’No news’ would be fitter to print
Ebert’s review of ’Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ sounds promising but expressed the same fears I had that Depp’s performance as Wonka just somehow didn’t work. Which sucks cause I like Johnny Depp’s stuff.
He did review another movie called ’The Beat That My Heart Skipped’, a French film that sounds fascinating. If I don’t see it this weekend I am definitely going for a movie after work next week.
I noticed a lot of people in Ebert’s Q&A section complaining about their movie going experiences lately. People talking during movies. Answering cellphones or just not turning the ringers off. I even read somewhere else how Gene Siskel thought any mother that would bring a baby to a movie should be ejected immediately and questioned their abilities as a parent. I am a cold-hearted fucker and agree with the dead guy on that. I was also surprised to see people complaining about my age old nemesis: the pre-movie commercials. I thought I was the only one rolling my eyes, plugging my ears and going ”la la la la la la la” so I didn’t have to sit through another fucking Buick commercial when I paid ten bucks to see a movie and some good previews where I generally know I’ll already be bombarded by product placement.
It seems the more they charge for movies, the worse the experience is for the people that really enjoy going. I can’t fathom why some people would pay so much to sit through a movie and talk, and then also not realize how ignorant and substandard they are as human beings for doing so. Some people really don’t know they are assholes. This makes me want to add an addendum to the Monkeysphere concept that some groups of monkeys congregate because they share the same mental retardation.
On the radio this morning they were talking about an incident that happened Wednesday night that’s all over the local news now. This black senator, a one Rev. James Meeks, car was pulled over by a white police officer. Meeks, who had a driver and was in the back of the car immediately got out of the car when it stopped and approached the officer which is when the whole thing started.
I don’t think this is a black/white issue here. I think it’s general stupidity. I’ve seen it before a hundred times on the road. You DO NOT get out of the car when you are pulled over. In fact, one caller to the show even said there is a law in Illinois that you are not supposed to and if you do not return to your vehicle when the officer asks you to, you are then in violation of said law. It’s just common sense.
But, the guy approached the officer and said one of those "do you know who I am" type lines and the officer supposedly said that he did know and ”get back in the fucking car” or whatever. It seems from the stories I’ve read ”fucking car” was the statement used. And, the officer had pulled out his gun when the senator did not comply with his first request.
I am the first one to slam cops because I think they are generally annoying, power hungry assholes. But, this Meeks guy is totally playing up the racial card and everything they were saying on the radio about the news stories in the papers was true. The Suntimes makes no clear statement about why they were pulled over and the Tribune only throws it in at the last paragraph. None of them say anything about the fact you’re not supposed to exit your car when you’re pulled over, and play up Meeks as the victim and the cop as the asshole aggressor.
My favorite is how the Tribune put in: ”According to Meeks, he had just left the Bible study at the House of Hope, a 10,000-seat church he opened earlier this month.” As if we’re supposed to side with this guy because he not only goes to church but he also opened said church. What does any of that have to do with the incident at hand. Oh, and the car belonged to a ”church volunteer”. Anything else? Were they on their way to donate money to starving children? Or maybe for after hours missionary work on Chicago streets?
Does this make me a racist because I think the cop was right and Meeks is black? I would say no, because white or black, any dumb asshole that gets out of his car when the police stop them deserves to have a gun put in their face because of their utter stupidity. This time around, good for the cop. And asshole, I don’t give a shit if you’re Gandhi, ”Get back in the FUCKING car!”
Another annoying news story out of Six Flags. A woman is upset because she was asked to leave the pool she was standing in, breast-feeding her kid and the media dogs are all over it. The media, who made a huge ordeal out of outfit malfunctions. I am not against boobs. I don’t see why women can’t run around shirtless like men and I don’t know what the big fucking deal with nipples are that modern America gets so strung out about. It’s just dumb. What is it about the human anatomy that is so shameful to everyone. I am shy about my body because I have low self-esteem. But, if you feel good about yours, please take your clothes off.
That being said, what would compel someone to breast feed in a huge pool filled with all kinds of grimy kids and families. Maybe she has the right to do it wherever (which I guess she does because it’s a new law in Illinois) but I (and the people on the radio) thought it was just kinda gross. And if anything, annoying because it gives journalists more mediocre crap to sensationalize as if nursing women had been suddenly thrust back to Victorian expectations.
And the whole Space Shuttle thing this week... Who gives a flying fuck. What do half a dozen people going up into space have to do with the rest of us and our problems down here on the ground. Fuck em all. Send up some probes and let the media make a big deal out of moon rocks.
