Jump to content

Bama Llama

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    1329
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Bama Llama

  1. Alien / Blade Runner / Twilight Zone episode with giant alien human-looking farm couple, tiny astronauts and US Air Force saucer in attic / War of the Worlds (both) / Contact / Arrival / The Time Machine (both) / Barbarella / Flash Gordon / 1970s original Star Wars whatever TF its actual name is
  2. Agree 100% but my comment was not about guardians or conservators. The proof bar's lower for a "person alleged to be in need of protection." The remedy is not a court supervised ongoing case, but a trust.
  3. The Green Leaves of Summer from soundtrack whiz Dimitri Tiomkin. The staff car creeping slowly up the hill to this music took me right back to 1960 and another throat grabber (same song/tune). Saludos, mis amigos de Texas!
  4. NIL deals will put states' Protected Persons laws to the test. In protected person cases, the petitioner does not have to prove a lack of mental capacity. These typically originate in probate court; if a petitioner shows that the "person alleged to be in need of protection" is unable to manage their money or other property because they're dependent on drugs or alcohol, a spendthrift, susceptible to undue influence, or just a hapless dumbass, the judge can literally impose a trust out of thin air and appoint a trustee to administer the PATBINOP's assets and income. This action usually arises just before a doofus, druggie, alkie, or easily-led patsy inherits a truckload of cash or securities, and the PR/executor who has been dealing with the person for months or years takes action to prevent "entourage predation" and waste. There are parallels in the coming storm of NIL deals. Probate Court is about to get even more interesting, as will the upstream removals to higher courts and appeals. Hooefully, in the end, the young people actually WILL be protected.
  5. The "Play 'La Marseillaise' -- PLAY IT!" scene in Casablanca adrenalizes me like no other moment in cinema, this one in particular: Aux arms, citoyens! Armez vos batallions! Fuckin Nazi assholes.
  6. Audiobook of "Widespread Panic" a novel by James Ellroy, narrated con molto brio by "oh I saw that guy in that movie," Craig Wasson. Enjoying the fuck out of this. It's a great sex, booze, pay phone, manual typewriter, watch A-bomb test flash from the roof with Joi Lansing, JFK and Ingrid Bergman scandal sheet, red under every bed type of trip. It's supposed to be an autobiography of Fred Otash, about whom Wikipedia sez: Fred Otash was a Los Angeles police officer, private investigator, author, and a WWII Marine veteran, who became known as a Hollywood fixer, while operating as its "most infamous" private detective; he is most remembered as "the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character Jake Gittes in the film, Chinatown." You've never heard such well aligned alliteration. Loving it so far.
  7. The Fifth Element was loaded with casting hits and plesant surprises. Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, Gary Oldman, Tiny (RIP) Lister, shit - all up and down the line, the blue multiarmed diva, Ian Holm, and Brion Helm. It was as if a 1976 issue of Heavy Metal came to life. Guess Luc Besson had a lot to do with that. A cool story which didn't (quite) get lost in its CGI and special effects but used them to enhance the end product.
  8. Mrs. Llama and I have been bingeing Hitchcock TCM all weekend and loving it 95% of the time but decidedly veered during Vertigo - seemed as if the script was being written by monkeys on 1,000 different typewriters. Nice postcard for late 50s Bay Area, though. TCM has started cold opening films with credits run at the end - interesting! Bravo TCM, preserving the fast talking, short tie, high pants wearing movies for posterity.
  9. Listened to this one recently and can enthusiastically recommend. The premise was original and plot well done. If my physics teachers and profs could lay it out like this guy, I might have made better than a C.
  10. Bama Llama

