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Archive | August, 2007
Movie Review – A History of Violence – Interesting
Tom Stall, a humble family man and owner of a popular neighborhood restaurant, lives a quiet but fulfilling existence in the Midwest. One night Tom foils a crime at his place of business and, to his chagrin, is plastered all over the news for his heroics. Following this, mysterious people follow the Stalls’ every move, concerning Tom more than anyone else. As this situation is confronted, more lurks out over where all these occurrences have stemmed from compromising his marriage, family relationship and the main characters’ former relations in the process.
This is not a new movie, it came out in 2005 – I can’t say I remember hearing about it at that time. Probably not a highly billed film, I just picked it up recently as it looked interesting.
It scores a very high 7.5/10 on IMDB though, which gives an indication that it should be a decent film.
The movie starts out pretty sharply with some strange characters, interesting dialogue and some extreme violence. In some ways the first few scenes reminded me of Tarantino movies.
The movie progresses from there, leaving you wondering what is going to happen next.
Drama is nicely handled through-out, the pacing is good and Mortensen plays his role very well on both sides of the fence.
Starting out as an accidental hero it leaves you with a feeling something odd is happening, and it plays out from there.
The violence is pretty brutal, like the sex scenes – straight to the point and direct. It also plays on some serious issues like ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ violence…how do you decide where the line is?
I won’t spoil the movie for you, but I will very much suggest that you do watch it.
A brutal and gripping movie, I give it a nose pounding 8.5/10.
Stupid People that E-mail Me
I get ridiculous e-mails all the time, quite often asking me to do things – hello are blogs the new free media? I don’t think so, you want space here baby – you better pay! Unless you are a charitable cause like saving the rhinos then you just have to ask.
Anyway that’s beside the point, I’ve had some ridiculously stupid e-mails later…more than normal. I’ve deleted most of them as they give me a headache trying to decipher them..but here are a couple – let me know if you can work out the meaning.
From NewYorky
helo shaolin tiger..i just found your blog through yahooo searching. I would
like to reply post in your colume. How to reply post in your colume, can u
please direct me the correct way. Thanks alot.
NewYorky
Malaysian-In Indonesia now
From Derry
To it may concern,
im a degree student and looking for a reseach to do for my my dessertation
or final project since im very much interested in yout company,mabye i
could assist you in doing a reseach.can i no more about ur company or
events u have made recently.i would very much apriciated.thanx.pls reply to
the above mail.
What drugs are these people taking?
And more importantly, where can I get some?!
GODDAMNIT – Talk about luck.
Ok so a few days ago someone painted fuck on my car – and it just wiped off. Good.
Last night I was driving to dinner, minding my own business, creeping forwards waiting at a traffic light the next thing I know ‘bang’ I look back and some fuckwit on a motorbike has just rear ended me.
He quickly regained his balance and cabut, he was gone.
I didn’t have time to note down his registration plate before he disappeared into the traffic, the odd thing was after being slammed into the drivers back pretty hard, his passenger nonchalantly just kept sms-ing on his phone.
I thought ah the damage can’t be much, it’s just a bike….
How wrong I was, no wonder he *cabut* so fast.
I wish he had dented the bumper as that’s quite easy to fix, but the boot…as it’s made of an air pocket can’t be banged out. They might be able to use the “huge magnet and pull it” technique – but I’m not sure.
Either way it’s not gonna be cheap.
The scratch goes all the way across the light.
He must have been going some speed to leave a tyre mark like this…ON MY CAR.
Perhaps he saw my Transit post and wanted to race me?
Anyone wanna sponsor me a respray?!
Ok so unlike the fuck this doesn’t wipe off *sigh*.
What a week eh?
Don’t Drink and Drive
Yeah don’t do it, it’s teh wrong and bad.
Please don’t drink and drive….you might spill your beer – that’s a REAL crime.
Transit Sound of Smoke – New Years Eve 2006/7 at Sepang International Circuit
Well you can tell how good this event was, it took me 6 months to bring myself to look at the pictures and sort them out, upload them and blog about it.
