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I don't know where, and I don't know when, and I don't know why
I don't know what, and I don't know who, I just don't know I
I feel lost, I feel like a clown...
I keep jumpin up, and I feel falling down... I keep fallin down...

Week 8 - I Eight The Weak

This Tuesday was Fat Tuesday. I got fat. A stream of whipped cream and a juicy homemade semla (also known as fastlagsbulle, laskiaispulla, vastlakukkel or fastelavnsbolle), not just for the day but for all following days of the week. Two days later the whipped cream went sour. Tasted like moldy cheese. If all whipped cream went sour with such ease, maybe we wouldn't grow obese, we would all be able to hug trees without our guts getting in the way of our arms and our knees.

On a random topic, I just discovered that Wesley Snipes actually just got out of prison before the Expendables 3 movie in which he breaks out of prison, and soon after blows it up. Three years for tax evasion, 2010-2013. True story. That makes the escape all the more symbolic! Having recently watched Demolition Man, I realize Stallone may be putting in a lot of these minor real-life references that I'm missing. Things you need to know to discover. Aaand do you happen to own a Lenovo computer? Check this.

In real life news there isn't much to report. Work as usual. Catching up. And did I mention our Internet returned? The 19th, Thursday, morning?

I was lying in bed, slumbering, stalling with the wake-up routine, gray clouds ominously souring (I presume) behind blinds that let in little night, when suddenly... the phone rang! Was it a dream? Was it but a figment of my imagination? A fleeting will so strong that in manifested itself in a perceivable sound even in this state of being half-awake? No! It was real! It was back!! And thus I have been wasting bandwidth these past few days as if there were no tomorrows, seeing to it I perform all tasks that require large doses of transfer amount ASAP just in case bandwidth is one day restricted.

But I'm not going to live in the constant fear that global connectively is a fragile and simmering segment of our everyday life, no, I'm going to enjoy the time which I can spend fully connected fully! Moral of the story: treat each day like it might be your last day with Internet. Amen.

On the blog, 4 reviews and yeah, Internet's back! YELL HEAH! Here's last 7-day phase with a duplicate title.

2015¤54

Am I trippin, am I slippin
Is this the bed or is this the kitchen
What is cooking, can I lift in
Another key low kilo behold we flow

Demolition Man (1993)

Demolition Man (1993)

In a not-too-distant future where all restaurants are Pizza Hut, there hasn't been a case of intentional murder for decades, people are fined for swearing, have digital sex and use sea shells instead of toilet paper, a dangerous criminal (Simon Phoenix) manages to break free from his cryogenic prison during a scheduled parole hearing. It is a time when even the police are unequipped to deal with violence, chaos ensues, and a decision is made to awaken the one guy who brought down this criminal in the past, John Spartan - The Demolition Man - from his cryogenic slumber. For thirty years they've both been frozen, the latter framed by the aforementioned crook, convicted of a crime he did not commit.

Wesley Snipes plays the villain, and Sylvester Stallone the hero, and they both do an unforgettable job at it. This still stands today as not just a classic action movie, but a good one, and even disregarding the action - a good movie! Though the script may sound serious (or attempting to be), there's plenty of comedy intertwined with the vicious scheme of vengeance and violence, which somehow make the action scenes seem all the more future-proof. Stallone throws in a few humorous (and almost prophetical, in retrospect) references to other action icons like Jackie Chan and Schwarzenegger, and there's the clash between culture, of present and past, profanity and mayhem and a world where all things violent are unknown.

The future way back in 1993 may not have been the most futuristic by modern standards, but it looks good, slick and stylish. It all ends with a big bang, a revolution, and with the practical function of those sea shells still shrouded in mystery! Great watch.

 rated 5/5: friggin awesome

Mercury Rising (1998)

Mercury Rising (1998)

Mercury Rising is the story of a nine y/o Autistic kid who unknowingly cracks the code of a supposedly uncrackable cypher known as 'Code Mercury'. Bruce Willis plays the good guy, Alec Baldwin the bad guy, with the twist that they both work for the state, and the difference that Alec Baldwin largely outranks the former. When the Autistic boy's (Simon Lynch) parents are murdered and Bruce uncovers a lead as to who did it, he becomes the suspect, and all the while looking for leads that end up dying, he has to keep both himself and the unpredictable and overly emotionally responsive Simon safe.

Miko Hughes plays Simon, and considering his effort made me wonder if he really was autistic or not (he wasn't), he does a good job at it!

The action's good, there's realism, there's well-mapped dialog and strong personalities, and not just dumb luck but actually a little strategy involved in chasing down the bad guy, something you can't take for granted with the average action movie. Though it ends up being a bit moody and not the most intense bout of criminal craze and carnage I tend to prefer watching, it's a captivating tale, and relevant in how cracking codes is actually illegal in the USA. If this were to happen in real life, maybe the story wouldn't have such a happy ending.

 rated 4/5: fo shizzle

Machine Gun Kelly (1958)

Machine Gun Kelly (1958)

George Kelly, AKA Machine Gun Kelly, a vicious villain in an the slightly more civilized and suited gangster-era Wild Wild West of the US, his trademark his Thompson Gun, his viciousness his stigma. Charles Bronson plays this main tough guy, and has good company of Jack Lambert and Frank DeKova, with some comical input by Morey Amsterdam, and lovely wife Susan Cabot. A good time as any to learn the names of some of these classy performers of the past! Charles Bronson is the only one I know by more than name, though I'm surprised to see he started out this early! He fits the tough guy mold perfectly, though he may not be all that he seems to be after all.

He's plagued by symbols of Death, by the very notion of dying, and when he crosses paths with a coffin during a bank robbery it all goes wrong and things start going downhill for him and his gang. One of his boys loses an arm, and Jack Lambert branches off and decides to start his own business. Despite the theme of the movie, despite the clashes between cops and robbers, it's really the inner conflict that stands out, and as you may have guessed considering the time and day of this movie release: the bad guys don't win.

It's a good movie. There's more dialog than there's action, and the action scenes do look a bit stiff and a bit staged, as they so often did in the fifties, but the story's compelling not just in the cat and mouse chase between the law and Kelly & Co, but in the complicated relationships between all the parties involved. It might not all be very relatable and real fifty years later, but it kept me glued. It's in black and white btw, though lack of color does have a charm of its own, letting you focus equally on all parts, using contrasts of light and shade for effect rather than color. And also, there are plenty of nice cars and one wild tiger. Good watch.

 rated 3/5: not bad

PS. Wonder if this guy ever watched this movie.

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