Sunday, July 24, 2011
Long Live Amy Winehouse!!!
Yesterday the music industry lost one of its great talents, Amy Winehouse. I personally don't listen to her music, but one of her songs has always been stuck in my head which was the single "Rehab". Every time her name pops up "Rehab" would play in my head. She always brings a sense of soul mixed with jazz, and this coming from a white Brit she's earned her ghetto stripes. Did I mention that she was a beautiful woman(other then her misshapen forehead), she had perfect looking boobs. And Russell Band u were a lucky bastard. Although she had deep emotional problems and other issues, I hope she's in peace and that she'll live forever in her music. My prayers are with her friends and family.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Epic Meal Time
Yesterday I discover this series on Youtube about a group of guys from Canada that create some monterous shit that makes a fat bastard like myself afraid. And its called Epic Meal Time. Thank You Mike 'The Birdman' Dodd from This Week Geek for introducing to me that i'm not entirely crazy when it comes to food these guys take it to the next level. Here's an example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZaNUZDTi44&feature=feedu
Monday, July 11, 2011
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Review
Welcome to my first review ladies and gentlemen of a classic film. You may like it or you may hate it. But whatever the case may be, it's you're choice. And in the words of Mike Nelson when he and his crew riffed the disaster that is Batman and Robin. I will start by saying: "I am George Clooney, and I am sorry,"
1984 brought us The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension. Starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Christopher Llyod, Ellen Barkin, and Jeff Goldblum as himself. Now the 1980s brought us some wild, zany, bizarre, and yet entertaining shit. Buckaroo Banzai is no comparison. The movie starts out with a scroll introduction on who Buckaroo Banzai is, a son of a Japanese father and an American mother. Who obviously believes in the old saying "I got all the time in the world" cuz he a neurosurgeon, rock star, and an old fashion gunslinger. AND HE'S PLAYED BY ROBOCOP!?!?! come the fuck on ya'll they couldn't find an asian guy who could play an asian guy? Well this was again the 1980s and most asian actors were either playing stereotypical parts like playing ninjas or training white boys to wax on and wax off .
Moving on to the actual movie it starts off with the prep of the Jet-car or Jet-truck however you look at it. And everybody is in a bunker awaiting Buckaroo's arrival and by everybody I mean the military and Buckaroo's team/band mates The Hong Kong Cavilers! Ok, this guy is Japanese right? So why is his band named after a Chinese city? I don't fuckin know. And his band mates have really funny yet catchy names like Rawhide, Reno, and Perfect Tommy(or King Douchebag as I call him in this). As they all wait, Buckaroo was performing brain surgery with New Jersey played by Jeff Goldblum and they just talked about wires on the brain are similar to wires on a bomb. Buckaroo fixes the problem and took some pictures while asking Jersey if he wants to join his team. How could he refuse. Minutes later we see Banzai wearing black flight gear approaching the Jet-Car, and this is where everything starts to go north. Buckaroo starts the car and rockets trough the desert testing ground like a bat out of hell. But unknown to the military Buckaroo and his team built in little something extra in the car, an ocelliation overthruster, which enables an object to go through another. In this case, the Jet-Car goes through a mountain. While he was in the mountain, Buckaroo saw some weird shit! Blue thunderclouds, moving structures, and a naked alien. If anybody wants to experience this, take some LSD.
Buckaroo's little stunt in the desert caught the attention of mental institution patient and villain of this fine tale, Dr Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin played by John Lithgow who did a very good job in this role. With help of a device that he inserts in his tong we find out that in the 1930s Lizardo and Buckaroo's friend Professor Hikita built a similar OT but instead of a car going though a mountain, Lizardo's head got stuck a wall. And this is where Lizardo became Lord John Whorfin. Still with me on this. Ok.
Now we're back in present day, and a few hours have passed and the Hong Kong Cavilers have a gig to play at a club in NJ. This is where we get introduce to the love interest, Penny Priddy played by Ellen Barkin who looks extremely hot in this. Makes me want to build a time machine hitch back in time and bang her.......Well during the band's performance, she's tries to off herself which got her arrested and Buckaroo later bails her out because she told him a sad story of her life and she looks like his dead wife. While at the same time, John Whorfin escapes the mental institution in search for the OT. In a press conference Buckaroo tells the press what he experience while going through the mountain and also what he found from the mountain. Some moving blob inside a jar of it's own piss, the thing looked nasty. And then Buckaroo was interrupted by a phone call by the President, dude takes a call, which the phone shocks him. And it turns out that it wasn't the president but a group of black frog looking aliens waring grey suits in a ship that looks like a seashell. After writing information onto his palm, Buckaroo and team rushed back to the conference room where he sees two red frog looking aliens in the crowd. Fight breaks out, Reno got shot in the arm,the Professor gets kidnapped, and a motorcycle chase with the best music cue ever.
