007

Yesterday, I watched three James Bond movies back to back. And that was good. It had been a while since I had seen the original 007 in action. Call me a purist, but Sean Connery is the true James Bond. Dr. Mo, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball. It brought back memories when I first saw Dr. No. The buzzwords among me and my buds were "license to kill". Wow! The Bond movies were the summation of a young man's fancy. Danger, excitement, fast cars and beautiful women. They may look hokey now but at their point in time they were fantastic! Who knew that a martini could be either shaken or stirred? Seeing an old Bond is like revisiting youth. And it's sweet. Very sweet.

My sketch book was in hand and I made a few sketches during Thunderball".

movie for a rainy day

I guess it could be a good movie for any day. I'm speaking of the sci-fi pic Next. I'm not a big Nick Cage fan but this story carries him along. He plays a magician with a talent for seeing into the future for about two minutes. Julianne Moore one of my favorite readheads, plays the tough FBI agent who wants to use Cage's talents to thwart a nuclear attack. And then there is Jessica Biel. She's just hot! She seems to have changed a lot since her preacher's daughter role on television.It's a good film with good visual effects and a good action story.

Todays Music

• Pink
• CVB
• Tobey Kieth

Car Show

It's been along time since I've seen a exhibit of drag racing cars. Most of the cars at this show at the local K-Mart parking lot were drag racing cars. The sanctioning body was the Southern Drag Racing Association. The SDRA set the rules for competing as well specifications for the cars. I was surprised to find that none of the cars were fuel injected, four barrel carburetors were common. NOX was used on almost everything. I talked with a guy that raced a Baretta. It had a small block Chevy engine and turned 148 mph in the eighth mile. That's haulin' and on the bottle. There were other cars such as a bathtub Porshe kit car. It was immaculate powered by a flat four with dual down-draft Webers. The most interesting thing I saw were the junior dragsters. Designed for youngsters, they have one cylinder engines. It was a lot of fun and I would like to smell the rubber burn.

Homeward Bound

Who says you can's go home? I thought it would be a good idea to put together a little video of Bradley, SC. I pondered the format and look a bit. i finally decided that a slide show would do nicely. The use of black and white images would give at somewhat of a vintage effect. Initially, I was going to use handwritten captions but that did not work out. Actually, it would have been too time-consuming. I did not have enough close ups. A crude attempt at humor was made.

Watchmen

The Watchmen is a superhero movie. Someone is killing superheroes and it must be stopped. Time: 1985. Place: USA

The movie is too long, about three hours. They could have cut an hour out of it and had a better movie. The first half really drags as the story is set up. The entire movie is full of hyperbolic action. After a head is smashed a couple of times, continued smashing is purely gratuitous. Most of the movie is dark or shades of gray and when color is used it is less than intense. Character development is fairly well done but could have been better. The flashbacks were kind of annoying. I did like the movie and the sound track was great. Perhaps if I had read the graphic novel?