    Longmire

    Mrs Bama Llama is seldom enamored with TV but she looooves her some Longmire, a little too much for my liking. Nah, it's a fine series and a solid cast. It's as if James Lee Burke wrote a contemporary Mountain Western and someone turned it into moving images. I'd like to go by the Lou Diamond Phillips bar on the way home from work every day. In fact . . .
  11. Wild at Heart Nic Cage, Laura Dern and a menagerie of excellent actors directed by David Lynch I'll watch it every time it appears on any screen Pretty good Elvis channeling and Dern channeling as well Worth watching if only to see Willem Dafoe's bizarro character
  12. Above are all fine, DGAF as to naming any one of them "best." These enhance the world of sound (and sight too, in some cases): Sade / Diana Krall / Annie Lennox / Blonde ABBA singer / last but not least, Edith Piaf
  13. Replace the present loophole-ridden tax code cheese with a national sales tax, with a high enough threshhold to prevent regressive harm. Yawanna buy high dollar vehicles and swag? Step right up. Too simple?
  14. RIP, Ned. His corrupt Senator was especially vile in Shooter. I'm so old I actually saw Deliverance in a theater when it was first released. There was a "Moon River" quality to the squealing scene, when one re-evaluates decisions in an instant. James Dickey's gum chewing suspcious sheriff was more threatening than the hillbillies. What a film.
  15. I'm in for the funky, rarely if ever seen before, on campus first round games with high schadenfreude potential, e.g.: Last year - Oregon @ Aggie, UGA @ Cincinnati, Indiana @ Gators; 2019 - Gators @ Wisconsin; 2018 - LSU @ Buckeyes, Gators @ Michigan, UDub @ UCF; 2017 - The U @ Auburn; 2016 - USC @ Wisconsin (song girls cavorting in nipply weather - mmmm).
  16. Jim and Tammy Faye always made me think of characters from a 1960s puppet TV series. Follow them up with a little psilocybin and top it off with some Ernest Angley, and you were ready for anything. Evull spreerots, get AYYYouuut! SMACK!
  17. Cue Belushi as Captain of the Raging Queen. Agree with above posters that M&C was outstanding, right down to the zoom-through-blurry-old-telescope-lens shot of the French captain glaring across the waves as his ship is bearing down on Aubrey's ship. The Aubrey series by Patrick O'Brian is joyfully addictive. The author creates knife edge suspense from cat and mouse pursuits, battle strategery and clever deception. I only read one of the books; listened to all the others, well narrated by Patrick Tull, a man with a gift. There is some sort of intrigue about O'Brian's service background and rejection by the Royal Navy before WW2. IDGAF, the gentleman brings the turn of the 18th/19th centuries to life like few I've read. Bring it on and more like it!
  18. From AL.com - Sark strikes again: Steve Sarkisian asked if Alabama players go to class, responds with playful shot at Tuscaloosa Updated May 27, 2021; Posted May 27, 2021 Texas coach and former Alabama assistant coach Steve Sarkisian was asked this week if Alabama players went to class. The question may have gotten as many laughs as the answer. Then again, it really depends on who is doing the talking. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, while attending a Houston Touchdown Club function on Wednesday, was asked by an attendee if Alabama players go to class. The question drew laughs. Sarkisian, the former Alabama offensive coordinator, then dropped what The Athletic reports was his best line of the day: “Well, yeah, all they have in Tuscaloosa is football and class,” Sarkisian said. “There ain’t shit else to do.” Well, alrighty then. See y'all in '22 (Austin) and '23 (Tuscaloosa).
  19. Deeeep riverrrr, my home is ooooo-verrr Jordan . . .
  20. I'd motorboat her Nile, Ganges, Amazon and Mississippi. Viva knowledge y informacion y Smifson y on!
  21. Bandits / Bruce Willis, Billy Bob and Cate Blanchett at her most lovely bewitching self. This one had me from the first, a prison escape in a stolen ready mix cement truck to the tune of Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole. Directed by Barry (Rain Man; Good Morning, Vietnam) Levinson. Cinematography + Soundtrack ++ Locations + Cate Blanchett's mouth +++ Billy Bob as a hypochondriac + Liked it the first time around, liked it just as much last night.
  22. Alan Alda my senile ass - Alan Arkin. Jesus, how quickly the confusing years arrive.
  23. Well, the only problem with that is . . . Wait, I meant to say . . . Or was it . . . County Agent and Ralph the lady carpenter were stellar, as was Eb. Truly trascendental.
  24. If the film is half as good as the book . . . some eyes will be opened if they will only see. Corruption and evil on a scale not seen since ohhh, say, January 6, 2021.
×
×
  • Create New...