Looks like I'll end up losing the family rock soon. The person that I thought would be always there, is in hospital and is slowly saying goodbye to our world.
I've always made it known how much I love my Grandmother, the fact that I didn't see her much didn't affect my feelings for her. I always found it akward to sit with her and make small talk. I never had the kids to take for a visit, I didn't have the womans ability to relate, and I never knew what to say, but I always loved my Grandmother, and always will.
Grandma always did weird things, she's a farmer, but most of the things made us laugh, and still make me smile. I saw her in the hospital on Friday of last week and again on Sunday, I'll be going by on Saturday again, but I fear going alone. I had a good laugh on Saturday though, I showed her the fact I was wearing shorts(suprised ?) and she did the hand to the head thing ... good for a laugh.
She was also a GREAT cook, she'd make everything, her freezer was always stocked, and was always making more. Although this dwindled a bit in the last few years, she was always the consumate host and a great Grandmother.
I always loved the fact they even in her late 80's she climb the rickety old stairs to the attic to look around. The fact the she lived alone for more than 20 years and until she was nearly 90 amazes me, and she still showed her love for life when I saw her last Saturday.
Just a few mixed thoughts about my Grandmother.
Feel free to leave your own thoughts and memories... funny memories are always good too.
Love you Grandma
Brent
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Nanny Mcphee, The Matador, Capote, and Final Destination 3 ....MOVIE REVIEWS
In order of best to worst, here goes;
Capote ................. 83%
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Catherine Keener
Clifton Collins
Chris Cooper
Let me ask you a question, do you know Truman Copote?? You will!
I'll be honest about this, I don't read much. Sure I read a lot of magazines, but rarely pick up a book. Actually the last two titles I "read" were The Positronic Man(Isaac Asimov), and The Da Vinci Code(Dan Brown), and BOTH of them were audio books. How depressing is that!! But it's after seeing the retelling of a very important part of Truman Capote's life that I feel like picking up the LAST book he ever completed......In Cold Blood, and this is what the movie is based on.
The movie is about Truman Copote and his investigation into a multiple homicide in Kansas. He intrigued by the thought that a Non-fiction can be as entralling as fiction, and he sets out to prove it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman IS Truman Capote, you'll never see him as simply an actor playing a part, he owns this role and if he doesn't win the Oscar I'll be VERY miffed.
A great cast lead by Catherine Keener as Harper Lee, a childhood friend of Capote(and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird), Clifton Collins Jr as Perry Smith(one half of the murdurous duo), and Chris Cooper as FBI agent Alvin Dewey lead the great cast.
Ultimately,you might not care about the murders or the mudered, but you will fall for the very colourful person that is .....Truman Capote.
Highly recommended, but remember to catch it BEFORE the Academy Awards.
The Matador ........ 75%
Pierce Brosnan,
Greg Kinnear,
Hope Davis
You go into a flick like this expecting so little but end up with so much.
Pierce Brosnan plays a burnt out hitman( Julian Noble ) that gets befriended by a depressed pitchman Danny Wright(played by Greg Kinnear) and ends up finding out about friendships and the pitfalls of life.
Pierce is over the top here, WAY over the top, but god is he hilarious. Dry but frenetic, friendly but cold, happy but sad, he was great!
Greg Kinnear is perfect as the depressed salesman trying to get his life back on track AGAIN. and Hope Davis plays "Bean", his wife and high school sweetheart to perfection.
Well worth a rental, and depending on extras it may be worth owning.
P.s. #2 Bond behind Sean Connery.....sorry but it's true. Too bad that the Bond flicks became about blowing things up than about mystery and intrigue.
Nanny Mcphee ......... 73% REMEMBER these are %s based an the genre.
Emma Thompson,
Colin Firth,
Kelly MacDonald
Kinda like Mary Poppins but better!
Good cast eh?? Emma plays Nanny Mcphee, Colin as Mr. Brown the widowed husband and father to a large bunch of mischevious kids, and Kelly Macdonald(hot hot hot) as scullery maid Evangeline.
The kids have driven every Nanny away since their Mother died and are intent on doing the same to Nanny Mcphee, but with Nanny Mcphee's magic and compassion win them over and helps rebuild a family.
OH, 2 more things
1 a nice little love story happens.
2 Angela Lansbury makes a nice cameo as wealthy domineering Aunt Adelaide, and plays it for all it's worth, funny stuff.
Buy this if you have kids, otherwise rent it and see if you like it like I did.
Final Destination 3 .......... 58%
Cast??
