Hey, Mel, take it easy...

After a week of off and on reading about the latest Pro - Gold-digging propaganda, I'm just as confused as ever.

Full disclosure - I am a fan of Mel Gibson. Unless he does something incredibly terrible, I will remain a Mel Gibson fan. I'm sorry, but cussing out someone who has obviously pushed his buttons, as she remains calm on the phone, does not rise to the level of "I must hate Mel Gibson."

I'm sorry, he's just a guy that acts great and he makes great movies, sometimes excellent movies. But he is a man and no man is perfect.

Everyone is crying for this woman, don't you know that she pushed, pulled, poked and prodded to get this result? Why feel sorry for her? She deliberately provoked him and recorded him to attain more money in the form of child support. So, in other words, she believes she is going to be PAID, a salary in reality, for listening to the tirade(s).

Do you really believe this woman loved him and can sit there and listen to that and not break down and cry? If she ever cared about him, she would be devastated but she is clearly not and she is very calm, cool and collected. She is in it for the money.

How could any thinking person feel sorry for her? No one knows what words were spoken between the two of them before the recordings but I am thinking she was pushing his buttons like I'm typing on this keyboard right now. And she was doing a good job of it.

The concept that this guy just called her up, panting and in a rage, out of the blue, is utter rubbish. She provoked him to the point of rage and then hung up the phone, prepared the device and waited. Predictably, and sadly, he fell to temptation and called her back.

I sincerely hope that she loses custody of the child and then serves the maximum prison sentence for every single time she illegally recorded him.

She's a penis flytrap and she needs to get punished for using the legal system for personal gain, if nothing else.

Seven Months!

Well, seven is a lucky number...I guess...for some people. I have to re-fire this blog up. I started another one but now I feel the need to keep this one going for my fiery Rock and Roll and other commentaries!

Without it becoming, "Tony Iommi, all the time."

Instead of starting my website a long time ago, I should have just started a Black Sabbath website and made some money off of all of the CDs that could have been sold off of Google ads on it. 8-)

I likes me some Sabbath.

My Response to The Washington Post Review of The Road

This is my entire comment on her review of The Road.

"'The Road' finally resembles little more than a highfalutin' zombie movie with literary pretensions."

And...

"At its best, "The Road" offers a profound portrait of parental devotion and a child's instinctive love of mercy and justice and gratitude, but McCarthy's fatal sense of cruelty and hyperbole make the trip a bummer."

You're describing what makes it realistic. Even our world right now, at times, has a "fatal sense of cruelty." Any rational and logical person would expect that to be magnified by tens of thousands of times in a situation like the book and movie depicts. Of course it's a "bummer." It's the end of the world as we know it. It doesn't have a clean, crisp ending with a new beginning as you see in something like Roland Emmerich's Trifecta of Non-Depressing Doom; "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012." The "happy ending" in McCarthy's "Road" is simply the fact that although the boy's father died, the boy will live on, hopefully.

You seem to be lamenting the fact that the movie didn't have this wonderful ending with blue skies and warm weather and a kiosk that sells iPods, iPhones and laptops. Here is to a realistic "disaster" movie, The New McCarthyism, it lacks the sturm und drang of Herr Emmerich but retains the flicker of humanity while showing the dregs of same.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112501106_Comments.html

The Road - Excellent Movie...

I went to see The Road yesterday. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I was expecting a horrible nightmare of a film, I really was. It was delayed at least three times, I stopped counting, and I figured the whole project was in deep trouble.

For those that could not make it through the book because they didn't care for McCarthy's writing style, the movie is the book come to life yet it's so different because it is a film...you will probably like the movie where you didn't like the book.

The Long and Winding...ROAD...

Oh...are they ever going to release this movie? Just checked because I have not seen the trailer on TV and it was supposed to be about October 16. I went to the OFFICIAL website and it had at the top of the page October 16, 2009 but it wouldn't load so I refreshed the page and that changed to November 25.

Just the lyrics from a wonderful song...

"Have no fear in your heart...
though you feel you've been broken and lost...
there's a place where we will meet up again...
there's a place that mends your hurt and takes you in...
there are times faced alone...
when you find all the holes in yourself...
you don't have to walk the night on your own...
I will say a prayer for you to lead you on...
I will say a prayer for you when you have gone..." - Bird York

Patrick Swayze

Dead at the age of 57. 57 is a magic number, cancer won its battle with my Dad when he was 57 as well.

