Johnny Depp?

Oh my goodness! I have just watched the most random, yet interesting film. Yeah, this one is a film, not a flick, very artsy. (Jim would have despised it!)

"Before Night Falls"

I know, I know, you're saying, "Susie, where have you been? This sucker came out YEARS ago!" But I found it on a movie channel and had some time to kill, so I made me some tea and hunkered down.

Right out of the shoot, the credits had me in a quandary. Johnny Depp? Sean Penn? Really? But that's what they said. I was INTRIGUED, I tell you!

It's a true story, based on the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990). It begins with some beautiful story telling, as Arenas' own poems are read, all the while showing the squalor of his childhood. In one scene he is a very innocent 10 or 11 year old, running away to join the Revolution. He is given a ride on a donkey pulled cart driven by none other than Sean Penn! (That's him on the left)

Seriously, the worst "white guy-turned brown guy" I have EVER seen. You can tell it's him in a second, his makeup is atrocious and frankly you are so surprised by his very presence, that you're already in a shaky state. But then HE OPENS HIS MOUTH AND BEGINS TO SPEAK!

This is a "Spanish-ish" language film. Heck even the so-called English sounded like no English I'd heard. Kinda hard to understand, but when in Cuba... But where the rest of the film you struggle to understand the very heavy accents, this time, you just want it to stop. (Think Kevin Costner in Robinhood), he sounds like a REALLY bad Cheech.

The story moves on to his adult life. Reinaldo was a gay writer in Revolutionary Cuba. Not the best sorta guy to be in those days and in that place. He was in constant fear for his life and was in and out of prison a good deal of the time. AND THIS IS WHERE HE FIRST MEETS JOHNNY DEPP! (That's him on the right) Ol' John really moves out of any kinda comfort zone you may have thought possible. His charactor smuggles Reinaldo's latest novel out of the prison so it can be published. How does he do this you ask? Well, one hint, he is famous for the capacity of one of his orifices. I will wait right here for you while you get this one... (Humming, da-da-da-da, da-da-da. Da-da-da-da. Dah! Da-da-da-da...)

The End!

Zap

I've been up since 5:20am. It's Saturday. I have NOTHING to get up for, yet here I am, it's nearly noon and my day is already old. I feel like I've had too much coffee, ready to punch the wall, and like I've been struck with lightning. This is going to be a LONG day...

Pork Swords and For Shiz Up the Spat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6faS7jrebU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oicIa31nRPQ

I would give my left "teet" to write like that.

Oh and you must do a bit o' research on the writer Diablo Cody, fasinating reading!

Just Kill Me!

My worst nightmare...

Two cleaning women, trapped inside a broken elevator for two days, survived on two cough drops and six aspirin until they were rescued.
Beata Bartoszewicz and her mother, Roma Borowski, entered an elevator in an empty building in this Chicago suburb on December 22. After the elevator doors closed, the women discovered they were stuck on the first floor of the two-story building.
There was no response from an emergency call alarm and the women couldn't pry open the doors, Bartoszewicz said.
Neither had a cell phone or water and the building wasn't due to open until after Christmas.
The duo became dizzy from hunger. "I was close to thinking I was going to die," Bartoszewicz said.
The women tried to sleep on their coats and used a corner of the elevator as a bathroom.
Bartoszewicz said her mother continually reassured her.
"She kept saying, `We're going to be OK, and we're going to spend Christmas Eve at home,"' the 25-year-old said.
Two days later, on Christmas Eve, an employee of the building happened to go to work. Borowski said she heard him talking on his cell phone. The women yelled for his attention and he heard them.
Fire crews freed the women an hour later.