Words to live by, as told by THE DARK KNIGHT'S Joker

While it is quite possible that there are people who haven’t seen THE DARK KNIGHT, I cannot imagine there are many people in this world who don’t know the basic story of Batman so I thought instead of reviewing TDK and it 65 trillion actors, I instead would discuss some of the dialog by Gotham City’s craziest bad guy. While the Joker is clearly considered insane, probably criminally so, and sociopathic to be sure his words should not be taken lightly. After all, they do say genius borders on insanity, or as he puts it, "See, madness, as you know, is like gravity: all it takes is a little push!"

"I believe whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you… stranger."

I know the phrase is usually STRONGER but I feel, since we are a product of what we have lived through, and since strength is arbitrary, it’s more accurate to say that experience causes idiosyncrasies.

"In their last moments, people show you who they really are."

Self explanatory

"If you're good at something, never do it for free."

Why would you? And who does? That is just the American way.

"You’ll see, I’ll show you, that when the chips are down, these … civilized people, they’ll eat each other."

There is no such thing as civility in chaotic times. If you don’t believe this, I recommend you go read LORD OF THE FLIES.

“It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message. Everything burns!”

You can’t take it with you, smoke ‘em if you’ve got them, and the always popular we are all going to die; they all mean the same thing.

David Cook Runway Photoshoot

I AM PROBABLY NOT THE BEST PERSON TO REVIEW MONSTERS BALL

~~~~~THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS~~~~~

I don't like Billy Bob Thorton and I'm not a huge fan of Halle Berry either. However, since Ledger is in it and all of the roles I've seen are worth watching, I thought I'd try to get through it. When, however, his character committed suicide, it went off. I might not be a great reviewer of this movie but I will talk about the short film centered around a young prison guard with daddy issues who doesn't want to take Puff Daddy to the death chair.

-The acting is good, especially for Puffy's first go.
-Ledger shows alot in his short time on screen, including shades of his future Joker face from his Oscar winning role seven years later.
-Along with his acting chops, and signs of what was to come from the young actor, Heath also showed his booty, which is nothing compared to what he showed in BROKEBACK and again even clearer in I AM NOT THERE but is still nice.

So to summarize, who doesn't love a man in uniform, no wait that wasn't it. Oh right, if you want to decide if this is a movie for you, you might want to read other reviews. On the other hand, if you have a free half hour and really want to see a side of Heath Ledger that you never have before, I recommend this film highly.

The yeti got a cut

A blog to make you think

"Nothing's permanent... Not even death"
~Johnny Depp, IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS

Fun fact: I see dead people, specifically one dead person.

I’m not talking about dreams where those I have lost appear to me (though yes that happens) I mean during the day, walking among the living. Ok, ok before you think I’m going all John Edwards, I should explain; the person that I see is a celebrity who apparently died during the last decade. For this blog I will call the said deceased Robin as it can be either male or female and I want to be vague. I know that seems unfair and the first time (and second) time I encountered Robin or Robin’s double I was actually going to blog about how eery it was but then, once I started to think about it, I figured it would be better to no blow Robin’s cover.

I have always laughed at people who say that Elvis is still alive (now it’s happening with Michael Jackson.) It seems like desperate thoughts by fans that cannot let go of the artist or the time in their lives that he represented. Either that or they were completely delusional because yes I’m sure they do think that they saw Elvis walking around Nashville or going through security at the airport but it was obviously one of the million impersonators who make a perfectly good living imitating him. I’ve seen them perform in LEGENDS and they are great but not Elvis. I do firmly believe that in some cases actors who are thought to be dead *cough* Tu Pac *cough* are seen in public because they are in a witness protection situation because their lives were at risk but that is not the case with Elvis and it wasn’t with Robin’s. I was told by media that Robin was dead, saw pictures of a body bag entering an ambulance, and read the tributes and never questioned it because I am not one of those people.

Then one day I was walking around with GiGi and there, sitting in the bar across the street was someone who, if I didn’t know it was impossible, I would have sworn it was Robin. The voice was the same (except with a rather shitty accent,) the look was exact, I literally had chills run up and down my spine as if I was listening to the laughter of a ghost. I ran over to Lauren and told her and she responded that it was creepy but she hadn’t seen. I got on a train, shaking my head, thinking it was all my imagination until, about forty minutes later, my cell rang.

“Liss, G and I walked past the bar on the way home, that was Robin.”

I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen a person I couldn’t have seen but I continued to tell myself it was just a look alike; someone unfortunate enough to have looked like someone famous. Only, the more I thought about it, the more I could see, maybe Robin faked his/her death. It happens all the time in the movies right? And money can buy you anything, can’t it? I finally made my mind rest with the simple, “it doesn’t matter” which kept the thoughts at bay until I saw Robin walking three days before Christmas. Better view of the face which, coupled with being stuck inside because of the blizzard, made me think harder about it. Robin had done a lot of death scenes, so the practice would’ve made Robin an expert, and there were interviews that made me go, “huh?” There were a ton of coincidences- perhaps too many- and some things just didn’t add up.

I had figured out motives, yes plural, and how it might’ve been pulled off by the time I saw Robin the third time -face to face as he/she brushed by me, and have since seen on the internet that I am far from the only one to spot Robin in the postmortem years. I no longer question why, or get that eerie feeling, it simply is a fact as much as when Jude Law bumped in to me a few weeks ago. The only question I have left is, how do you do it?

There is definitely a payoff of dying young and famous, to be sure just as good old Johnny in IODP:

They're all dead.

Yes, but...

Immortal, nevertheless.

They won't get old or fat.

They won't get sick or feeble.

They are beyond fear...

Because, they are forever young.

They are gods.

Now we are told that Celebrities are just like us, so pretend for a minute you have all of the resources you would need to pull this off, you could get away with it, and whatever personal motive would make you consider such a stunt. Whatever it is, it all goes away if you just get up one morning and walk away from everything you’ve worked for. You just have to leave behind every possession you have acquired(people would notice if too much was gone) throughout your life and never see most, if not all, of the people you know in this world, unable to console them and tell them that it is ok because, to them it isn’t and never will be again.

Could you do it?

HAPPY ST PATTY'S DAY

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE FOUR FEATHERS

#1 It is better to live a coward than die a hero.
The whole plot of the movie is based on soldiers believing the opposite and the same can be true about their real life counterparts, as well as many other people. That being said, every member in Harry's brigade ends up dead, badly injured, or has watched his "brothers" suffer one of these fates and it is my belief that anyone who chickened out of such torture is a smart man.



#2 Girls are sluts and men suck but in the end friendship should win out
Harry wimp out of war and about two seconds later his fiance is sending love letters to his best friend, who later proposes to her, not realizing Harry saved his life (which he did after finding the letters.) In the end the men have rekindled their friendship and didn't kill each other.



 




#3 Heath could be anyone.
Not trying to take anything away from the hair & makeup people but Heath had the ability to turn into characters whereas most actors simply look like themselves as something. Heath could be anyone & we'd all believe it