Take This Thing Back to Baltimore

             2015-02-04           a good line and meaning it at the time   ‘If I were a cat’ (y)our man ©in the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoi®es and a good line and meaning it at the time   said it better during the neck-and-head rubbing part of the massage, poking out his arm diagonally to the side for / emphasis, ‘I’d be / purring.’   Though purring is certainly not his Modus   Operundi, particularly as of late, it was a good line, and he certainly meant it at the time, a good line and meaning it at the time is all / we gots. ‘The world is full / of complainers’ the first voice-over line of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple has it better – though the choice of ‘the’ to start any sentence is not Cin’s Modus / Operundi, and ‘it depends what the meaning’ Bill Clinton getting impeached said it better , ‘of ‘is’ / is – ‘doesn’t matter whether you’re th...

  2015-01-30           further beatings and cinterrogations                 ‘Two can play at that game’, Steve Buscemi’s murderer-for-hire says it better in the Coen brother’s Fargo to the literally hatched-faced and near-mute Scandinavian man he refers to as ‘his associate’, his partner-in-crime, ‘smart guy.’                 You might think that your man Himself, your humble(d) reviewer might be after watching any film set in a sunshine place, given the weather outside and recent blizzard, but you’d / be wrong.   ©instead it’s Fargo that he’s after videeing, preceded last night as we do by Essential Killing , another grim ®o©kumenta®y, this one of Europudding / Canal + provenance, with Vincent Gallo in the main and essentially only role – a performance in which he does not (m) /...