Nobody important!
Some GREAT inventive death scenes, but a bad script and bad acting make this movie ALMOST unwatchable.
For people looking for cheap boobie shots, you got them.
Find the death scenes and boobie shots online, and skip the movie in any form, because even the FREE TV version will have the only good parts cut out.
See ya later
Brent
Capote ................. 83%
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Catherine Keener
Clifton Collins
Chris Cooper
Let me ask you a question, do you know Truman Copote?? You will!
I'll be honest about this, I don't read much. Sure I read a lot of magazines, but rarely pick up a book. Actually the last two titles I "read" were The Positronic Man(Isaac Asimov), and The Da Vinci Code(Dan Brown), and BOTH of them were audio books. How depressing is that!! But it's after seeing the retelling of a very important part of Truman Capote's life that I feel like picking up the LAST book he ever completed......In Cold Blood, and this is what the movie is based on.
The movie is about Truman Copote and his investigation into a multiple homicide in Kansas. He intrigued by the thought that a Non-fiction can be as entralling as fiction, and he sets out to prove it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman IS Truman Capote, you'll never see him as simply an actor playing a part, he owns this role and if he doesn't win the Oscar I'll be VERY miffed.
A great cast lead by Catherine Keener as Harper Lee, a childhood friend of Capote(and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird), Clifton Collins Jr as Perry Smith(one half of the murdurous duo), and Chris Cooper as FBI agent Alvin Dewey lead the great cast.
Ultimately,you might not care about the murders or the mudered, but you will fall for the very colourful person that is .....Truman Capote.
Highly recommended, but remember to catch it BEFORE the Academy Awards.
The Matador ........ 75%
Pierce Brosnan,
Greg Kinnear,
Hope Davis
You go into a flick like this expecting so little but end up with so much.
Pierce Brosnan plays a burnt out hitman( Julian Noble ) that gets befriended by a depressed pitchman Danny Wright(played by Greg Kinnear) and ends up finding out about friendships and the pitfalls of life.
Pierce is over the top here, WAY over the top, but god is he hilarious. Dry but frenetic, friendly but cold, happy but sad, he was great!
Greg Kinnear is perfect as the depressed salesman trying to get his life back on track AGAIN. and Hope Davis plays "Bean", his wife and high school sweetheart to perfection.
Well worth a rental, and depending on extras it may be worth owning.
P.s. #2 Bond behind Sean Connery.....sorry but it's true. Too bad that the Bond flicks became about blowing things up than about mystery and intrigue.
Nanny Mcphee ......... 73% REMEMBER these are %s based an the genre.
Emma Thompson,
Colin Firth,
Kelly MacDonald
Kinda like Mary Poppins but better!
Good cast eh?? Emma plays Nanny Mcphee, Colin as Mr. Brown the widowed husband and father to a large bunch of mischevious kids, and Kelly Macdonald(hot hot hot) as scullery maid Evangeline.
The kids have driven every Nanny away since their Mother died and are intent on doing the same to Nanny Mcphee, but with Nanny Mcphee's magic and compassion win them over and helps rebuild a family.
OH, 2 more things
1 a nice little love story happens.
2 Angela Lansbury makes a nice cameo as wealthy domineering Aunt Adelaide, and plays it for all it's worth, funny stuff.
Buy this if you have kids, otherwise rent it and see if you like it like I did.
Final Destination 3 .......... 58%
Cast??
Nobody important!
Some GREAT inventive death scenes, but a bad script and bad acting make this movie ALMOST unwatchable.
For people looking for cheap boobie shots, you got them.
Find the death scenes and boobie shots online, and skip the movie in any form, because even the FREE TV version will have the only good parts cut out.
See ya later
Brent
Everytime you go .... away, you take a piece of me... with you
Hey, how you been?? I've been alright, can't really complain. Well I could complain, but why?
I've been away for a while, but with 4 short movie review to do, and a few comments I figure it's time for a visit.
OK, Dick Chaney shoots his buddy while hunting Quail,....... HA HA HA HA! Sorry, the second in command for the worlds most "gun loving" culture shooting his buddy in the face is ALWAYS good for a laugh.
I'll admit I'm quite anti gun, never shot a real gun, only pellet guns, and that was more than 10 years ago. Now you could offer me the chance and I'd turn you down flat. SURE I can understand a hunters need to feed there family, I can also understand the need to "thin the herd" (overpopulation), but killing for "sport" COME ON NOW! What makes it worse is the way these guys hunt, sit in a blind for 10-12 hours and wait for a deer to come buy!! WWOOOOO sounds like fun, almost as fun as holding a telephone to your ear waiting for that call. ACTUALLY it's almost as useful as hitting a deer with your car and then "claiming your trophy", now that took a lot of skill.
