Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Inland Empire

Inland Empire.... wow. I don't know how to describe this one so I'll just cut and paste the plot outline from IMDB:

A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish production, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy.
This is by far the most confusing and yet interesting film for any lynch fan to see. Weirder than Blue Velvet, more confusing than Mulholland Drive. Yes basically David Lynch pulls together a bunch of side projects (including the shorts "rabbits") and pulls off making a 3 hour film.
Hard to follow? Yes.
But for some reason you keep watching not knowing what the hell is going to happen next. The furthest thing from predictible imaginable.
Want to twist your brain around and around?
Go Buy Inland Empire. It's on sale right now at Best Buy for 17.99.
Boom!
I'm a Lynch fan since the days of Twin Peaks so I give this one a 7/10. If it made sense to the majority of people it would have scored higher.

**Update**

This Synopsis seems better to me-
A wealthy debutante finds herself, inadvertently and without her accord, by way of an ancient Eastern European witch's magic curse, in a movie about a girl in the movies ... and yet trying to get out -- all while living two lives, per rules of David Lynchian reality paradigms: one as a nobody in suburban America, possibly a part-time prostitute, just trying to get by; and one as a nobody in Eastern Europe, again possibly a prostitute (and all the while watching some strange sit-com / soap-opera / talk-show about rabbits, or humanoid-rabbits, with an awful, chilling laugh track), just trying to get by -- until she later discovers that we are all in the movies, and that Hollywood is indeed the end of the Yellow Brick Rode, and that the laugh track that we hear is all in our minds; and that at the same time there is the Sinister and Evil aspect behind the whole drama being the knowledge now gained: that everyone is a prostitute in some weird way, just trying to get by.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Bowling Scores 8-14-07

Sweepers week and the end of Summer league. We didn't make the playoffs so tonight was just for fun.

203, 188, 180, 109 (behind the back)

final stats:
Average- 205
200 Games- 34
Average by game
Game 1- 204.3
Game 2- 204.5
Game 3- 203.0
Game 4- 209.4
Winter League Starts in 2 Weeks...

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Rush Hour 3

Rush Hour 3 aka the career of Chris Tucker.

Seriously what's his last 3 movies? Rush Hour 1, 2 and 3.

Chan and Tucker meet up again this time in Paris, not New York. This movie gives you all the stuff you got from 1 and 2. Comedy, Martial Arts, and a guy that looks like he's 8 feet tall. It's been a few days since I screened it so I won't summarize the plot. Basically entertaining stuff but nothing special. I laughed maybe 3 times which is one more than I did for UnderDog.
In a nutshell not a terrible movie just average.

5/10
and while we're at it so I don't have to knock out 2 blogs...
Underdog- 5/10

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Bowling Scores 8-7-07

Once again my comptuer fucked up and I've been without one for like a week. You never know how much of a crutch the internet is until your without it. Thank god I'm not strapped with a cell phone.

222, 171, 221, 191 805 Series

The night started off well and I didn't leave any open frames in game 1 until the last ball of the 10th frame. The 10th frame became a curse tonight. Second game I hit the pocket and leave a 5-7 split. ruining any chance of a 2. Third game should have been much better as well and the 4th game I leave the exact same split with the first ball in the 10th. 5-7 split city. I failed to convert these and had to settle with just above a 800 series tonight.

As for our team we are not contending or even near the playoffs. This was position night and next week is the sweeper week which we will not be playing for anything so it's just a week to relax and bowl.
As I said before my computer crashed and I didn't post scores from last week but here they are just for the hell of it 2 weeks late:

206, 196, 215, 205 822 Series.

Not much different.
Winter league starts not too much longer after summer league gets over. I'll keep on rollin...

Sunday, July 29, 2007

I Know Who Killed Me

Who else was gonna screen this potential jobber of a movie?
After Lindsay Lohan was found yet again with Cocaine and a 42nd DUI, the following weekend her BLOCKBUSTER- I know who killed me comes out.

Lohan plays Aubrey Fleming a young writer who gets abducted and tortured. Dry Ice comes into play and since we never got Captivity I guess I can accept watching this instead. Anyways when a passer by on the road finds her body in a ditch she is still alive but with one arm and one leg missing. She winds up in a hospital but when she awakes she tells the doctors that she is not Aubrey but instead Dakota Moss, a young stripper at a gentelman's club.
The story goes from there where Dakota insists she is not Aubrey and soon after realizes she has an identical twin that is still out there with the killer and dying. She attempts to save her twin before she dies because of some stigmata myth/story she will die as well if Aubrey dies.
There's a couple of things towards the end that really made me laugh on the count of cheeziness but overall it wasn't the worst movie of the year. Concidering the last two movies I've screened are Transformers and Bug (0/10) I'll rank this one just below good.
4/10
Definatley deserving of the rated R though as there is an extended sex scene (with lohan as a parapeligic total bust), violence, tourture and language.
Booya.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Bowling Scores 07/24/07

236, 226, 190, 152 806 Series

Our opponents didn't show up this week so it was pretty much bowl 4 games with no time to sit down or rest between shots and I think that's why it was a decrease with each passing game. Normally I tend to increase my scores as has been proven the last couple years and they break down average by game.
I heard from someone on our league that the team we played this week (which happens to be the other half of our 4 man team during winter league) had already pre-bowled the week before. So I have no Idea if we won or lost this week.
Good thing I didn't play the money game this week as the guy who won it bowled a 237 the first game.
I would have lost by one freakin pin. The 4th game could have been a lot worse concidering I XXX'd out in the 10th. A lot of splits that's all I will say. I missed a couple single pin conversions as well which isn't ever good.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Bowling Scores 7-17-07

256, 193, 169, 218 836 series.

So I got in on a little cash game this week. $1 dollar for high game scratch. So 4 bucks in all. Straight up dominated in game 1 and thought I won the pot till kalkowski snookered himself the win with a 268. Bastards!
Pretty much downhill from there as I left a couple of splits in the second game and a ridiculous 4 splits in the 3rd game.
4th game I got back on track and ended with a solid series that shouldn't have my average slip any. We took 2 of 4 games as we still hover around .500 for the season. I think we are 57-60 on the season and sitting in 4th place.
I stuck around and rolled 3 more games as I have been doing that lately...

202, 221, 162 (behind the back)
The 162 was a total bust because I only threw 2 X's but converted many spares.
This one guy bowling to my right was busting and was like:
"Wow, I could watch that all night..."
Bust Factor.