Mickey Rourke

Movies I am looking foward to as of June 28th 2010

2010-06-27T23:55:00.004-04:00

Inception
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Winter's Bone
Animal Kingdom
The Rest of the movie, Gasland
Cyrus
The Killer Inside Me

BTW: Just saw After Dark, My Sweet. Felt a little too "80's" in its editing, but Jason Patric was terrific

Boy is this blog amateur!

2010-06-27T23:40:00.003-04:00

I seriously can't spell worth a damn. Its kind of weird being up at 11:42pm on a Sunday night. I know I shouldn't, but I do it anyway. I always wonder why. BTW: I spend 20 bucks for "sport peppers" which apparently are essential for any chicago style hotdog and my dad who is from Chicago HAS NEVER HEARD OF THEM!

This blog is weirdly too personal, in my opinion. All though I do try to follow some rules.

1. Never bitch about work, friends, or loved ones. EVER.
2. Never talk about your love life
3. Try to keep the language PG-13. Take that Mother F---ers.
4. Don't post pictures of friends or family members.

I have been trying to improve myself this year. I am going to make this blog more professional and less stream of conscience. I plan on posting thoughts about movies, TV (Breaking Bad rules, Dexter is overrated although season 4 was good), and politics.

I also love having a permenant record that makes it impossible for me ever to run for office.

Welcome to the Teens

2010-01-21T13:49:00.001-05:00

What will we call last decade? The "ohhhs!", The Zeros, The Aughts, or The Millennals?

OH MY GOD, I was an Idiot in 2005-2007

2009-04-11T04:03:00.003-04:00

-I made predictions about Rourke getting snubbed for an Oscar for Sin City 2 and Killshot! Killshot was delayed 3 years and is only now getting released on video.

-I thought crash had good acting, but that Hillary Swank wasn't good in Million Dollar baby.

-I was a intolerant democratic party cheerleader. To be fair, this was during the first half of the Bush second term. I was too sore from Bush/Kerry.

-I posted all of my neurotic thoughts about my weight and sleep habits. News Flash: I am posting this at 4:10 in the morning and I am still over 300 pounds.

I can't wait for this freaking movie

2009-04-11T02:47:00.019-04:00

[I got to stop posting "picture-reliant" posts- Me in 2010]

Tom Hardy as the British inmate, Bronson.

I have a link to the movie site in the title of this post. Just click it.

Tiger Lou- The Loyal

2009-04-11T01:59:00.010-04:00

God Bless Gore Vidal

2009-04-11T01:56:00.004-04:00

I loved this crippled communist on Real Time this week. He lives with a guy for 50 years but doesn't believe himself to be gay. huh?

I really need to go to sleep.

2009-04-10T02:20:00.001-04:00

NIGHT FOLKS. I am just artificially making this blog longer.

It looks bad if I only post one line so...

There...
you...
Go!

Why do I have insomnia?

2009-04-10T01:53:00.003-04:00

I have posted more on this blog in the last week than what I have done in 2008 and 2009 COMBINED.

I really should get off the computer now. I have work at 12 noon tomorrow. I hope I will be "Fresh" tomorrow. I have had really bad insomnia for the last two weeks. That film festival really put my internal sleep clock through the ringer.

I know that its the internet that keeps me up. If I would just watch the netflix movie that has been on my desk for a month instead of looking up Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Carnahan EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN NIGHT AT 2 AM, maybe I would get some sleep. Maybe?

I can't believe my nephew will be 2 years old in a month.

AMAZING. I AM 27 AND I DON'T HAVE A SET SLEEP SCHEDULE.

In no way is that depressing.

The New "Hang in there" poster for my office

2009-04-10T01:51:00.003-04:00

Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad.

What Would Walt Do?

Mike Capanna Sucks

2009-04-10T01:50:00.003-04:00

Just testing if snitch boy, Charles is reading my blog. You cheese eating rat!

In Treatment is the bomb

2009-04-10T01:41:00.005-04:00

John Mahoney is the man as Walter this year on In Treatment.

I am currently digging Breaking Bad, but not the current season of South Park.

I have so much to do and am so far behind

2009-04-10T01:31:00.002-04:00

Too Do List: (yes I know this is going to be public)

-Your mom (just kidding)

-Taxes
-Remember the Government job placement test next Thursday. I think it on 11th and Walnut.
`Documentation for Blue Shield
-Remember the Government job placement test next Thursday. I think it on 11th and Walnut.
-Resumes for internship.
-Finalize May trip to Yankees
-Work as much as you can to have some money for the trip.
-Finalize May visit to Center City to meet Bob from Wisconsin
-Invite Dan to Pittsburgh in August
-Homework (only one month left, dude!)
-Exercise on the bike 4 times a week.
-Go to the bank to cash your pathetic check from last week.

Philadelphia Film Festival Wrap up

2009-04-08T23:04:00.006-04:00

I saw around 20 movies during the festival. That was down from last year when I had a badge. I always end up hating the artform after about 5 days, but I still do the festival every year.

Great Films:

Merry Gentleman: Michael Keaton's directorial debut. It has an Oscar worthy performance by Kelly MacDonald (from No Country for Old Men and Trainspotting). Bobby Carnavale gives a good performance in just one scene as her ex-hubby.

The Hurt Locker: Jeremy Renner really shows his worth as an actor with this gritty movie by Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days, Near Dark, Point Break). The first good Iraq War II movie.

500 Days of Summer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt can do it all. High School detectives. Gay hookers. Brain Damaged Bank Robbers. Here is shows that he has a "light touch." It doesn't mean that the movie is inconsequential. It just means that the guy could be a comedy lead if he wants too.

Boy, Interrupted. Probably the best documentary of the year. Extremely difficult to watch. It concerns a suicide of a 15 year old boy. The film is directed by his parents, who are film makers.

Good Films:

Sugar: The first half is incredible to watch. You get to see the rise of a young Dominican baseball player through the American Minor League system. I think the film loses steam once it arrives in New York, but it is still a worthy movie. Still, hands down the best baseball movie of the decade.

Landscape Number 2: Slovic movie about a art heist gone wrong.
Awesome sex scenes + gruesome violence= My recommendation

Goodbye Solo: The new film from the director of Chop Shop. An engaging, but sad dual character study of a African cab driver and an elderly white man in North Carolina. Neo-Realism at its finest. A little slow, though.

Moon: The debut film from David Bowie's son. Sam Rockwell is the man. A throw back sci-fi film to the 70's "thinking man" films like Solaris, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Logan's Run.

American Violet: Great supporting performances by Alfre Woodard, Michael O'Keefe and Will Patton. It also features a strong performance by Nicole Beharie. A little too much of a Stanley Donovan liberal message movie for my tastes, but I am still recommending it.

World F-N Champions

2009-04-08T22:57:00.002-04:00

This is me at the Prince Music Theatre during the Philadelphia Film Festival Premiere of "The Perfect Season" World Championship DVD. That is the 2008 World Series Trophy. Suck on it, Mets. Do you like Fishsticks?

What's this Mets fans?

2009-04-03T23:31:00.002-04:00

Oh yeah, THE WORLD SERIES TROPHY!

McCain ducks Obama

2008-09-24T23:34:00.001-04:00

Waiting sucks

2008-08-22T11:14:00.002-04:00

Well who is he going to choose for VP?

[Edit: Biden. BORRRRINNNNNNGGG]

Thanks Darren Aronofsky

2008-02-12T01:08:00.001-05:00

I had a great time on Friday. You made my year.

Rourke and Gambers: Together at Last!

2008-02-12T01:06:00.001-05:00

liberal is the new conservative

2007-09-05T12:01:00.001-04:00

[EDIT on 4/10/09: I was kind of proved right on this]

I realized something a few days ago...

By 1980, liberals (especially those affiliated with the democratic party) were out of ideas. All we were doing was keeping the social programs of LBJ and FDR from being gutted. Meanwhile, The Ike Eisenhower republicans, those conservatives who didn't want to completely gut the New Deal or Great Society, were losing their power in the GOP to the Barry Goldwater "Libertarian/Small Government" faction of the party. They did have some valid points (Like on Welfare and Term Limits)

The republican/conservative agenda has basically won out in the last 30 years. Notice how much debate their was on banning handguns after dozens of people were capped by Napoleon Dynamite at Virginia Tech? Oh right, THERE WAS NONE!

The Democratic party and Liberals (who believe it or not are not the same thing as democrats) were on defense for all of the 1980's and 1990's. We were defending abortion rights, affirmative action, welfare, social security, medicare, unions and the EPA from being gutted by conservatives. We had no new ideas.

Things have changed.

Welfare and Unions are gone. Affirmative Action (I'm not against it but...) isn't as need now because of the progress that are country has made since 1964 (except for poor people of color. There are more blacks in the middle class now than in the 60's and 70's) Dubbya and most republicans are for keeping medicare and social security (although in a BS ed "privatized" function). And abortion rights and environmental laws have been pushed back as far as will be tolerated.

There is nothing more useful for conservatives to do for our country.

Whats that?...

Immigration?...

Please... We never should have annexed Texas to California in the first place in 1848. The Mexicans are just taking back what was theirs in the first place. Plus, the whole "they do the jobs we won't" thing.

