This is more a reminder to my self, this website will be a year old on the 31st of this month. I’ve been working on a little re-design that Troy calls “modern”. But I feel that this look is old and it doesn’t represent me any more. So I changed the font and some other small things. There won’t be any sweeping changes, just a few cosmetic touches. A makeover as it is. So if your interested come down on the 31st and see the new look.

Help I’m going through withdrawal. I have not been able to get on the Internet since late Thursday night. If this goes on any longer I’m going to have to hurt someone. I have to thank my buddy Izer for letting me use his connection.

The movie I picked as a contender to the throne of greatest SCI-Fi movie of all time is Starman. A John Carpenter movie. Like in Close Encounters the alien was not the “bad guys”. The government was the bad guy there is no doubt to me.

The movie starts out with shots of space as the Voyager probe hurtles into the void with its message of greetings. It reaches a planet that pulls it down. Shortly after that the planet shots a spaceship out headed for Earth. Which brings us to Jenny Hayden who is grieving over the death of her husband played by Jeff Bridges. Then we see the US governments way to greet a UFO, blowing it out of the sky. And of course it crashes near Haydens’s place where the alien takes the appearance of Jenny Hayden’s dead husband. She watches in wonderment as the alien changes into her dead husband. “I send greetings” he says and Jenny Hayden passes out.

Which brings us to my favorite character of the movie, Mark Shermin. He is a scientist who is with SETI. When he arrives at the crash site one of the guys inspecting the crash site asks him if he’s with the National Security Agency. Shermin responds “Not really, I just work for them. On loan sorta like a library book”.

In fact when Shermin is explaining it to George Fox(who is the NSA lead asshole) of why and how this alien came to our planet. The NSA asshole thinks that if there are aliens that they are out to get us. Shermin plays the greeting from the Voyager probe and says that we have invited them here. The NSA goon tells Shermin that “Greetings is just what the cannibals told the missionary before he ate them.” Shermin smile and asks “Who is the missionary and who is the cannibal?” Another good bit is towards the end when Shermin gets to the Governments HQ and sees the Autopsy area they have setup for our visitor. He inspects the buckles and leather belts and says with a heavy heart “Welcome to planet Earth.” A little after that Shermin Asks Fox what is going on. And Fox tells him “Its the one thing I don’t need from you is a lecture on morality.” Shermin snaps back “All right screw morality. What ever happened to good manners? We invited him here!”

You can see I really like this Shermin guy. But how about the alien you all ask. What about him? The alien explains what his people are like “There is only one language, one law. And there is no war, no hunger. The strong does not victimize the helpless.” Of course the alien is finally captured. But before the NSA guys can get their hands on him my buddy Mark Shermin shows up. Shermin is truly amazed. This is something he has only dreamed about. He has so many questions to ask. He asks if they have been here before. “We are interested in your species. You are a strange species not like any other. And you would be surprised how many there are intelligent but savage. You are at your best when things are worst.”

Shermin lets him go. His Boss George Fox the NSA asshole is not happy. “Shermin you are finished. I will have you eviscerated for this.” Shermin looks at him and says “Well as much as I hate to stoop to symbolism” and he blows a big poof of smoke into Fox’s face. Shermin has a big shit eating grin on his face happy in knowing that the alien was allowed to escape and have a happily ever after.

Close Encounters Of A Third Kind. It might be a contender. It to me has concepts that really reaches me. The idea that these aliens that do come and buzz rednecks are not evil or ugly bug eyed monsters gives me hope. At least it does for me. If they came across the galaxy just to turn some cows inside out and abduct rednecks I will cry. If they can create the technology to travel across the galaxy I don’t think they would come to probe Billy Bobs anus.

The bad guys if there were any in the movie, would be the government. These guys would make Fox Mulder a good nemesis. Making a cover story about some kind accident that unleashed a terrible virus. But, even the “bad guys” really were not that bad. They didn’t kill anyone to keep them out of the area where the UFO’s were buzzing. So its a pretty positive movie.

And how about Richard Dreyfus’s character? Would you give up the wife and three annoying kids to go off with the nice aliens? I would. Did I mention those annoying kids. Sorry honey I’m out of here. Just imagine what you would see? I think it would be amazing. Amazing just to get away from those fucking kids.

I have to say a quick hello to Tony and Sarah who are cousins from Florida. They both are very nice in giving my humble site praise. So every body Say hi Tony and Sarah!! Now the rest of my kin from Florida please check in.

I got to say that tonight’s X-Files was pretty cool. About half through the show I had guessed that the bad guy was Krycek. It was his beady rat fuck eyes. Poor Skinner, I was just starting to like the guy. So hopefully they don’t kill him off. Which is a rumor I have heard.

On to more pressing matters such as Scully!!! What a babe. No really. Anyway if your a X-Files freak like me you’ll have to run out and pick up the new episode guide, called: Resist Or Serve:The Official Guide To The X-Files Volume Four. Long title. It is a great buy for a number of reasons. Like a very detailed plot summary of each episode that also contains dialogue and describes what the hell is exactly going on. Cool behind the scenes info as well. Some pics for you:

First one is of course the cover. The second is to me the only reason to buy this tome, an excellent picture of Scully found on page 128. She looks so good in that Maine t-shirt.

It sucked. It sucked big time. Well enough of my witty banter. In doing some research on Terence Malick and the Battle of Guadalcanal I found this very witty review on moviefinder.com. This guy who wrote this review must have channeled every thought I was thinking watching that stinkburger of a movie. So with out further ado I present the review:

National Geographic’s Guadalcanal

By filming this WWII combat movie like a nature documentary, director Terence Malick has managed to create the most beautifully photographed (and ponderously philosophical) war film ever made. Starting off with a South Seas island village so peaceful and picturesque the natives do everything but sing “Bali Hai” we then go to the battle of Guadalcanal where the GIs are photographed so beautifully (the dirt is smeared evenly over their handsome faces) it looks like Calvin Klein led the invasion. And the philosophy! Spouting questions and metaphors in voiceover narration about evil in nature and the meaning of life, these soldiers must have had English lit as part of their basic training. Among the younger cast, only Sean Penn is talented enough to create a realistic character: the pain in his face as he delivers his philosophical dialogue manages to show that his soldier has EARNED his jaded point-of-view. The rest, most of whom get less screen time than the animal close-ups, are hard to even tell apart. As the only one who realizes he’s in a war movie, Nick Nolte walks away with the picture in the one terrific performance. Cameos by John Travolta and George Clooney are ineffective and distracting, the combat scenes hard to follow, and the thin red plot over-extended at such a tedious pace that I began to expect Brad Pitt showing up any moment as Death. For the same good/evil nature debate in a war movie based on a James Jones novel, rent “From Here To Eternity,” which manages to tell an emotional story about realistic characters in under two hours without close-ups of birds, trees and bamboo chimes.

By the way, there was a version done back in 1964. The first version of James Jones book was directed by a guy named Andrew Morton, who also did The Longest Day. Its not on video. I also disagreed on the this guys opinion of Nolte’s performance. Nolte sucked. Don’t waste your money on this piece of shit.