Bon anniversaire Granniog

Have a nice day, eat some jelly

Piranha

A morality tale with breasts
This may be a perfect B/horror shlock movie

Beware there are spoilers
I am warning you there are spoilers here…
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The film starts with Richard Dreyfus on a boat listening to show me the way to go home. As he is fishing. An earthquake happens, and a shoal of Piranha is let loose.
I was thinking I might prefer to die from blood loss from Piranha’s than drowning
Its a great, Its a model for making a  genre movie. You work backwards. One you have things in place, you polish it, with humour and references
The opening scene with Kelly brook, and the blonde moppet, the little sister of the hero. Is well done. ``Nice boobs. I’ve a training bra’’
The only problem, is Jerry O’Connell’s porn producer is a bit graphic in front of the kid. Kelly covering the ears would have worked.
Jerry is fine, too. Plays his part, perfectly . A c--t
So  Boy meets girl, girl leaves boy for bastard with gig tickets. Boy meets tart with a heart, and film crew. Boy has to babysit, and bribes little moppet so he can join film crew on the boat. Meanwhile his Mom, the Milf- I mean Sheriff investigates the deaths.
Then disaster strikes in the form of deadly fish
The young lad, has no lock on his door. His Mother the Sherriff can just walk in on him, has he not heard of closing a window.
I thought the Spring break crowd had been driven from the US to Mexico and the Caribbean
Ving Rhames. The other cop spoofs Carl weathers in Predator with a powerboat engine, rather than a mini gun.
You can see more on the internet. However Kelly Brook, who is at one point wearing a body stocking references Bolero.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086987/
A girl is sliced in two, by an errant wire, but before she dies, a horrible death, her boobs flash.
The Geologist is the older brother from Stepbrothers. (Adam Novak)
Carlos from Desperate Housewives plays a diver. Gets a great line, on dibs on the bodies of missing college girls
Oh and Old Doc brown from Back to the future plays a biologist

Keep your panties on and stay out of the water!

Check box

When I was in UNC, I opened a bank account with a local bank. I won’t mention which one. As they kind of fleeced of me. I opened a savings account for example. Which I had no need for. It was my fault, for simply picking the first place that was open. I had been very careless with my money. I spent to much and left my money lying around in plain view.

They sent the checks to the wrong place. I wrote bad ones. I was chased by a credit agency over this. I wonder if I am still black listed somewhere in the USA over this. I was even a little concerned about returning to NC. Wondering if my creditors should be awaiting for me.

Anyway, they sent me a lot of checks. In this little box, and I have kept the box. It was full of stuff from my past. The mission cards from my old risk set. The business card of a Mr Harvey who was my contact at the employment agency I worked for just after I left college

There are the tags, of two jerseys. The New York Yankee’s top I got my from my older sister. A soccer shirt.  The registration card from my old scanner. The instructions for the worry balls, I got from the princess of Reno.

There was a bag with a few dollars in change too. A bank slip from 2003. A little dividend, after all. A little repository of my life.

Scott Pilgrim

Its the first gamers movie. As opposed to movies about games. The opening titles, for universal have been adapted to look like the Ident for a PC game
Michael Cera, plays Scott Pilgrim. A bass player with a new Chinese School girl friend. Knives. Than a beautiful stranger enters his life. At a party, Where Scott fails to impress the famous or is it infamous romana
At the battle of the bands. Scott is attacked by a stranger in the manner of street fighter 2.
The first ex, does a bollywood dance. Surrounded by demonic cheerleaders. Chris Evans, the Movie star not the DJ, is the next. The film revolves around these set pieces, but it not defined by it.
The young lady playing knives steals the show. She is lovely. The film never takes its eyes off her. Scott does treat her well. The scene when one of the evil exes punches her, and punches her high lights out, had me baying for blood.
Knives is an interesting character she is 17, and an innocent and is dumped by Scott. The film implies he cheats on her. Rather, he more or less  drops here.
We don’t often see, Knives perspective. The girl, in the shadow of the older more confident, girl. You got a hint of it, in the early Buffy episodes. With Willow and Cordy, but here it is.
The movie is set in Canada. I remember Canada. I remember the cold. The snow everywhere. Going to gigs, in the student Union, the loonies. The red heads and the freckles. Gin and T’s. ( I don’t think American’s drink G and T’s for some reason)
There is a joke at Toronto being a stand in for New York. There is possible reference to the old Canadian Girlfriend trope, here it is reversed
Our Romana, was bi, naughty girl!
Coke Zero, slips in some product placement. The swearing is blacked out too. To keep the audience broad
The source material is a few years old. So, some of the tech details are off. The computer looks a little old. There is the sound of modems, in the background. Old whirring modems, or computer tape spooling up
Its not for everyone.  but it has heart. Its brave enough to have the lead character as a jerk. Its the future of films. There is going to be more gamer influence. If this is the case, well like Knives its going to grow into something beautiful