ANYWAYS
Things are fine,
-Sent back my projector for a cleaning....I really wish cleaning the dust was a "user" type of thing, but no matter how hard I try I never get all the dust.
-Repurchased my leather chair so I can get my rebate. I spent $550 at HomeDepot and am getting a $250 gift certificate. .>>>> Looks like a few tools for building my home theatre YEE HAh!
-Finally got around to putting up my new(Christmas) shower curtain, thanks Allison, looks good but the clips are shitty.
-I'm partway through the planning stages for my HT project, the big thing I'm worried about is a permit for electrical. I have this strange feeling the inspections(3 in total) will cost me close to $400, and with a $3000 budget and 13% going towards inspections this really cuts into it.
OH, I'm looking at an 11' by 16' theatre, should be good for 5 people in 2 rows. Luckily I only
have one support running through the room at the midway point, right in front of the projector, so the hushbox and the electrical should be easy to run. That and the fact that the beams run along the length make this a little easier.
-A little pissed off at the quality of the water here, I guess I should get it tested, it's really hard on the plants.
-I BOO BOOed today while installing my adapter for my MP3 player into my new car stereo...WHOOPS, but you've got to love fuses, 7.5 amp for the stereo in my car.
Now it looks like I'll have my jack wired in for my MP3 player, it can also be used for my portable DVD player, and I'm planning on hard wiring my Sirius so that none of the wires show.
Later!!
Brent
P.S. Don't forget to get your coupons for free movies, $3 off concessions, free kids combo, or kids admission on selected General Mills stuff. $4 for an $11 movie?? almost makes Bareback Mountain worth going to see.
P.P.s I guess I'll do my movie reviews in another column.
I've been away for a while, but with 4 short movie review to do, and a few comments I figure it's time for a visit.
OK, Dick Chaney shoots his buddy while hunting Quail,....... HA HA HA HA! Sorry, the second in command for the worlds most "gun loving" culture shooting his buddy in the face is ALWAYS good for a laugh.
I'll admit I'm quite anti gun, never shot a real gun, only pellet guns, and that was more than 10 years ago. Now you could offer me the chance and I'd turn you down flat. SURE I can understand a hunters need to feed there family, I can also understand the need to "thin the herd" (overpopulation), but killing for "sport" COME ON NOW! What makes it worse is the way these guys hunt, sit in a blind for 10-12 hours and wait for a deer to come buy!! WWOOOOO sounds like fun, almost as fun as holding a telephone to your ear waiting for that call. ACTUALLY it's almost as useful as hitting a deer with your car and then "claiming your trophy", now that took a lot of skill.
ANYWAYS
Things are fine,
-Sent back my projector for a cleaning....I really wish cleaning the dust was a "user" type of thing, but no matter how hard I try I never get all the dust.
-Repurchased my leather chair so I can get my rebate. I spent $550 at HomeDepot and am getting a $250 gift certificate. .>>>> Looks like a few tools for building my home theatre YEE HAh!
-Finally got around to putting up my new(Christmas) shower curtain, thanks Allison, looks good but the clips are shitty.
-I'm partway through the planning stages for my HT project, the big thing I'm worried about is a permit for electrical. I have this strange feeling the inspections(3 in total) will cost me close to $400, and with a $3000 budget and 13% going towards inspections this really cuts into it.
OH, I'm looking at an 11' by 16' theatre, should be good for 5 people in 2 rows. Luckily I only
have one support running through the room at the midway point, right in front of the projector, so the hushbox and the electrical should be easy to run. That and the fact that the beams run along the length make this a little easier.
-A little pissed off at the quality of the water here, I guess I should get it tested, it's really hard on the plants.
-I BOO BOOed today while installing my adapter for my MP3 player into my new car stereo...WHOOPS, but you've got to love fuses, 7.5 amp for the stereo in my car.
Now it looks like I'll have my jack wired in for my MP3 player, it can also be used for my portable DVD player, and I'm planning on hard wiring my Sirius so that none of the wires show.
Later!!
Brent
P.S. Don't forget to get your coupons for free movies, $3 off concessions, free kids combo, or kids admission on selected General Mills stuff. $4 for an $11 movie?? almost makes Bareback Mountain worth going to see.
P.P.s I guess I'll do my movie reviews in another column.
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