopbalogna]

a couple friends from auburn came down last night.  they brought rice krispie "treats".  you know, the kind with "stuff" in em.  i forgot how much i enjoy the feeling after digesting thc as opposed to inhaling it.  it's been a really long time. (i enjoy inhaling it too, by the way.  don't get me wrong.)    other than that, big, boring weekend.   maybe 6 people in sluggos all night last night.  i made 23 bucks.  awesome.  get well soon, bamah.   theraflu.  that usually works for me.

What all do you do, dude?

You work in a bar, you work in fine dining, you teach art, you work in a museum?

my full time job is at the Pensacola Museum of Art.  I am the education coordinator here, which means i teach art. Sometimes i go out into the community and teach art where there are no art classes. (PACE center for girls(at-risk private girls school)  today i go to Sacred Heart Children's Hospital). I love my job here, but as with any teacher's job,  the pay is not what it should be, IMO.  SO, I wait tables 2 nights a week at Jackson's restaurant.  I work Sunday nights(sometimes more, if they need me, or i want to pick up a shift) at Sluggo's. I stay pretty busy, but life is good, for the most part.  Saturdays, i don't do shit.  OR i do whatever i want.    I'm going to birmingham this saturday.  yeah.  AND i still have time to waste on crappity.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

anyboby see 007

can we get a verification on these percentages?

I saw 007.

95% is pretty surprising, but all the critics seem to like it, even the arty papers like the Voice and the Chi-Reader.

I liked it too.  New Bond dude is a really good actor, really intense.  I think he's probably too ugly to be James Bond, but he has this kind of animal quality that you can imagine would certainly hit the switches on an adequate number of bitches...and I certainly wouldn't call him ugly to his face.  He looks genuinely dangerous, which is good.

One of my favorite things about the movie was old-fashioned quality of the action.  James Bond is about stunts and ridiculous stunt set-pieces.  Daniel Craig does an impressive number of his own (as much as the insurance company would allow probably) and the doubling is...pretty obvious...but that's just the way it is.  You suspend your disbelief and it's fun.

There are some great Bond moments with the first Bond girl.  She rides around in this bikini on a white horse on a beach with all these kids running after her.  It felt like it was pulled out of a '60s or '70s Bond movie.  It was a nice campy moment, but one of the few really.

The movie's a bit front-loade.  Most of the really cool stuff is in the beginning, but the ending's not bad...it just doesn't top the beginning.

It's pretty lo-tech.  He gets an Aston Martin and a Walther PPK, and that's about it.  I'm not going to spoil any of the jokes, but he starts out much lower than that.  He's not a 00 when the movie starts.

Like I said last week, I have't seen a new James Bond movie since 1987, and I was a bit surprised to see how much of commercial the movies are now.  Why give bond sci-fi tech when you can give him tech that can be found in stores, which presumably the audience will want.  I found it all pretty amusing, but I still miss the sci-fi.

 I felt like they could've made it a lot better with not much more effort.  A lot of the script was very strong, but the direction could've been stronger.  But Bond movies have almost always had mediocre direction.  I mean, you don't keep a franchise around for 40 years and 20 sequels with excellence.  You'll burn out too fast.  You do it with steady, consistent mediocrity.

The villain is really really good (Mads Mikkelson from the Danish "Pusher" movies which are something of a cult phenom right now).  The down and dirty fighting scenes are really good.  There's some humanity and character development in it.  The main Bond girl is reasonably interesting.

Very good James Bond movie on the whole.

So now they've finally done all the novels.

My prediction is that they'll start remaking the books in order now for the next generation.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

sadly, actually going to a prison rated higher.

That deserves an lol.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

(PACE center for girls(at-risk private girls school)

Nice.  I like.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Sorry to pry.  You just seem like a really busy guy.

[bebopbalogna]

hmmm.  apparantly  the sluggos website is down.  we have a myspace page also. it's kinda boring, though.  and i don't even know who keeps it up.  they should update it more.  here.

[Doctor Rock]

i've somehow made a perfect transition from having a cold to having the flu. awesome.

R____, my girlfriend, is recovering from the flu.  I'm starting what i think is a cold.  My stepdaughter has a cold.  

Everyone's sick.  

[bebopbalogna]

Sorry to pry.  You just seem like a really busy guy.

i don't think you were prying.  it's probably pretty confusing, huh.   next week i'm gonna start picking up shifts at the laundromat down the street.  the pay sucks, but i get to do my laundry for free. not really. the working there part.  not the free laundry part.

[Doctor Rock]

there seems to be some cat people up in here.  i'm not sure whether this is brilliant or idiotic. (such a fine line between clever and stupid)  but k__
played this for me the other night and i laughed.  so i'll share it.

LITTERBOX  "marked territory"

I vote for stupid.  

[bebopbalogna]

damn. is everybody getting sick?  i guess it's the weather.  it got down to 33 last night.  in florida in november.  THATS COLD.  must be really frickin cold elsewhere.  especially all you canadians(ens?)

[bebopbalogna]

there seems to be some cat people up in here.  i'm not sure whether this is brilliant or idiotic. (such a fine line between clever and stupid)  but k__
played this for me the other night and i laughed.  so i'll share it.

LITTERBOX  "marked territory"

I vote for stupid.  

i think i'm with you.  i laughed the first time.  (maybe it was the rice krispie treats?)  the second time.  not so much.

[bebopbalogna]

so, kurt,  if someone were say, a casual bond fan growing up, (moonraker, octopussy, live and let die, plus the connery ones i saw much later in life) would you say yay or nay?

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I say yay.

They really made it for everybody, all levels of fans and non-fans alike.  That's how it got 95%, I guess.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Bond movies have always been so conservative and insular.

This movie tries to make piece with the more progressive, modern, down & dirty stuff that's always been a step or 2 ahead of the Bond movies of the past.

But it stops well short of being an art house movie of course.