Unopened Christmas present

 

I get deodorant/shower gel from an aunt, every year.

I don’t use aerosol deodorants as a rule. The scent lingers. I hate when people use them at work. As I work in a windowless bunker.

I have not opened this, box and I may never.

Besides the Winnie pooh wrapper is cool

26 August

My best wishes to my friend Susanne, who went to a funeral today, so here is a smile for her

They are not going to extend the contracts  of many of my co workers. They got the news today.

Best wishes to my friend Sahara who has made the right decision

A belated birthday

I just tweeted this to @kevinsmith, well I will say it came out this month in this side of the pond.
Anyway the classic movie Airplane like my middle sister is thirty years old this year
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/

A Comedy classic.
It introduced me to Leslie Nielsen
I remember seeing glimpses of it, the very few times I was able to stay up late. There were boobs in it!  I think I watched it, all the way through in college, with the help of a few beers.
``Guess I picked the wrong day to quit smoking’’

Counting down

10th of September when the drought breaks

9 Time I will be woken tomorrow

8 am  start if I want to cycle before

7 the compartment where I did the last 2 queries

6th of September is the Train strike

5 minutes till midnight

4 days till I am off work again

3 Sandwiches, why don’t I eat that many anymore

2 episodes of Man men to watch

1 more hour before I sleep

Dexter is still a murderer

It was an ex girlfriend, who first introduced me to the show. I was sceptical about it, the hero or rather anti hero of the series is a murderer.
http://malchera.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-went-to-dentist-on-friday.html
Goodness then we were still friends…
Anyway, I think I was the last person, who has not seen season 3, but in case you have not.
SPOILERS
SPOLIERS
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
Captain Laguerta who in the earlier series was quite a political promotion. She seems to have settled in, and become part of the furniture. In real life this does happen. If you manage to stay in position long enough, you will be accepted. You may still be incompetent but still accepted as part of the background
I feel the loss of Doakes was glossed over. The loss of Doakes, should have HIT laguerta harder. Doakes, Miguel and her new friend the defence lawyer Are all killed. Two of the people LaGuerta has slept with. Actually more than that. Two trusted co workers murderers, as far as the captain knows
Rita has grown more confident. Julie Benz, is still lovely. The scenes where she is snappy and pregnant are good.
Dexter falling in, with a friend. Is nicely done
Jimmy Smits speaks with an odd accent. I expect its supposed to be Miami/Cuban Spanish. He seems to be throwing a lot of Spanish in unnecessarily. The man is a lawyer.
Rita and Dexter, take to the Prado’s a bit too easily. Dexter earns how much, 60k a year, and add a 30k to Rita. Minus Rita’s child care and rent. The two don’t have a joint account. There is a hint of this when the Prado’s offer to cater their wedding, its too much, but isn’t it all too much? Rita is never phased, when eating at Miami’s most fashionable resturaunt
There is a great crack about Debra drinking cranberry juice&  I am sure a six feet under reference somewhere
Mazuka, supplies comic support. The episodes where he tries to clean up his act are amusing. As with the rest of the cast he puts his roots down in season 3.
There was one shock, in the series that caught me off guard. Miguel’s descent was telegraphed somewhat, however Jimmy Smits worked hard, to show himself as a would be Caudillo who Dexter gives the power of life and death too.
Odd to see Dexter get the wool pulled over his eyes. The cow’s blood on the shirt episode.
George Washington King, did not strike me as a compelling foe in the way the Ice Truck killer, and Rita were. Though Rita’s demise was too simple. It was nice to see Dexter able to turn the tables, just by talking. However Miguel’s revenge, so far has not happened. No video taped confession, to be broadcast in the event of his death, if he is to die, he
George Washington king, was not to different to the TonTon Macoute that Doakes killed in an earlier season.
Dexter telling miguel he had killed Oscar, was actually crueL
The opening titles actually make me hungry
The plot with Debra and Anton was okay, but too easily glossed over. The man was cheated and tortured. This is needs more than just a second chance with a young lady
The series is settling down. Its moving past its roots and expanding. I look forward to season 4, out in November

