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2015-02-04 a good line and meaning it at the time

            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 the Pope in Rome, or the President, or Man / of the Year.’

Having returned his weekly quota of movies to review last week-end but finding the video clerk ‘gone’ if the sign was to be believed, ‘for three minutes’, and far too gone any longer to be patient / for that amount of time anymore, this reviewer is having to cannibalize  the ©indomonium’s Permanent Collection for films / to videe, cinnabilizing is all / we gots.

What it is is that your man giving the voice-over –  ‘The Private Investigator’ in the movie as the credits call him simply better, and played by the actor E. Emmet Walsh, and who was born ‘on the Vermont-Quebec border’, the child of U.S. Customs officials, according to the Extras bit of the DVD, these are borders that (y)our man ©In is very familiar with, having lived on both sides of both for some years, certain border towns bisected right in their middle by the border -  is preparing the viewer for the tale / to come.

This eleven o’clock number of a scene in Blood Simple where E. Emmet Walsh’s private dick shoots the contents of his .45 through the wall and then punches his right arm through the holes that he’s made, in  order to remove the knife that the heroine played by Frances McDormand has implanted in his left hand, through the window, is classic.  Course as with all Things  these days Cin no longer has the werewithal / energy or cinterest in watching / doing / thinking anything for its entirety at one sitting, and so we will videe  now again Blood Simple, this Take This Thing Back To Baltimore WTFednesday evening flog and review in this case playing the same role as the fictitious British dude who does the ‘Audio Commentary’ for this movie on the DVD, starting off legit at the beginning but then slowly and surely starting to go off on wild tangents and lies – about scenes being filmed ‘upside down and in reverse’ for effects, and nursing film industry gripes for long stretches of time as the movie plays / in the background - starting off legit at the beginning but then slowly and surely starting to go off on wild tangents and lies and nursing gripes for long stretches of time as the movie plays / in the background is all / we gots.

Course it’s only / a movie, as this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore is only / a flog.  ‘It’s a bad’ Cin says it better of the various (b) / (s) / (m) and just plain / adventures that have befallen him before during and after the hulk-smashing away of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs, ‘movie’, and so / it is, a lot of the time up on out on up on out on up on out on this Dog and Pony Show.  ‘It’s your’ cousin Ted says it better, when it comes to making decisions during the course of the same, ‘movie’.

There is no end of film analogies and references up on out on up on out on this Dog and Pony Show, cinema - your man on the aforementioned goggle inc. proper film-review blog wrote it better, ‘©inema’, (y)our man the film director Norman Jewison suggests it better, ‘is the new / literature’ – the only art form that incorporates, allows and requires all of the others; writing, choreography, sculpture, music, etc.  Course everything and everyone has limits, ‘no, that’s where I draw’ Cin said it better to his Da after being aksed whether Cin, a lover of / the arts, would be attending a famous ballet / in town, ‘the line.’ 

Nothing against ballet of course but Cin falls asleep easy these days without constant action and plenty / of it, and where sneaking out a bad movie is relatively easy – he nearly forgot the cardinal cin of reviewing earlier tonight, namely ‘though shalt never not sit in any seat other than an aisle seat in / the cinema’ but thank God saved himself / in time - he imagines that doing the same during a pas / de deux would result in his usual getting cinvolved in his well-accustomed triumvate of cat-calls, hisses, and fisticuffs, his usual well-accustomed triumvate of cat-calls, hisses, and fisticuffs is all / he gots.

‘Downtown Palo Alto’ the faux-commentator says it better now, ‘was plunged into darkness for weeks’, after the CGI / Computer Generated Imagery computer blew the electricity for the same California town, according to this English dude, this fictional brown-out generated during the digital rendering of a fly in one of the movie scenes.  Fly is real of course and irrelevant, movie is low-budget compared to what passes for entertainment these days, and this faux-commentary is surely in part a spoof on that, this English dude railing against the evils of ‘the studio / system’.  It’s very funny : you want to make a movie without /the studio system, make a movie without / the studio system, like these guys did and continue to do now, their films head and shoulders over the studios’ regular pablum, and everyone / knows it.

It’s only / a movie, and this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore flog is only / a flog.  Cin has been uploading various entries as of late in chronological order as time presents / itself, according to some sage advise given Pliny / the Younger by Pliny/ the Elde® (hooky please, -id., oh wait, what ?) - uploading various entries as of late as time presents / itself is all / he gots – from almost exactly a year ago, and has read much whingeing within same, ‘would you like’ the slogan akses it better, ‘some cheese with / your whine?’ 

Still it’s illuminating enough he supposes, how much / little / nothing changes within the course of a year – the difference in time between when he hulk-smashed away at an edition of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore slog and the time that he found / to upload it - it’s an arbitrary time period, purely by chance but surely not purely / by chance.  Cin went on and on and on about horroregime zero then, as now, and his roommates the cats then, as now, ‘I’m so desperately’ bartender Mo says it better on an episode of The Simpons better for both, ‘lonely’, then / as now.

‘Tedious’ Dr. Lecter says it better of his manic-depressive patient Benjamin Raspael in Jonathan Demme’s (immo®(t)al film take on Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs, videed for the umpteenth time two evenings ago – ‘very / tedious’, then / as now.  Cin will have to lose the solipstic angle of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moir, and soon, he is beginning to tire of it / himself, which is never good when you’re writer and editor and publisher one / and all, ‘judge, jury’ Marge Simpson says it better to another character during one of her episodes, ‘and executioner all at once, you are.’

‘Where was I ?’ the faux-commentator akses it better for both of them now as he tires of the film that he’s ‘assupposed to be doing the Audio Commentary for.  Actor doing this bit is quite gifted, regardless of how much of his schtick is scripted.  He sounds like the dude who did the voice-over for Nundercover, innit Cash, like imports on Rugby Club come over to steal / their ladies - ‘he aksed me’ a comely Club member said it better of a line from same, true story, ‘if I fancied / a shag, and I said / yes’ - for reasons unknown the English cockney sounds / authoritative. 

Narrator goes on and on about a character in the film that was cut, an Eastern European, apparently fabricating this all up as he goes along, apparently fabricating this all up as we go along is all / we gots.  Film narrative and plot that we videe on the screen is secondary to the score-settling and ludicrous anecdotes as told by the ostensible narrator going on and on and on about his nemesis ‘Adrian Butts’, only tangentially does he return to Blood Simple  as on-screen the characters go about / their business, film narrative and plot that we videe on the screen secondary to the score-settling and ludicrous anecdotes as told by the ostensible narrator going on about his nemesis as on-screen the characters go about / their business is all / we gots.

Course the Coen Brothers can afford to be cavalier with or without their Oscars, being cavalier with or without our Oscars is all / we gots.

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Thank you for reading (t)his Take This Thing Back to Baltime-moi®es and ©incere / at the time.

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