Rest easy.

The Long...and...Winding...ROAD...

It looks like THE ROAD is going to be out on October 16.

Let's just hope they don't try to turn the book into some type of screwy Chuck Norris movie.

Buddha on The Road...

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha

I am a big believer in nothing nowadays...or so it seems. If I told you what I really believed, you might think I finally went over the edge. Rest easy, it's not that bad. It's not that bad...for one thing, I'm not going to tell you what I really believe! I guess the fear of being ostracized is a sanity-check all its own, innit?

Perhaps in my self-imposed religious agnosticism and political atheism I will finally achieve the epitome of pessimism. Know this: I care not about this world or much of anything in it except my family and friends. I don't care about tomorrow and I don't care about yesterday. All I care about is today. Yesterday's face is one of sadness and Tomorrow's is one of fear and apprehension. You can take your "Global Warming" fears and the rest of your (true) paranoia and soft terror and shove it up your lower vent, I don't need it. Here is Wisdom, Let him who hath understanding reckon The Two Names of The Beast - capitalism and communism. It's all smoke and mirrors to get you and I in the same place - slavery.

Rest easy in your chains tonight.

The Road...less traveled...

I have been waiting since last Fall for "The Road." I finally purchased the book last week and finished the book yesterday.

I can't figure out why Blogger has removed Jay's old "World of Tomorrow" blog but I feel as though I should, once again, simply delete this one because you just never know when you are going to violate someone's silly fucking Terms of Service for not sucking the theoretical penis of whatever blogger.com wants to promote.

I remember back last Fall that people were complaining on talk radio that blogger was suspending blogs or removing their blogs because they didn't support a certain candidate who ended up winning. Can you believe that happy crappy? 8-)

Welcome to the free medium, I'm amazed they are not charging for this shit. Anyone remember all of the old free online photo accounts? They all went to charging people once they had a ton of shit on their website and it was, "Pay us or it's all gone, have a nice day." Sort of what this will eventually turn into but they have never made the software really good enough or reliably enough to actually have the balls to charge for it.

There are a few free photo sites still around, I guess sooner or later they will follow those that came before them and start charging. You would think with all of the POP-UP TRASH those fuckers have that it could remain free forever! You would think America Online would be free as well...considering the amount of shit they have flapping all over the place as soon as you sign on.

Anyway, that's the thought as of late, waiting for "The Road" to come out in the movies and thinking about deleting this thing again and just focusing on the website I have.

Still waiting patiently...

for Viggo Mortenson in, The Road.

Thanksgiving Spirit

I arrived home from work this morning,
as I usually do,
the sky was gray with the occasional blue,
I watched as a deputy exited his car as the snowflakes flew...

Sometimes I am reminded,
in the form of a hammer blow,
that man is the stinkiest of creatures,
at times...the lowest of the low...

Pause for a moment...today if you can,
it is six days from Thanksgiving,
a month from peace on Earth,
good will man to man,
and cast a thought out for someone,
who comes home later today to nothing,
and is expected to just go on living.

Me? I pay my rent because I'm not that unlucky yet,
I am a good tenant, I'm not supposed to care,
yet I know luck can fade and fate is hardly fair,
I watch strangers pick through personal belongings...
I just stand and stare...

Bloody Hell!

Ahhhh...Glen Campbell!

"Sunflower, good morning,
you sure do make it like a sunny day,
Sunflower, fair warning,
I'm gonna love you if you come my way..."

SCRRRREEEEEEEEEECCCCCHHHHHHH!!!! (Needle raked across record violently...)

Now for a dose of reality:

"I’m travelin’ down the road,
I’m flirtin’ with disaster,
I’ve got the pedal to the floor,
my life is running faster,
I’m out of money, I’m out of hope,
it looks like self destruction,
well how much more can we take,
with all of this corruption?

Been flirtin’ with disaster,
Y’all know what I mean,
and the way we run our lives,
it makes no sense to me,
I don’t know about yourself or,
what you want to be - yeah.
When we gamble with our time,
we choose our destiny." ~ Molly Hatchet, "Flirting with Disaster"

Now, a drum rool for THE MAN...