Salt

A decent thriller, in`` The Enemy of the State. The Fugitive, the Bourne trilogy'' mold
Angelina Jolie plays Ms. Salt. A CIA agent married to a German biologist. (Spiders) On a Friday afternoon at work, a Russian defector Orlov walks into the CIA HQ and declares an agent named Salt will shoot the president of Russia
Salt is a sleeper, part of an old Russian/Soviet plan. The terms are used indiscriminately in the movie. 

The sleepers would wait till day X and then strike-There were apparently 100's waiting to strike if the balloon went up
Lee Harvey was a sleeper- Per the film 
Angelina Jolie, plays her character largely sexlessly. 

There is a scene of her in the beginning being tortured by North Koreans, she is in her underwear. In real life she would be naked.  No- that was not alluring. It could almost be a male lead. In fact at one point, Salt disguises herself as man. ( 2021- This film was originally a Tom Cruise vehicle) 
The CIA need to get a flight from DC to NYC. No Helicopters at your disposal?
Orlov has a shoe knife, just like Lottie Lenya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Lenya
(Rosa Klebb in from Russia with love to you)

The CIA, must be the last people in the world, who let you smoke in their offices.

So Angelina Jolie, shoots the Russian president. Her face isn’t all over the newspapers, all over the web, all over 24 hours news. She can walk around NYC, get on the Staten Island ferry, with no one noticing?
Also would not the NYPD transport Salt in an sealed truck, rather than a squad car?
The Episcopalian Church the American vice president is having his funeral at has a woman bishop. The scenes were filmed during the St Patrick's day Parade on 5th. So there are a few Irish tricolor's on display.

 
Andre Braugher, plays the secretary of Defense. He has put on weight. Well no one is as young as they were
The Russian premier, does not have his own security detail with him. Because Russians trust Americans 100%
Oh and a Russian fanatic, marries a German.
A Czech sleeper has a German name.
Nyet
Not a bad film, but not one I will remember next year. Angelina is always good, here she is not great

Round up August 21st 2010

I have my long weekend, and I have been watching Dexter season 3. I have finally caught up with the rest of the civilised world

I have been answering a set of question on Eire 1922-1950 on my history list

I have put $100 towards my holiday by not drinking

I went to see my soccer team, win today. They are top of the league. I walked down there. The weather is odd. It looks overcast but its humid. So I felt too hot, and than too cold.

They have a new game at the football. One has to try to hit the cross bar from the centre spot. If one scores you win 25000 notes

I  updated my scrapbook, and my recorded dvds of Mad Men, Glee and Family Guy.

I walked through the old market. The man who used to sell Porn, is no longer there

My sister is in Ireland on holiday. She is buying me flipflops

My other sister is going to Ibiza with her boyfriend. Hey boyfriend almost lost his eye, however he is now safe to travel

and Finally

A safe trip to my Valya who is off to Peru!

Nessa blog

http://hello-nessa.blogspot.com/

My friend Nessa's blog

What we have learned so far

Andy is barred from the Ayr branch of B&Q after an incident with a stepladder

the first Kiwi fruits on sale in Scotland arrived at the Hill Head branch of Morrisons today!

Its impossible to buy garlic in Hillhead after Michaelmas

Richard Telford of Kirkwall, married with three children is innocent

Loch Tay is visible from Charon the moon of Pluto

Gordon Haig of Glenrothes is the 1471st tallest man on Earth

East Kilbride is where the money

Jelly will not set properly in Scotland

Motherwell, is fashionable with japanese tourists

Connie Bailey Rae, was a runner up for Miss Aberdeen in 2007

There are only two fridges in Scotland. One in Balmoral one in Holyrood

Happy birthday Viki

Many happy returns

Sport Billy!

There has been nothing cooler, since than.

Alas still banned in Scotland!

From my years in India

They dismissed me from the service soon after. They told me to go easy on the gin

Happy birthday

Happy birthday @Yourmelody1

Many happy returns

Who is this?

