OK, Yea I know… Its not Politically Correct and, its just not nice to make fun of kids, especially fat kids… yada yada yada Whatever! It was taken by a soldier back in 2008 from a his convoy. The kids normally dance for candy but this just takes it to the next level. And he decides that since he can’t get the treats with agility. He’s gonna get it the Mafioso way. The good thing about this is that… This kid will never know I’m bad mouthing him. And, Its just kinda funny. Enjoy!
That is one aggressive little kid. But I’m guessing he has to fight for food as a matter of survival. It just makes me chuckle and its NOT getting old! I still can’t believe he decided to pick up a rock.
Formula One is back after their 4 week break. This is the Grand Prix Of Belgium from Spa Francorchamps. The track winds its way through the Ardiennes forest. The weather has been a mess all weekend but anytime there is a race on this track, either it just stopped raining, it is raining, or the rain is on the way. Spa has both the fastest turn and the longest lap in the F-1 season.
The race starts with:
1) Mark Webber – Red Bull
2) Lewis Hamilton – McLaren Mercedes
3) Robert Kubica – Renault
The first Ferrari is brought by Felipe Massa in 6th Place. Michael Schumacher was given a 10-spot starting penalty and starts in …. He has 6 recorded wins on this track — although he did physically win another race only to have his car disqualified post-race in another race.
Right as the cars pull up to the starting grid to begin the race, the reports of rain start coming in… Everyone’s on slicks. The lights go off and the race starts. — Mark Webber has a terrible start that allows Hamilton to take 1st, followed by Kubica, and Button right behind him. While still in lap 1, all of the cars drive off the track like there is no chicane right in front of the pit lane and starting grid. Alonso and Barrichello make contact in the mayhem when Barrichello cant slow his car down.
After his contact, Alonso is into the pit and changes to Intermediate tires. There is big rain on the track. The Safety Car is out. The Safety Car is back in at the start of Lap 4 and the two Mclaren’s are off. The rain has seemed to stop in most places. By Lap 6 Schumacher has made it up from 21 to 12th on the track. He his flying to a respectable finish.
By Lap 14, the drivers are expecting rain, they just cannot get it together to plan out farther than lap-by-lap. But there will be rain. Its standard racing…. UNTIL lap 17 when Vettel attempts to make a pass on Button when his car loses traction and he spins right into the side of Buttons McLaren, taking them both into the overrun area. Both cars limp into the pits. Vettel gets new tires and a front wing. Button seemed to have more damage with some steam flying out of the side of the car (which would be radiator damage) but we’ll see. Yep, his race is over! He’s not going to be happy.
On lap 18 and after all of the madness, its Hamilton, Kubica, Webber, and Massa. Vettel does draw a drive through penalty. Not sure if it is entirely deserved but… That’s racing.
By Lap 23, Schumacher is up to 5th position.. Whatt??? This is after starting in 21st Oh yea! I am rooting for him. By lap 24 its Hamilton, Kubica, Webber, Massa, Schumacher. But Hamilton and Schumi have yet to pit. Schumi would be passed by Sutil for 5th and he doesn’t even fight it. He no doubt remembered what happened last time he put on a crazy pass.. It led him to a 10 position grid penalty that gave him a bad start for this race. Great judgment.
Vettel is having a bad day and on lap 27, he gets in the way of Liuzzi’s Force India car and ends up with a gash on this rear left tire. It promptly goes flat and he’s gotta make his way around the entire 4.06 miles of track before he can get in the pit. Ouch! He will be nowhere in contention for points now (I suspect). He’s back in the race in 20th position.
The rain hits on lap 34. The cars start coming in. Hamilton, Kubica, and Webber all stay out. Just as Hamilton’s telling his pit that its getting heavier and heavier, he slides off the track and into the gravel pit.. Hearts sink… but he keeps the car moving and brings it out. Meanwhile, EVERYONE else is changing to intermediate or wets (tires). Schumacher makes his stop and is good to go for the race.
