kingskottie

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some guys have all the luck.

the ice storm raged north of me. a cold freaking rain is falling now.

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LISTENING



The Arcade Fire
"No Cars Go"

From NEON BIBLE

ALSO



The Besnard Lakes

"Disaster"

ALSO




Idlewild

"In Competiton For The Worst Time"

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WATCHING



LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.

if you havent seen it. see it now. it's very good.

Picked up after a well-received showing at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is a low-budget comedy about a family road trip from Albuquerque to California. The story begins when young Olive (Abigail Breslin) is given a shot at the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, and manages to coerce her family into driving west in their worn-down VW van. Olive's father Richard (Greg Kinnear) heads up the trip, while mother Sheryl (Toni Collette), brother Dwayne (Paul Dano), uncle Frank (Steve Carell), and grandfather (Alan Arkin) all come along for the ride. What follows resembles a budget-stricken version of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES: seemingly endless (and hilarious) mishaps befall the family as they wind their way across the country. Couple this with the witty interplay between a well-drawn set of dysfunctional characters, and that's the LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE formula in a nutshell; all the audience needs to do is sit back and enjoy the ride. The grainy texture of co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's film may initially startle viewers unaccustomed to the indie film world. But its a testament to the cast and crew's efforts that the limitations imposed on the filmmakers are long forgotten by the end of the film. Any concerns about visual murkiness give way to belly laughs and bemusement as the road trip ends and the beauty pageant begins. Likely to have a broad appeal, Dayton and Faris's film resembles a version of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION directed with the pithy eye of Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), and it's to the movie's credit that it manages to successfully marry these two seemingly disparate worlds.

AND



the DIRTY HARRY series. yes... i watched all five of them

1. Dirty Harry 1972
2. Magnum Force 1975
3. The Enforcer 1977
4. Sudden Impact 1983
5. The Dead Pool 1988

all of them are GREAT. the first is Don Seigel's baby. but the last one has jim carrey and guns and roses in it.

GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY.

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YOUTUBE MOMENT



THE GORILLAZ "Dirty Harry"

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HOPING FOR SEX WITH



SONDRA LOCKE. it's a DIRTY HARRY kinda post y'all.