That's right. Just look at this nose, a year after my septoplasty to fix the ruckus up there and whooooooat do you know? All back to normal and still funky. Oh well, could be worse, could have eaten some bad bacon and gotten swine flu (da dum chee!)
Maddie is learning to laugh, which is unexplainably awesome. Kylun is also learning his artistic side, which obviously makes me happy. Kid has a great imagination! Krisi is amazing at ever by balancing everything everyday and I learn from her constantly. Overall, very blessed and thankful.
Picked up Them Crooked Vultures album today and have to say it's incredible. Don't take my word for it, just listen to the whole thing up for free on youtube like I did last week. You will run to the store to pick it up or itunes if you are one of those folk. The album is everything, and I mean everything you'd expect from Josh, JPJ and Big Dave. It does lay heavy use on the "Era" & "Songs" QOTSA albums, as well as plenty of Zeppelin and Cream hints all around. Only a smidgen of any Foo refs, maybe just the in your face jamming on a few tracks and Dave's occasional background vocals. Mark Lanegan 'may' be singing on a couple, but as we've heard on "Era", Josh seems to mimic Mark at times. I'm very happy with the outcome here.
As we had with "Songs", Josh seems to try harder at his ideas and not settle when up with his idols on board. JPJ is as active and unbelievable as ever. This is one not to miss and it'll keep you happy, entertained and probably in heavy rotation. It's a rare album that gets even better with every listen (I'm on 8th spin since I bought it this morning including the 4 times I listened through the free stream last week on youtube).
So far this year only 3 other albums have come out that I can say the same for: Gomez: A New Tide; Into the Presence: Into the Presence ; and of course Dethklok: Dethalbum II. So the year is wrapping up pretty good minus the few mega musical disappointments given. Not sure what to expect for next year, but I'm all about super groups that do it right.
I'm always down for other finds, so drop them by me
-Grandad
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Everything from G.I. Joe to Democrats in love...
Hello! Those 2 of you reading this, okay, 1, I kid myself... I have many things to ramble about and that's what I'm here to do today... and work too, I think. So this weekend was a good one. Had some awesome time with the kiddoes and went to CrackaSpence 09 Birthday Extravaganzer with Jabba. Very good time, indeed. Sunday was a very laid back day and though there wasn't much sleep last night due to lil' miss sunshine, I'm glad to be able to take care of her. Krisi and I are really good at taking turns with her, so that kid is already spoiled.. what to do?
So I love that I finally got around to seeing G.I. Joe, the Rise of Cobra. Sure I should have seen it in the theater, but honestly, the trailers I saw were pretty lame. Well, the movie was good. Not great, but good. Reminded me a lot of the first X-Men, meaning that it could have been much better had they known what the audience age was going to be. Obviously, with the violence and heavy use of fancy 'exciter' words they were trying for a teenage/young adult audience and not for kids, other than the Happy meal toys and long lines of action figures which just makes the kids want to see the film, right? In all honesty, the film should have been given a R rating so they could have made it AWESOME. The film obviously wasn't intended for kids, I will argue to the grave on that, so why sugar coat it and why not go ahead and full steam it? Oh yeah, because it would have made less money at the box office. Oops. So it was just a bit of a heavy PG-13 lack luster flick that shoulda coulda been great.
Pros and cons on it? Sure if you're actually reading this far...
Pros - First off, Scarlett, Duke, Hawk, Heavy Duty, Breaker, Baroness, Zartan, Destro, Cobra Commander, Cover Girl, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were perfectly cast in appearance. Acting wise? We'll leave that for the cons...
Secondly - The use of the laser weapons was amazing, but there's a con there too.
Thirdly - The storyline wasn't bad and the battle scenese were very well done.
Fourthly (not a word) - It wasn't too short and didn't feel too long ("that's what she said") considering the story kept me interested throughout.
Fifly (also not a word) - The kid from 3rd Rock did a bang up job. I was very impressed with his acting. He was a nice addition. Sure Ledger (who oddly resemble each other) could have been better, but oops! The Baroness was great in this as well as Quaid as Hawk. The attack on the Pit was awesome and very well done. In fact all the 'big' scenes were done up perfect in my opinion. The Last of the Mohicans style beginning battle was awesome with the lasers.