Crime?...

We give 20 year sentences for pot dealers in this country. This might get me in trouble, but I think prison sentences are TOO LONG in this country. Except for Pedophiles. You'd think the government could just chemically block perverts testosterone, but whatever. Also, we have weakened so many basic rights (like property sovereignty when it comes to drug fore closers) that being a criminal isn't as lucrative as it used to be.

War on Terror?...

You really think that the war on terror is being fought correctly? To paraphrase Bill Maher, Terrorism is a law enforcement issue. You can't fight with an army if your enemy doesn't have an army.

Face it conservatives, the idea ball is in the liberals hands now. Health care, Global Warming, Evolution, abortion, death penalty (More people disapprove of the DP now than at any time since it was reinstated in the 70's. Plus the last 30 years have proved that it is not a deterrent.), education (after the failure of No Child Left Behind and Vouchers), and yes even the war on terror is now in our court.

If it makes you feel any better, the next president (who has a 70% chance of being a democrat) isn't going to do anything too drastic to our "Reagan Utopia" any time soon. But maybe in 2020 or 2024.

Jake G.

CVS IS GONE

2007-06-09T01:10:00.000-04:00

Dear Diary,

I am done with CVS. I meet with my boss on Wendsday May 16th and was finished with it on Friday the 25th. I like being out of an enviroment that was not condusive to a hard work ethic.

The sad thing is that I gained a little weight, but that is understandable due to the stress of leaving a job. I've also been giving 8 extra hours during most days of the week to eat.

25 years old. My Mother, God rest her soul.

2007-02-14T20:19:00.000-05:00

Dear Readers...um Reader,

Its Me. Its Me. Its that J...A...K..EEEEEEEE. READY to Free style it on the old school. PLAYERZ.

I turned 25. This sucks. Now I can't pretend that I am near the high school level anymore. One more year and I am out of the highly sought out 18-25 demographic that these ad bloodsuckers so often seek.

I AM TOTALLY HAVING A GREAT TIME AT MY JOB. SOME OF MY FELLOW EMPLOYEES ARE SOOO ENCOURAGING AND MAKE ME WANT TO WORK REALLY HARD FOR THE COMPANY. AND IN NO WAY AM I BEING SARCASTIC!

Sorry this breaks the unofficial rule of not bringing up your current job while working there, but sometimes i just want to scream (from how awesome it is to work at my unnamed company. I'm not getting fired for blasting something on the internet. And why would some one blast their company on the internet. Your bosses have the internet dummy.).

I LOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEE my JOB! IT REALLY IS A GREAT PLACE TO WORK!

Joe Carnahan is god!

2006-11-21T23:00:00.000-05:00

Joe Carnahan just sent me a private message! Go to right now!

Brother, I'm glad you're a fan. God bless you for the love. I mean it.

No need to pay for the john hancock bud. Give me an address and we'll figure
out a way to get it to you.

Don't be constrained by 'How to' books or advice on screenwriting from so-called
'industry professionals' they know next-to-nothing and if the gurus were as great
as they were billed, they'd all be making Steve Zaillian money....they're not. Just write
that 2nd act from the pit of your soul and it'll come out great. I promise.

Joseph Goron Levitt has my favorite performance in my favorite film of last year,
the hideously underrated 'Brick". What a gutsy film and that kind is sensational.
And what can you say about Mickey Rourke. A complete original.

Okay dude, 'Smokin Aces' is on its way, so clear your calender. It's a helluva ride.

ah...

2006-08-31T20:10:00.000-04:00

In case you haven't guessed it yet, this is more of a diary than a blog. Which is of course is great because instead of being just a diary that is for me to read this is really for the whole internet to read (including potential employers!)

Feeling kind of blue-ish. (Even though I have lost 22 pounds since we last talked.) Maybe it is because of the meeting I had last friday evening or something else.

I am the kinda of person who would turn into Robin William's character in One Hour Photo (A fourty year old who still works at a job designed for 22-28 year olds. Not the going psycho part of the movie.) I like the job I am at now, but everybody else there is younger than me.

I recently heard that my friend when I was 7-11 got engaged. Another classmate from my youth has a kid. It is wierd. I am supposed to be an adult. I don't feel it.

Movies

I saw something called Boyton Beach club. It is a good film, not an "important" film by any means, but it was enjoyable. It is about senior citizens dealing with grief, but it is kinda of a light comedy structured in the form of Short Cuts and Crash.

Snakes on the plane was okay. I loved the second toliet scene.

Didn't like Supe Returns nor Pirates. Ricky Bobby was okay. I really didn't like World Trade Center.

The Doucheys

2006-06-17T00:33:00.000-04:00

Update:

I am at my job 4 months now. I am holding still in life. I am on a serious diet for the first time in my life. I feel...kinda...Blue?...Not happy? Ah never mind. I am having trouble sleeping for the first time in a long time.

It must be these diet pills. I am running on 6 hours or less sleep a night. My body rhythms are off.

To catch a predator for ratings

The thing I don't get about these predators is...What guy (especially the ugly and fat ones. I am including guys who look like me) thinks that ANY WOMAN OF ANY AGE will have sex with you after you write explicit chatter to them on the net.

"You want me to suck your what?!!!????," this made up women pauses to think about it an writes back... "Sure come to the house and pound my (bleep)!"

NOTE TO PERVERTS... WOMEN DON'T LIKE SEX... They just give it to us to shut us up.

Part of me wishes that a guy gets caught and says to the camera (In a Rourkian confidence)... "Yeah I was going to do it. So what?" And then stabs the reporter in the FACE! (Note to legal for NBC news: I don't support the stabbing of reporters in the face. However, the guy who confronts these guys in the house is a douche.)

SPEAKING OF WHICH...

The Doucheys

Glen Beck What a douche. The ACLU protects us from getting BFed by the government. Jagoff. I like the fact that you claimed to have spoken for Philly but were actually broadcast from New York. You suck. Didn't the Headline news channel used to be JUST THE HEADLINE NEWS CHANNEL. This is like the Scifi channel showing ECW.

Sean Hannity and Ann Cun...Coulter

Stop sucking the presidents organ ALL THE TIME. Jeezus christ. I am a liberal but I don't defend my party when they do immoral and illegal crap like passing Flag Burning resolutions and trying to emulate you guys.

Conservative Movie Reviewers.

Steve Rhodes and Michael Medved especially. Come on you guys. Don't dismiss any film that challenges your 1950 ideals. (that never were. Ask the blacks in the South) Rhodes: Your review of Al Gore's movie was a talking points memo from Halliburton and the Libertarian party. BTW: Steve. I don't give a f--- what your son or nephew thinks about a movie.

Hillary Clinton

Shut the hell up. I hate that fact that your running will ensure another republican sweep of the presidency. If you are elected, you will support flag burning (which many of you liberal friends in the 60's rightly did.), be wishy washy about abortion rights, (you have freaking ovaries, PROTECT THEM), and support the war on terror but be even more vicious as Bush because you'll have to prove yourself to be MAN ENOUGH to be prez.

Neil Cavuto

You run a show about financial stuff. Stop making about politics. The market don't give a crap if AL-Qaeda is around or not. Maybe they don't.... I don't know what I am saying. Your still a douche.

Equal Time

Conservatives who I don't think are douches...

Mickey Rourke
Tom Selleck
John Stossel
Dennis Hastert: Fat guys got to stick together.
michael smerconish
Larry from New York (French Connection 2 rules)
Clint Eastwood
Charles Bronson
Walker Texas Ranger
Eric Cartman
Bill Clinton (In Canada he would be Adolph Hitler. Like Stephen Harper is.)
Newt(After he lost power)
Bob Dole
Stephen Colbert

Joe Carnahan wrote to me!!!

2006-05-12T19:31:00.000-04:00

Narc Rules!
This is the Part that involves me!!! It is part of an IMDB message post.

Re: Joe Carnahan and Smokin' Aces

by - njg122-1 3 days ago (Mon May 8 2006 22:01:20 )

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Dear Joe,

Forget the punk calling you out.

Glad you liked Brick. Joseph Gordon Levitt really is the best actor in my age group.

2 Questions:

1. Any plans to act again like in Blood, Guts, Bullets, and Octane.

2. Is Pablo happening?

I never thought that I would get a response

Re: Joe Carnahan and Smokin' Aces

by - Dikdastardly 17 hours ago (Thu May 11 2006 22:51:09 )

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Brother, I never sweat the haters man. If he had been legit, then he could've answered
one of the several questions he was asked about my film. Beyond that, why bother.

In answer to your quetions. Will I act again all depends on a director dumb enough to
give me a part with lines. I'm good at standing there oafishly, but if sentences need to
be strung together in coherent fashion, I'm probably not your guy.

I would love to get Pablo cracking and now that Stacey Snider is over at Dreamworks, it's
reignited my need to get that thing going and going fast. We'll see how that all pans out.

JC

Thanks Joe!

An existential post

2006-05-03T23:00:00.000-04:00

Mood: shocked, satisfaction, ashamed, sympathetic, but over all pleased.

Nothing Big happened today. (yeah right!)

