May The Fourth Be With You

Try A Little Tenderness

Sorry, but I know I posted this a few times on this blog, but still ... this is priceless.

For those that don't remember (or lived through) Jon Cryer's teeenage years in cinema, and only know him from "Two And A Half Men" on television ... ENJOY!!!

From "Pretty In Pink" - Try A Little Tenderness

Death Star A No Go For White House

I think it is totally funny that people are using the White House petition format to seek the building of a "Death Star."  Even more hilarious is the White House response!

Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, responded to an earlier petition to “secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.″

[snip]

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

• The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We’re working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
• The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
• Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

 Ok, I am laughing hysterically so far!

PLEASE take the time to read the FULL response here.  You will NOT be disappointed!

Some choice tidbits:

Even though the United States doesn’t have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, ...

We don’t have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke’s arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.

If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star’s power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

RIP Robin Gibb

And the "walk" that made it famous!

We're Going To Stanley Cup ...

We're going to Stanley Cup, we're going to Stanley Cup!



This used to be our theme song back in the day when the Kings went to the Stanley Cup in 1993 (part of the 1992/1993 season) and this movie was out in 1992.

Yeah, baby! One more win, can you feel the power?

"Lover Come Back"

My aunt, the drunk in the middle! LOL!

Trailer from the movie, "Lover Come Back." My aunt is one of the bunny dancers, last one on the left in the trailer. Still trying to see if I can find a full dance scene, though.

Rebecca Ferguson

I was watching The Graham Norton Show tonight, and they had this singer on that I had never heard of, Rebecca Ferguson. After doing some research I discovered she was part of that X Factor show (which I don't watch, puuuulllleeeezzzzeee, American Idol rejects, boredom at this stage of my life). But before I did research on her, I listened to her performance, and quite frankly, she reminded me, based on that one song, of a sober Amy Winehouse. I miss Amy, but hope you like this song.

Rebecca Ferguson - Nothing's Real But Love



P.S., the show was seriously funny, having one of my fave comic/actors on, Eddie Izzard, not to mention Robert Downey, Jr. and Judd Law pimping their Sherlock Holmes sequel.

Best Soundtrack! The Big Chill

I watched The Big Chill last night. Great movie, probably in my top ten list, but the soundtrack is just the greatest.

Undoubtedly, the best scene in the movie.



Soundtrack:

1. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
2. Temptations - My Girl
3. The Young Rascals - Good Lovin'
4. Smokey Robinson - Tracks of My Tears
5. Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
6. Temptations - Ain't To Proud To Beg
7. Aretha Franklin - Natural Woman
8. Smokey Robinson - I Second That Emotion
9. Procol Harem - Whiter Shade Of Pale
10. The Exciters - Tell Him

Ha Ha Ha -- Even Matt Damon Won't Talk To Obama!

There's a lot of talk about Matt Damon running for president. Not since Reagan have we had an actor take a serious run for the top spot.

It appears, however, that the White House has begun to notice Damon's comments over the past few weeks concerning his disappointment with this administration. So much so, that Obama, who is pretty much spineless when it comes to opposition, actually took a cheap shot at Damon at a recent speech.

First, Damon's statement on the Piers Morgan show:

Damon, during a March interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, said he was “disappointed” with Obama’s presidency for a number of reasons, including this one:

“He’s doubled down on a lot of things, going back to education ... the idea that we’re testing kids and we’re tying teachers salaries to how kids are performing on tests, that kind of mechanized thinking has nothing to do with higher order. We’re training them, not teaching them.”

Then the President's comeback:

Last Saturday night, Obama, who targeted a number of his critics in his speech, said this in mocking response to Damon’s “disappointed” remark:

“I’ve even let down my key core constituency: movie stars. Just the other day, Matt Damon -- I love Matt Damon, love the guy -- Matt Damon said he was disappointed in my performance. Well, Matt, I just saw ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ so...right back atcha, buddy.”

That's really supposed to be funny? We are hemorrhaging financially in this country, fighting several announced and unannounced wars, inflation abounds, recession is HERE, people are homeless and jobless, and the Prez wants to open up sludge oil pipelines from Canada to Texas (not tipping his hand there, is he?), but he's got time to take a shot at an actor.

Talk about really losing your base constituency, and not being afraid to show you don't give a shit.

It turns out that people in the Obama administration made several attempts to reach actor Matt Damon just before he spoke at last month’s Save Our Schools rally in Washington D.C., blasting education policies that focus on high-stakes standardized tests.

According to two people familiar with the efforts, the administration tried to arrange a meeting with Damon and government officials, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan, before the July 30 march. The sources declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.

In fact, Duncan was willing to meet Damon at the airport when he flew into the Washington region and talk to him on the drive into the city, according to the sources. Damon declined all of the requests.

Damon in 2012! H/T to Valerie Strauss here and here.

