This is the same idea as the Cover Versions post, but instead of records in book format it is now movies. Killer

//opening scene in Sam Peckinpah’s violently symphonic western The Wild Bunch

For the record, I personally think Kathryn Bigelow’s movies so far have been god awful (Point Break & Strange Days, anyone?). And it wasn’t until I looked up her filmography recently that I found out that she was involved with that lame & pretentious Twin Peaks-rip off back in the day on ABC called Wild Palms which starred Jim Belushi. Yeah… JIM BELUSHI! It was so bad that I remember it clearly. One episode appalled me because it wasted use of licensing the Supremes’ Love Child for some second rate David Lynch atmosphere.

Anyway, back to Bigelow. She is one of those women directors who frequently works in genres like horror, action and science-fiction where I think has a lot of meaningful & intellectual potential, but then she always blows it with some cornball heavy-handedness and/or bad casting choices. I would really, really love for a woman director to achieve commercial success in approaching these typically male dominated genres with a feminine hand. it would be inherently more interesting/engrossing, not to mention make the studios tons of money by appealing to the other demographic.

That said, her Top 10 Favorite Action Sequences list recently is so on point and inspiring. Her list reminded me that the sniper scene in Full Metal Jacket = instant anxiety attack for me. Holy crap, I get goosebumps just thinking about it, that’s how powerful it is. And The Wild Bunch scene is one of many big reasons why I felt compelled to buy that Sam Peckinpah shirt at Lost Weekend Video. She knows her stuff and the trailer for this new Iraq movie is fooling me into thinking this may be her first really good movie, even with that terrible terrible name. (Sidenote, I think that Three Kings movie with Ice Cube, Wahlberg and Clooney back during Desert Storm might be one of my favorite Iraq movies. Seriously)

Anyway, i may need to come up with random lists of my own as I have a compulsion where I like taking random shots of things that appear on my tv screen. Here’s a sampling. Don’t even try to make sense of it, it’s more poetic out of context:

I had no idea they were making a movie out of this.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis from Dirty Three on music score too.

Just picked up two film nerd limited run shirts Maria Forde drew for my local video store for $12 each. She rules and I’ve talked about how much she rules here before.

Herzog/Kinski

Sam Peckinpah

Christ, I’m almost 30 and I bought a Barbie. My first barbie, mind you because we could never afford it growing up. Anyway, this one is special because it’s from one of my favorite movies

and it’s 100% real. Hitchcock and The Birds is a pretty odd and amazing choice for a Barbie but so perfect. Melanie Daniels, the San Francisco socialite character in The Birds is kind of an unlikeable beauty who always gets her way. She’s smug, bored and rich and eventually gets comeuppance for a life of complacency in the form of massive bird peckage when she leaves the comforts of her stomping grounds.

i am on a losing streak when it comes to rentals this week. first this boring and predictable thriller called Fracture and then this sci-fi dystopian action flick called Equilibrium.

(8:25:56 AM) audrey: i watched equilibrium last night, that movie was mega corny
(8:26:09 AM) audrey: last time i listen to you
(10:40:45 AM) woo: i didnt say it was classic
(10:46:12 AM) audrey: That part where Christian Bale risks his life to save a puppy because it licked his face is so corny
(10:46:33 AM) audrey: You just like movies where puppies are protected by futuristic machine gun toting martial arts freaks
(11:03:20 AM) woo: maybe true
(11:06:05 AM) woo: watch big rig
(11:06:10 AM) audrey: NO
(11:06:13 AM) woo: yes
(11:06:14 AM) audrey: i’m not listening to you anymore
(11:06:19 AM) woo: shut your face
(11:07:02 AM) woo: you would have watched equilibrium eventually anyway
(11:07:15 AM) audrey: no i wouldn’t, it got lousy reviews
(11:07:15 AM) woo: you wish christian bale would come to your house and yell at you

sorry for the language, but it’s the only way i can describe this scene from nick cage’s latest movie, Bangkok Dangerous (shouldn’t it be called Bangkok IS Dangerous?)

first cage beats up women and terrorizes kids in the wicker man remake and now he’s in a movie where he beats up and severs asians. i wonder what he is going to beat up in his next movie. it’s probably going to be sea otters or something random. he’s running out of things to beat up.