Carlos Mencia sucks. The South Park with Cartman as a dog was on today. Work from 8 to 4 tomorrow sucks. Not getting sleep sucks. Not getting the JOB done sucks. Internet piracy sucks. Rush Limbaugh sucks. Tom Delay sucks. Life is beautiful.

I saw Head On again. This movie rules

The Philly film fest

2006-04-09T22:54:00.000-04:00

I was at the fest for 4 days over the last two weeks. Here are the films that I've seen...

3/31

This film is not yet rated (2 1/2 stars out of 5)

This film didn't tell me anything I didn't already know (YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT THEY RATE SEX FILLED MOVIES WORSE THAN BLOOD FILLED ONES!? get out of town!) I liked how they showed the history of the MPAA. However, the investigation and the invasion of privacy of the MPAA geyzers striked me as amatuer Michael Moore.

4/1

Turntable (No rating)

I need to see this movie again. I couldn't understand a lot of the plot because of the shitty sound quality. I did meet the director afterwards. He was a cool guy. I am watching his first film, squeeze. Its a good flick.

SHADOWBOXER (1/2* out of five)

PRETENSIOUS S--T. Good acting by Levitt (as always) and a good performance from Gooding. BAD WRITTING. It did have great cinematography.

Actor Updates

2006-03-26T22:16:00.000-05:00

Mikey Rourke, aka his holiness

Mickey Rourke is apparently going to be the lead in the Tarantino directed half of Grindhouse. He will play a psycho who kills people with cars. I hate horror movies, but I am loyal to Mick so I'll see it.

He has Killshot and Stormbreaker coming out this year. 2007 might be a huge year for him. He has Sin City 2, the Tarantino film, a film with Ray Liotta in the works called The Night Job, and some indie film called Cousin Joey (which may or may not get made). I am a huge fan of his, so I am hoping that he isn't stuck doing Genre films for the rest of his career. I want to see him tackle roles similar in complexity to James Coburn in Affliction.

Well any Rourke is good for me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, aka the future of acting

He has Killshot, Shadowboxer (which I will see at the Philly film festival), and Brick coming out this year. He is currently shooting a film with Jeff "underrated" Daniels and Carla "future bearer of my children" Gugino.

Movie Thoughts

I freaking loved V for Vendetta. Its the liberal Red Dawn! (although it isn't a piece of garbage like that Patrick Swayze nazi propaganda picture.)

Saw Inside man. Well done, but it really didn't grab me as an audience member.

I saw Game Six which has been pimped for weeks on Ebert and Roeper. Pretension is a apt verb to describe it.

Crash sucked, now it is an Oscar winner!

2006-03-06T02:04:00.000-05:00

Now I don't hate it as much as others, but did this film really deserve an Oscar for best Picture over Brokeback,
Capote,
Good Night and Good Luck,
Munich,
Sin City,
Batman Returns,
Freaking Star Wars Episode III,
Head On (Turkish Film),
Downfall (Germany),
A History of Violence,
Paradise Now,
The New World,
and (dare I say) Domino?

The show

Jon Stewart is only funny when he is snarking on clips of Republicans being hypocrites on The Daily Show. His standup always has sucked. He is a sit down comedian. The thing that you can take from this rant is that I think he was a bad host.

I did like the Steven Colbert narrated mock political adds for Best Actress. He should have hosted

The show has improved since moving its timeslot to Sundays at 8pm. The show is now over at 11:30 nowadays. This is a huge improvement over the days where I had to stay up to 12:30 AM eastern time to see Titantic win best picture.

I have work in 6 hours!

I wish I could take off for the morning after the Oscars. For some reason, I am always anxious when the Oscars are over and thus have trouble falling asleep. Also, since this was the first day in the last 3 weeks where I could sleep late, that I actually did. Till 1 in the afternoon. I need some ambien.

Blast from the Past.

2006-02-16T00:36:00.000-05:00

I wrote this last year...

F--- school

So I'm finally going to graduate school when all of a sudden I get satisfied with a progress report asking me to drop a course. I was able to talk to the teacher and I *might* be able to pass this year as long as I attend every f---ing class for the rest of he semester.

I have a question, PSU has a computer system called Angel witch allows you to post assignments and talk to members of assigned groups online. Why do you need to go to EVERY F---ING CLASS to pass a course? If you just check Angel you should be able to skip a class once in a while.

F---

That teacher ended up liking me (I still had to drop the course). I graduated this December. I now work at CVS. THANKS PENN STATE!

Edit: I really should have wrote in my 2005 entry that "...I was going to FINISH graduate school when all of a sudden I get slammed with a progress report..."

Edit; Edit; ...called Angel which allows...

I am a working man!

2006-02-16T00:25:00.001-05:00

Yesterday was my reintroduction to the world of employment. I haven't had a job since August. I'm a [EDIT] employee! The only problem with this job is that I am technically too over-qualified for it. No offense to my coworkers but this is a job that you take while your in college not after you finish it. [EDIT in 2007: Yet I am still there 2 days before the 1 year anniversy of this post. So who is the dummy?]

I was so nervous today. The only thing that sucks is that I really now have to adjust my body to getting up at 6:30 am. I haven't got up that regularly for the duration of an entire week since I finished high school six years ago.

[Edit: 4/11/2009: This was CVS. What did I go intro retail after my dad spent tens of thousands of dollars on college?]

Drawn Together is officially the worst cartoon ever

My god.

The EW lady was the last straw. This show has nothing going for it. the only remotely funny charter is Captain Hero and even he is getting old. The charters of Foxxy Love, Waldor, Toot, Spanky Ham, and Ling Ling are freaking useless.

2006-01-16T01:33:00.000-05:00

Here is the first picture of Mickey Rourke as Armand Degas in the upcomming Killshot. He looks good in this picture. I personally think that Mickey looks best nowadays when he has stubble on his chin. It hides the surgury scars.

My Top 10

1. History of Violence
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. Mysterious Skin
4. Downfall
5. Sin City
6. King Kong
7. Head On
8. Good Night and Good Luck
9. 40 Year Old virgin
10. Batman Begins

(I Still haven't seen New World, Junebug, Cache, Match Point, Lord Of War or Three Burials yet)

Colbert Rules

I love the Colbert Report on comedy central. It is funny like the Daily Show used to be.

UPDATE TIME!

2006-01-01T01:01:00.000-05:00

How Do you f--- that up!?

-William Hurt

I am a graduate now. I have been just being lazy with my magic bullet that I got for Christmas. I'll update later with my Top Ten List for last year. I can't fucking believe that it is 2006 already. It has been almost 6 years since I graduated High School. And I still aint getting laid.

BTW: If Mickey Rourke doesn't AT LEAST get a Golden Globe this year for his work in Sin City 2 or Killshot (which ever is the better movie) I am going to personally come down to California with my (In the year 2007, not now) 470 pound ass and kick some ass.

I read Killshot

2005-11-16T22:53:00.000-05:00

First book that I've read for fun in 10 years. When it comes to the book's story, it is a pretty basic chase film. It's strength is in the characters. (ESPECIALLY Armand "Blackbird" Degas and Richie Nix) The characters of the Mom, Donna, and Ferris were the next best characters.

SPOILERS

I think that this film won't stretch Mickey Rourke's acting muscles. He can play a badass, streetwise gangster in his sleep. The best role in the film will be Joseph Gordon Levitt as an idiot/psycho speed killer. Depending on how Brick does, THIS WILL MAKE HIM FAMOUS. This will be his Street Smart (Morgan Freeman).

Diane Lane will play a strong character in the end. (Her character reminds me of Francis McDormand's in Blood Simple)

I am a month away from being done school

2005-11-13T23:22:00.000-05:00

I am scared to death of going out into the real world. The thing about me is that I don't really feel like I'm about to be 24 years old. The weird thing is that my dad was my age when he got married and was 26 years old when he had his first kid. I am barely 17 years old at the rate he matured. Don't tell him that I said that. Let me continue this discussion after I talk about some unimportant pop culture crap.

Christian Cage is in TNA

Saw him cut an excellent promo tonight at the TNA Genesis PPV. I have to watch the DVD recording because I was surfing the net through most of the PPV. I did enjoy the six man main event which saw Jeff Jarrett and America's Most Wanted versus Rhino and Team 3-D. It was a good garbage match.

Saw Mr. Movie yesterday

I visited my friend and Philly radio host, Steve Friedman at the Philly Sterling Glen retirement home. I watched a movie with him and my friends, the two Mikes. We saw a weird British cartoon called Watership Down which is about Bunnies. It was pretty bloody for a cartoon about rabbits.

I also saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with my friends the Two Mikes at the Philly Ritz East (THE major art house chain in the area) It was good. It has some great lines and a hot actress named Michelle Monaghan.

Diet

I'm still fat.

Back to the main point

I realize now why people get lame when they get older. When you are on your own, you don't have TIME to focus on unimportant shit like you used to. You also get sick of seeing shit that you know you won't like from experience. I think that also explains why people tend to get more conservative when they get older.
People in their own minds do not have time to look at all sides of an issue, so they prejudge things and go with the thing that makes them more comfortable. When you have kids you all of a sudden have to worry about the kids seeing porn and hearing Eminem saying F--k and S--t.

