Beneath the Glittering Sky

[foxfire]

Well, yesterday your devoted narrator went to see the new movie Battleship, and just let me tell you one thing: It's a resounding stinker! Don't waste your hard-earned lucre on this heinous frittering away of more than $200,000,000. The writers and the director throw every fawkin' military cliché ever conceived at the audience, and the plot line is

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[photosexual]

Ah, Portland. Every time I visit it, I keep thinking I should uproot and move down south. But then the trip is over, I come back home, and I like it here again.

But Portland has smut. Lots of it. And booze. Cheaper. And Rose City Rollergirls! It'll be a fine place for your adventures.

I miss the older Seattle. The pre-millennium city that had a lot of Seattlites in it, and a different culture, and feel... probably a lot like what Portland is like now, or has grown into.

Timing being what it is, there's a spectacular annual blues festival there for a couple days on/around the 4th of July holiday. Go corrupt it, if you've got an ear for the blues. I keep thinking I"m going to make it there every year, and never can afford it or organize myself in time.

[penguin2]

Methinks this cinematic travesty is what you get when you decide to base a movie on nothing more than a silly damn board game.

Ah, but let's not forget when, a few years ago, someone decided to base a very expensive-to-make film on a naff funfair ride, and ended up with the gorgeous hard-rocking jewel that is Pirates of the Caribbean :D But yes, none of us here had the slightest interest in Battleship when it came out because the trailer looked so lame.Not to mention the unwelcome presence of that overly-inbred-Pekingese-sucking-a-lemon-face Barbadian ho, whose 'acting' is probably just as vile as her 'singing'. Pass!

OTOH we did go to Men in Black 3 (in 2D, of course; 3D is for arseholes and other Barnumites) last week and it well and truly rocked. So very silly. So much fun.

Have fun in Portland!