Cons - Script, script, script. I know, it's a toy movie, much like Transformers, but seriously. Channing Tatum (or whatever his forgettable name is) LOOKS like Duke, sure he does, but I would have settled for the main dude from Prison Break, Chris Pine, Ryan Phillipe, the dude from Not Another Teen Movie, maybe even Paul Walker if that's not pushing it? The list could go on forever. But no, they wanted the dude from Step Up. Really? REALLY? I bet Brendan George of the Jungle Fraiser was kicking himself the whole time he was learning his 2 lines as Flint or Sgt. Stone or whoever he ended up getting side cast to be since he was busy making more films that are last minute Red Box picks when that movie you didn't come to get but was going to settle for wasn't there either so you end up with Inkheart! Don't get me wrong, I like Brendan Jungle, but Channing Tatum? REALLY? Man, he was aweful, but he did look like Duke, and I guess that's all they cared about.
The Heavy Duty and Ripcord paragraph. Okay, no I'm not grouping the black guys together, though that is funny and ironically hilarious. Heavy Duty was awesome, I love that he was like British or something foreign giving his character more of a high brow appeal, BUT why Heavy Duty? Was he EVER in the comic more than once or even a key player in the cartoon? I don't remember, though his toy was pretty awesome. Why not Roadblock? Everyone freaking knows Roadblock! The Rock or Vin Diesel would have been perfect for Roadblock, even the Green Mile dude! Guess his constant rhyming would have been annoying after a while, though. Ripcord. Sigh, okay, so here's where I get labeled a racist.... Ripcord, a red head blue eyed white Irish character in origin has become a Will Smith wannabe Wayans. Sure I love him in the Scary Movie films and In Living Color, but c'mon, Ripcord was as white as He-man was white! Why change this? Isn't that racist? Why not have the main black character Stalker instead of a very unpopular and often forgotten character like Ripcord? Then you wouldn't have had any problems. And man, was the Ripcord/Scarlett relationship disgustingly poorly written. I'm all about interacial relationships, so I'll stop you right there, BUT, it was just poorly written and even worsely (worsely?) acted. The Scarlett girl LOOKED just like Scarlett, but she sure didn't act like her. She was such a typical 'weak' female character. The Baroness showed strength and Scarlett should have been the same, oh well. Okay, enough with picking on the people cast, they did their job and will now do a few romantic comedies before quickly being forgotten until the Joe sequel comes out in 3 years.
THE LASERS. The show always had them using lasers and just like in Star Wars and Star Trek, no one ever really got hit by them, save a few times. So when I first saw the attack on the Army with the use of amazing lasers I thought, DUDE. That's awesome! How are the Joes going to be able to fight back? Oh yeah, they didn't, not really. And the lasers were briefly used throughout the film. WHY? If you have a frickin' laser, wouldn't you, oh I don't know, use them?! Hey, Snake Eyes, nice swords, but I have a laser and just blew your head off! Exactly, so why there wasn't more LASER use since they had the technology, I will never understand. I also didn't really like how many of the characters were tied together, that's kind lame and weak, especially since it was all written in for the film only.
So this is why I didn't go see it in the theater, because I knew I would be doing this after I saw it. There's plenty more good than bad in it and I highly recommend renting it and watching at full volume, but it's one of the weaker action films of the year, that's for sure. I am eager to see where they go with it and it still reminds me of how the first X-Men to the sequel grew so much in goodness. I believe G.I. Joe's sequel will do the same and really be something amazing. Money makes stuff happen.
