ConnieMack's Open Salon Blog

#% SNATCH @!

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:01:15 -0500

Why the fock do I want a caravan it's got no fockin wheels?

The link above is a page that has compilations of great quotes and scenes from the movie. But really, just watch the movie! You'll need subtitles at times, but that's what rewind is for....

It's the crazy-assiest caper film I've ever seen - with sideshows putting you hip-deep into backstreet melodramas. With more than a fair share of wicked, black humour.

Though that's an odd characterization above, Brick Top is the most amoral prick I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

To quote him:

"Do you know what 'nemesis' means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me."

- and -

"In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?"

Stephen Graham and Jason Statham are trying like hell to promote boxing matches and make a little money.

Brad Pitt's "pikey" character is madder than a hatter - and probably contributed to the hipsters of today wearing said toppers.

Add in an 86-caret diamond, double-cross, double-entendre, and a dog guilty of both = mayhem, at times resembling the madcap world of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World + skullduggery.

It's all about who's got the power. But that's not always obvious.

Cripes, you add in Boris the Blade (Rade Serbedzjia)...

... and Franky Four Fingers (Benicio del Toro), you've got an intense winner.

The week I finally got around to watching it was my birthday week, in mid August, 2001. I'd made some great roast beef sandwiches + horseradish + cold import beer [necessity on a hot August night in upstate New York].

Watched the opening scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfdOgTWoxM&feature=related

Was still processing that, and the house shook like a good old fashioned California earthquake.

That's the subject of another post. Suffice it to say, a criminal stole a large truck, totalled all three of our vehicles parked beside the house, ramming the house in the process.

Was still processing THAT a few weeks later when planes instead of trucks rammed buildings down south in NYC.

Bullet Tooth Tony: "You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity."

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

In short, damn fine movie.

Yes, it's Fleet Week

Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:10:25 -0400

I love it. It's Fleet Week!

Boom! The Blue Angels are flying over my building. Before 9/11, we could go on the roof to watch them. Alas, I look northward up Polk Street, from the mere 16th Floor. They slash toward the bay; they flash back toward me. Their trajectory cuts the air - it Sounds like a Knife.

And then

and then

and then we get the Boom!

We have the wicked gray F/A-18 Super Hornet (such a badass!)

Here it is breaking the sound barrier:

The USS Momsen, on an earlier visit:

My personal favorite, the C-47

And the most important part:

(And then, of course, there's the alternate universe:)

To check out details for Fleet Week, SF, go:

http://www.fleetweek.us/Air_Show.html

photo attribution:

1. Chris Michel

2. Sac Bee

3., 4. sfcitizen.com

5. www.kitsune

6. aerospace news

7. Momsen - stock/unknown

8. greatlakeswing

9. stock/unknown

10. video - slashfilm.com

Where, Indeed

Fri, 14 May 2010 18:05:58 -0400

Where's the Love, y'all?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc

What's wrong with the world mama?
People living like ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world's addicted to the drama
Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma
Overseas yeah we tryin to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin
In the USA the big CIA the Bloodz and the Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And if you hatin you're bound to get irate
Yeah madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
You gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all

People killing people dying
Children hurtin you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?(where is the lovex3)(the love2x)

It just ain't the same all ways have changed
New days are strange is the world the insane?
If love and peace so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations dropping bombs
Chemical gases filling lungs of little ones
With ongoing suffering
As the youth die young
So ask yourself is the loving really strong?
So I can ask myself really what is going wrong
With this world that we living in
People keep on giving in
Makin wrong decisions
Only visions of them livin and
Not respecting each other
Deny thy brother
The wars' going on but the reasons' undercover
The truth is kept secret
Swept under the rug
If you never know truth
Then you never know love
Where's the love y'all?(I don't know)
Where's the truth y'all?(I don't know)
Where's the love y'all?

People killing people dying
Children hurtin you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father father father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?(where is the lovex3)(the lovex2)

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm getting older y'all people get colder
Most of us only care about money makin
Selfishness got us followin the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what the see in the cinema
Whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness and equality
Instead of spreading love, we're spreading anomosity
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down
It's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under
I gotta keep my faith alive, until love is found

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accreditation:

Win pic and fax photo stills - Black Eyed Peas

nuclear 1 - both wired and asianwindow.files

Eclipse 2006 - Asianwindow.files.wordpress

bloody hands - denny.woordpress

sad man - from Alphahouse

ILY - American Sign Language assoc.

Tribus Sentire

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:04:57 -0400

Sentence. From the Latin, sententia... feeling, opinion; sentire... to feel.

Ab initio:

Ever hopeful, face to the sky, the future is mine, and I own it!

Medius:

Living each day in and for the moment has its duty tax - but boy, did I dance!

Exitus:

Flexing for and to an uncertain future, while beating myself up for beating myself up (I think I need therapy).

Dance Anywhere ! !

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:03:43 -0400

Dance Anywhere....

I don't have time to write much or get all art-y. Just leave your computers, stand up at your desk, in your kitchen, go outside and

DANCE!!!

http://www.danceanywhere.org/

Okay, a friend from work, Margo, and I ran out the door, walked a block to the Asian Art Museum on Larkin Street in San Francisco to see someone dance!

First, some drummers were setting up. There was a fife-ist tootling away, running trills. There were clusters of school children, different age groups, kind of hanging around. Most people didn't know what was going to happen, but they knew Something was going to happen.

Then black-clad young people came out, spread out on the promenade, one perched up above on either side.

It was fun.

It felt good.

The sun was on my face, the sky blue.

We were all together.