My T.V. doesn’t get much use these days. It sits behind closed doors and regularly gets bypassed for use of the small stereo that can only play one C.D. at a time. This probably inadequate stereo only cost $50 at a fundraiser for the Tsunami victims and it works and it also gets radio stations if I wrap the antenna/cable thing on the closed doors of the furniture. Well, the T.V. comes with a built-in VHS player (I’m so ahead of time’s time) that I found out works! I didn’t know it worked until a friend came over for dinner last week. He brought along hisself and a handful of movies he had checked out at the local library. He says he doesn’t know why people spend money on that stuff, it’s free! It’s right there at the library and it’s FREE! Of the handful of movies only a few were VHS- gotta hand it to him for being so versatile, VHS and DVDs. We watched Bruce Lee: The Legend. I’ve been practicing my Kung-Fu ever since and it’s been over a week; I think my form’s improved greatly. Bruce would be impressed- too bad he died on Ping Li’s bed of “unknown causes.”
So what do I do with all this newly gained information of a working VHS inside my house? I break into a neighbor’s house and steal as many VHS’s as I can carry while running from his place to mine that’s what I do. I didn’t really break-in though, I have his keys and his alarm code and his password and access to all that he thought would be safe under my “watch.” He’s in Germany and Magadascar and France and Spain and who knows where else. Bastard! I hope he gets lucky though, that’s probably a thing to remember: getting lucky in Magadascar; he’ll probably be a “gentleman” and bypass it though- what a waste.
Movie choices in VHS format at the neighbor’s house were limited at best. I don’t really like StarWars. I’ve seen Last of the Mohicans enough times to last me ‘till my 11th life on earth since a highschool friend was in passionate-obssessive-high-school-love with the dude that played the real Indian in the movie, Uncas. She didn’t really like Daniel Day-Lewis, even though she went around yelling: “Stay Alive! I’ll find you. Wherever you are, I’ll find you. Staaay Alive.” She had the extreme hots for Uncas, Eric Schweig. She said she woulda jumped off a cliff too like Madeline Stowe’s sister if they took her Uncas from her. I think she used to make out with the VHS tape cover when she went to bed at night. Either that, or who knows what else she was doing making all that noise when we’d have sleep overs at her house.
Other VHS’s included in the collection I found were; Dunes, The Thing, The Hunt for Red October, some Stallone movies and a bunch of other stuff I don’t remember. So I watched LadyHawke. I figured anything with Michelle Pfeiffer in it couldn’t be too bad. Was I ever wrong. From the 80’s inspired “classical” soundtrack to the editing to the costumes/weapons to the speech. Holy Shit! I want my hour and change back. I mean I’m glad Navarre the Wolfman and Isabeau the Hawklady lived happily everafter but I still want my hour back. I wonder if Pfeiffer still lists this movie in her resume. I did notice that on the parts where she had to scream she tried very hard to emulate the shrieking of hawks. Hawks everywhere will certainly approve, as will the wolves worldwide should they ever hear Navarre’s angry growl at not being able to touch Isabeau, Pfiffer unless she’s in her hawk form. The special effects are amazing, specially the parts showing the eyeball’s transformation from fauna to human and vice-versa. Absolutely killer.
In the movie, I also got to see the beginning of Broderick’s training for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, he plays a smart-ass guy who talks too much for his own good. Only in this movie, he talks to the Lord a lot and rather than having Mia Sara as the love interest he gets really close to Imperious, Leo McKern the drunken priest. Hmm, let’s see; a drunken priest who betrayed the secret of two young lovers, drinking excessively while alone with a young Mouse, Broderick; hugging the Mouse and standing extremely too close behind the Mouse while inside a church- what is this movie really about? I don’t know nor do I care. I lost an hour and some sleep, while adding more questions to my already overwhelming repertoire. I do wonder though, how Broderick ended up with Parker, perhaps I am confusing her character on her stoopid Sex and the City Show with her real Life persona. Ugh.
So what do I do with all this newly gained information of a working VHS inside my house? I break into a neighbor’s house and steal as many VHS’s as I can carry while running from his place to mine that’s what I do. I didn’t really break-in though, I have his keys and his alarm code and his password and access to all that he thought would be safe under my “watch.” He’s in Germany and Magadascar and France and Spain and who knows where else. Bastard! I hope he gets lucky though, that’s probably a thing to remember: getting lucky in Magadascar; he’ll probably be a “gentleman” and bypass it though- what a waste.
Movie choices in VHS format at the neighbor’s house were limited at best. I don’t really like StarWars. I’ve seen Last of the Mohicans enough times to last me ‘till my 11th life on earth since a highschool friend was in passionate-obssessive-high-school-love with the dude that played the real Indian in the movie, Uncas. She didn’t really like Daniel Day-Lewis, even though she went around yelling: “Stay Alive! I’ll find you. Wherever you are, I’ll find you. Staaay Alive.” She had the extreme hots for Uncas, Eric Schweig. She said she woulda jumped off a cliff too like Madeline Stowe’s sister if they took her Uncas from her. I think she used to make out with the VHS tape cover when she went to bed at night. Either that, or who knows what else she was doing making all that noise when we’d have sleep overs at her house.
Other VHS’s included in the collection I found were; Dunes, The Thing, The Hunt for Red October, some Stallone movies and a bunch of other stuff I don’t remember. So I watched LadyHawke. I figured anything with Michelle Pfeiffer in it couldn’t be too bad. Was I ever wrong. From the 80’s inspired “classical” soundtrack to the editing to the costumes/weapons to the speech. Holy Shit! I want my hour and change back. I mean I’m glad Navarre the Wolfman and Isabeau the Hawklady lived happily everafter but I still want my hour back. I wonder if Pfeiffer still lists this movie in her resume. I did notice that on the parts where she had to scream she tried very hard to emulate the shrieking of hawks. Hawks everywhere will certainly approve, as will the wolves worldwide should they ever hear Navarre’s angry growl at not being able to touch Isabeau, Pfiffer unless she’s in her hawk form. The special effects are amazing, specially the parts showing the eyeball’s transformation from fauna to human and vice-versa. Absolutely killer.
In the movie, I also got to see the beginning of Broderick’s training for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, he plays a smart-ass guy who talks too much for his own good. Only in this movie, he talks to the Lord a lot and rather than having Mia Sara as the love interest he gets really close to Imperious, Leo McKern the drunken priest. Hmm, let’s see; a drunken priest who betrayed the secret of two young lovers, drinking excessively while alone with a young Mouse, Broderick; hugging the Mouse and standing extremely too close behind the Mouse while inside a church- what is this movie really about? I don’t know nor do I care. I lost an hour and some sleep, while adding more questions to my already overwhelming repertoire. I do wonder though, how Broderick ended up with Parker, perhaps I am confusing her character on her stoopid Sex and the City Show with her real Life persona. Ugh.
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