"I've never lied to you. I've always told you some version of the truth."
Now Playing: Something's Gotta Give
I'm sitting here watching the dvd of Something's Gotta Give starring one of my favorite actors, Jack Nicholson. Diane Keaton isn't one of my favorite actors as she generally seems too whiny for my tastes and this character she plays doesn't stray far from her normal whiny self. Her best work was in Annie Hall from bygone days of yesteryear. Well I think I'm still mad at her for the movie, Looking for Mr. Goodbar. I mean, who didn't see that ending coming for her. I'm mad that her character didn't figure it out and save herself before she found herself strangled with her own bra. I hate that in a movie, a sad ass ending. If I want sad ass I watch the news. Well, in this movie it seems a bit forced, the frivolity seems painful and Jack Nicholson is playing the same character he played in Terms of Endearment. His best line in the movie to Diane Keaton's character- "I've never lied to you. I've always told you some version of the truth." There are a few good funny bits like when Keanu Reeves as his doctor asks after his heart attack while trying to bed the fine looking Amanda Peet if he is using Viagra. As Jack Nicolson watches the three ladies watching him he denies that he has used Viagra. Keanu Reeves informs him that the medication he has put into his IV combined with say Viagra would literally make his heart explode and he would die. Ah well, Jack flings out and yanks that IV right out of his arm because of course he is jacked up on Viagra. A great laugh. The other two funny bits involve older people and their naked bits, there is Jack's naked ass in a hospital gown and then there is the forever classic bit of Jack wandering around the house to find Diane Keaton walking naked in her room. Very funny. But other than that, it's been a bit painful. I'm still waiting for Shirley MacLaine to show up since it seems like it should be her movie or that she should be getting residuals for it. There is also an anger inducing thing about the movie in that the thing forces you to watch previews of other movies. Again, if I'm paying for a movie I don't think I have to watch damned trailers when I don't want to. I'll have to rip the movie and burn it without the crap. And I'll have to watch As Good As It Gets again to get a good Jack Nicholson fix.

My last Lord of the Rings dvd is sitting there waiting for me to feel I have enough time to watch the damned thing. It's a bit long, I'm tired of Andy Serkis and Golum right now. Bah. I don't know, if seems like it will be a chore to watch again after that long long time in the theater. I mean, heck, to see the movie in the theater I basically had to go into training to keep from having to go to the restroom for the three plus hours it would take to see the whole thing. I am happy to say that under the right diet, the right fluid intake and a bit of exercise I watched the entire movie without pain. Good for me. Perhaps there is a bit of residual psychic pain from the whole experience.

Well, let's see. In website news, my website news that is, I did notice an uptick in the number of hits. Someone put a link over at a site called www.goregasm to the death penalty pictures and boom. I don't know that I like the idea that people interested in actually grim and depressing pictures are flocking to my site for that purpose. But, I mean, you take the good with the bad in these cases. The pictures are there for people who are researching the topic of the death penalty and who are genuinely interested in seeing the results of whatever intellectual position they take on the issue. I've had people say that have been shocked, that the pictures changed their minds and others who say that they hate me. All in a days work.