Hamilton, Kubica, Webber are all in, although, Kubica slides in and loses a position in the pits to Webber. Massa also pits and maintains 4th. Whoa, On lap 38, Fernando Alonso’s car goes bye bye… Its his suspension! There is a yellow and where his car is will no doubt bring out a Safety Car. Yep, Safety Car out!
The cars are compressed due to the Safety Car If the safety car pulls in we’ll have 4 laps left. Anything could happen here. Hamilton brings the cars together and darts at the green flag. Everyone seems to survive, until Trulli spins out in the middle of the track.
The race ends with:
1) Lewis Hamilton – Mclaren Mercedes
2) Mark Webber – Red Bull
3) Robert Kubica – Renault F1
Overall, this was a pretty tactical race with much of the teams strategies blown as far as the weather goes. You just can’t predict the weather at Spa. Congratulations to Rubens Barrichello on making his 300th start in F1. Good Man! Spa never seems to disappoint and it has not this year either. Neither will the next race. See you in 2 weeks for the Grand Prix of Italy from Monza.
Now, I’m NOT a surfer although if you were to go back in time to the late 80’s, you’d see me on a skateboard, and in the early 2000’s, you catch me on a Snowboard.
But this weekend I sat down and watched a historic cult classic that we’ve all heard of and most of us have never actually watched all the way through. Even if we didn’t know where the term came from, we’ve all heard the term… Endless Summer! (I don’t know, unless you’re young or sheltered). The term comes from this movie largely. It was one of the first high quality surf movies. It was filmed documentary style by a guy named Bruce Brown.
The movie itself follows two surfers — Mike Hynson and Robert August — as they travel around the globe surfing following the “Endless Summer”. Their first stops are in Africa to include Senegal and South Africa. They end up in Australia and New Zealand, and of course I’ve left alot out because I’m not going to ruin it for you. The sound is made up of narration. Brown speaks to what’s going on and throws in a good bit of humor to keep you watching. Some of the scenes are pretty interesting as in some of the scenes in Africa where no one has seen a surfer before and you get a sense of the excitement from the locals/natives. You also get a interesting sense of the times the movie was filmed (1966), such as when you see these surfers traveling by aircraft in black suits. That’s what they wore back then because airlines had dress codes. instead of looking as people do now when they fly, back then, they look like MIB (Men In Black).
I understand that Mr. Brown developed his cinematography style by filming and showing his footage to audiences while standing at a microphone and just talking his way through the movie. Obviously back then it was much easier to film the footage by itself than to record good sound (just as it is today). This movie was pivotal to the surf movie genre. Even today in surf, skate, and snowboarding movies, there is still no high quality sound for the same reasons when Endless Summer Was made… Although now, we use music to make the videos more interesting [Ahhh, now you get it].
Endless summer would lead to Endless Summer II nearly 30 years later [which I have not seen]. They actually stopped by some of the same locations again, only to find that they have been covered up or have conditions changed due to human development, including an area in South Africa where a perfect wave traveled for minutes down there beach. Granted, back then, many people surfed areas that were tiny by todays standards due to technology. Surfers no longer use big heavy long-boards as they did back in those days.
Now, I’m not sure I’d dig surfing too much but I know that watching the movie makes me want to try it once before I die. Not on a big wave but maybe one that the little kids can hang with.. Like a 2-footer or something. It seems kinda a’ight.
Two movies in a row does not a Movie Reviewer make.
But I happen to have heard about this at work and had to pick it up and check it out. Luckily there was nothing on TV and Unthinkable was on Cable “On Demand”. The story takes place in Los Angeles when a terrorist decides he’s gonna drop a few nuclear devices in 5 states. Who would do such a thing… Yes Yes; Apparently a Muslim Terrorist (named Yousef and all). But hey, he’s an American and he used to be a soldier so screw him. This gives the movie that little bit of “OK” to torture.