Now during Buckaroo's rescue attempt to save the Professor. Team Banzai goes back to there penthouse HQ and figure out where these aliens came from. And they connected a company called Yoyodine to the War of the Worlds broadcast from the 30s and guys with the first name of John assuming to be aliens. Check these names John Yaya, John Small Berries, and John Bigboote. Later they soon receive something in a big pink box by one of those black grey suited aliens taking a form of a Bob Marley impersonator. And when Buckaroo comes back with the Professor, the pink box had a holographic message personally to Buckaroo with a black woman with the name....can you guess it? JOHN! John Emdall to be exact played by the great Rosalind Cash, and she tells Buckaroo that John Whorfin plans to steal the OT so that he can get his friends out of the Eighth Dimension and conquers the universe . And if Buckaroo allows the OT to get stolen. the black Lectroids(the good guys) as they are called would use a particle beam weapon on Russia thinking that it was from the US prompting a first strike. Great, what do we have so far: a white guy that playing a half asian guy, a car or truck going through a mountain, a mental escapee who's really an alien, a suicidal love interest, so many guys and gals with the name of John that can fill up a Red Light District, white guys that are red aliens and black guys that are black aliens with fly grey suits, and blackmailing alien bitch. This movie should be called New Jersey: The Movie.
Now to the finish, the OT gets stolen by John Bigboote and John O'Connell and they also kidnapped Penny. So Buckaroo, a black lectroid name John Parker, and his gang goes down to Yoyodine and kick some ass. Which lead up to the climatic battle between Buckaroo and Whorfin in the skies with one big alien shell ship against a small shell ship. Small ship destroys big ship, Buckaroo saves the day gets the girl, and everything is jolly good.
In conclusion, I love this movie for one reason: THE SCORE! It was composed by Micheal Boddicker, did some stuff with Micheal Jackson in the early years. The music was straight up righteous. Especially the closing sequence when cast were walking in a street. Besides from the music, this was a cluster fuck of a movie having so many things going at it at once. Like the main character himself. It has likeable characters both good and bad like John Bigboote played by Christopher Lloyd who reminds me a lot of Starscream from Transformers G1 and Whorfin always get his name wrong by calling him Bigbooty. And later flicks him off when Whorfin called him weak. Which cracks me up every time. To me it's a guilty pleasure that never gets old. Would I recommend this film? Depending on who's asking I would. But if you're looking for something that you want to turn off your brain and want action and aliens, got for it. Would I like to see this remade? FUCK NO! Leave BB alone! Although, there was a comic book series that was the sequel to the movie called Return of the Screw. It was not bad. Now I leave with a gift of music from BB and my fav scene from the entire movie. Goodbye.
1984 brought us The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension. Starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Christopher Llyod, Ellen Barkin, and Jeff Goldblum as himself. Now the 1980s brought us some wild, zany, bizarre, and yet entertaining shit. Buckaroo Banzai is no comparison. The movie starts out with a scroll introduction on who Buckaroo Banzai is, a son of a Japanese father and an American mother. Who obviously believes in the old saying "I got all the time in the world" cuz he a neurosurgeon, rock star, and an old fashion gunslinger. AND HE'S PLAYED BY ROBOCOP!?!?! come the fuck on ya'll they couldn't find an asian guy who could play an asian guy? Well this was again the 1980s and most asian actors were either playing stereotypical parts like playing ninjas or training white boys to wax on and wax off .
Moving on to the actual movie it starts off with the prep of the Jet-car or Jet-truck however you look at it. And everybody is in a bunker awaiting Buckaroo's arrival and by everybody I mean the military and Buckaroo's team/band mates The Hong Kong Cavilers! Ok, this guy is Japanese right? So why is his band named after a Chinese city? I don't fuckin know. And his band mates have really funny yet catchy names like Rawhide, Reno, and Perfect Tommy(or King Douchebag as I call him in this). As they all wait, Buckaroo was performing brain surgery with New Jersey played by Jeff Goldblum and they just talked about wires on the brain are similar to wires on a bomb. Buckaroo fixes the problem and took some pictures while asking Jersey if he wants to join his team. How could he refuse. Minutes later we see Banzai wearing black flight gear approaching the Jet-Car, and this is where everything starts to go north. Buckaroo starts the car and rockets trough the desert testing ground like a bat out of hell. But unknown to the military Buckaroo and his team built in little something extra in the car, an ocelliation overthruster, which enables an object to go through another. In this case, the Jet-Car goes through a mountain. While he was in the mountain, Buckaroo saw some weird shit! Blue thunderclouds, moving structures, and a naked alien. If anybody wants to experience this, take some LSD.
