I saw Rumble Fish back in 1994, was stunned, and was also stunned that hardly anyone had seen it or written about it in the decade after its release. It’s a real love-it-or-hate-it experience, but it definitely clicked for me. Amazing visuals and sounds, and some outright surrealism in what was ostensibly a Hollywood movie. There’s nothing quite like it, and Criterion is bringing it to Blu-Ray in April.
Miguel Ferrer, Rest in Peace
Always Entertaining
Korean Parliament Fight:
Yet More Truth
“Determine never to be idle. . . It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Credit where it is due, I got these quotes from a great blog post by Steve Pavlina about having a good work ethic.
More Truth
“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.”
– Henry Ford
The Truth
“There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Trouble at Melody Mesa
I briefly mentioned this 1949 movie in I Cannot, Yet I Must because it was directed by Merle Connell, one of Phil Tucker’s collaborators. I said that it is a must for anyone who likes a really bad Western. I stand by that statement:
Starting the Year Off Right
Merry Christmas
This Guy is Awesome
He does a great guitar lesson for how to play this song, and he even sounds like Jim Croce singing while he plays.
Much respect also to this guy covering it on 12-string guitar:
