Vin Diesel is a big goddamned idiot.
I'm sure the makers of xXx wanted me to come away with different impression than that from their film. They filled it with so much whoosh-bang and what-not that they wanted me to be overwhelmed by the visual decadence. (Not unlike that fucker who churned out Moulon Rouge and Romeo & Juliet come to think of it).
But the basic fact is every time I wasn't chortling at the product placements shaking my head in disbelief at the needlessly baroque stunts or waiting for the villain to break down and actually start gnawing on the scenery (in a cryptic eastern european accent) one main theme returned to my head.
Vin Diesel is a big goddamned idiot.
Everyone in this film kisses his ass. They give him a wide birth, he intimdates, terrorizes and scowls his way through the film. It filled me with an incredible desire to see him get the royal shit kicked out of him. I had fantasies that Harrison Ford would turn up, in pay of the bad guys and simply shoot Diesel in the middle of one of his silly goddamn stunts.
The target audience for xXx is anyone who is really drunk and has a fair amount of spare cash. And they want to spend that cash on Sobe, Sony playstation, Fox racing gear, crappy nu-metal and countless other products that I can't be bothered to remember. It's Xtreme, man.
This movie is awful on every level. The script is awful,the stunts are improbable, the blasting Nu-Metal and techno is incredibly awful (who would have thought that we would have to listen to Rammstein in a movie soundtrack long after David Lynch got bored with them), the clothing is awful, the female lead is screechy and annoying. . .
And Vin Diesel is a big goddamned idiot. A hulking, reptilian funny looking fucker who's slowness gives him the feel of a bloated python freshly gorged on batch of hamsters.
Beware when central bankers use the word 'structural' as in this excerpt from a Washington Post article.
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The Fed officials also played down the risk of deflation, or a broad-based decline in prices, in the U.S. economy, saying the stagnation that has plagued Japan for a decade was exacerbated by structural problems unique to that country.
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Right, well strucural problems are funny that way. I would hazard a guess that many people thought Japan's structural problems were strengths until the late eighties.
Fed bankers honestly don't know if the US does or doesn't have structural problems. They use that word to pass the buck when things get difficult and they are reluctant to act. This is dangerous stuff.
Fwew.
Strip clubs are always a little dissapointing. They are expensive, filled with irksome MCs and and horrifying juice drinks and are usually redeemed by only a couple cute girls. The fellow who's eighteenth birthday was the purpose of the trip provided some entertainment by being thoroughly embarassed. The girls were a little giggly but liked evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each dancer.
I miss my real girl. She's away, and I don't know for how long. She is as cute or cuter than most of the strippers.And she doesn't smell like some foul Bath & Body Works cocktail.
On other fronts . . . Bush rescinded a lot of those steel tariffs and now industry is getting all uppity. I don't know what makes steel so eager to prosper at the expense of the rest of us, but I don't approve.
Now it would really annoy me if the Republicans took a hit for making an effort to be more principaled on trade (they aren't but the result is the same) but not because of all the irksome things they've done lately: stepping on the first amendment and mindlessly promoting a foolish tax cut.
first thought: my god this layout is ugly. I'm changing it. Now.
Second thought: I've seen am planning on seeing a lot of neat movies. Vertigo was slow but a trip. Bringing Out the Dead was out there gonzo psychosis. Great Movie.
Curious about tadpole and The Good Girl. We'll see.
I'm teaching myself dreamweaver so I can revamp my real webpage soon.
Now kindly piss off.
small trip back to me hometown . . .
it's a very insulated place. Formerly a logging, mining town, it now has a vague but prospering economy. It is still pretty rural, hillbillyish.But it feels the tug of development, just barely.
For instance, a Starbucks just opened up there.
I work at a starbucks in Davis, not a big nor an exciting town. Most of the people who go here go to the bay on the weekends.
But I had forgotten about the kids in my hometown, how much their eyes can light up when you are from somewhere that is not there.
I asked for a discount at the counter, she asked what store I was from (after determining that I was not in fact the guy who did the windows). When I told her her eyes lit up and she squeeled.She informed that she hoped to transfer to my store when she went to college.