The reason why I am bringing all this s--t up is because I am worried about going into the real world. I have to move to some where with public transportation because I don't drive. I have to lose SOME weight if I want to attract people of the opposite sex. I also have to get into a body rhythm. I am typing this at 11:45 PM and I don't feel tired. I got up at 11:30 today, but I am still ramped up. Enough with this complaining crap...

Killshot

This and Randall Wallace's Love and Honor are the first book that I have started to seriously read for just pleasure...EVER. I read a Deep Space Nine book in 95 because I wanted to know what was going to happen in the Season opener of the year. Its weird for you to see me read (other than the net) for more that 5 hours a YEAR.

I am reading Killshot because Mickey Rourke and Joseph Gordon Levitt are going to costar in the film adaptation as Armand "Blackbird" Degas and Richie Nix respectively. They are two mismatched hitmen. I only read about 25% of the book, but so far the character of Degas seems perfect for Rourke. He is a quiet, no nonsense killer who has seen everything and is a bad ass mofo. Levitt's character is a version of the Joe Pesci hitman, but he is more of a comedic character (so far) and more of loser than Jimmy was in Goodfellas. People are going to finally notice Levitt when this movie comes out.

RIP Eddie Guerrero

No more lying and cheating anymore, Holmes.

The Political Test

2005-10-21T16:50:00.000-04:00

I am a Social Liberal (70% permissive) and an...
Economic Moderate(43% permissive)

I am best described as a Democrat.

I exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (74, -25)

Check out: http://www.okcupid.com/politics

Just posting

2005-10-15T23:04:00.000-04:00

My life is rated PG-13.
What is your life rated?

Nothing is happening that is why I am not posting...

2005-10-10T03:10:00.000-04:00

I saw a movie on Saturday with "Mr. Movie" Steve Friedman, a Philly radio host. (1210 AM 10-1 AM Saturday Nights) It was an old horror film from 1957 called "Curse of The Demon.

School

I got a 100 on a religious studies test (questions about Jesus are soooooo EASY)
I got an A on my first film studies test (YES, If I got an F then I should just quit and get a job at Wendys.
I got an 80 (Thanks to a curve) on a Economics test.

Diet

I did shitty this weekend, but I am definitely improving on decreasing the damage done by my binges.

I lost 8 pounds...

2005-09-28T23:54:00.000-04:00

Suck on that "genetically-inherited morbid obesity!"

Barry Pepper

I've like this guy ever since he had that role in Saving Private Ryan. My favorite performance of his is in the movie, 25th hour. He has a big role in Tommy Lee Jone's Cannes Award winning "Three Burials of a long-ass title." He also has a role in Clint Eastwood's next movie, "Flags of our Fathers."

Suck it Tom Delay

This guy was such an asshole to Terri Shivo's husband. He said and I quote, "What kind of man is [Michael Shivo]?" Alright, he's allowed to have his views, but he was a total hypocrite in this situation. Tom Delay agreed to have his dad pulled off of life support even though Delay Sr. didn't have a living will.

You're a fucking hypocrite. I'm glad you're going fucking down. You may be rich, but you are a shit-kicking hick to me.

Carnahan update

A movie starring Colin Farrell and Edward Norton is about to go into production and will shoot in January. "Norton is poised to play a homicide detective who is assigned to investigate the precinct run by his older brother (Emmerich). Farrell plays the investigator's best friend, a cop in that precinct who might be dirty himself." It is called Pride and Glory.

Joe Carnahan co-wrote the screenplay!

Finally (WWE)
Support Rob Conway. He does things his way, the CON-way!

Fuck the Ultimate Warrior

A History of Violence spoilers

2005-09-25T23:05:00.000-04:00

I saw A History of Violence, the new Viggo Mortenson movie that was directed by a sick F--k who directed the Fly.

AWESOME MOVIE. I don't like Revenge flicks in general, because they are always a secret form of conservative propaganda (See ), but this movie was different. It showed that the guy seeking revenge wasn't a good person but in fact a sick asshole. The movie is violent, but you feel good about (MOST) of it because it is against people who need to be killed.

The movie does linger on the effects of violence. For example, in most Hollywood movies the henchmen are given a quick death and are not focused on after they are killed. In this movie the henchmen are shown to have there noses hit back into their brains as well as having their jaws blown off from Viggo "Charles Bronson" Mortenson.

The movie deals with the fact that we as humans have a duality towards violence. On one hand, the film shows that violence causes more violence. On the other hand, Tom Stall ("Clint" Viggo) would have been killed if he turned away from violence. The movie is not some mindless film like that piece of shit, right-wing, Nazi propaganda film called Man on Fire.

In that film, Tony Scott showed that he was a sick sadist that would make Mel Gibson blush because he made Denzel into a cool guy when he killed those Mexican Gangsters. The only problem, SPOILERS The kid didn't die. So Denzel was really a Abu Grab-ass loving Emperor Cheney Stormtrooper who just wanted to kill some spics. His self-rightness got on my nerves. God I hated that movie SPOILERS.

The only reason I'm seeing Domino after Tony "Joey Travolta to Ridley's John" Scott's last POS is because of the guy whose name is on the title of this blog.

But anyways, GO SEE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. It WILL affect you in ways that all of the shitty movies this summer could have only dreamed about.

Joey Levitt AND Mickey Rourke to do a movie together!?!?

2005-09-23T15:25:00.000-04:00

The movie stars Thomas Jane and Diane Lane as a couple who flee the witness protection program with a gangster (Mickey Rourke) in hot pursuit. Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play the gangster's dangerous sidekick. Dawson will play the sidekick's girlfriend. Johnny "Jackass" Knoxville will portray an FBI agent trying to keep the couple alive.

-Source: Empire Movies

Dear God and Heaven make this true!

I'm posting at University Park Penn State!

2005-09-18T02:31:00.002-04:00

I'm drunk as shit. I want to pick up drunk chicks. Where does a tall fat guy go to get some loose women at Penn State? I need some girls. Damn I'm drunk!

Somoa Joe! TNA TNA TNA!!!!!!

My jock itch is killing me!

I had about 5 beers but I have no tolerance.

So, Penn Staters... Where are the loose women I see in College movies like Animal House and Rules of Attraction? Movies are Bull-shit

I'm drunk

Happy Birthday Mickey

2005-09-16T14:16:00.000-04:00

He is either 55 or 49 today.

RIP Robert Wise

He was 91

Don't F--- with Mickey Rourke + Best Actors

2005-09-15T13:05:00.000-04:00

Don't mess with the Pope of Greenwich Village

Mickey Rourke reportedly attacked a fan who tried to take his picture at a London nightclub.

The 'Sin City' star, who has been photographed with a string of different women during his short stay in the capital, was allegedly so furious he smashed the man's camera.

An onlooker at Boujis nightclub revealed to Britain's Saturday Telegraph: "On Tuesday night Rourke was knocking back the vodkas with his new best friend, Australian cricketer Shane Warne, when he took exception to a fan taking his photograph.

"The two of them were sitting at a table when Rourke suddenly leapt up and grappled this guy to the ground. It turns out he just wanted a keepsake but Rourke was incensed. He grabbed the camera and smashed it on the floor."

Copyright 2005 BANG Media International

Source: Some British Tabloid

He is my hero!

The best performances of the year, so far

1. The Rourke, Sin City
2. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin
3. Matt Dillon, Crash
4. Bruno Ganz, Downfall
5. Craig Bierko, Cinderella Man (He played Max Baer)
6. Terrance Howard, Crash
7. Thandi Newton, Crash
8. Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
9. Ian McDiarmid, Star Wars: Revenge of The Shit
10. Steve Carell, The 40 year old virgin

Ken Kennedy

2005-09-09T00:12:00.000-04:00

This Guy Rules.

this match is scheduled (DRAMATIC YELL) for ONE FALL!

Carlos Mencia aint funny

2005-09-08T00:04:00.000-04:00

Define A-hole:

2005-09-07T23:31:00.000-04:00

Troy "Boondock Saints" Duffy. Look at this drunk arrogant racist and antisemetic neo-conservative loser.

I saw this documentary about his rags to riches to rags story called Overnight. He is so self-absored and has his head so far up his ass that he makes Vincent Gallo and Tarantino look humble.

Netflix

I just canceled my HBO on digital cable so that I could get netflix. The moviestake two days to come. I also notice that the disks come with the netflix logo imprinted on there menu screens IN the DVD.

I have a ALMOST CERTAIN date on Friday.
No more loser on Friday Nights!

The Best performances of the Year (so far)
Coming Friday, sike bitches.

You know how I know that your GAY? Cause you support George W after he "F"-uped the hurricane.- Me

There is a new Douchebag in town.....and his name is Troy Duffy. Troy has
dusted off old world Douchebagism, injected its lifeless corpse with a much
needed dose of venom, and brought it into the moderan age with a vengeance.
Troy presents his brand of swashbuckling New Millenium Douchebagism with
such aplomb and easy-to-understand steps that even an old dog like Dave
Mustaine could learn some new tricks. - Some Guy on Usenet

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

2005-09-07T00:42:00.001-04:00

I believe that he is the best actor of my generation. He has a certain toughness to him in his roles like Mysterious Skin and Manic that is coupled with vulnerability.

