Daily Archives: November 21, 2006

In Concert: Peter Mulvey and Chris Smither.

Posted on by

Went to see a couple of goofball male folk singers with Amanda the other night. Both have really deep husky voices Both are extremely talented guitar players. Both poked fun both in song and in banter at the current administration. Very enjoyable!

Amanda has a big crush on Mulvey and I have to say the man did have a very chiseled jaw bone and a very subtle sleepy sexiness. Like old Clooney before he got the ego to match.

Smither’s song “Origin of Species” had some of the best lyrics I’ve ever heard:
God said “I’ll make some DNA, they’ll use it any way they want
From paramecium right up to man
They’ll have sex, and mix up sections of their code; they’ll have mutations
The whole thing works like clockwork over time
I’ll just sit back in the shade while everyone gets laid
That’s what I call intelligent design…

Rachael, I think you’d like both of these guys.

Big Screen: Casino Royale.

Posted on by

People are calling this the best Bond film in years. Yeah, because it’s not really what we have come to know as the Bond film, it just happens to have him as a character in it.

Ways in Which This Film Resembles a Bond Film

  • His name is Bond, James Bond.
  • Judi Dench is his boss.
  • He works for MI6.
  • Sleeps with more than one girl.

Ways in Which This Film Does NOT Resemble a Bond Film

  • He’s blonde not dark, short not tall, and has actual muscles instead of the lanky Moore/Dalton/Brosnan shape. (Craig is bulked up like a male gymnast in this movie. Quite the contrast from his Munich and LayerCake silhouettes).
  • He takes cabs!
  • He fights with his hands a lot (limited gun usage)!
  • He gets the crap beat out of him several times and is very bloody and battered and completely messed up.
  • Subtle dialogue. No cheeseball stupid lines like “I thought Christmas only came once a year” but instead nice play-by-play (Her: “I’m the money” Him: “Worth every penny.” Moneypenny. Get it?)
  • Only one scene with anything very “gadgety” (and it was medical.) Otherwise straight fists / guns / regular cars / nothing fancy.
  • No Q.
  • Falls in love, bares his soul.
  • Drinks some crazy fruity drink he makes up with 1/2 teaspoon of a billion different things.

Ways in Which This Film May or May Not Resemble Bond, I Cannot Remember
A really sadistic sadomasochistic beating scene that I can only imagine made all the men in the audience cringe with sympathy pain.

It was pretty good. Not a GREAT FLICK by any means, but very enjoyable. Daniel Craig is pretty yummy, even bloody and battered. (As some of us like to say, “I’d tap that.”)