Vindication

The Blogger Team people spied on this site and were able to figure out it is not "spam". Now if you define spam as "unimportant, useless, annoying bullshit" then that means this blog is important, useful, entertaining GOOD STUFF! This puts a hell of a lot of pressure on me to keep posting stuff that lives up to the new standards imposed on this site.

So this means I can post You Tube videos here. but I forgot what the hell I was going to post in the first place. Seriously. I forgot. And now I am going crazy trying to remember what the hell it was that I was going to post. OH YEA! I remember now! THE FREAKING BROTHERS!

These guys are great. Bet you never knew you could play the piano with....uhhh...that. NOTICE TO KIDS AT HOME! Do not try to do this with your grandmother's piano. She has to touch the piano keys you know.

Onto the Netflix list! Someone posted a comment asking if I can review movies. Why not! Last night I watched Brazil. This Terry Gilliam (the guy who did the wacky animations for Monty Python) flick is very strange - yet somehow VERY RELEVANT to the world today. A "bug" causes government records to get the name of a suspected terrorist wrong, and as a result an innocent man is arrested. The "terrorist" turns out to be a renegade plumber who swoops in, fixes ducts, then leaves before the stooges from Central Services can arrive. But that is not important really. The world of Brazil is one of a HUGE all powerful and very inefficient government.

So much crazy crap happens that you just have to see the movie yourself. Plan to watch it more than once - you will need to. I saw Brazil before so I knew what to expect. When the movie came out it was just a crazy "1984" type movie - but in light of the crap going on today (secret courts, secret jails, legal torture, a government that you can not question too much lest you be accused of being a terrorist, etc) it really packs a punch.

DO NOT GET THE "LOVE CONQUERS ALL" VERSION OF THE MOVIE! That version sucks. They change the end and leave a lot of stuff out. The editor responsible for this needs to be shot. Get the regular version. Trust me here - it is a good movie.

Netflix is sending me "The Pursuit Of Happyness" instead of "Midnight Cowboy". The sidebar list is updated to reflect that.