Take This Thing Back to Baltimore

                D eath-by-ma©hete                    'Everything' (y)our man ©in said it better to your man Itchy the Cat just now, ' is a rom / com', this after, before during and after videeing All Is Bright but before during and after videeing Bang Bang Club , the former starring a couple of Americans playing Quebecois guys selling Christmas trees in Brooklyn, the latter starring Ryan Phillipe playing a South African war photographer.                   Phillipe is not the young actor who played the CIA spook in that movie Breach or the twat / twit who had menage-a-troises with his step-sisters (hooker please –id.) morning noon and night in Cruel Intentions Parts I to III, but a grown man now, taking pictures of what the locals call 'Mandela's boys' in this film.   Any fil...

                 D®inks / for everyone                   'Drinks for everyone' a drunken character in The Tenant says it better as he storms into the local bar, carrying on - and ©inexplicably doing the pa®lez-vous - more like a boorish ©inadian (hooker please –id.) than any Frenchman, and then, pointing to a disconsolate companion of your man the protagonist and director of the film Roman Polanski, 'everyone' comes the punch-line that hits (y)our man ©in the humble(d) narrator of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and d®inks / for everyone square in the solar plexus, for the boor might as well be speaking to and of / him, such is the quality of life lived under ®egime ze®o, 'everyone except / for him,' square in the solar plexus is all / we gots.                 ...

Half-a-©intu®y       For ®ealz this time, today marks (y)our man ©in the humble(d) narrator of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and half-a- ©intu®y’s half a ©intu®y’s worth of ©ameo up on out on this Dog and Pony Show, and for various reasons – mostly be©ause it’s a WTFednesday – he’s after hulk-smashing away at the same, ©instead of taking up one of the neighbor’s suggestion(s) as to do What To Do Before you ®IP Before During and After You Turn 50 - in the neighbor’s case it was sky-diving - hulk-smashing away at this this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and half-a-©intu®y, What To Do Before you ®IP is all / we gots. Celebrating might be too / st®ong a wo®d - ©in is solo that four-lettered wo®d today as most days, and for various reasons, not all of them / bad ones – but stil and all it’s a beautiful day up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up in here on the Quebe© side at the(ir) M and P’s place, and though ...

The Oranges                 From the most ©inauspicious of days sometimes come the most illuminating editions of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and (f) / (b) / (s) / (c) log, but (y)our man ©in the humble(d) narrator of the same doubts that this will be one / of those days.   Still there's only one way to find out, namely by hulk-smashing away, and then seeing what pours / forth.                 First this Spanish movie gots / to go.   ©in acts all kinds of sophistimicated when he's after renting these foreign films in that corner of the video store, but what he brings home to videe after the cell-phone buzzes him that the video store is closing is often no es bueno.                   Next up is The Oranges , a comedy of ma...

        Mi®®o®                   'That wasn't a painting' - Marge Simpson tells husband Homer better, before during and after being told that what Homer remembers of the hotel room they stayed in the last night had 'that painting of the lady and / the monster' - 'that was / a mirror.'   So it goes with this   Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and mi®®o®, between the booze and the blow and the cincussions and the horror and the (s) / (m) / (b) and just plain / adventures, and we weren’t that bright to begin with, innit DD, up on out on up on out on up on out on up on this Dog and Bony Show, what Cin mostly remembers is the picture of the lady and / the monster.                 'He went to a lot of movies' director Michael Mann says it better of John Dillinger, the bank...

The Warriors                   'Can you count' gang head-honcho Cyrus akses it better of the assembled gang member multitudes in New York's Central Park in Walter Hill's The Warriors , 'suckers?'   As (y)our man ©in the humble(d) narrator of the same is after hulk-smashing away and on and on and on at this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore (f) / (b) / c) / (s) log of a WTFednesday evening, videeing the page count go up and up and up (hooker please –id.) and up, he might well aks / the same.   'Can you,' Cyrus ends his speech memorably, aksing all of his droogs better in the movie, 'dig it?'                   'I'd like' one of the Warriors says it better as the gang contemplates its’ trip back home in the film, from the Central Park meeting in New York ©ity baby to their home turf in Coney Island, thinki...

2014-12-08           This Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and (f) / (s) / © / (b) log.                  'Horror' the lead story on the news in the movie that Cin videed this after had it better, 'in Echo Park'.  What it was is that the erstwhile news photographer played by Jake Gylenthal (Gyllenthal ?.) in the movie filmed some massacre or accident or drive-by-shooting or home invasion (that's enough -id.) in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, and then sold it to the cougar(ific) news director at the local television station, played by Rene Russo.                 Narrative jumped the shark half-way through and fell completely apart at the end, by which time Gylenthal's socio- and pyschopathic camera guy was not only setting up the murders and the take-down by th...

2014-12-05           (s)mother                                                            'You were on your way to Buckingham Palace', writer Colm Toibin says it better before during and during an interview with Eleanor Wachtel on the ©B© / Mother ©o®p ®adio, speaking of what he was told by his M and P growing up in Ireland, and as a way to stave off Toibin's childhood airs / and graces, 'and you just happened to be dropped off / here.'  And 'you can't spell 'smothering'', Toibin says it better of the same, 'without 'mothering'.  That can't be / an accident.'               ...