Transit Sound of Smoke was quite possibly the worst rave to ever take place, it wasn’t publicised – no one had heard of it and there was a massive one a few days earlier on the 29th at Sunway which everyone knew about (Velocity KL).
The official low down on the event was Transit: Sound Of Smoke @ Sepang International Circuit, KL – Cars, dance music, the great outdoors.
Yeah right? Dubbed as Malaysia’s first-ever high speed drifting event, Transit is the amalgamation of the Saturday Night Drift events held at the Speedway Plus Circuit Elite Highway.
Expect to see over 50 expert and 150 novice drivers burn some serious rubber on Sepang’s tracks.
The drift event begins at 3pm and was to carry on for 50 hours of non-stop music and drift as some kind of stupid record in the name of 50 years of independence, isn’t that tune getting a little well worn?
We were planning to party to DJs Jungle Jerry, Groovedoctor, the lovely Desire, DJ Love and WllythKd as they took us on a musical drift with sounds ranging from deep sexy tribal house, progressive, melodic and hard trance and everything in between. (Source)
We were buzzin for a rave.
Check out the pumping crowd as we approached.
Looks fairly reasonable right?
Well it just got worse as we got closer..
There was only about 12 people there, so the whole partying on down thing didn’t really happen.
Well seriously I’d say maybe 250-300 people…certainly not the billed 10,000.
We spent most of our time taking pictures….of each other taking pictures of each other, yeah something like that – there wasn’t exactly a lot of photographic subjects.
Ultimate Comb-Over – The best evar!
The best comb-over in the history of the world.
Check out the transformation!
FUCK
Sunday is a sacred day for me, for eating pizza and watching movies. Plus the odd other activity like playing PS2 (I’m at the final race on NFS:Carbon finally) and processing some pictures (didn’t manage to do any today – slept too much).
But I had to go out this Sunday to Laundry to meet Tim for some football match as apparently Maxis has secured the sponsorship rights for EPL for 3 years, so they were having a little get together.
The sponsorship will start with the Community Shield match between Manchester United and Chelsea to be aired live over ESPN at 9.55pm on Sunday.
That was the game we were there to watch, not that I give a shit as you know I don’t really follow football.
Anyway, to get back to the point, imagine my surprise when I went out to my car to go to Laundry bar…to find this:
No your eyes are not deceiving you, that is indeed my car with FUCK painted on the back.
I wonder who I offended? If I did offend anyone as it’s not a very clear message FUCK? FUCK WHAT?
FUCK you
FUCK me
FUCK the World
Want to FUCK?
Let’s FUCK
FUCK the rainforest
FUCK I love sausages
FUCK the government
FUCK Proton
Or perhaps most likely
FUCK you, you drive like an asshole
Perhaps so…thankfully it’s some kind of water based paint so it just wipes off without any effort.
But still I find it very odd, at least it’s not as bad as last time when my car was vandalised, or when the window was ripped out and my camera stolen.
Things like this are just plain weird, anyone else experienced anything like this – or ever heard of anything like this?
I’ve seen or heard plenty of stories about disgruntled wives and girlfriends chucking paint on cars, or in the interior.
But for a random stranger to paint fuck in water based paint on the back of a car in such small and neat letters? So weird.
Do you think it was the Nismo owner from the below post?!
NISMO – At least it’s a Nissan this time
It’s been a damn long time since I’ve displayed a fugly car around these parts, I guess you get desensitized to them after seeing fugly beng buckets every freaking day.
Well here’s one for prosperity.
Seen any good ones lately?
At least this is a Nissan…I’ve seen NISMO stickers on a Saga, Toyota, Ford and various others cars..
Do they not know NISMO means NISsan MOtorsports.
It’s like all these Waja with diffuser blades on the roof, do they not know they aren’t effective until around 220km/h at which point their car would have already fallen apart.
Crazy I tell you.
