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Bama Llama

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  1. This entire 2020 COVID / Trump fubar fiasco shows anyone not huffing Trump Tangerine spray paint that he does not care about this nation and its citizens. He wouldn't even take the most basic basic protective measures to avoid what happened Friday to the executive branch of government.
  2. Yes, he, the Enemy of Enlightenment, has COVID-19. Sic semper ignorantis.
  3. Dennis Francione says, "Thanks for remembering."
  4. Love the beautiful reminiscence but did he rent Best In Show or what? Christopher Guest should receive a special Oscar for his body of work. If for no other reason than writing "Did you fuck my wife?" into Waiting for Guffman. The casts - Magnifique!
  5. Most Coenworthy, the measured pace, skilled actors we've never before seen, vibid images, attention to detail, dialogue of the era, sudden deadly force. I am intrigued at the line "your foot on our neck" and would love to know when it was written. The nighttime sound of a distant train sounding its horn for a crossing takes me straight back to the days of my youth. Others may throw you under that train, Noah, but I am with you.
  6. Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005). Need to lower your BP by 20 or 30 top and bottom? Sit back and drink in this beautiful, simple tale, showing how for a family of young Mongolian nomads, life has changed very little in hundreds of years. And btw, the Chinese restaurant scene in Waiting for Guffman is one of the most spit-out-whatever-is-in-your-mouth funny scenes ever. Thank you, Christopher Guest and ensemble, for the whole yuckumentsry series. You hear that? "That whole thing."
  7. And he fled the fucking interview, to boot. Somewhere a wood chipper is being cranked up.
  8. Blood Simple (the Coen bros' first) it holds you from the opening scene The Castle (from Oz) memorably cantankerous and law actually working out fairly Muriel's Wedding (" ") edgy funny excellent cast hope for wallflowers Montenegro - just take it on faith; 1980ish Susan Anspach trippy sensual out there, well worth the watch. Meet me at Club Zanzibar!
  9. Never was an actress's last name more appropriate. And best theme music since Goldfinger.
  10. To you, sir, the Blue Max of Spot On Lyrical Arcana, with or without the tight wye-ah. I could actually hear the chords as I read your post - "Baybeh, you just tew bline ta - Bomp Bomp Bomp Bomp -- see." •--->>>xXXx<<<---•
  11. DVRd Leon Russell '72-'74 semi existensial documentary on TCM. Leon is a music deity to me but Sweet Jesus why didn't they leave the feeding-a-small-chick-to-a-python scene on the cutting room floor? That graphic spectre was uncool forever. Other than that it was a nice watch on a veg out day.
  12. And of those that register how many will actually fucking VOTE!?
  13. The DNC / Biden-Harris campaign needs to bear down HARD on getting people out to register and vote who have blown it off in the past. I believe a substantial number of 2016 Trump voters were apathetic lifetime nonvoters who were somehow energized by the "As Seen on TV" candidate who talked trash like a Jerry Springer guest. These are the fuckers who swung the rust belt for the Enemy of Enlightenment. We must not let it happen again. Don't let up on him for one second.
  14. I enjoy his films but not the sideshow into which he turned his life. Perhaps his neuroses were caused by living under the roller coaster at Coney Island. Or was it inside the screen at a drive in? His rejoinder about the quality of orgasms, though, is immortal. "Bad orgasm? How can you have a bad orgasm!? Every one I ever had was pretty much right on the money."
  15. My uncle was one of those living skeletons the Marines found in Tokyo. His carrier based bomber was kamikazied out of the sky off Iwo Jima. He survived bailing out into the ocean only to be picked up by the enemy. He survived torture, beri beri, malnutrition. He saw the beheading of randomly selected fellow prisoners, American officers. He returned to Japan after the war to testify on behalf of guards who were kind to prisoners. He was one of the coolest, smartest people I ever knew. I had the honor of attending his inurnment at Arlington a few years ago. Donald Trump is not worthy of speaking his name.
  16. To paraphrase 1970 Dick Cavett, replying to Lester Maddox demanding an apology for Cavett implying that Lester's supporters were bigots: I apologize to all Trumplicans who aren't bigoted triumphalistic frontrunning ignorant RACIST assclowns. Vote, my brothers and sisters. Vote - it's all we need to do. The rest is just noise.
