..... once upon there was a movie called "The Frisco Kid".... it was an odd little movie that paired Harrison Ford with Gene Wilder and featured a wandering rabbi blabbing in Yiddish all the way across The Old West.....
.... now, in the Great Scheme of Things, that pairing would be bad enough on its own, but sadly the story-line didn't fare much better than the pairing...... anyway, I mention this only because I have an uncle that looks EXACTLY like Wilder's character in the movie...... same wild hair, same crazy eyes, same insane beard.... no decorative yarmulke though, but you get the point.... he sports a baseball cap instead....
..... I often imagine that most of my female aunts wish that more of my uncles looked more like Harrison Ford and less like Gene Wilder....
.... then again, nowadays the "Frisco Kid" is a rapper with songs like "Head Hurt" and "Look What Dem Done"........
.... good god, Gene...... what were you thinking?........ and Harrison?....... Jesus Christ.......... the whole scene ranks right up there with Bill Cosby starring in "Ghost Dad" on the scale of Bad Career Decisions........
..... and speaking of "ghosts", I have been seriously enjoying all of the paranormal television shows in the run-up to Halloween.... I can handle watching grown men wander around old houses in pitch dark all day long, but I'm still not happy about "The Walking Dead" being turned into a whole television SERIES..... good god, can you imagine?..... just the advertisements give me the heebie jeebies.....
"The Walking Dead" meets "The Frisco Kid." That'd give me the Hebrew-Jeebrews.
Hell raised by Elisson on October 31, 2010 08:25 PM
I disagree with you (and the critics) on this one. It was a fun little movie. Particularly liked Chief Dan George's work in it. Then again, I have always enjoyed Gene Wilder's work. It didn't hurt his career in the least. Now, as to the credibility of Harrison Ford, seems he lucked out later playing some oddball archeologist...
Then again, from the side, in the right light, I bear a striking resemblance to that character from the "Frisco Kid".
..... well, boys & girls, the blogmeet is nearly upon us........ a week from tomorrow The Gathering will begin...... as for me?.... I am completely stoked......
..... I've been burning leaves for the past two days, and tomorrow promises much more preparation for everyone's arrival....... sure, it's November instead of October, but really?.... It'll be fun......
.....anyway, I woke up humming this song today and it has followed me all day long....... and it ALMOST made raking leaves bearable.......
... enjoy!....
.... oh, and I will be sending out the customary email tomorrow giving everyone the final details - and directions - to the compound here...... as it stands right now, it looks like we'll have about 17 folks...... if anyone else wants to come, just drop me an email.......
... apologies for the scary Jagger lips there on the first few frames of the video though........ hey, not my fault.....
I need the email. Last time I tried to get to your house, I ended up in the backwoods of TN and you had to talk me out of my tree. My son was about to look you up on his iPhone. I don't own an iPhone.
The only thing that I can see getting in my way is Hurricane Tomas! Other than that, see you Friday!
You know, my friend, it never ceases to amaze me how y'all can have the most wonderful Fall... we come to your home and that weekend it turns to crap. Did you see the weekend forecast? I am seriously afraid I'm going to frickin' freeze to death.
WooHoooo!!! All I have to do is pack and I'm ready to go. Can't wait!!!
Hell raised by Teresa on November 2, 2010 12:38 PM
My bodyguard and I will be on the case.
Hell raised by Jim - PRS on November 3, 2010 04:52 PM
one day I will make it up there! so close, yet so hard to align the universe...
BTW, this is my favorite Stones Song EVA!
c'mon, baby...please, please, please!
Hell raised by holder on November 5, 2010 07:35 PM
..... further to yesterday evening's post, here is what I was talking about....... THIS is Nicholson at his finest....... and in my view, by far the scariest scene in the whole movie...
.... 8 minutes well spent..... and as I said, no one does crazy like Nicholson....
No, no, no! I have nightmares STILL about that scene. Heck, the whole movie for that matter! (even more so because Stephen King didn't live that far from where I did when I was growing up)
You're absolutely right about Jack Nicholson, but I think I'll need to leave my night light on tonight. I don't care if that makes me a wuss!
