Nightmares and Dreamscapes

I love nightmares. Sounds odd don't it but I do. Normal dreams are ok but nightmares just seem to be more creative and exciting. Shark attacks, zombies, Godzilla or the like are just so much more fun. Dreams are just cool. Where else can you shoot guns with impunity, jump of cliffs and survive or walk out your front door and find yourself on a boat or a beach. The stream of a dream can be so surreal a trip to the museum gets you involved in something going on in a music store while you watch a movie at a strip club and then have something in the kitchen. Of course getting caught a zombie and waking up is a bummer but it sure beats walking naked through your neighborhood. The dreams I really despise are the ones where you go to work. Now that's a nightmare. I mean how much creativity is involved in coming up with a trip to the everyday?

Wake Up Call

I got a wake up call (it should have been a slap in the back of the head) from my friend EJ who goes by the handle Press Oblivion so I will be trying harder to make this live. Stand bye for more postings.

It's hard to be cool in a Saturn

I went to see Miami Vice Sunday. Nice way to blow off an afternoon. After a movie like that you find yourself wanting to be cool. To drive cool. But you can't do it in a Saturn. No way. No how.
The movie was very good but then I expect it from Michael Mann. I loved the way he managed to get the over contrasty look to everything. It's the kind of look you get when you're out in the direct tropical sun and you are not using all these extra lights to soften the shadows. Jamie Fox was good as Tubbs and Colin Farrell was ok as Crocket. He was a little too strung out by everything going on but it worked. The supporting cast was excellant as well. Mann has an eye not just for the images on the screen but the people working in them. No the typical everyone is a cover model way most Hollyweird movies are done these days although Gong Li was very sleek. The sex scenes were nicely steamy without showing anything but at one point really began to seem gratuitous.
The gunfight at the end was the best modern gun fight I've seen. I'm not enough of a gun nut to go "well he should have been using a Beretta and not a Colt" but I did notice the Barretts. A really psychotic .50 caliber sniper rifle. And none of the cops did that stupid sideways shooting crap you see a lot of these days. I know enough about guns that if you hold the gun sideway you might get lucky and hit your target but you'll shoot whoever is standing next to him after that and just move down the line as the recoils move the gun out of line.
Now I mentioned modern gunfight. That's as opposed to a Western gunfight. The best I've ever seen is in Once Upon a Time in the West by Ennio Morricone and had Charles Bronson playing the hero and Henry Fonda the villain. Awesome amount of tension that explodes in a second. The other, another Morricone movie, is the finale of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Clief and Eli Wallach. See both in wide screen as Morricone used the whole screen placing people in the corners to give the scenes scope even close ups are awesome n widescreen.

It's a start.

Well here it is my first blog post. Not sure what I'll say or if I'll put anything controversial up here but I will try and keep it lively. Thanks for checking it out.