Now... I've left politics alone lately, because I know I'm supposed to respect my government since it's what I'm instructed to do by the One who's really in charge of my life, but seriously, how screwed up is this administration? I love that Mr. O Jelly (there he goes, being racist again...) just came out announcing that suddenly "Al Queda is our biggest threat". Really? You just figured that out? Just now? You just won an air high five and a left handed air guitar solo for 2 minutes! You numbsack! The whole year and we could have been sending over more troops to stun the situation in Afghany and now they have taken Pakistan to deal out arms and receive them. OOPS! Yeah, this one you better not blame on the 'previous adminstration' dude. You seriously need to start owning up to your constant array of mistakes you're pulling out of your straw hat. Yes, I believe that the 2nd Bush term was a mess. NO I did not vote for him but I sure wasn't going to vote for Kerry either, so I have to live with what happened those last 2 years of the Bush administration/Democrat led Congress. So now what, Mr. O Jelly? Can we send over the troops requested half a year ago? I don't think it will matter now, unless you double the number, buddy. This situation could have been prevented, but nope. All I can do is pray and 'hope' that a year from now something real can happen and these clusternuts will be stopped at all corners of the room from continuing on with their implosion of America. Something must be done with Health Care, I agree, but the system that's in place needs the work, not deletion. That won't solve anything. If our fancy rednecks in Congress on BOTH sides could work together on fixing what's wrong instead of hating one another then we'd be back in control and not be the laughing stock country we've become. The American doller is becoming cheaper than toilet paper "Big Roll" style quicker than a Black Friday sale (can I still call it that?). Let's work together or replace the group in office on BOTH sides of the fence and get some fellers in that will work together to get this amazing country back on track. Amen to that
Okay, thanks for reading if ya did and until next time...
So I love that I finally got around to seeing G.I. Joe, the Rise of Cobra. Sure I should have seen it in the theater, but honestly, the trailers I saw were pretty lame. Well, the movie was good. Not great, but good. Reminded me a lot of the first X-Men, meaning that it could have been much better had they known what the audience age was going to be. Obviously, with the violence and heavy use of fancy 'exciter' words they were trying for a teenage/young adult audience and not for kids, other than the Happy meal toys and long lines of action figures which just makes the kids want to see the film, right? In all honesty, the film should have been given a R rating so they could have made it AWESOME. The film obviously wasn't intended for kids, I will argue to the grave on that, so why sugar coat it and why not go ahead and full steam it? Oh yeah, because it would have made less money at the box office. Oops. So it was just a bit of a heavy PG-13 lack luster flick that shoulda coulda been great.
Pros and cons on it? Sure if you're actually reading this far...
Pros - First off, Scarlett, Duke, Hawk, Heavy Duty, Breaker, Baroness, Zartan, Destro, Cobra Commander, Cover Girl, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were perfectly cast in appearance. Acting wise? We'll leave that for the cons...
Secondly - The use of the laser weapons was amazing, but there's a con there too.
Thirdly - The storyline wasn't bad and the battle scenese were very well done.
Fourthly (not a word) - It wasn't too short and didn't feel too long ("that's what she said") considering the story kept me interested throughout.
Fifly (also not a word) - The kid from 3rd Rock did a bang up job. I was very impressed with his acting. He was a nice addition. Sure Ledger (who oddly resemble each other) could have been better, but oops! The Baroness was great in this as well as Quaid as Hawk. The attack on the Pit was awesome and very well done. In fact all the 'big' scenes were done up perfect in my opinion. The Last of the Mohicans style beginning battle was awesome with the lasers.
Cons - Script, script, script. I know, it's a toy movie, much like Transformers, but seriously. Channing Tatum (or whatever his forgettable name is) LOOKS like Duke, sure he does, but I would have settled for the main dude from Prison Break, Chris Pine, Ryan Phillipe, the dude from Not Another Teen Movie, maybe even Paul Walker if that's not pushing it? The list could go on forever. But no, they wanted the dude from Step Up. Really? REALLY? I bet Brendan George of the Jungle Fraiser was kicking himself the whole time he was learning his 2 lines as Flint or Sgt. Stone or whoever he ended up getting side cast to be since he was busy making more films that are last minute Red Box picks when that movie you didn't come to get but was going to settle for wasn't there either so you end up with Inkheart! Don't get me wrong, I like Brendan Jungle, but Channing Tatum? REALLY? Man, he was aweful, but he did look like Duke, and I guess that's all they cared about.