Hell raised by Lemon Stand on October 24, 2010 08:37 PM
He does scary crazy good and he does simply crazy good and he does I feel sorry for the crazy guy good too if not best of all. One of his best crazy guy movies was The Pledge - heck - it was almost a tear jerker yet intense thriller/suspense film. Amazing he has not been type cast as a crazy guy but even so there are so many roles he could play as a crazy guy so that it would not hinder his career. I imagine crazy has only made his career soar.
As for his part in The Shining, the movie was not much like the book but he played the part as if he were the character in the book - that is for sure. I am almost certain he must have read the book before doing the part.
He was also a superb crazy guy in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, As Good As It Gets (I was crazy laughing my ass off watching that one), and A Few Good Men (crazed with patriotism). All this thinking of him makes me want to see some of his films that I have not yet seen, of which I suppose there are quite a few.
All the best,
GB
Hell raised by Glenn B on October 24, 2010 08:51 PM
Your comment filter won't let me share the full YT link, so here's the video URL...
YT/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA
I'm sure you can figure it out. ;)
Hell raised by zonker on October 25, 2010 07:47 PM
... I watched the extended version of "The Shining" this evening, and wow.......
..... no one on EARTH does "crazy" like Jack Nicholson..... NO one....... the man is crazy incarnate..... and don't get me started on Madeleine Stowe..... good lord, I re-watched "The Last of the Mohicans" two days ago, and she was almost as cute as Daniel Day Lewis...... and her with Jack in "The Two Jakes"....... well, she was a very naughty girl.......... Daniel should have been so lucky.......
.... but also?..... no one on earth does "I'm scared shitless" like Shelley Duvall......... I swear, there is no one who looks as terrified as she does in that movie...... kudos for her beating Jack in the head with that baseball bat on the stairway though........ that was inspiring......
... I mean, just look at this....
.... I swear, this whole desensitizing myself of scary shit by watching scary movies seriously isn't working.......
Do you remember the scene in the bathtub, with the old lady? That is probably the number one, all-time most disturbing scene in any movie that I cannot ever watch again without having the shit scared out of me. I refuse to watch that movie ever again.
... I know that scene very well, Erica..... that movie is awesome... confusing at times - especially the ending - but I love how crazy Nicholson acts.....
OK, I'm having to go backwards to catch up on your posts but I'm truly thinking that maybe ignorance is bliss if you are on a scary movie bender...(besides, haven't you ever seen the exorcist?) No, No, No! Forget I said that! Now I need to go back and watch The Princess Bride to clear my mind of these pictures...
Hell raised by Lemon Stand on October 24, 2010 08:43 PM
Autumn in the Smokies.......just damn.
That sky is the reason I love this time of year.
You just know that next year is going to be great 'cause the harvest was good, the upland gamecocks are jinkin' and diving out of gunshot's way, the smell of wood smoke at morning reminds you of apple smoked bacon and yard eggs with a side of stone ground grits, the chill in the evening makes you want to hold hands and stroll down a lane kicking leaves.
Great Pic!
This makes me miss the mountains even worse. Beautiful picture. (:
Hell raised by Hannah on October 21, 2010 09:15 AM
Lovely landscape. We had the first snow of the season here on the Blairgowrie / Kirriemuir hills yesterday. :-))
Hell raised by John C on October 21, 2010 01:35 PM
Tennessee
Tennessee
There is no place I'd rather be
(except, of course, right here)
Hell raised by Elisson on October 21, 2010 04:04 PM
OK. This is more like it. LOVE the picture and am so glad I'm not the only one who occasionally stop to really SEE what I normally take for granted... (although I take a lot more pictures than you...)
Hell raised by Lemon Stand on October 24, 2010 08:47 PM
..... I spent the majority of the afternoon piloting The Missus' vehicle around the hinterlands of the surrounding counties, and all I can say is 'wow'......
.... lookit.... my Blanche is a sexy beast - for sure - but she is refined, delicate, and sensitive..... she's responsive, pert, lively, and powerful - but above all, she is sophisticated..... that's just Audi's nature....... and a topless Cabriolet with a 2 liter turbo is more than a handful....
