re: reviews, returns, rrr

King Kong
I liked this one, it sorta reminded me of a neo classic. It also balanced high paced movie going with some real issues about love and human nature. The way Naomi Watts got us to believe she and the beast shared something was good. A tragic love story between woman and simple beast.

Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood movie, I had never seen a Dirty Harry movie before. It was good, and made me laugh in its self satire. Self conscious Tough guy movie. Set in SF if I remember. The bad guy was sorta good stealing the bus full of kids.

Deathwish
Alright film about revenge, sorta. The hero never takes equal revenge, rather he becomes a vigelante. I wanted to see Bronson get angry, very restrained movie, perhaps that’s what they were building.

Joe.
I had only seen Peter Boyle in the Dream Team and the other hunter s Thompson movie with bill murray. He was good in this and it was fun seeing him and the main character partying with the hippies. The most memorable line in the movie though was the girl who says, “If you want it so bad, you can have it.” Good ending.

Nashville
Good, a couple scenes were slow. The song the blonde guitarist plays was good and the last song the crazy woman sings was also good. Lilly Tomlin ruled in a part shallow enough to be generalized but deep enough to be felt. It was nice hearing so much country.

Wolfen
Good. Urban decvay is the real star in this movie. Gregory hines is funny doing the post Richard pryor thing. Albert finny, did he play uncle albert? I forget. Basic idea is hippy as shit but the wolf parts are cool, If I had a band I’d name us the wolfen. One more animal to add to the list.

Burnt Offerings
Karen black horror flick, reminded me of the shining sorta or just any haunted house yarn. Father drowing the kid was cool, suspenseful but anti climatic ending.

Woke up with with $7 in my pocket. Damnit. Sold back the cd label maker and sony headphones and now have 40 bucks in my pocket. Bought a blanket for 1.60. Talked to Johnny the cowboy who plays on 16th and south van ness. Been listening to Neil Michael Hagerty’s first album all day. Its got this organ spine running through it that reminds me of basement dance parties. That yo la tengo song is in my head a lot too. I wanted to say something but something tied my hands. I have a plan to go to amoeba and buy those two Fleetwood mac albums for $1 each. Ive been wanting them, I cant see finding them much cheaper.
Went back to thrift town and tried to return the light brown blanket for the yellow one. Un successfully. Yellow is much better. Went to the main library picked up Sybill and Let It Blurt- the lester bangs biography. Rode to the mission bay library and discovered its closed Mondays. Rrr. Rode back to market street stopped by Rasputin where they had Funny Ha Ha for 5.95. got a call while smoking up. Start the job tomorrow. I still want those Fleetwood mac lps. Funny haha ruuules. It's a gray day today.