2015-01-02 honour’d more in the breach than th’obervance

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              ‘Came out’ the cop said it better after pulling Cin over for a busted headlight and running his license, ‘clean’ handing the license back to Cin.  ‘I’ Cin would have said it better, if he had not had a Rugby Club team-mate in the car at the time, ‘doubt / that’.  Cinstead he said nothing, his driving record is unblemished but surely something popped out on the police SCMODS machine – ‘State / County / Municipal’, John Belushi’s Jake Blues spells out the acronym better in John Landis’ The Blues Brothers to brother Elwood, played by Dan Ackroyd, ‘Offender / Data / System’ after the same thing happened to the Blues brothers as happened / to Cin – but still Cin crossed himself afterwards, innit Electrified JC, happy to have avoided an Out Come The Cuffs cincident, just when everything was going / so perfect, unblemished is all / we gots.

Course everone knows that New Year’s resolutions are ‘honour’d more in the breach’, (y)our (wo)man Hamlet’s mother says it better in Shakespeare’s play of the same name from back in the 16th, ‘than in / the’ observance’, but still (y)our man Cin the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Baltime-moires and honour’d more in the breach than th’obervance that cinfamous December night was after deciding point / blank that five-lettered wordle that his New Year’s resolution would be to regulate the details of his existence ‘as soon’ – What Would Jack Say as John Torrence to wife Wendy in Kubrick’s film take on your The Shining, innit Mr. King – ‘as possible’, so that the next time that SWAT Team Eight or who(m)ever comes / a calling and runs his plates so to speak, they will come up, the traffic cop said it better ‘clean’, honour’d more in the breach than th’obervance is all / we gots.

              ‘Everything’s’ Scarface says it better in de Palma’s movie of the same name, even as his empire  of coke / crumbles around him,  ‘roses’, and ‘everything’s’ Homer J. Simpson says it better in The Simpsons episode, all evidence to the contrary, ‘coming up / Homer’, though both of course are proven wrong – cinfamously, neither suffers from the only true bankruptcy of enthusiasm –  not suffering from the only true bankruptcy of enthusiasm is all / we gots.

              Oh yeah, regulate yo life that four-lettered word (hooker please, -id.) and always take (y)our (wo)man Tosh the laptop on yo (m) / (s) / (b) / (gl) and just plain / adventures, this latter of course is (y)our man Cin’s perennial actual new year’s horroresolution, a corollary to his perennial promise about this time / of year to write / more, writing more is all / he gots.

              ‘An optimist is someone’ someone said it better, and Cin parroted during this Christmas break, innit Electrified JC, after being aksed how 2014 the Year was, and how 2015 the Year is likely to be / better,  ‘who hasn’t heard / the news’.  Course New Year’s and Christmas break is what passes for / a staycation for Cin these days, ‘this is no longer a vacation’ Chevy Chase’s Clark Grimwald (?) says it better now facetiously in National Lampoon’s Vacation - following the usual family vacation joys and (s) / (m) / (b) / (gl) and just plain / adventures in the movie of dragging the family dog cinadverently behind the station wagon to its’ death and having a beloved auntie die in the back-seat of same, ‘a dead person’ Clark’s daughter says it better of the latter, ‘breathed / on me’  -  ‘this has become a quest / for fun.’

              Good times, the Griswalds of course heading in this movie to Wally World in California, Cin’s next / destination, and sprinting Chariots of Fire-style to the entrance of the same in slow motion, with that movie’s borrowed inspirational soundtrack music by Vangelis accompanying them.  ‘What’s this regarding’ John Candy’s RIP security guard at the amusement park akses Clark better, before during and after (y)our man Clark delivers his cock-and-bull story about having an appointment with the boss after finding out that Wally World is in fact closed / for the season, ‘Mr. Gristle?’

 

              It’s a good movie for this TGIFFriday’s edition of this Take This Thing Back to Baltime-moires and honour’d more in / the breach than th’ observance, this movie from the surplus pile of DVDs up in here in the cindominium, either to be kept as part of the Permanent Collection up on out on up on out on up on out up here or to be surplussed to the basement storage room of the cindominium, or – as a result the ultimate Thumbs Down horroreview - to be banished from the cindominium / altogether.  Another one of Cin’s untenable new year’s horroresolutions is to get horrorganizized - ‘I need to get’ de Niro’s Travis Bickle tries unsuccessfully to crack wise with Cybil Shephard’s political operative better in Scorcese’s Taxi Driver, ‘organizized’, and the cubicombs art poster in his cold-water flat makes the same point / in pictures ! - and part of that  self-regulation and organizization is to reduce his permanent DVD collection so that it fits into the four shelves dedicated / to the same up in here in the condominium, banished is all / we gots.

              Course what that looks like is (y)our man Cin videeing the surplus DVDs one by one and passing judgement on each and ever last loving one of them.  Good news is that National Lampoon’s Vacation just made / the cut – Chevy Chase plays a put-upon wage slave (‘wage’ Mr.  Monty Burns called his employees better in a recently videed episode of The Simpsons, ‘worms’) and middle-class citizen about as well as Cin does, which is to say with much / resistance -  bad news is that the ‘Vacation’ series came in a box of four DVDs, and according to CIn’s rules and regulations of reviewing and organizization, now the next film in the franchise gots / to be videed as well, hopefully it’s the one with Juliette Lewis (that’s enough –id.), rules and regulations of reviewing and organizization is all / we gots.

              No such luck, the next in the Vacation series is of course European Vacation, ‘Clark’, Clark’s wife as played by tje red-hot Beverly d’Angelo implores Chase’s Clark Griswald better on the game show ‘Pigs in a Poke’ at the beginning of the film, and in so doing inadvertently winning the Grand Prize, ‘Clark’ being the answer of the Grand Prize question, the latter part and partner of the explorers’ expedition whose answer is ‘the Lewis and Clark expedition’. 

Amy Heckerling directed  this one, Heckerling the director of course of the great Fast Times at Ridgemont High.  ‘Hi Chuck’, Chase’s Clark Griswald says it better in this movie upon meeting the fictional Prince Charles at the fictional Buckingham Palace during the first leg of the Grimwalds’ European Vacation.   Power Station provides the Europudding background music at the Club where the young Griswald son is after meeting some Eurotrim in the next scene, and of course every Euroscoundrel is trying to get down the daughter’s pants from va-cay day one.   

              Turns out that the accommodations as promised by the ‘Pig in the Poke’ producers do not meet up with what the Griswalds actually get during their time / in London, innit Sir Percival.  ‘Dad’ the Griswald son says it better to Chase’s Clark, before during and after (y)our man Clark pulls out his computer translation gadget while trying to understand the hotel clerk’s cockney accent, ‘he’s speaking / English’, and so / he is, innit Sir Percival .

 

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