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

Sunday 15th of August

The BBC have put several of the classic series of Doctor Who, on Youtube. I spent an hour today, watching State of Decay. Part of the E-Space saga

I am still weighing up holiday plans

My soccer team are top of the league after two matches

I am off down the pub. I am halfway through my dry month. So before I have an orange juice

I will see my friend at Christmas

I send a hug to my friend Katherina

Best wishes to my fellow blogger Sahara

My pal Susanne looks great in her new hairdo

I hope my friend Nessa, had an easy day at work today

My teenage years

H/T (Wrackspurtlove)

According to my mother. I resemble Young will

The young lady is Antony Head’s daughter

There just taunting me now

The Evil leaper Quantum leap

Of late, inspired in part by my friend Susanne. I have been watching the Series Quantum leap again. I got the first two series on DVD. I have been watching the episodes as I ride my excercise bike in the evenings
For those of you who don’t know. The series premise was that Sam Beckett, was travelling in time, within his own lifetime. 1956-2010 Sam leaped into other lives. The person, he leaped into exchanged places physically with Sam. Sam was guided by his friend Al. Admiral Albert Calavicci. Who appeared in the form of a hologram only Sam, and dogs and horses could see
Anyway, I was recalling the evil leaper episodes.
There was a trilogy of episodes in which Sam encountered an evil leaper. Alia.
Alia was Sam’s opposite driven by Lothos, an evil hybrid computer. To do the unspeakable
Sam, faced Alia down and convinced her, to stop. Talking the gun, from her hand.
However there was another ending

I remember Quantum leap as sweetness and light. Perhaps wrongly. There is an episode where Sam confronts a serial killer. This episode actually stuck with me. Alia attempts to seduce Sam, and then cries rape. She scratches herself, to look like she has been hurt ( Sam has exchanged places in this case, with the body of a lad with down syndrome)
I remember that scene. It is something that stayed with me. Alia/ Sam seduction scene seemed sexier than most Network TV trysts. Then when Alia, pulls back. It is a shock.
I wondered if it was a symptom of my age at the time. 16/15 is old enough for a grope, but you don’t really trust girls because your kind of scared of them
Anyway, back to the evil leaper These scenes point to something much darker.
I did have an idea,
I was thinking of a third ending. A second leaper sent by QL. Who kills Alia dead. Doesn’t leap. Sam, and Al ask why.
The guy looks at Al, and Sam.
``You don’t You can’t remember, how awful it was’’
Sam leaps.

Christmas egg

I got a dinosaur egg, for Christmas, either this year or the last. It was a gift from my litter sister I decided to look at it properly today. I opened the box, and there was a wooden stake and a brush.

I realise I have squandered the potential value of the item, by removing it from its original packaging

This is the egg.

I was working away, on the shell. With brush and wooden stake. Whilst I watched the Normans.

A little Velociraptor, recovered

Song for today ``There’s gotta be more…’’

I am borrowing this content for a moment. Yes I am aware I have a child’s musical taste

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

I used to catch this song,on one of the music channels, a few years ago.  I liked it. Its a nice enough song.  Stacey O, is a sweet young lady. Who tired of the music business and became a volunteer in Africa.

I have been listening to it all day today. I downloaded if from Amazon. It catches a moment in adolescence when, you start working, and its mopping floors, or loading books onto barrows. You go to college and its waiting around all day for three hours of lectures, eating instant noodles, and maybe watching Star trek, or the Simpsons  and going to bed.

So you go to the club on the weekend. You go to the underwear party. You get drunk,

but that’s it isn’t it

bribe

Was just offered gourmet jelly beans for my phone

Conundrum

As some of you may know. I am going to Virginia Beach in just over a month. I will be going with my brother C. Who I normally go on holiday with.

 

This is me, in C, in Murphys Irish bar. Virginia beach March 2010. Who the onlooker is I do not know.

However this year, my youngest brother is in the USA. He is working as a camp counsellor. So in theory he may be able to join us, for our trip

 

This is my youngest brother. Yes, he has this photo on his visa. ha ha ha

I want to go and see UNC play on the 18th of September. My friends will be there. A College football game would be an experience. The tickets are not outrageous. 50 dollars each. Though the seats are metal benches, and the stadium is dry.

The problem is the USA, is so large and so vast.

Or rather the problem is I don’t drive.