.... I've been inside her when she has tamed Mustangs, passed Corvettes, and whipped around mountain curves that would make a Charger cringe...... she is what she is, and I love driving her...... she is GOOD at what she does......
.... but the car The Missus drives?...... good god...... 5 liter V-8, straight-shift Cadillac..... 400 horsepower of muscle.....
... she named him Cary - after Cary Grant - but he definitely isn't a Cary Grant type, if you ask me...... Grant equals Style in my mind, and her car?..... no.... he's angular, low-slung, muscular, and deeply, deeply angry.... kinda like Mickey Rourke after he'd slung off his 'Wild Orchid' aura and opted for the bloated, scarred, muscleman character in 'The Wrestler'......
... her car - a V Series Caddy - is visceral....
... it screams.... it moans.... it roars.... and it flings you from seat to shifter at every high-speed turn..... it bends you, twists you, and pins you to the seat like a amorous rhinoceros who has A Thing for a gazelle.... with cheap leather seats, plastic dashboard, rubberized buttons, it is almost as if it were designed to have its passengers puke from the g-forces it exerts...... it sits in the parking lot and idles with the menace of a growling linebacker.... just waiting for the cheerleader driver to assume the position behind the wheel........
... so, yeah...... I spent today behind the wheel of WAY too much car...... and I missed my poor Blanche horribly the entire time......
.... still, it was interesting to watch hammerheads snap cell phone pics of me while I waited at Cleveland traffic lights..... only to hear me double-clutch, grind, and jam Gary from 1st to 3rd to 5th in the most haphazard of ways....
.... six gears in a Cadillac are just too many........ at least for me.....
So jealous... Kind of make you want to be a non-straight white guy. But, not really. I am sure Cary is much straighter. Anything with a V on it from GM is sick.
Hell raised by Mark M on October 19, 2010 08:31 PM
Better make sure she's got a fire extinguisher in the trunk. I hear Caddies have a tendency to unexpectedly burst into flames...
Hell raised by El Capitan on October 20, 2010 12:17 PM
Maybe Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear, eh?
Hell raised by Elisson on October 20, 2010 12:22 PM
..... woke up this beautiful autumn morning with Ray Charles on loopback inside my noggin..... the sad, sad truth of the matter is that on days like this when I am filled with inner-groovieness, it'd sure be nice if I knew how to dance....
.... birthday cake tonight - my favorite..... pineapple upside down cake.....
So weird that you put Ray Charles up today.
Today UGA trounced on Vandy like the mighty Hulk on tee shirts. 41 to zip......Woof, woof.
The thing is, it's homecoming here in Athens and way back in '67, when I attended for all of one quarter before running off with the wife to get married, (42 + years) we attended the homecoming game and the Righteous Brothers Concert that evening. Ray was the warm up act. To my mind he should have been the headliner.......the Colosseum was definitely the in place to be that evening. This was back before they put the iron bars on the outside support beams and you could still get up to the top if you could outfox the lax security patrol, but of course back then in the Jurassic Era you could ride your bike without one of those sissy helmets and no one in their right mind would put on those spandex shorts with the padding on the ass.
...... [sitting under an oak with Charles Ryder] "Just the place to bury a crock of gold. I should like to bury something precious, in every place I've been happy. And then when I was old, and ugly and miserable, I could come back, and dig it up, and remember. " Sebastian, Brideshead Revisited
Very interesting indeed. I suspect we actually do have something very valuable buried in those places...and we don't have to carry a shovel to dig them up......we only have to go there in our dreams, which as it turns out is kinda nice, because some of mine are over oceans and thru mountainous jungles, while others have been bulldozed flat and cemented over.
A Tip O'the CaptainSQL hat to SWG!
Thanks, SWG, for your advice of a few years ago. Steve Spurier is Old Scratch himself. A few sacrificed virgins sure did the trick for the Scarlet and Gray:
http://www.thebuckeyeblog.com/
.... you, sir, are a stone cold bastard......... and hey, it takes a SEC
team to beat a number 1 SEC team, right?...... how'd you OSU guys do against
Bama, LSU, and Florida lately?.... ;).....
.... one day I'm going to have to meet you and buy you a beer, sir.......