i watched this Sabbath dvd last nite and this part had me in stitches

Geezer for President

guess i’m really disconnected from my catholic heritage because it’s been at least a decade & 1/2 since my moms last badgered me about mass attendance and/or important catholic-related holidays that i must celebrate to avoid eternal damnation. so, i forgot how fun easter can be! i didn’t know until today, but the washington post has a peeps diorama contest. pretty fun me thinks. the birds one is killer – i loved that they used the boat scene. hitchcock & bodega bay forever. seriously, this scene looks like a scene i would enjoy eating.

i saw an american werewolf in london when i was really young and just watched it again. it was a lot more funny, entertaining & gorey than i remembered, almost in an evil dead way.

i think i have a crush on griffin dunne circa early-80s now.
yeah, that griffin dunne. the guy who chased madonna around in a 1 1/2 star movie and starred in a movie where he talks to his manhood for advice about career decisions. yeah, the guy that was named after a virile mythical greek beast. i’m grossed out by it too.

finally got around to making that Slap Shot fan-art T i said i would a month or 2 back. it’s a little messed up since i used iron-on transfer but i’m gonna make a better one in the near future and hopefully find a tomboy nerd who can appreciate a hilarious & subversive dudestravagent violent hockey flick from the 70s, give it to her and make her day. excuse the mediocre pic, young took it.

i thought i was strange for taking pictures of things that appear on my tv, but this person’s set takes it to the next level. some of these screen shots are familiar to me, but taken out of context with the kodak duaflex makes them seem far more mysterious and classic than they are.

stupid young. i watched all of those jason bourne movies for the first time this past week and got really into it and what did he do? this:

just because in theory i think it’s cool to be able to get a eurothug in a chokehold while cussing him out in french/russian/german/italian or spanish, it does NOT mean i want to marry MOR matt damon.

I caught Katie’s cold that made her sound like Demi Moore, except when i woke up this morning i sounded like Lucille Ball in her 60s. i kinda like it. Having this somewhat androgynous raspy voice makes me want to record myself talking shit and/or making threats like some kind of She-Serg and use it on a mix.

it’s rainy and windy as f*** outside. tonight i’m going to be inside spending some quality time with two of my favorite comforting things

if you want to see a This is Spinal Tap kinda film but with real idiots, I highly recommend that Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster. Those guys come off so dense it’s unreal. here is a stupid but true summary I put together when it came out if you want to know what it’s about.

jesus christ, i want this on a shirt or my wall so bad.

if you know what movie this is from then we should be friends.

i don’t know why but i was searching for a screenshot from the final blues brothers car chase scene and came across this madness

i can’t believe somebody broke down that scene in terms of physics.

hello rosemary’s baby! look what i found. if i had more time to kill on the interweb, i’d spend it this way. if only money were involved, i would be all over that. don’t test me!

god, it’s been a while. this movie is so entertaining and hysterical. “i came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.” roddy’s sunglasses are stylish again wtf. i love john carpenter.

Ok so I’m pretty obsessed with that UGK “Like That” remix. Usually I couldn’t care less about spotting samples, but when film scores are used I get really excited. One time I was watching Blue Velvet and heard the strings that Amon Tobin used for a song called “People Like Frank” and I flipped the f— out. It was the precise moment Laura Dern emerged from the shadows. I’ve watched that movie so many times and i love Angelo Badalamenti and I loved that Tobin track, even used it under KRS on the Comedy Noir mix. Then another big thing hit me. It dawned on me that the Frank in the title “People Like Frank” was referring to Frank Booth, Dennis Hopper’s sicky psycho character! I almost pissed my pants when I had that revelation.

So back to this UGK remix, I’m almost positive that is John Barry and I’m 70% sure that it is from a James Bond soundtrack. i recognize that sweeping and seductive baller sound anywhere. Instead of finishing this book I’ve been reading for the last 2 months (wtf is wrong with me and my slow ass reading), tonight I’m going to dust my turntable and listen to all of my 007 OSTs. And I’m gonna sip on some cabernet and enjoy this.

Here is UGK. beware – it’s raunchy and NSFW so sack up (pun intended)

(i never thought i would hear Dick Cheney and Tony Snow name-dropped in a song about dirty sex.)

And here are 3 (!) John Barry pieces I have on my computer which coincidentally are my favorite

off of Goldfinger

off of Moonraker (it’s the fake ending that kills me)

off of From Russia with Love am i crazy or does it sounds like a clock.

um, a beautiful clock as it were. if i was a producer i’d be ALL OVER THAT

completely unrelated, i love ricky gervais’ laugh. LOVE IT!!