If I drove it would be a 4 hour trip, from Virginia beach to the University of Chapel hill, at North Carolina

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Atlantic+Avenue,+Virginia+Beach,+VA,+United+States&daddr=200+East+Cameron+Avenue,+Chapel+Hill,+NC+27514,+United+States+(UNC+Chapel+Hill)&hl=en&geocode=FabOMgIdSYh4-yl3X2LO7-u6iTHxCjcIPca1mg%3BFZD5IwIdFsZJ-yFvk3DR0rW9ACl3a7d66MKsiTE9_NEmAR6oSA&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=36.420049,-77.487325&sspn=2.373504,5.410767&ie=UTF8&ll=36.377068,-76.47583&spn=4.749107,10.821533&t=h&z=7

Added to this pickle is the fact I don’t know if my youngest brother will actually meet us in Virginia beach.

He may have returned home

As my middle brother, C. Does not want to go to chapel hill, than I would have to go with my youngest. Now I could just bite the bullet and book a plane ticket, though that would be expensive, or should I get the train which is a 24 hour trip spread over several days.

Or is this whole enterprise just foolish?

Song for the day

My friend Katharina had her heart broken , it seems like ages ago. She is happy today, she is playing with her new toy. Yet sometimes, when she is alone, and it is quiet, the saddness trips her up,

As misery loves company, let me share this song.

Bif naked, – Lucky. You may know it from Buffy the Vampire the slayer, the series. I heard it on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack. It may have been the first CD, I ever bought, as opposed to have been given, or borrowed.

I remember this song, because I remember someone

`` We never should have met we never should have spoken, but we did meet and we did speak’’

In some other universe, there is a house with dogs, and children, and their Godmother is visiting

Time is all it takes to forget the world

Alternate Site ID

You will probably have to zoom. Needless to say I found the picture online. The dinosaur, is probably a Spinosaurs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinosaurus

The plates on its back, and teeth. The French maid, needs no explanation

Another message, from the conspiracy

Are they on to me?

The A-Team

This was a classic piece of 1980’s TV. I watched it for years. We bought the merchandise, we talked about it in class. My brother is a big fan. He had the DVD boxed set
Well it’s exciting, and its a good cast, but its a little disappointing. There are lots of memorable set pieces, and some snappy lines.
This film actually seems to be more of a vehicle for Bradley Cooper than anything else. He graces the camera without a shirt. He flirts with the very sexy Jessica Biel. Who is playing the Colonel Decker analogue
They could have had Jessica Garner and a homage to Alias. As they had a homage to BSG
Iraq, will be the new Vietnam. In the original A-Team series our heroes robbed the bank of Saigon. Here they are to liberate some printer plates that have fallen into Saddam loyalist hands. The missing printer plate have some basis
Liam Nelson, does a good job impersonating George Peppard. You see it, in his mannerisms
After 8 years of service. Face is still a Lieutenant?
The film is violent. The opening scenes, where Baracus fights to get to his van, come to mind. The film tries to answer this by having Baracus take a vow of non violence
Some of the action takes place in Germany. They show Cologne rather than Frankfurt Cathedral
The various villain's are better written than normal. The CIA goons, cannot even use a silencer. There is a gasp moment, when one of the baddies is unmasked
Murdoch seems more southern. Less Insane, I don’t know perhaps I am too old, for that sort of humor
John Hamm ( Don Draper) has a cheeky cameo.
I liked it but than I would. I would have wondered about taking a kid to see, it. Its not a bad film, but it lacks fun

I saw this:

I saw this outside work today

http://www.romulusconstruction.com/index.aspI

I meant to take a photo. I had a splitting headache

Not the only genre fan, in construction

http://www.cranestodaymagazine.com/story.asp?storycode=2015872

The first hint of conspiracy!

Dur dur durrrr!

The first weekend

Despite the generous gift of a glass of complimentary orange juice. A bottle of becks blue. I am not enjoying my second day of refraining from liquor.

The heat does not help. I had hoped it would rain over the weekend. On Saturday morning it promised just that.

Does anyone else remember the summer of 2008, when it rained non stop. I looked back on those days with great fondness. Watch Dave, the channel, the episodes of Mock the Week, they show are all from that time

Its awful not to have the hit, the release of alcohol to look forward to,indeed  besides the occasional bottle of pop and chocolate bar,  I have no vices