August 21, 2010
Benny and I just got back from watching the Expendables and all I can is "wow". If you like action movies at all, this movie is worth the visit. It's like Christmas time in August for me. We had been waiting to see this since we heard rumors about it over a year ago, maybe two years ago. Here's a short list of the people in the movie: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Gary Daniels, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Obviously, everybody can't have equal screen time, but it's enough roids and testosterone to get anybody pumped and enough one liners to choke a deep throating donkey. I liked the movie so much, I have a couple of awards to hand out. The aware for Best Actor of the film goes to the AA-12 that Terry Crews used to make, and I quote, "red sauce" out of people.
For those of you unfamiliar with the weapon, here's a little lite background material. The award for Best Supporting Actor goes to the M79 grenade launcher carried by Dolph Lundgren.
Compared to the AA-12, the M79 is a finesse weapon, but I think it still manages to get the message across. I found this really cool website that goes into detail about all of firearms from a lot of movies. Check it out: www.imfdb.org. There's a nice page there for The Expendables.
Rumor has it that the movie has a sequel which has already been green-lighted. I can't wait!
-JL
August 14, 2010
Just wanted to drop in here real quick. I've been gone 2 out of the past three weeks (vacation and work) and I've just gotten back today. I took some cool pictures (maybe they're cool, what do I know?) and I'm going to post them soon. Right now, it's laundry and scrubbing the airplane funk out of my ass.
-JL
July 23, 2010
The Big H and I went to the Dave Matthews concert in Charlotte on Wednesday. All I can say is what an amazing show. He didn't play a lot of megahits, but everything he played, he played with a big smile on his face and a lot of enthusiasm. He called in the big guns too with a hall of fame jazz player (Branford Marsalis) playing. The last song before the encore (Jimi Thing) was freaking amazing. It was at least 97 minutes long if it was one minute and at no point was I bored. In fact, I think I was a little sad to see it end. Jeff Coffin was playing an assist on the brass and my god! The fucker was literally playing two saxophones at the same fucking time. With him, Branford Marsalis, Rashawn Ross, and Tim Reynolds all playing in addition to the rest of the band, I'm lucky my skull didn't explode. Amazing damned show, and if you've never seen Dave live, I highly recommend it.
-JL
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Benny and I just got back from watching the Expendables and all I can is "wow". If you like action movies at all, this movie is worth the visit. It's like Christmas time in August for me. We had been waiting to see this since we heard rumors about it over a year ago, maybe two years ago. Here's a short list of the people in the movie: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Gary Daniels, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Obviously, everybody can't have equal screen time, but it's enough roids and testosterone to get anybody pumped and enough one liners to choke a deep throating donkey. I liked the movie so much, I have a couple of awards to hand out. The aware for Best Actor of the film goes to the AA-12 that Terry Crews used to make, and I quote, "red sauce" out of people.
For those of you unfamiliar with the weapon, here's a little lite background material. The award for Best Supporting Actor goes to the M79 grenade launcher carried by Dolph Lundgren.
Compared to the AA-12, the M79 is a finesse weapon, but I think it still manages to get the message across. I found this really cool website that goes into detail about all of firearms from a lot of movies. Check it out: www.imfdb.org. There's a nice page there for The Expendables.
Rumor has it that the movie has a sequel which has already been green-lighted. I can't wait!
-JL
August 14, 2010
Just wanted to drop in here real quick. I've been gone 2 out of the past three weeks (vacation and work) and I've just gotten back today. I took some cool pictures (maybe they're cool, what do I know?) and I'm going to post them soon. Right now, it's laundry and scrubbing the airplane funk out of my ass.
-JL
July 23, 2010
The Big H and I went to the Dave Matthews concert in Charlotte on Wednesday. All I can say is what an amazing show. He didn't play a lot of megahits, but everything he played, he played with a big smile on his face and a lot of enthusiasm. He called in the big guns too with a hall of fame jazz player (Branford Marsalis) playing. The last song before the encore (Jimi Thing) was freaking amazing. It was at least 97 minutes long if it was one minute and at no point was I bored. In fact, I think I was a little sad to see it end. Jeff Coffin was playing an assist on the brass and my god! The fucker was literally playing two saxophones at the same fucking time. With him, Branford Marsalis, Rashawn Ross, and Tim Reynolds all playing in addition to the rest of the band, I'm lucky my skull didn't explode. Amazing damned show, and if you've never seen Dave live, I highly recommend it.
-JL