Been Out ... User Error - Don't Hit Delete, Damn It!

I am making up T-shirts that say "User Error" and under that is the computer "delete" key.

I deleted all of my hard drive. Don't ask me yet. The T-shirt says it all.

Thank god I've never upgraded a puter because I got a virus. I have all of my hard drives since 1996. Last one is 2009, so all I am losing is, at most, two years worth of data. After four solid days of utilizing recovery data programs, nothing is coming back, except corrupted files. Hell, I play Sinatra, and Lady Gaga comes up! So, losing two years (and really in some cases only 11 months) of data, I can live with that. But, I have to wipe out my entire hard drive, re-install Windows, and then copy my 2009 old drive to this computer.

I hope my grandson respects the fact he has my laptop with 4g wifi, at the expense of my stupid deleting of my own files (for five hours, no less ... someone really slap me, or buy my T-shirts!)

After Monday, or Tuesday, I should have stuff up and ready. I had a wonderful time with my grandson, and plenty of pictures of just he and I together. We went to see "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes" and trust me, go see this movie. I NEVER go to movies. I always wait for the DVD, and even then, I sometimes wait and buy the rental used ones when they go on sale at 4/$20! Ha ha. I would pay money a second time to see this movie.

"Just stayin' on it I guess ... as long as she can (air kiss)." RIP Elizabeth Taylor

Trailer:



Great scene:



This ranks as one of my all time favorite movies, but I also adored Liz's performances in such films as Whose Afraid Of Virginia Wolf and Butterfield 8 (which also happen to be the two films she won an Oscar for).

The last of the real glamorous movie stars has left the building.

RIP Elizabeth Taylor.

Best Cigarette Movie Moment

Sleepless In Seattle immortalized An Affair To Remember, with all the tears between Meg Ryan, Rita Wilson and Rosie O'Donnell. But, being of an older generation, my tear jerker best scene is Bette Davis and Paul Henreid in what I believe is one of the most romantic and sob inducing moments in film. The cigarette scene is classic. Unfortunately, it is embed disabled, so go check it out here. Tell me, you cannot feel the atmosphere!

Santa, give me Bette's Now Voyager, as well as All About Eve!



Yeah ... a bumpy ride!

RIP Leslie Nielsen

Of course, most people are familiar with Leslie's work in "Airplane" and the "Naked Gun" series. But, back in the day, we knew him from "Forbidden Planet" with other actors such as Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Francis, a great old fashioned science fiction motion picture.

Meatloaf - Rocky Horror Meets Dashboard Lights

"I swore I would love you to the end of time. So now I am praying for the end of time."



I thought the Glee episode tonight infusing the Rocky Horror Picture Show into the theme was fabulous.

I saw the film back before it was on the midnight circuit, when people actually booed and walked out! It wasn't until a few years later everyone was wearing weird outfits, bringing newspapers, squirt guns, umbrellas, toilet paper, etc. to the shows, and doing live performance art to the damn show.

I also remember doing the Time Warp!



I actually have figurines of Riff Raff and Columbia (her with that hat!) on my desk at work.

I thought the episode tonight was great. Unfortunately, "Eddie" songs are not on YouTube ... so enjoy the music with the visuals.

Whatever Happened To Saturday Night

The Full Monty

To get over my sadness after watching Team USA be beat, I'm watching The Full Monty to amuse myself.



Definitely one of the more fun endings to a movie! Of course, this is Tom Jones' version of You Can Leave Your Hat On. The Joe Cocker version resonates Kim Bassinger in 9-1/2 Weeks.

Blade Runner

I am watching Blade Runner. The best part of Blade Runner. Especially before Sean Young went nutzo!

Avatar

I've got nothing to say. Finally saw it (ok, not 3d). Totally the best movie ever ever ever I have seen.

In awe.

RIP Dennis Hopper

Just read this morning that he died yesterday.

Even though most remember Easy Rider as a Peter Fonda film, you have to remember that Hopper directed it. For a Hollywood rebel, he sure had nine lives. I am sad to see him gone at 74.

Spoiler alert - here is a link to my post about the Arizona immigration law, that features the final scene in the movie Easy Rider.

RIP, bro, the world will miss you.

Pure Imagination

There is this commercial airing on tv that uses this song. It took me several weeks to figure out it was the song in the original Willy Wonka movie.

I didn't try to google it or anything. I really wanted to check my brain and try to figure out if I could discover where I knew this song.

Now that I've solved that irritating question ... on to the next.

Light's Out, Lena Horne

Sorry to hear of the passing of Lena.

On a personal note, I had given up being on AOL for more than a year, but the last two days (since I know that my names are saved in perpetuity and it is actually free) I went online to see what's up.

Sad, sad, sad. Same old desperate people online, saying the same old shit.

Done with the Idiots that inhabit Cyber Reality.

RIP, Lena.