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I don’t know about you, but clowns still kinda scare the shit outta me. Yes, in case you’re wondering I am a grownup, but clowns and midgets creep me out. Midget clowns? Forget it, I’ll have nightmares for days from that.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Best bad movie. EVER.
I spend too much time on the couch watching films. Especially in bad weather. Sure I get out for a ride once and again, but not as often as I should. What with Xmas coming, I am the only guy covering all the sifts for people who went home for the holidays. Which seems like everyone this year. No problem. Been doin’ it since I worked at Tower Video in the Valley. Used to be we got Holiday pay. Over here, shit is actually closed on holidays, forcing you to be with the family instead of drinking behind the counter in an almost-empty store, watching shit at full volume.
I got hooked on Caro-Jeunet films after seeing Delicatessen. Great film if you haven’t seen it.
Next up was City of Lost Children. Ron Perlman pre-Hellboy? Why the hell not?
I mean, the little girl is enough to make me watch it again. Still with the same sense of black humor; same visual storytelling style. Not a must see, but quite good in it’s own right.
Then you have Amelie. Everyone loves Amelie. If you don’t think Audrey Tatou is hot, especially after this film, you’re an idiot.
And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Get it, watch it with your lady friend and get 32 kinds of naked after. Or just drink wine and pretend you’re French. No skin off my balls.
Now you have Micmacs. It’s kinds like DC in that there’s a group of misfits trying to get even with the man. Ok, that’s not exactly like DC… hell apart from the ‘misfit’ reference, it’s nothing like DC. Watch it anyway.
So there you go. The best 4 films you could rent for this long, cold holiday season. You could go out and ride, but why? Stay inside with a bottle of wine, your main squeeze and a warm blanket. Sometimes we need to shut down. No better way than a good french film.
PS : You really need to watch in French with subs to get the feel of it. Language is like a river. Too many dams and it gets all fucking stupid and gross. It’s supposed to flow and bend and create and destroy. Dubbing is for chumps.
Lat thing I’ll add. Dominique Pinon is the fucking man. He’s in every one of those films and if you watch them in order, you can see him go from cute to crazy to stalker and then full-blown loon. He’s got range and I’m pretty sure his face is made of rubber. Or Silly Putty. Either way, he’s awesome.
I told you I’d give you nightmares.
—bp.
ps: Here’s a picture of Alf to make you feel better.
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The appropriate phrase is little people, not midgets.
OMG. “Delicatessen” is on my top-ten-of-all-time list; a simply brilliant mix of love, humor and pathos. “City of Lost Children” didn’t make my all-time list but is still an amazing film.
Don’t feel bad about being creeped out by clowns. My oldest niece will turn 28 on New Year’s Day and she is STILL completely freaked out by clowns. I learned early on that tickets to the Circus were NOT a hit with this kid. If you stop and think about it, they ARE kind of surreal in a vaguely upsetting way…
Girl, I’ve NEVER been appropriate, and if the Jerry Springer show has taught me anything, it’s that the word midget is completely acceptable under certain circumstances.
BTW how short is that skirt, anyhow?
little people is the term that should be used for kids; after all, they are indeed “little people”. 30 yr old, 3 ft tall humans are midgets. It’s time we distnguished one from the other.
After all, its not called “little peoople bowling”, it’s fucking called midget bowling.
As it should be.
Kids are called kids. Midgets are called midgets. Girls in short skirts are called dumb sluts.
As it should be.
That alf pic gives a whole new meaning to
” hey Willie”
…bottom line, b-punk…some a’ these flics look interesting & it looks like “mad max – beyond thunderdome” maybe borrowed some shit from caro-jeunet (unless it was the other way around)…
…i dig the shit out a’ the absurd grotesqueness of clowns but i’d never turn my back on one…’specially when ya got your john wayne gacey types out there…
and here I thought girls in short skirts were call awesome. silly me.
@fomenter
They were called awesome back in the day when I could actually get one.
Now they are called dumb sluts.
…non sequitur…
…today is the ‘winter solstice’, ie: the shortest day & longest night of the year & the particular significance of that fact to us as cyclists ain’t hard to figure out…
…thas’ right…tomorrow, the daylight hours start to get longer…the change is miniscule initially but that simple knowledge helps me personally to get through the rest of winter…
…i hope i, today, along with mother nature help brighten your day tomorrow…
…just sayin’…
You’re bad karma. Taking you off my list. May you experience the harmony of oneness with the universe. BTW, the skirt is very short–but you won’t get to see. And it’s still little people.