b1-66er: "What if I'd filled my freezer with frozen prepared meals, waiting to burn my tongue and leave me dissatisfied day after day spent alone in my home?"
Special K: What indeed?
28.11.20
Choke-y
b1-66er: Crappiest bowl of popcorn imaginable...
Perfect for
ANACONDA.
Special K: Nice.
b1: Suicide!
Not even to the credits yet.
Black jaguar eaten by snake!
Snooty white guy:" I could hire someone for $50 to kill you. "
Ice Cube: "I could kill you for free right now. "
Tracheotomy with a Bowie knife!
K: Suffragette!
b1: First anaconda death!
AND Jennifer Lopez hissing, "asshole" under her breath.
THIS MOVIE HAS EVERYTHING!
<monkey gets shot>
"What the hell are we doing?"
"WE NEED ANACONDA BAIT!"
Gary just got anaconded.
When Jon Voight sez, "everyone else don't move" in a S American accent...
... NO ONE MOVES!
Oh the verisimilitude!
Jennifer Lopez, "This was supposed to be my big break...
... But it's been a BIG DISASTER!"
So right, Jennifer.
So completely right.
"I was up all night picking leeches off my scrotum."
Sounds better with an English accent.
<1 hour later>
Okay okay okay.
I've been through a lot.
I've gotta settle down.
The movie's over.
FIRST, This is NOT a bad movie.
A high point...
...maybe THE high point, is Ice Cube embedding an axe in the skull of THE anaconda...
... AFTER the snake was flaming...
... AFTER you gettin' the first-stomach's-eye-view of Jon Voight being swallowed...
... and AFTER he was puked back out only to wink at Jennifer Lopez...
... was The Cube saying
"Bitch."
To the snake.
Yes, the mambo both hisses and sounds suspiciously like a cougar in heat...
... and IT VERY WELL COULD BE that's a sexist mono-syllable that time dates itself (nearly 25 years ago!)...
The phrase still works in that revered NWA "No Vaseline" kinda way.
8/10. Leaves Nf in 2 days.
Watch the flick before it drifts off the service.
Find something else to do while it's playing.
K: Bien.
Joker in Purgatory
b1-66er: One thing we didn't cover in our phone conversation just now...
... WHY is the Jack of Diamonds hermiting?
The Emperor: Jack is just Jack ...he is getting out and running quite a bit - training to run a mile in under 4:35 (has a bet on that)
b1: How big is that bet?
E: If I remember right, he put up US$2500 to win 250k, but I could be off...
...has to beat the fastest time he's ever run in the mille...
... he just won one for US$50k where he had to run in under 5 minutes in a sanctioned track meet - that was before COVID, and there haven't been many of those, so he flew to Florida to run in one and made it
27.11.20
"Now please wear your Actual Reality glasses"
Special K: I wore actual pants to dinner. We ate at the dining room table.
26.11.20
... With feeling now, from the wattle
b1-66er: "There's at Least a Little Turkey Inside Each of Us"
Special K: And how.
25.11.20
What's the frequency, K-bot?
b1-66er: Here's one for you...
This AM I'm sitting at the dinner table, eating breakfast as one does in full acceptance of trans meal culture...
Time for morning meds...
Only half a dose of everything in my containers...
"I guess the tryptophan of the deep fried turkey winked out my ability to count last night..."
Ha ha uh...
Not EXACTLY...
In my food phrenzy, instead of eating dinner, I rode the exercise bike.
Tecfidera is a known liver router. I only take it with food.
Except there was no more food.
The results this AM?
MS underdose...
P pill underdose...
No vitamins (took D in the morning)...
Wait wait, there's more physical damage to witness...
I had beef...
AND turkey ...
AND potatoes...
YESTERDAY.
So Johnny Snooty I Eat So Much Better Than All You Prix throws it all in a trashcan in single afternoon.
Three years.
Gone.
If I full-on relapse, break the spokes out of my wheelchair, put a Metallica sticker on my forehead, take all the change out of my pockets and be DONE WITH IT.
Special K: Can I have your stereo?
21.11.20
<< in any other language
b1-66er:
The Fembot: Hmmmm. I know the Hub is missing going to the movies, and so is my good friend Ls. That was a big part of your life, too, pre-pandemic. Me? There is so much on Netflix and Amazon prime I have never seen. I never need to go to a theater again.
b1: I've slowly flipped over to a watching flix on my TV guy...
... the one thing I miss is a quality sound experience (although I like a volume I can control, theaters can be earsplitting)...
...It's really REALLY nice to not have people using their phones or talking in the theater as the movies are playing.
F: Yes. I watch a lot of documentaries - it is good for no distractions.
b1: I also like:
Being able to pause.
Being able to back up.
Being able to flip subtitles on and off.
Not having people stand in front of me during the credits.
And, of course, replaying scenes after the fact.
F: Yes. I do those things, sometimes. My eldest offspring always watches movies with subtitles on.
b1: I like that, too.
The problem is I find myself following along the reading lines on the TV, rather than paying attention to the cinematography...
More than once I've been watching Asian cinema, thinking something like, "I'm getting pretty good at Mandarin!"...
F: Ha!
b1: Only to realize that while I haven't been reading the subtitles, I have...
A) been interpreting things based on film score and body language
B) spent a considerable amount of time looking at scenery and backdrops...
-And-
C) lost complete track of what the hell's going on...
...Only to back up about 7 minutes to where I DID know what was going on and replay.
Not once, but three times, I've had to repeat that exact process in triplicate...
... when I repeatedly fall into the exact same trap...
F: That is funny.
b1: ...(so let's see, Mr. Chang is upset that the shipment isn't coming from Hong Kong as expected. Mr Leung sez the cargo will be on the hovercraft entering the harbor now...
... and look! that architecture's interesting...
... see how the left front rib of the hovercraft is bent up slightly from having to beach...
... man, that's a nice day in Hong Kong. It was raining the day I was at the place they are right now...
... but I did have good dim sum AND a mangosteen...
...WAIT... what's that?...a gun?...those are WAY illegal in Hong Kong!
OH GODDAMMIT. I'M GOING TO HAVE TO REWIND ANOTHER 7 MINUTES AGAIN!)
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