Movie dialogue of the week
“I’m a really good handjob-giver.”
-Goldie Hawn, “The Banger Sisters”
Month: September 2002 (Page 2 of 5)
Get Into His Head
(idea courtesy of Arthur)
Ladies and gentlemen, I never knew being president would be this hard. I just thought it would be sort of fun, carrying on the family tradition and all that. And think about it, who wouldn’t want to be president? The limos, the state dinners, maybe get your face on a coin. But now, when I can’t get away to the ranch, I just spend my days in all kinds of meetings where everyone is mad at everyone else. It’s frustrating and not fun at all, and I don’t think people are really listening to me. It’s not like in Texas, where talking over good barbecue could solve a lot of problems. And everyone’s always quizzing me all the time – my nerves are shot. Don’t get me wrong, Dick and Don and Condie have been great. But it’s just too much. Maybe if we can get in there and get Saddam, things will calm down. I hope so.
There are things that I really want to say, but don’t feel comfortable writing on this page. Know what I mean?
Went to see “Notorious C.H.O.” with Jon-Jon and Matt today. The word for Margaret Cho is brilliant. She manages to write a hilarious show (my jaw practically ached from laughing) that also means something, and perform it with heart. Her facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission. To those easily offended (especially by sex), a warning: do not attend this movie. Everyone else, go there now.
Part of my current obsession with “The Big Lebowski” comes from the fact that Jeff Bridges seems to be channeling my father in the movie. The way he talks, how he reacts to things, even the way he sits reminds me so much of my father, it’s eerie.
And now I stumble upon Jeff Bridges’ official web site, and it’s just like what I would imagine my father would have come up with on the web. Most of the text is written in Bridges’ own hand, and it’s just a beautiful melange of stuff. I highly recommend a visit.
I’ve become a movie evangelist lately. When I see a movie again that I love (latest example: “The Big Lebowski”), or even if I just think about a great movie, I have this impulse to go up to people and say, “Have you seen this? …You haven’t? Will you? Come over right now and we’ll watch it. You *have* to see this movie.” Clearly this is my father coming out in me, since whenever “Cool Hand Luke” was on TV while we were growing up, my father would require that we plop down and watch it. I must have seen Luke eat those 50 eggs about 1,000 times.
Unfortunately, this impulse to evangelize movies doesn’t take into account how different people’s tastes in movies are, and how different they can be from mine. Not to mention the “overselling” problem, which has bitten me in the past. But I tend to think to myself, “How can anyone not like ‘Fearless’? I just don’t understand it.”
Well, I’m still happy (see previous). But I’m experiencing technical difficulties. My software DVD player is supposed to have a screen capture function, but it doesn’t. And screen capture programs like SnagIt (and I’ve tried others) don’t work, presumably because the DVD player uses some hardware shenanigans to get the image on the screen, so it’s not “seen” by the screen grab utilities.
Anyone know of a computer software DVD player that has a working screen capture, and/or screen capture software that works with DVD images?
I want to capture some of the wonderful images from Monsters. I am in awe of the Pixar people.
I own the “Monsters, Inc.” DVD. I am happy.
On The Daily Show last night they showed an absolutely hilarious/chilling clip of Dubya trying to talk about Saddam and Iraq:
“We have a saying in Tennessee… well, we have it in Texas and I assume it is here in Tennessee as well: ‘Fool me once, shame on… [long pause, blank stare] …shame on you. Fool……. well you won’t fool us again.”
You really can’t get a true sense of how amazing this clip was without seeing it. (If anyone knows if it’s posted anywhere online, let me know.) Jon Stewart played it twice because it was so unbelievable.
This is our Commander in Chief, people. He has the launch codes. Are you really comfortable with that?