For the record: I'm into [4/11/09: EDITED FOR CONTENT]

Bob Denver RIP Little Buddy

Ray Liotta is God

2005-09-06T01:28:00.000-04:00

I just saw Narc on AMC

2005-09-06T01:01:00.000-04:00

...Its been five times that I've seen the movie and I just cried like my Dad had just died. I never had a movie depress me and sadden me, EVERY TIME I've seen it.

The movie is antithesis of the saying "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." This movie says that those who dwell in the past are destined to stay there.

I need to lose weight

I took some medication for about two years. I went from a size 50 to a 54-56 when I took these pills. I'm now at the point where I'm afraid to sit down on some chairs for fear of breaking them.

The weird thing about me is that I'm physically active. For four years I walked about 45 minutes to my work during the summers. I go to the Gym AT LEAST once a week.

My problem is that I'm hungry at nights. In fact there are days that I go with out eating breakfast and I don't eat until dinner. Then I binge like I've been stuck in a dessert without water for 3 days and just found some aquafina.

Constant Gardner

I saw the movie. I might like it more if I see the film twice. I tend to not love movies till the second viewing. The very few times that I have loved a movie the first time I had seen it were A Clockwork Orange and The Warriors. Ralph Fiennes was very good in the movie.

I thought that the plot was a little to murky at times. I'm a Bill Hicks/Michael Moorish liberal, but I don't understand why a corporation would do what it did in the movie. DELAYED MINOR SPOILER WARNING.

Monday Night Blah!

Wrestling is about as bad as it was in 1995. I saw Raw tonight which included a retard gimmick and a "Diva" who could not sell the Irish whip move. (That is when A wrestler whips B wrestler to the ropes and B wrestler must pretend to run and bounce off the ropes. It is the foundation for suspending ones disbelief in a fixed sport.)

I hope another promotion can get a footing against asshole Vincent K. McMahon.

and finally...

Kanye West is Right (for once)

Bush doesn't care about Black People because only 10 percent of them voted for him. Its not rocket science people. I don't even consider it that big of a deal. Politicians serve those who vote for them.

School's back

2005-08-31T00:34:00.000-04:00

This is the last semester for me. I can't wait to be done. I've been at school for way too long.

I had my cinema course today. It is from 5:30-8:50! The cool thing is that I'll be able to catch some movie classics while I'm taking this course like Chinatown and Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

Random gibber Jab

The one thing that sucks about summer (especially if your a fat guy like me) Is the FUCKING HEAT at night. I can't relax while I'm sweating like I just ran the Boston Marathon.

Diet Update

I'm writing down what I'm eating to make myself more accountable for my fat intake. I was actually pretty good today on my diet.

Domino Poster

2005-08-29T23:32:00.000-04:00

School's Back for Fall!

2005-08-26T14:16:00.000-04:00

I start Tuesday. It is my last semester and then I'm a free man.

My focus over the next 3 months is to finish out the semester without completely phoning it in as well as trying to lose weight.

30 minutes of physical activity a day and a 2,2000 calorie diet.

Rasslin

I've been getting back into wrestling again after basically abandoning the product after the NWO angle of 2002.

I'm really interested in this TNA wrestling. It is more like WCW Saturday night than the Sportz! Entertainment that the WW(E) has become.

Why are the two walking knee replacements (aka Hogan and Taker) STILL on the top of the cards?

Mickey Rourke

He is still shooting a kids movie in Britain. He has a role in a Elmer Leonard adaptation shooting soon as well as the follow up to Sin City.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

He is about to play the lead in a mainstream studio film called The Lookout. It would be nice to see this great actor get some commercial recognition.

Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces

Jeremy Piven from HBO's Entourage is the lead along with Alicia Keyes and Ryan Reynolds.

RIP Brock Peters

Do yourself a favor and check out his supporting work as a 60's black Mafia guy along side Ron Steiger's academy award nominated work in the Pawnbroker.

2005-08-19T00:16:00.000-04:00

"Stone Cold, Screw You, Youre FIRRREEEED!" Vinny K, WW(F)

I'm now trying to get a new job as fast as I can. I can't countinue at this job no longer (in more ways than one). How fast can it take from application to hiring? I need to get a new job... FAST!

BTW: Joe Carnahan has a new film that is about to be starting shooting! Can't wait!

40 year old virgin

2005-08-17T00:02:00.000-04:00

"She aint a virgin no more!" -Uncle Pauly, Rocky

I saw the movie, The 40 year old virgin today. It was funny, but it had a little sweetness to it. It wasn't some lowest common denominator type movie, like the European Gigalo, but more in the vein of About a Boy.

Steve Carell is a good leading man, I don't think that he'll be a superstar like Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey because his comedy is too "nice" to be popular with stupid 14 year old boys.

The funnier performances were from the actors who played his coworkers, most notably the black dude played by Romany Malco (who played MC Hammer in a TV movie) and a guy who is only 4 months younger than me but who looks 30 named Seth Rogen. He was in Donnie Darko. They made me laugh more than Carell.

The movie isn't cheap shit like Rob Shitldners piece of shit films. It could become a cult hit.

"I know your guy because..." THAT WILL BE THE HIT CATCHPHRASE FROM THIS FLICK

Question does any body read this blog other than advertisers?

2005-08-16T23:49:00.000-04:00

I know that my writing sucks balls and all. Are there any Mickey Rourke fans out there? Any Carnahan fans?

I saw the 40 year old virgin today...

It was the Michael Moore story... OH SNAP!!!

More tomorrow

Broken Flowers sucks balls

2005-08-16T00:06:00.000-04:00

That is all. What a self-important and self-masturbating piece of shit.

Mickey Rourke is the Man Part Deuce.

2005-08-15T23:58:00.001-04:00

It was an unexpected twist in an already emotional week. In the early hours of yesterday, Andreas Franzi, the handsome 22-year-old Italian whose model girlfriend ran off with Mickey Rourke three days earlier, found himself face-to-face with the Hollywood actor who had cuckolded him. And Rourke asked Mr Franzi to join his table for a man-to-man drink.

The extraordinary scenes unfolded at the Movida nightclub in the West End of London. Mr Franzi had waited all day for the chance to tell Anya Ilnitskaya, a 19-year-old model from Ukraine, that all was forgiven. When she failed to return to the £500,000 flat that the couple have shared for five months in an exclusive square in Knightsbridge, central London, however, he put on his baseball cap and went out with friends.

Yesterday he told The Sunday Telegraph that he was angry at first when confronted by Mr Rourke, 48, who is currently in London filming at Pinewood Studios.
"I didn't know what I was going to do," he said. "But then he shook my hand. He called over the photographers and they took a picture. He said to me, 'Are you all right?' and I said, 'Yes, are you all right?' and he said, 'Yes.'

"Then Mickey Rourke hugged me. He said to me, 'You are one of the family, you are like my little brother.' He had another girlfriend there. He said, 'You know the press print things that aren't true. Why don't you come to my table for a drink and we will sort it out.' He was very nice to me and I want Anya to know this but I can't get hold of her today. I want Anya to know that I have met Mickey Rourke and that there is no problem now.

"Mickey Rourke told me nothing happened last Tuesday. He said: 'What do you think of me? I wouldn't take advantage.' "

Mr Franzi added: "I feel happier after this. Now I just want to concentrate on getting back with Anya.

"I've been feeling stressed, very confused. It has been an emotionally very difficult time for me. But I hope we are going to get back together. All I want to do is talk to her, have a proper conversation and sort it out. I still love her very much."

Mr Franzi said he had barely talked to her since she left him open-mouthed on the pavement and had driven away with Rourke.

The heart-breaking scenes were played out like a soap opera in front of waiting paparazzi outside Boujis nightclub in south Kensington on Tuesday. Mr Franzi - his young face flushed with passion - was restrained by bouncers as the path was cleared for Rourke to guide Miss Ilnitskaya, wearing a £20 T-shirt and a ragged gypsy skirt, to a chauffeur-driven car.

It was an exercise in the power of celebrity. Rourke, dressed like the ageing Hollywood Lothario in an ox-blood silk shirt, smirked with self-satisfaction while Mr Franzi pleaded with Miss Ilnitskaya, a 6ft blonde beauty, in vain. The Hollywood film star had got the girl.

But the romantic Italian student, who is from a wealthy family in Genoa, did not give up that easily. "I went to his hotel, The Dorchester, to speak to him," Mr Franzi said. "I told him, 'She is drunk but she is a nice girl. Don't treat her like this.' I wanted to tell him, 'She doesn't know what she's doing, she's just drunk.' I said, 'You can't take advantage of her.' "

Turned away from the hotel, he left without Miss Ilnitskaya. Yesterday he said: "She got drunk and then she got excited because of the cameras. She only left because it was Mickey Rourke and she was excited. She sees the photographers and she thinks they will take her picture."

Later the Hollywood actor, who had a new escort by Wednesday, reportedly said of Miss Ilnitskaya: "She wasn't worth the effort." Of Mr Franzi, he added: "He can have her."
Mr Franzi, however, was left in agony, not to mention his mortification at the very public cuckolding.

