Fun with my Brother
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morrigirlAfter listening to the "Dirt" album by Alice in Chains for the hundredth time, I turned to Michael and said, "I just realized that all the lyrics written by Layne Staley are about drugs and all the lyrics written by Jerry Cantrell are about death."
"Yup. And we know who won that face-off," he said.
I nodded. Beat. Then we said in unison, "Death."
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Over the holidays Michael and I were flipping channels one day and came across "Attack of the Clones" on television. It sparked a good-natured debate on the merits of the first three episodes of the Star Wars epic. Michael conceded that George Lucas should not have directed any of them, he should have handed directorial duty over to someone like Spielberg. THAT lead us to conjure up a list of directors who, although completely wrong for the job, might have produced a more interesting, if not necessarily better Star Wars trilogy. Some highlights:
Woody Allen
Martin Scorsese
Pedro Almodovar
John Carpenter
Michael Bay
Clint Eastwood
Penny Marshall
and my personal favorite...
Spike Lee
"Yup. And we know who won that face-off," he said.
I nodded. Beat. Then we said in unison, "Death."
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Over the holidays Michael and I were flipping channels one day and came across "Attack of the Clones" on television. It sparked a good-natured debate on the merits of the first three episodes of the Star Wars epic. Michael conceded that George Lucas should not have directed any of them, he should have handed directorial duty over to someone like Spielberg. THAT lead us to conjure up a list of directors who, although completely wrong for the job, might have produced a more interesting, if not necessarily better Star Wars trilogy. Some highlights:
Woody Allen
Martin Scorsese
Pedro Almodovar
John Carpenter
Michael Bay
Clint Eastwood
Penny Marshall
and my personal favorite...
Spike Lee
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Date: 2011-01-05 01:06 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-01-05 02:45 am (UTC)"We didn't LAND on the force! the FORCE landed on US!"
"Clint Eastwood"
"Do ya feel lucky, Vader? WELL DO YA?"
""Death." "
death ALWAYS wins.
"THAT lead us to conjure up a list of directors who, although completely wrong for the job, might have produced a more interesting, if not necessarily better Star Wars trilogy."
I vote for whomever directed SCARFACE.
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Date: 2011-01-05 05:50 am (UTC)Ah, Brian De Palma. You know he went to the college where I work.
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Date: 2011-01-05 09:34 am (UTC)"SAY HELLO TO MY LEETLE LIGHTSABER!"
nope... that does'nt scan as well.
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Date: 2011-01-05 09:33 am (UTC)it was OK.
but ROBOCOP was AWESOME.
Total Recall... should have been TOTALLY RECALLED.
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Date: 2011-01-05 03:26 pm (UTC)I've never seen Robocop or Total Recall.
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Date: 2011-01-06 02:41 am (UTC)you're not missing anything. it has too much range required for Arnie to handle, and the story is a MESS.
"Robocop"
HOW can u not have seen robocop??? it's been on tv a million times!
IT'S A CLASSIC, I SAY!
(and clearly influenced by Batman and Judge Dredd comics).
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Date: 2011-01-07 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-07 09:41 pm (UTC)HE LOOKS COOL! NOT SCARY!!!
and the dad later from "The 70's Show" plays the villain!