The FBI and the military can’t figure out if he’s really got the weapons so they bring in “a contractor”. What kind of contractor. An interrogator played by a little man named… Samuel L. Jackson. He promptly goes to town beating down American soldiers, cutting of fingers and electrically shocking the terrorist. Of course, the sissy American in the room can’t believe what they are seeing and try to get him to stop only to find out that the evil CIA guy gives him permission to continue.
Just when you and the FBI and the lead Supervisory Special Agent (yea, I know my FBI ranks) gets Yousef to talk, they are led to the top of a building where a douche bag soldier triggers a bomb at a shopping mall killing scores of innocent people as they shop for sparkly purses and Old Navy jeans. Oh, Yousef (Michael Sheen) is gonna get it now! He finally lets it out that he doesn’t give a crap about torture and he’s completely intent with his torture and eventual death… Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) flips out under the pressure and leaves the room crying.
Now its back to Sammy J. With 3 hours left, he’s realizing that little old Yousef is most likely NOT going to crack. Sammy whips out Yousef’s wife whom the government is able to track down. She’s all crying, separated from her kids, and now sharing a room with Yousef. What’s going to happen now??? I’m not going to tell you. Go see the movie because I don’t want to ruin it for you.
Jackson always has some lines in movies that you’ll inevitably find the right time to throw out, thus making people chuckle whether they’ve seen the movie or not and this one is no different. Jackson yells out;
“Oh, so now you’re all working against me? Do you want to know where the bombs are or not (gets the crazy eyes)? Its MY responsibility! Do you want me to win, or do you want him to win?” and he continues, “You’re all so Fucking selfish! This is not about you! This is War! This is sacrifice!
Now I don’t know when, and I don’t know where, but I’ll be dropping those lines soon enough. Sir, I could put cheese on that if you’d like… I’ll yell back (crazy eyes and all), “This is not about you! This is War! This is sacrifice!”
This is perhaps the best movie Jackson has been in, in a long while. I think since Pulp Fiction really. It even should make you think about what you would do in the same circumstance (don’t ask what I would do; you won’t like the answer). For a lower-budget film, the production value, cinematography, and the acting is very enticing. Enjoy it! I have no doubt, you’ll be surprised by this ending. I think I may even buy this movie.
Ah Yes, I know i’m a bit behind the times. This movie has been out awhile. Although it seems to me that this movie just came out, I in fact, watched it on HD Cable in the warmth of my living room.
The movie takes place in a small Iowa town. Timothy Olyphant is the sheriff and some madness is afoot. People start getting all “Crazy” and its not certain why. Over the course of 2 days people start zombifying [is that a word?] and Olyphant and his deputy attempt to sort out what’s going on. All of a sudden, they find a military aircraft that has crashed in a body of water that the town’s water source originates. By the time they get to town, they find that most of the people are gone.
As the movie progresses Olyphant and his deputy are captured by the Military and taken to a camp where those who are suspected to have some phantom disease are quarantined. As the quarantine continues, Americans do as Americans do and an escape is initiated. As you can guess, many of those who escape are those who become “Crazies”. Now obviously, the zombie movie is not a new idea and that’s what this movie is. It is Dawn Of The Dead, or Zombieland. The thing that makes zombie movies is how you can explain the “zombie-ism”. In the Crazies, the explanation is chemical weapons.. Kinda funny but hey. Its a Zombie movie.
It has the obligatory attempts to scare the audience such as the subject is in the center of the frame and the camera zooms out to see an out of focus freak outside of the view of the subject. Spooky! The movie is surprisingly tense and I was easily able to get into it. The acting was damn good as I expect from Olyphant. The best scene of the movie goes to the car wash sequence. You’re just going to have to see the movie.
On a filmography point, the best part of the editing of this movie is the beginning when the music that leads in, is the same music that leads in Dr. Strangelove. That is Trivia. This movie is worth renting or downloading.
in time to the late 80’s, you’d see me on a skateboard, and in the early 2000’s, you catch me on a Snowboard.
been out awhile. Although it seems to me that this movie just came out, I in fact, watched it on HD Cable in the warmth of my living room.