"He's basically a cool kid but he has a passionate temper and they are two young people very much in love," said one of his friends. "It's utterly destroying him but at the same time he just wants her back."

Last night Miss Ilnitskaya had still not returned to the couple's flat to pick up clothes or collect her passport.

She is believed to be staying with a friend called Sophie from the Next Model Agency, where she works.

Mr Franzi said: "I don't think they want her to stay with a young man like me. She is being guarded so I can't get hold of her whenever I want to. They keep saying that she needs to concentrate on her career."

Mr Franzi, looking melancholic and every inch the lovelorn hero, has spent much of the past two days waiting at the window of their flat, smoking roll-up cigarettes. The pair spoke briefly by telephone on Friday evening, and Miss Ilnitskaya promised to meet him soon.

"She sounded a bit upset but we are going to see each other in a couple of days," he said. "Either she was upset or tired: her voice was very hoarse." While Mr Franzi has been in England for four years studying at Nottingham University, Miss Ilnitskaya arrived only last year. Her English is imperfect but, say Mr Franzi's friends, she is highly ambitious. "She can be very cold when she knows what she wants," one said. "Basically, she's ruthless."

Mr Franzi, however, is more forgiving. "She's 19 years old and she has a fragile character; she needs to be looked after," he said. "I have been very angry and I know there are things I am going to say that I will regret. They have been horrible about her in the newspapers. I have to be careful, I have to think of Anya's career. But you know it's often like this with her."

He added: "I love her and I hope to be with her again. I'm basically a happy person most of the time. I think it's going to be OK."

Mickey Rourke is Still the Man

2005-08-15T00:45:00.000-04:00

Originally Posted by IMDB.com

Mickey Rourke was confronted outside a London nightclub by a jilted student in
the early hours of yesterday morning, after the man's model girlfriend ditched
him mid-date for the veteran actor. The Sin City star, 48, left the Boujis club
in the British capital's Kensington district with young beauty Anya Iniskia.
Iniskia had been on a date with her boyfriend Andreas Franzi, 22, who angrily
followed the pair outside where he challenged Rourke to hand Iniskia back. While
being held back by the nightclub's doormen, Franzi shouted at the actor, "Hey, I
want to talk to you. That's my girl you've got there. Who do you think you are,
some big movie star? I could buy you ten times over." Former boxer Rourke,
throwing shadow punches, responded, "Come over here, tough guy. I'll show you
who I am." Rourke and Iniskia then got into a taxi and headed to the luxury
Dorchester hotel, where they reportedly stayed until 1pm yesterday afternoon.
Franzi, who has been living with Iniskia for five months, says, "I thought we'd
be together always."]

There was a follow up to the article in the Daily Mail:

Rourke takes the Mickey out of model
09:01 am 12 th August 2005
The 49-year-old actor was pictured whisking away a 20-year-old Ukrainian model from the London nightspot to his hotel, while her boyfriend was held back by door staff, but now Rourke has ungentlemanly spoken about their encounter."She wasn't worth the effort," he said later.
And what about her boyfriend, Andrei Franzi, 22, who was
left spluttering in indignation as she left with Rourke?"He can have her," he
added.
After spending Tuesday evening (and the following morning) with Anna
Ilnitskaya, he decided to spend Wednesday night with a different girl.
The replacement was with him in the back of his limousine as they left the hotel for
another evening on the town. Rourke is in England filming the movie of Anthony
Horowitz's novel Stormbreaker at Pinewood Studios.

I love the use of the word replacement. He is the Mack daddy still.

6 AM and I'm an insomniac on Vacation

2005-08-06T06:00:00.000-04:00

I have to leave the house in 2 hours and I got know sleep the night before. "Vacation" is getting off to a good start (Read: sarcasm). I spent some of last night frantically looking for clothes that fit my fat ass (If I were to start getting serious about my gut, then I would slim down enough to triple my wardrobe) and watching an illegal download of Casino (This is a great movie).

I am about three weeks from school and am stuck in a summer rut. I hope to tell all none of you who are reading this blog how things went on Thursday.

I finally bought a Marv poster this week. AWESOME.

"Being fat is depressing some times"
- Me

I am such an Insomniac

2005-07-28T03:35:00.000-04:00

Here is a link to maddox's piece about how shitty blogs are... http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish

I am not a regular consistent blogger. As you can see from my archives. I'm just posting because I am an insomniac.

Random musings at 3:40 in the morning

Mickey Rourke Rules...zzzz

Matt Hardy....

I am getting back into wrestling again. I have to check out Ring of Honor...

Joe Carnahan... Do another movie...

To his holiness

Mickey Rourke...I got an idea for you to win an Oscar... Play a redneck with no front teeth. I know for a fact from watching Animal Factory that you have no front teeth. Play a redneck member of the KKK with a beard and no front teeth. You will win an Oscar in no time flat.

Fin

"This is what I have for children... Jesus Freaks...and Candy asses!"
- James Coburn's Oscar wining performance in Affliction.

Can't Sleep, Clown will eat me. Can't Sleep, Clown will eat me.

2005-07-21T04:03:00.000-04:00

I have been going to bed around 4-5 am for the last couple of weeks. Summer does this to my body clock. I need to get up at around 11 tomorrow so that I can get my size 56-58 ass into a lean, mean, cut, jacked, and ripped 50-52 size frame. I'm running out of shirts to wear. Maybe I can get my bro to take me to a big and tall store while my parents are gone.

And the nominee is...

John Roberts. At least Bush didn't choose his crazy religious crack smoking brother, Jake Roberts. He is pretty though, in an "I'm not gay, but maybe I'd switch teams for him like I would for Mickey Rourke" kind of way. He gets confirmed by at least 70-30.

Bernard Goldberg is a Douche Bag...

That is all.

Reason Number 1299 of why Mickey Rourke is worthy of an Oscar nomination...

When he hangs around black people, he doesn't attempt a weak ass "BLACKcent" (see, Timberlake, Justin) to make him self appear cooler to said black people. His crazy Irish ass is cool just the way it is.

Movies

I saw 400 Blows this week. Good film. The teacher in the film was a real asshole. The boy in the film has to be the coolest French character that I have ever seen in a film.

I loved batman begins. Christian Bale is God.

I saw some of War of the worlds. I liked what I saw. Even with Tom Cruise's crazy ass and the alleged "actor" Tim Robbins.

I saw some of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sadly, Johnny Depp is no Gene Wilder. I also miss the dwarf ompaa loompas.

One last thing

GOD I hope Joe Carnahan does another movie soon. Narc ruled all sorts of ass.

I didn't know that you had to update these things

2005-07-04T14:09:00.000-04:00

Happy fourth of July my eager fans (all two of you).

-Let's face it folks, Bush could nominate Adolph Hitler and he would pass by 52 votes. I think that Roe Vs. Wade is safe no matter what. If it was overturned it would be DEVASTATING to the Republican party. For 33 years, the conservative Christian element of the party has been running the agenda of the party. Republican Pro Life politicians have had the ability to be all huff and puffy on abortion, while never actually having to pass a law to ban it.

How many Rick Santurums and Tom Delays would be out of there job if they actually voted to get rid of a woman's right to choose? A lot. I guarantee it. I would like to see some democrats gain some balls in the questioning of whatever crazy Black/Latino/Woman Bush nominates.

Mickey Rourke deserves an Oscar nomination

It is my goal for the rest of the year to try to influence the academy of farts and sciences to give the greatest actor working today his due for his work in Sin City.

Marv was a great character who never received love until it was from a prostitute who was just using him. He was a tragic character and I think he is just as worthy of a nomination as Johnny Depps equally good, Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.

No Sleep and No getting school done make Jake something something...

2005-05-30T12:17:00.000-04:00

GO CRAZY!? Don't Mind if I do!-Homer Simpson

I was up last night from 3-10 AM playing a 12 year old computer game called Master of Orion.

I have work at 2 o'clock today til around 10 pm (That's IF I don't collapse from exhausation.

Question: Have you ever noticed that things are funnier when your up for 24 hours (Inside my head note to self: Reagan Mario Brothers scary theme)

I fucking loved that movie crash and I saw the new Star Wars movie twice in the first weekend. Matt Dillon: Best Supporting Oscar

Mickey Rourke News: I'm stil waiting to hear what he'll do after Domino. I'd love for Mickey Rourke to get the lead in the Max Payne Movie. I mean Marv was basically a blue print for that role. It looks like he'll play some mob guy in an Elmer Leonard adapted movie.

I'm predicting that Michael Jackson won't be convicted of Child Molestering the greedy F-G kid. I'm not really following the case but it seems to me that Michael had been set up. This kid was allegedly touched around after the year 2000. Heres my question:

What fucking parent would fucking let their kid hang around an accused sex offenders fucking house? I don't care if you were star strucked. Hey I liked the Pianist. I would not allow any of my female relatives on same block as Roman Polanski nor would I allow them to sleep over his house.

I almost done school for the semester and FOREVER!