  17. 1. Dubbed fanfares. Four scrawny extras raise long horns and pretend to blow. Out comes a loud, majestic sound like the entire brass section of the London Symphony. What bullshit. 2. A metallic "shing!" sound when a sword whips through thin air. Air! 3. Metallic "shing!" sound when a sword is inserted into a leather scabbard. Leather! 4. Ricochet gunshots have had the same sound for sixty years. 5. One nervous horse nickering at night - always the same sound. You know the one I'm talking about. A production company spends millions to make a film and won't pay a few bucks to record an original sound or two. It is an insult to the ears.
  18. 1. Mowing is a rite of passage and a zen art. Made my bones pushing a reel mower with my seven-year old chest because my arms weren't string enough and grass to thick. 2. Don't ever ever ever EVER use a riding mower with a little kid in your lap. You know why. Little Johnny delights in riding in Gramps' lap on the mower. Gramps even lets him "drive" from time to time. One Saturday morning Gramps is mowing the back yard, heading away from the house. Little Johnny sees Gramps, comes down the back steps, runs after Gramps, calling for him to stop so Johhny can ride. Gramps can't hear over the engine noise. The new mown grass is slippery with dew, the big yard slopes away from the back porch. Johnny is running too fast. He is only five years old and doesn't know Gramps can't hear him and won't stop. When Johnny reaches the mower and tries to stop running, he slips down and slides under the mower. The side guard on the mower is not low enough to prevent what happens next, serious but not fatal physical mutilation. True stuff and tragic. He survived, but many surgeries lay ahead, a guardianship/conservatorship controversy, a protected person trial at 19, a few happy months now and then, and death at 27 from a drug overdose.
  19. Yes! I'll watch Kingdom of Heaven anytime the opportunity comes. The tragic, leprous, noble king with the silver mask, Eva Green's eyes, zoomed in images of a zillion warriors, villains of all stripes getting comeuppance, all with Ridley Scott at the helm methodically peeling the onion without rushing the pace. Gotta love it.
  20. What matters now is which teams are improving and which are not? Nothing stays the same. However good, great, overrated or lucky the program as a whole has been since Nick Saban arrived in 2007 and thank you Jesus decided to stay, it's obvious Bama has fallen off on defense, particularly in the pass rush and quality of LB play, for each of the last couple of years. We got wayy too pass happy in 2018 and 2019 and couldn't make a yard when it was important. There are reasons enough to fill a stadium but the facts stand as they stand. We had no answer for LSU's offense last year. This COVID-fucked season, which even now may or may not happen, will always have a big asterisk by it. Hell, I'm still pissed off about ND playing for a tie vs Sparty in 1966 and taking a title away from a damn good Bama team. And for the record, I do not claim Bama won any of those questioned titles. I don''t even claim the one the AP awarded in 1964 before the bowls. We lost the Orange Bowl to Texas no matter what Joe Namath said, and that championship has a big "awarded before Orange Bowl loss" asterisk. Drink Scotch whiskey all night long . . . and die behind the wheel.
  21. Is that you, govnuh? "You can take all the Democratic candidates for President and all the Republican candidates for President. Put them in a sack and shake them up. Take the first one that falls out, grab him by the nape of the neck, and put him right back in the sack. Because there is not a dime's worth of difference in any of them." GEORGE WALLACE, CAMPAIGN SPEECH 1968
  22. Surprise. This is the year we are forced to find something different to do on Saturdays. Not unlike the 60s, when there was one, ONE game on TV and your favorite team's game on radio, if you lived near enough to a network station. I can live without football for one year. Kind of like lent and football is the food you give up for a few weeks. I've always wanted to learn Portuguese. Filho da puta filho da puta.
  23. This old fart chokes up every time this scene unfolds: Rick and Victor Laszlo are talking in Rick's office. Laszlo, hearing Nazi officers singing, interrupts his coversation with Rick, rushes down to the house band and demands, "Play 'La Mareillaise' . . . PLAY IT!" The band leader looks up to Rick. Rick gives him "the nod." What follows is my all-time favorite scene. If your throat doesn't seize up as the music approaches "Aux arms, citoyens!" there's something seriously wrong with you. Fantastic combination of acting, editing and soundtrack. Remember, this was 1942. This war was far from over.
  24. Don "She looked 18!" Henley calling, line one.x
  25. Boiled peanuts . . . Nossir, I don't like 'em. Can't imagine why anyone would. Guess that's why they make Bruton and Garrett. Sounds I least want to hear, in order: 1. "War Eagle" in any context; 2. A human consuming boiled crawfish; and 3. A human consuming boiled peanuts.
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