"The odds of you being killed by a terrorist are practically zero. So I say relax and enjoy the show. You have to be a realist, you have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists and, just plain guys from MONTANA...are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. That's the reality. Angry men in combat fatigues talking to God on the two-way radio, muttering incoherent slogans about freedom are eventually going to provide us with a great deal of entertainment...especially after your stupid fucking economy collapses." George Carlin, "You are all diseased" 1998

This country is in deep, deep trouble and it doesn't really matter who won or lost because there was no man for this season.

The Road: Go see it when it comes out...

Click on the title of this posting to go read about the movie. They don't know when this thing is coming out. It was supposed to be around the end of November and now they're hinting at December which probably means some time in 2009.

Viggo Mortenson has played Lucifer in "The Prophecy," he resurrected Kowalski from the old 1971 movie "Vanishing Point" in a remake by the same name. He has played a self-reformed Irish Gangster in, "History of Violence" and a Russian Gangster (no spoliers!) in, "Eastern Promises."

"The Road" is probably going to be something to remember...

New Cover for Guitar World

Click on the title "New Cover for Guitar World" up above to see who is on it. 8-)

Zombie Squirrel! Forest of The Dead...

IF YOU ARE EASILY DISTURBED OR OFFENDED, DON'T READ WHAT FOLLOWS OR LOOK AT THE PICTURES! I am posting this in such a way that you are warned so you don't have a right to complain and claim some type of offense at this...

DOWN...

DOWN...

DOWN...

DOWN...

DOWN...

DOWN...

KEEP GOING...

DOWN...

So, I'm on the phone with Ken yesterday and my Son runs down the hallway to inform me that a squirrel is eating a bird. My Son, ever the practical joker, I think, "Yeah right...squirrel eating a bird." I don't even remember what I said to him...

I look out the back window and, to my absolute amazement, there is a common gray squirrel eating a bird! I grab tha camera and I shot a rather crappy picture of this zombified squirrel, who shall from this day forward be referred to as "George" for "George Romero," then I went outside and shot a few more pics of the CARNAGE OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Just a note, this is not a prank, this is 100% true. I have never heard of anything like this. My Wife has never heard of anything like this. Ken, who has actually raised a couple of squirrels and like myself, has watched and enjoyed squirrels for years...has never heard of this type of behavior from Gray Squirrels.

The photos are graphic, so, don't complain.

Zombie Squirrel 2: The Aftermath...

These are the really bad pictures.

Happy Birthday!

And, you know it's your birfday, don't you? You want me to sing you a song Kenneth?

Oh happy birfday to you,
the sky is so blue,
with dead leaves all blowing,
some dirt flies too... 8-)

The DVD Player this weekend?

I tried to make it through the latest Indiana Jones movie and I just couldn't. A neighbor let me borrow it for the weekend and I just couldn't get into it. It comes as no surprise to me, I never really "got into" the whole Indiana Jones thing from years past.

So, I fell back to a good, old creepy movie filled with chilly Octoberness.

Phantasm.

This movie is the Black Sabbath of horror movies, errah, if you ignore the fact that Black Sabbath took their name from a Boris Karloff horror movie titled "Black Sabbath."

What's in the CD Player?

Well, this weekend it was back-to-back listening of Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Sabotage." Looking out the window at the Octoberness of it all, leaves swirling around in eddies of chilly air.

Who am I kidding? Black Sabbath is basically a staple of my listening tastes... I like classic rock, or heavy metal, whatever you want to call it. Sometimes just psychedelic rock...

I can usually be found listening to The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and more modern hard rock like Metallica.

Black Sabbath's fifth album, "Sabbath Bloody Sabath" has a rather haunting album cover, the back of the album being a family mourning a dying relative and the front of the album showing, perhaps, what is going on in the other realm... Interesting, eh?

"Sabotage" is much more subdued by comparison. Sabbath Drummer Bill Ward's red tights...egad...

Both "Sabotage" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" are far more artsy in nature than the First Four Black Sabbath Albums. They still have the heavy edge of earlier Black Sabbath offerings, but also have the rather eerie keyboards that you would find in more subdued music. Rick Wakeman, Keyboardist for the band Yes, was brought in for "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", for example.

Interesting music, to say the least. Contrary to the critics and some people who shall remain unnamed, they remain one of the most popular bands in the history of modern music. 8-)