Because I do get sooo tired talking about me ...

BECAUSE MY DEFAULT IS SET AT 'CHILLIN''

And you can think yourself into trouble, thinking about the same thing, no matter what you call it, as long as it revolves around you, it is the same thing.

I know what I am going to do about 'me'. The two lead horses are pulling away, and what ever else is racing up, whether it is a Barbaro or a Rosie Ruiz (yup, I shur did, mix species with that metaphor!) will just be running. I am as ready as I can be.

Definitely want to see 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'. Cannot BELIEVE that so many people still hate on 'Ted'. I loved both the 'Big Adventure' and 'Totally Bogus Journey'. Loved 'Point Break' and caught the first 'Matrix' with, you guessed it, Tee Jay! Come on now, he was good in 'Bram Stroker's Dracula', at least he was to me.

But there are two big movies that are questionable. One is 'Valkyrie' with Tom Cruise. I take MANY issues with the movie ... to me, making heroes out of Nazis is like the heroic KKK cats ... oh, never heard of them ... there is a good reason for that ... there WEREN'T ANY.

In the face of such inhumanity, they went along for the ride until they were losing. Tom Cruise belongs to fanatical religion, or at least that is what THE GERMANS THEMSELVES say. Have problems knowing that I am dropping money in the Scientology collection tin. That is me.

Another 'mixed' movie is 'The Spirit'. Loved Frank Miller's 'Batman' in the '90's and thought 'Sin City' was a cool movie. Then I heard him talk. Gonna post some excerpts from an interview he did on NPR. Don't know if I am cropping it to make him look like anything ... I took it from a sight that agrees with this, this badly disguised imperialist racist screed. Dag, wanted to get opinions without showing my hand ... oh well. You folks judge.

Here are some snippets from his interview with NPR:

NPR: […] Frank, what’s the state of the union?
FM: Well, I don’t really find myself worrying about the state of the union as I do the state of the home-front. It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe that knows exactly what it wants … and we’re behaving like a collapsing empire. Mighty cultures are almost never conquered, they crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because of everything that isn’t working out perfectly every time.

NPR: Um, and when you say we don’t know what we want, what’s the cause of that do you think?
FM: Well, I think part of that is how we’re educated. We’re constantly told all cultures are equal, and every belief system is as good as the next. And generally that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues. When you think about what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities, and all the good its done in the world, it’s kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.

NPR: A lot of people would say what America has done abroad has led to the doubts and even the hatred of its own citizens.
FM: Well, okay, then let’s finally talk about the enemy. For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we’re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people’s heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters, they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I’m living in a city where three thousand of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built.

NPR: As you look at people around you, though, why do you think they’re so, as you would put it, self-absorbed, even whiny?
FM: Well, I’d say it’s for the same reason the Athenians and Romans were. We’ve got it a little good right now. Where I would fault President Bush the most, was that in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn’t call the nation into a state of war. He didn’t explain that this would take a communal effort against a common foe. So we’ve been kind of fighting a war on the side, and sitting off like a bunch of Romans complaining about it. Also, I think that George Bush has an uncanny knack of being someone people hate. I thought Clinton inspired more hatred than any President I had ever seen, but I’ve never seen anything like Bush-hatred. It’s completely mad.

NPR: And as you talk to people in the streets, the people you meet at work, socially, how do you explain this to them?
FM: Mainly in historical terms, mainly saying that the country that fought Okinawa and Iwo Jima is now spilling precious blood, but so little by comparison, it’s almost ridiculous. And the stakes are as high as they were then. Mostly I hear people say, ‘Why did we attack Iraq?’ for instance. Well, we’re taking on an idea. Nobody questions why after Pearl Harbor we attacked Nazi Germany. It was because we were taking on a form of global fascism, we’re doing the same thing now.

NPR: Well, they did declare war on us, but…
FM: Well, so did Iraq.