He did review another movie called ’The Beat That My Heart Skipped’, a French film that sounds fascinating. If I don’t see it this weekend I am definitely going for a movie after work next week.
I noticed a lot of people in Ebert’s Q&A section complaining about their movie going experiences lately. People talking during movies. Answering cellphones or just not turning the ringers off. I even read somewhere else how Gene Siskel thought any mother that would bring a baby to a movie should be ejected immediately and questioned their abilities as a parent. I am a cold-hearted fucker and agree with the dead guy on that. I was also surprised to see people complaining about my age old nemesis: the pre-movie commercials. I thought I was the only one rolling my eyes, plugging my ears and going ”la la la la la la la” so I didn’t have to sit through another fucking Buick commercial when I paid ten bucks to see a movie and some good previews where I generally know I’ll already be bombarded by product placement.
It seems the more they charge for movies, the worse the experience is for the people that really enjoy going. I can’t fathom why some people would pay so much to sit through a movie and talk, and then also not realize how ignorant and substandard they are as human beings for doing so. Some people really don’t know they are assholes. This makes me want to add an addendum to the Monkeysphere concept that some groups of monkeys congregate because they share the same mental retardation.
On the radio this morning they were talking about an incident that happened Wednesday night that’s all over the local news now. This black senator, a one Rev. James Meeks, car was pulled over by a white police officer. Meeks, who had a driver and was in the back of the car immediately got out of the car when it stopped and approached the officer which is when the whole thing started.
I don’t think this is a black/white issue here. I think it’s general stupidity. I’ve seen it before a hundred times on the road. You DO NOT get out of the car when you are pulled over. In fact, one caller to the show even said there is a law in Illinois that you are not supposed to and if you do not return to your vehicle when the officer asks you to, you are then in violation of said law. It’s just common sense.
But, the guy approached the officer and said one of those "do you know who I am" type lines and the officer supposedly said that he did know and ”get back in the fucking car” or whatever. It seems from the stories I’ve read ”fucking car” was the statement used. And, the officer had pulled out his gun when the senator did not comply with his first request.
I am the first one to slam cops because I think they are generally annoying, power hungry assholes. But, this Meeks guy is totally playing up the racial card and everything they were saying on the radio about the news stories in the papers was true. The Suntimes makes no clear statement about why they were pulled over and the Tribune only throws it in at the last paragraph. None of them say anything about the fact you’re not supposed to exit your car when you’re pulled over, and play up Meeks as the victim and the cop as the asshole aggressor.
My favorite is how the Tribune put in: ”According to Meeks, he had just left the Bible study at the House of Hope, a 10,000-seat church he opened earlier this month.” As if we’re supposed to side with this guy because he not only goes to church but he also opened said church. What does any of that have to do with the incident at hand. Oh, and the car belonged to a ”church volunteer”. Anything else? Were they on their way to donate money to starving children? Or maybe for after hours missionary work on Chicago streets?
Does this make me a racist because I think the cop was right and Meeks is black? I would say no, because white or black, any dumb asshole that gets out of his car when the police stop them deserves to have a gun put in their face because of their utter stupidity. This time around, good for the cop. And asshole, I don’t give a shit if you’re Gandhi, ”Get back in the FUCKING car!”
Another annoying news story out of Six Flags. A woman is upset because she was asked to leave the pool she was standing in, breast-feeding her kid and the media dogs are all over it. The media, who made a huge ordeal out of outfit malfunctions. I am not against boobs. I don’t see why women can’t run around shirtless like men and I don’t know what the big fucking deal with nipples are that modern America gets so strung out about. It’s just dumb. What is it about the human anatomy that is so shameful to everyone. I am shy about my body because I have low self-esteem. But, if you feel good about yours, please take your clothes off.
That being said, what would compel someone to breast feed in a huge pool filled with all kinds of grimy kids and families. Maybe she has the right to do it wherever (which I guess she does because it’s a new law in Illinois) but I (and the people on the radio) thought it was just kinda gross. And if anything, annoying because it gives journalists more mediocre crap to sensationalize as if nursing women had been suddenly thrust back to Victorian expectations.
And the whole Space Shuttle thing this week... Who gives a flying fuck. What do half a dozen people going up into space have to do with the rest of us and our problems down here on the ground. Fuck em all. Send up some probes and let the media make a big deal out of moon rocks.