2005-05-04T17:56:00.001-04:00

I just have 2 more subjects: Art History (which all I need to pass the course is to get a 40 or 50 on the test. I recently got a 92 on a museum project.) and History 441 (which won't be that hard but will require me to write for at least 6 hours in ordered to get a decent grade on the final exam)

Then I'll finish up my Independent study course in the next week. After that, I just have to do another 400 level class (In film, which will be a piece of cake) and I'm officially a Penn State graduate! Then I'll have new and worse worries like getting and keeping a job that I won't want at first. Should be FUN!

-I saw the interpreter... Didn't get it. I hate Nicole Kidman. Sean Penn did some of his "over emoting which got him the undeserved Oscar in Mystic River" cry and the plot was convoluted (like most thrillers).

-I'm liking how John Gulager has grown a backbone in Project Greenlight 3. All that's left for the movie is the editing and dreaded Test Screenings. He reminds me of a friend of mine crossed with Butters from South Park.

-I missed the season premiere of Family guy, but I can listen to the audio only thanks to "other sources." I can't get the Xvid codec for some reason (That's why I don't have picture.) I'm glad the show is back. Like Scott Keith, the wrestling columnist said, "It's a show for those who watch too much TV by people who watch too much TV." I love it.

-I loved Mickey Rourke on TV. He's a little washed up in real life, but man if he is not brilliant on Film. He deserves an Oscar for Sin City!

-Another person who deserves an Oscar is Joseph Gordon Levitt for the film I saw at the Philadelphia International Film festival, called Mysterious Skin. He plays an extremely gay male hustler who gets [4-11-09 EDITED FOR CONTENT] and gets an [EDITED] every 5 minutes in the film. If that doesn't get you to see the film, then nothing will. Have you ever seen DeNiro [4/11/09 EDITED] for the integrity of a role? I think not. Give the alien from Third rock from the Sun an Oscar.

-I'm looking forward to Crash. It looks like another Magnolia (which I admired a lot). Plus it has the Cheadle in it. Always good. I'll have a review up within the next week.

Thanks all for now. I'll try to update about 4 times this month. I only posted once in April and that kind of defeats the purpose of a blog.

Bye

The Pope of Acting is Back bitches.

2005-04-01T15:49:00.000-05:00

Next in line for a comeback: Eric Roberts.

The list of memorables is long: Rourke has found his greatest role since "The Pope of Greenwich Village."- Washington Post

Rourke in his fabulous turn as unstoppable killer Marv. In recent years, Rourke has popped up only sporadically, sometimes in neat little turns like the playboy lawyer in Coppola's "The Rainmaker." But here, smothered in latex and a huge vulpine nose, moving like a beast in his lairs, he really puts his stamp on "Sin City."-Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

And Rourke, in his best role in years, plays one of the film's GOOD guys-USA Today

Of the movie's intertwined narratives, the prize probably goes to the one that rescues Mickey Rourke, of all people, from the pop-culture has-been bin. The actor is nearly unrecognizable as Marv, a hostile lug with a head shaped like a pitching wedge, but Rourke uses the facial prosthetics to bully his way ecstatically through the film's mayhem, like a man who has seen it all and no longer cares (which may be as true for him as for his character).-Boston Globe

For Rourke, his scary and soulful turn as Marv, who is both heartbreaking in the scenes where he recalls the one brief moment of happiness in his life and terrifying when he tracks down those who stole it from him, is the role that he has deserved for a long time–one that reminds us that he is, beyond the tabloid headlines and questionable personal choices, an uncommonly gifted actor who hasn’t lost an bit of the raw charisma that made him a star in the first place. -Peter Sobczynski, Hollywood Bitchslap

Sue Me: I'm posting a to do list on my blog

2005-03-17T16:44:00.000-05:00

1. Lose Weight (ha ha)
2. Get a Girlfriend (BWWHHA HA!!!)
3. School

For Biology.
One test on March 29th.
Project due in Mid April.

English 50
Due the revisions this weekend

History
Start work soon on the final project and the test (which itself takes about as much work as said project.

English 400
Read the book for group
Do assignment 3 by next Wendsday

Art
actually study for the next test.

American Studies:
See if you can extend the class into the summer.
If not. Work on the Federalism Book and the 80 page paper. finish Kammen by next weekend also.

Mickey is kicking ass with the comic nerds

2005-03-17T14:53:00.000-05:00

I looks like my favorite actor is getting some very positive notices from the fan boys who have seen sneak previews of Sin City

IMDB User Comments:

My favorite performance was turned in by Mickey Rourke for playing Marv absolutely letter perfect from the book (and he demonstrates one of the best narrative voices I've heard in a movie since Morgan Freeman in "The Shawshank Redemption"). -jtizzle

All cast performances were excellent - especially Mickey Rourke's "Marv" character.
-scolton-1

The story I found the best (it revolves basically around three) was Mickey Rourke's-- who was also my favorite character from the film because of his "man on a mission" attitude.- Ladykracher

I'll post some more reviews later...

BTW: The Mickey Rourke movie of the week is Angel Heart

I'm currently getting ready to do some school work...

2005-03-17T10:03:00.000-05:00

...And I'm wasting my time writing on this blog! BTW: My goal by the end of the summer is to get ONE FUCKING COMMENT on this Freakin Blog. (Friends don't count, Matt)

I've been getting around 4-6 hours of sleep this week and I think its making me depressed. I don't know how some people can get away with a couple of nights of little sleep. I need one day this week where I can sleep for like 12 hours to balance my body clock.

Question: what happens to you when you feel blue? COMMENT, BITCHES.

Surprise: I'm still a fat tub of gay as of this writing! How shocking!
Question to my obese brethren, Do you ever feel like your fatter than usual?

Project Greenlight sucks

Speaking of fellow obese people, I watched the first episode of the new project greenlight. I was rooting for the socially awkward 46 year old director and I was glad that he won (I can relate to the guy).

Here are my basic problems with Project Greenlight:

1.Ben Affleck gets to vote on what script is "worthy enough" to win the contest. Like the guy who choose the scripts for Gigli, Pearl Harbor, and Paycheck would know what a good script is if it bite him in the ass.

2.Too many producers involved with picking the movie. Allow Damon, Chris Moore (even though he is a studio hack), and Wes Craven to be the sole script selectors.

3.All the movie in the project greenlight series have been PG-13. This compromises artistic integrity from the start. Look, if a flick is only going to cost the studio 1 to 2 million dollars, the least that you can do is allow the script to say "fuck" more than once.

4.They choose people who will be entertaining for the show and not necessarily good directors. Last year, they choose two directors who submitted the crappiest directed submission of the semi finalists. The JFK guy and the chick submitted WAY better shorts then those 2 dorks.

The whole point of Project Greenlight is to allow new artists to enter Hollywood and express themselves. Well to have artists express themselves they're going to have to DO SOMETHING THAT ISN'T MAINSTREAM. If I was Miramax or Dimension, I would allow the film maker to do anything they wanted. It's only 2 million bucks + another million in hidden expenses. The Aviator lost you guys like 30 million dollars. What's 3 million to you guys?

Holy Shit. I haven't updated in a while

2005-03-13T21:11:00.001-05:00

I was on spring break doing "school work"(read: nothing) this week.

I saw Robots. Forgettable movie, but boy did it have some awesome special effects. The movie LOOKED great but Robin Williams gets on my nerves sometimes. [Jay and Silent Bob reference warning:] He was the bomb in One Hour Photo and Insomnia, yo.

I'm watching some CBS movie called Saving Milly with Bruce Greenwood and Madeline Stowe. Stowe, God she is still so SEXY...Mm...OH MY KEYBOARD ;) I can't believe she is having trouble getting work cause she is "too old". Remember when the media made a big deal about Ashton Kutcher boning Demi Moore. They said shit like, "Oh My God she is too old!"

RANT TIME: Let me tell you something: If you are in your early twenties and don't want to f--k Madeleine Stowe or Demi Moore then you are a [4/11/09: EDITED FOR CONTENT]

Lets see... I saw Dr. Strangelove this week. Overrated, I did laugh at the line about the Coke Corporation.

BTW: I taught a 14 year old Middle student with Tourette's syndrome the C Word today. You know, Cuckoo Head. I'm not proud of it, but if you work for a minimum wage job, your going to hear some salty language.

Mickey Rourke update: I'm still waiting for a single review to pop up on Sin City. If any movie is going to get Rourke noticed again right now, its this flick. I do think Robert Rodriguez is a really shitty director though. I hope this is his version of Joel Schumacher's Falling Down, which was a good movie from a hack director

BTW: I like Eric Roberts. He is SO. Much. MORE. Talented. Then. his horse-faced sister, Julia.

Chris Rock is Killing me!

2005-02-27T20:41:00.001-05:00

I loved his standup routinue. The Bush stuff was classic

Chris Rock is Killing me!

2005-02-27T20:41:00.000-05:00

Bush at the GAP!

It's almost Time...

2005-02-27T19:30:00.001-05:00

Predictions for the Oscars:

*Chris Rock will make fun of George W. Bush winning the Razzie for worst actor, Yesterday.

*Finding Neverland will be used as a Michael Jackson joke.

Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman
Best Supporting Actress: umm... the chick from Hotel Rwanda

Morgan Freeman is a legend. He is the Henry Fonda of my generation. He is the most respected actor in Hollywood. HOWEVER, he was NOT anything special in Million Dollar Baby. All he did for his role was talk like he had a frog stuck in his throat. That doesn't matter, Crazy Joe from Lean on Me is getting the Oscar.

Sophie Okonedo would be my choice for the SUPRISE WIN OF THE NIGHT[see Marissa Tomei, for example]
Come on Academy, give Hotel Rwanda SOMETHING.

Best Actor: Jamie Fox
Best Actress: Hilary Swank

Even though Foxx's performance in Ray isn't even worthy to hold Don Cheadle's jock in Hotel Rwanda, you could pretty much get away with just announcing Jamie Foxx the winner without opening the envelope.

Ditto Hillary Swank

Best Director: Clint Eastwood
Best Picture: Aviator (Michael Mann gets an Oscar, YEAH!)

more later...

Weight and School update

2005-02-22T19:08:00.001-05:00

I haven't been making time recently (since Thursday) because I've been working and doing school stuff. I saw Mr. Movie Steve Friedman Saturday. () He is a really nice bloke.

Lets see, I'm currently reobsessed with GTA:SA after finally beating Los Santos and making it to the Bad Lands. I can't seem to beat "Farewell, My Love." Can somebody help me out?

I have to start reading some really boring Ernest Hemingway short stories now.

Talk Later...

P.S. Check out his imdb entry to see the filmography of the greatest actor of my generation, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Blogger deleted my post!

2005-02-17T17:25:00.000-05:00

I did a post asking about how to get the PS2 Ethernet to work with Action Max so I can download game saves to GTA San andreas.

I also recommended the movie Barfly as the Mickey Rourke movie of the week

I also criticized Alberto Gonzales for trying to prosecute people who sent porn tapes of CONSENTING FUCKING ADULTS (figuratively and literally)

But that is all gone thanks to a service time out.

Thanks Blogger!

Fuck school

2005-02-16T23:12:00.001-05:00

So I'm finally going to graduate school when all of a sudden I get snowed with a progress report asking me to drop a course. I was able to talk to the teacher and I *might* be able to pass this year as long as I attend every fucking class for the rest of the semester. [Edit 4/11/09: I flunked the course. Asshole]

I have a question, PSU has a computer system called Angel which allows you to post assignments and talk to classmates online. Why do you need to go to EVERY FUCKING CLASS to pass a course? If you just check Angel you should be able to skip a class once in a while.

Fuck

2005-02-15T01:15:00.000-05:00

The Oscars (yawn!)

2005-02-14T20:10:00.001-05:00

I couldn't be more NOT looking foward to the oscars if Ben Affleck was receiving a lifetime acheivement Oscar.

Here are my predictions:

Picture
Million Dollar Baby

Director
Clint Eastwood, which means that Marty Scorsese gets screwed AGAIN

Actor
Jamie Foxx receives Don Cheadle's Oscar. I liked Ray, but there is no comparison to Don Cheadle's performance in Hotel Rwanda.

Actress
Hillary Skank...um... I mean Swank ;)

Supporting Categories
I'm hoping that Sophie Okonedo from Hotel Rwanda pulls a Marcia Gay Harding, but It's going to Cate Blanchett.

Morgan Freeman's going to get an Oscar for playing a wise old black man. Spike Lee once refered to these type of performances as being "Magical Negroes." I wouldn't go that far, but his performance isn't anything special. It is more of a lifetime appreciation Oscar.

I have to go on a diet (shit!) Oh and Matt McGroaty DOES NOT like it up the ass

2005-02-13T19:36:00.000-05:00

Why did I have to chose to be addicted to food when I turned 8 or 9 years old? I should have just chosen to smoke crack or shoot up heroin. That way the only thing I would need to do is stop taking drugs cold turkey instead of "eat but less of what you eat." Its frustrating.

I'm really looking forward to the movie Gunner Palace. http://www.gunnerpalace.com/

On April 1st, The Comback of Mickey Rourke begins... SIN CITY

I'm on hold on the radio show

2005-02-12T22:21:00.000-05:00

It's probably going to be an hour until my appearance on the Mr Movie radio show on 1210 AM. I'll post more in a bit

Edit: I got a great line in the show tonight. I said that "Bill Murray was doing an impersonation of a corpse in Lost in Translation."

Speaking of Overrated movies: SIDEWAYS (with the exception of the naked dude)

Only 30 minutes left till work

2005-02-12T13:22:00.000-05:00

BTW: I'll be on 1210 AM tonight around 10:30-11:30. I'll be on the Mr. Movie radio show. Its the only radio show that I like on a consistant basis.

I'm in my underwear and all of a sudden my dad gets upset with me. A little hypocritical huh dad.

I like Joseph Gordon Levitt. I have to go now. Talk later. BYE BYE

2 hours till work

2005-02-12T12:06:00.000-05:00

I work at a local AMC in the Philly suburbs. Don't you just hate it when you're doing nothing and have a work shift in less than 2 hours? You can't really relax because you have the specter of work hanging over your head, but you don't really feel like getting ready for work since you will be working for 8 hours in less than 120 minutes. Alright that is a little too neurotic even for Mickey Rourke.

I saw 60% of Hitch on Friday. Not bad. I'm a sucker for movies which feature a fat guy (Kevin James) dating a hot chick (Super model Amber Valletta) I thought that I would have hated it but it was okay (*** out of *****).

One more thing...

2005-02-12T02:00:00.000-05:00

Why the FUCK isn't Mickey Rourke on the cover of this weeks Entertainment Weekly? His character Marv is the freaking lead in the upcoming film, Sin City.

I'll tell you why...
Hollywood is still upset at him for his behavior during the Reagan administration. Get over it, Hollywood. Mickey Rourke is a bad assed mother fucker and you pussies can't deal with it.

Instead of him representing the movie we have Jessica "Bitch Face" Alba, Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, and Rosario "No Talent" Dawson gracing the front cover of EW.

It's a conspiracy to keep Rourke down.
Somebody call Oliver Stone or Michael Moore!

Let me introduce myself

2005-02-12T01:48:00.000-05:00

Hi my name is Jake. I live in Broomall, Pennsylvania which is a suburb of Philly. I'm hopefully going to graduate college this semester at a Penn State Delaware County campus. I'm really into movies and have a quasi-homosexual obsession with actor Mickey Rourke (He was in Diner...DINER!)

I tend to be liberal leaning in my politics but have grown to be tired of Michael Moore's and Oliver Stone's oversimplification of complex issues.

This blog will be a general archive for my reviews until it runs out of bandwidth and I actually will have to SPEND MONEY to keep my blog up.

I'll post something later in the weekend

Mickey Rourke

Movies I am looking foward to as of June 28th 2010

Boy is this blog amateur!

Welcome to the Teens

OH MY GOD, I was an Idiot in 2005-2007

I can't wait for this freaking movie

Tiger Lou- The Loyal

God Bless Gore Vidal

I really need to go to sleep.

Why do I have insomnia?

The New "Hang in there" poster for my office

Mike Capanna Sucks

In Treatment is the bomb

I have so much to do and am so far behind

Philadelphia Film Festival Wrap up

World F-N Champions

What's this Mets fans?

McCain ducks Obama

Waiting sucks

Thanks Darren Aronofsky

Rourke and Gambers: Together at Last!

liberal is the new conservative

CVS IS GONE

25 years old. My Mother, God rest her soul.

Joe Carnahan is god!

ah...

The Doucheys

Joe Carnahan wrote to me!!!

An existential post

The Philly film fest

Actor Updates

Crash sucked, now it is an Oscar winner!

Blast from the Past.

I am a working man!

UPDATE TIME!

I read Killshot

I am a month away from being done school

The Political Test

Just posting

Nothing is happening that is why I am not posting...

I lost 8 pounds...

A History of Violence *spoilers*

Joey Levitt AND Mickey Rourke to do a movie together!?!?

I'm posting at University Park Penn State!

Happy Birthday Mickey

Don't F--- with Mickey Rourke + Best Actors

Ken Kennedy

Carlos Mencia aint funny

Define A-hole:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Ray Liotta is God

I just saw Narc on AMC

School's back

Domino Poster

School's Back for Fall!

40 year old virgin

Question does any body read this blog other than advertisers?

Broken Flowers sucks balls

Mickey Rourke is the Man Part Deuce.

Mickey Rourke is Still the Man

6 AM and I'm an insomniac on Vacation

I am such an Insomniac

Can't Sleep, Clown will eat me. Can't Sleep, Clown will eat me.

I didn't know that you had to update these things

No Sleep and No getting school done make Jake something something...

I almost done school for the semester and FOREVER!

The Pope of Acting is Back bitches.

Sue Me: I'm posting a to do list on my blog

Mickey is kicking ass with the comic nerds

I'm currently getting ready to do some school work...

Holy Shit. I haven't updated in a while

Chris Rock is Killing me!

Chris Rock is Killing me!

It's almost Time...

Weight and School update

Blogger deleted my post!

Fuck school

The Oscars (yawn!)

I have to go on a diet (shit!) Oh and Matt McGroaty DOES NOT like it up the ass

I'm on hold on the radio show

A History of Violence spoilers