The Heavy Duty and Ripcord paragraph. Okay, no I'm not grouping the black guys together, though that is funny and ironically hilarious. Heavy Duty was awesome, I love that he was like British or something foreign giving his character more of a high brow appeal, BUT why Heavy Duty? Was he EVER in the comic more than once or even a key player in the cartoon? I don't remember, though his toy was pretty awesome. Why not Roadblock? Everyone freaking knows Roadblock! The Rock or Vin Diesel would have been perfect for Roadblock, even the Green Mile dude! Guess his constant rhyming would have been annoying after a while, though. Ripcord. Sigh, okay, so here's where I get labeled a racist.... Ripcord, a red head blue eyed white Irish character in origin has become a Will Smith wannabe Wayans. Sure I love him in the Scary Movie films and In Living Color, but c'mon, Ripcord was as white as He-man was white! Why change this? Isn't that racist? Why not have the main black character Stalker instead of a very unpopular and often forgotten character like Ripcord? Then you wouldn't have had any problems. And man, was the Ripcord/Scarlett relationship disgustingly poorly written. I'm all about interacial relationships, so I'll stop you right there, BUT, it was just poorly written and even worsely (worsely?) acted. The Scarlett girl LOOKED just like Scarlett, but she sure didn't act like her. She was such a typical 'weak' female character. The Baroness showed strength and Scarlett should have been the same, oh well. Okay, enough with picking on the people cast, they did their job and will now do a few romantic comedies before quickly being forgotten until the Joe sequel comes out in 3 years.
THE LASERS. The show always had them using lasers and just like in Star Wars and Star Trek, no one ever really got hit by them, save a few times. So when I first saw the attack on the Army with the use of amazing lasers I thought, DUDE. That's awesome! How are the Joes going to be able to fight back? Oh yeah, they didn't, not really. And the lasers were briefly used throughout the film. WHY? If you have a frickin' laser, wouldn't you, oh I don't know, use them?! Hey, Snake Eyes, nice swords, but I have a laser and just blew your head off! Exactly, so why there wasn't more LASER use since they had the technology, I will never understand. I also didn't really like how many of the characters were tied together, that's kind lame and weak, especially since it was all written in for the film only.
So this is why I didn't go see it in the theater, because I knew I would be doing this after I saw it. There's plenty more good than bad in it and I highly recommend renting it and watching at full volume, but it's one of the weaker action films of the year, that's for sure. I am eager to see where they go with it and it still reminds me of how the first X-Men to the sequel grew so much in goodness. I believe G.I. Joe's sequel will do the same and really be something amazing. Money makes stuff happen.
Now... I've left politics alone lately, because I know I'm supposed to respect my government since it's what I'm instructed to do by the One who's really in charge of my life, but seriously, how screwed up is this administration? I love that Mr. O Jelly (there he goes, being racist again...) just came out announcing that suddenly "Al Queda is our biggest threat". Really? You just figured that out? Just now? You just won an air high five and a left handed air guitar solo for 2 minutes! You numbsack! The whole year and we could have been sending over more troops to stun the situation in Afghany and now they have taken Pakistan to deal out arms and receive them. OOPS! Yeah, this one you better not blame on the 'previous adminstration' dude. You seriously need to start owning up to your constant array of mistakes you're pulling out of your straw hat. Yes, I believe that the 2nd Bush term was a mess. NO I did not vote for him but I sure wasn't going to vote for Kerry either, so I have to live with what happened those last 2 years of the Bush administration/Democrat led Congress. So now what, Mr. O Jelly? Can we send over the troops requested half a year ago? I don't think it will matter now, unless you double the number, buddy. This situation could have been prevented, but nope. All I can do is pray and 'hope' that a year from now something real can happen and these clusternuts will be stopped at all corners of the room from continuing on with their implosion of America. Something must be done with Health Care, I agree, but the system that's in place needs the work, not deletion. That won't solve anything. If our fancy rednecks in Congress on BOTH sides could work together on fixing what's wrong instead of hating one another then we'd be back in control and not be the laughing stock country we've become. The American doller is becoming cheaper than toilet paper "Big Roll" style quicker than a Black Friday sale (can I still call it that?). Let's work together or replace the group in office on BOTH sides of the fence and get some fellers in that will work together to get this amazing country back on track. Amen to that
Okay, thanks for reading if ya did and until next time...
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