Buckaroo's little stunt in the desert caught the attention of mental institution patient and villain of this fine tale, Dr Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin played by John Lithgow who did a very good job in this role. With help of a device that he inserts in his tong we find out that in the 1930s Lizardo and Buckaroo's friend Professor Hikita built a similar OT but instead of a car going though a mountain, Lizardo's head got stuck a wall. And this is where Lizardo became Lord John Whorfin. Still with me on this. Ok.
Now we're back in present day, and a few hours have passed and the Hong Kong Cavilers have a gig to play at a club in NJ. This is where we get introduce to the love interest, Penny Priddy played by Ellen Barkin who looks extremely hot in this. Makes me want to build a time machine hitch back in time and bang her.......Well during the band's performance, she's tries to off herself which got her arrested and Buckaroo later bails her out because she told him a sad story of her life and she looks like his dead wife. While at the same time, John Whorfin escapes the mental institution in search for the OT. In a press conference Buckaroo tells the press what he experience while going through the mountain and also what he found from the mountain. Some moving blob inside a jar of it's own piss, the thing looked nasty. And then Buckaroo was interrupted by a phone call by the President, dude takes a call, which the phone shocks him. And it turns out that it wasn't the president but a group of black frog looking aliens waring grey suits in a ship that looks like a seashell. After writing information onto his palm, Buckaroo and team rushed back to the conference room where he sees two red frog looking aliens in the crowd. Fight breaks out, Reno got shot in the arm,the Professor gets kidnapped, and a motorcycle chase with the best music cue ever.
Now during Buckaroo's rescue attempt to save the Professor. Team Banzai goes back to there penthouse HQ and figure out where these aliens came from. And they connected a company called Yoyodine to the War of the Worlds broadcast from the 30s and guys with the first name of John assuming to be aliens. Check these names John Yaya, John Small Berries, and John Bigboote. Later they soon receive something in a big pink box by one of those black grey suited aliens taking a form of a Bob Marley impersonator. And when Buckaroo comes back with the Professor, the pink box had a holographic message personally to Buckaroo with a black woman with the name....can you guess it? JOHN! John Emdall to be exact played by the great Rosalind Cash, and she tells Buckaroo that John Whorfin plans to steal the OT so that he can get his friends out of the Eighth Dimension and conquers the universe . And if Buckaroo allows the OT to get stolen. the black Lectroids(the good guys) as they are called would use a particle beam weapon on Russia thinking that it was from the US prompting a first strike. Great, what do we have so far: a white guy that playing a half asian guy, a car or truck going through a mountain, a mental escapee who's really an alien, a suicidal love interest, so many guys and gals with the name of John that can fill up a Red Light District, white guys that are red aliens and black guys that are black aliens with fly grey suits, and blackmailing alien bitch. This movie should be called New Jersey: The Movie.
Now to the finish, the OT gets stolen by John Bigboote and John O'Connell and they also kidnapped Penny. So Buckaroo, a black lectroid name John Parker, and his gang goes down to Yoyodine and kick some ass. Which lead up to the climatic battle between Buckaroo and Whorfin in the skies with one big alien shell ship against a small shell ship. Small ship destroys big ship, Buckaroo saves the day gets the girl, and everything is jolly good.
In conclusion, I love this movie for one reason: THE SCORE! It was composed by Micheal Boddicker, did some stuff with Micheal Jackson in the early years. The music was straight up righteous. Especially the closing sequence when cast were walking in a street. Besides from the music, this was a cluster fuck of a movie having so many things going at it at once. Like the main character himself. It has likeable characters both good and bad like John Bigboote played by Christopher Lloyd who reminds me a lot of Starscream from Transformers G1 and Whorfin always get his name wrong by calling him Bigbooty. And later flicks him off when Whorfin called him weak. Which cracks me up every time. To me it's a guilty pleasure that never gets old. Would I recommend this film? Depending on who's asking I would. But if you're looking for something that you want to turn off your brain and want action and aliens, got for it. Would I like to see this remade? FUCK NO! Leave BB alone! Although, there was a comic book series that was the sequel to the movie called Return of the Screw. It was not bad. Now I leave with a gift of music from BB and my fav scene from the entire movie. Goodbye.
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