recent (ish) photos from my camera

The Wine bar - busy as usual during the afternoon

Catterick Village residents (it's like a horror movie)

Scorton Car Boot Sales (every Sunday morning!)

The rabbit run before l hacked the overgrowth back

Rab still alive and kicking (well, alive at least)

Louise and Dazzers party for the house warming and little Lol

The wall in JT's

Idiots in the Wine Bar (Mr OC, Lonnie, Rich and Ditch)

Idiots dancing on a Friday night in Tunstall

Nothallerton Friarage Hospital waiting room (work in the morning)

The bloody grass before cutting it for bonfire night

Fireworks in the living room - no Health and Safety officer in sight

Mmmmm - Drink!

The Health Centre in Catterick Village (work in the afternoon)

An example of my sadness in front of the computer

The Health centre in Catterick (check up for me in the afternoon)

The river Swale on the way to Leyburn (opposite the caravan)

The beginnings of the bonfire and an idiot rabbit

Warming my tootsies at the end of bonfire night

Another late bedtime with the sun coming up

Bonfire night with a guy in the way

The idiot (and huge) rabbit being cleaned (and looking pissed off)

Thought l would share a few recent pictures that l had uploaded to the computer. What an exciting experience for everyone involved!

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pearl jam piss take with subtitles

I was watching the Pearl Jam documentary (Twenty) by Cameron Crowe earlier on this evening, and this piss take appeared on it. To me, it just got funnier the more times l watched it.

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crazy hallucinogenic cat video

This video is just weird. I sure picked a fine day to give up acid.

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cologne and dresden at the end of the war

Dresden 1945

Cologne 1945

To say Dresden and Cologne were bombed a lot towards the end of The Second World War is certainly a bit of an understatement. It's amazing how they (and Germany) have managed to recover so well, and in such a (relatively) short space of time, that they are now holding the purse strings of Europe.

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doctored burger king advert

Very clever!

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alternate cool hand luke posters

More junk/collectables for me to collect, depending on your viewpoint.

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cool hand luke (1967) - stuart rosenberg

Yet another classic featuring convicts. Cool Hand Luke is quite simply, one of the best (and most quoted) movies of all time. It stars Paul Newman as Luke, an ex war hero who is sentenced to two years incarceration in a Southern correctional facility (and the chain gang), for cutting the tops off parking meters while drunk. He refuses to lose his spirit, and becomes a hero and talisman to the other prisoners, once he has been accepted after a fight with their leader, 'Dragline' (George Kennedy). During the fight, Luke shows his determination for the first time and refuses to concede defeat. Luke also keeps escaping and being captured, and is punished throughout. There is a lot of spiritual symbolism and references, and Luke questions the Lord (or lack of one) on more that one occasion. At the finale, he finishes up in a church (where he prays), and is betrayed by Dragline. The film ends with Dragline rhapsodising about him to the new intake of prisoners. Altogether now......"I'm shakin it boss", "What we've got here is a failure to communicate", "I can eat 50 eggs in one hour" and "Don't put me in the hole again boss, I've got my mind right". Superb!

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alternate 'the defiant ones' posters

While looking for pictures for the last post, l came across these alternate posters, which l thought were pretty good. If l had a massive house and loads of money, l would add collecting posters to my many other hobbies, and fill the place up with even more junk (my lucky FPO!).

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the defiant ones (1958) - stanley kramer

Another film about convicts (I've seen three today - it's great being off work!). The Defiant Ones stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, who play (brilliantly) two convicts, (John 'Joker' Jackson and Noah Cullen) manacled to each other, that manage to go on the run when their transportation crashes. They both dislike each other, and Curtis is an out and out racist (calling Poitier a'nigger' and 'boy'). Of course, they grow to like and respect each other when they are on the run, and Curtis still manages to get himself a woman, even when he is ill, manacled and stinking after being chased for so long. What a man! (Once again, that's the movies for you). I won't say if they get away or not, but Poitiers singing would get on my nerves after a while and make me want to grass him up just to have some piece and quiet. The film also has an appearance by Lon Chaney Jr (playing Big Sam, an ex con who assists them and saves then from a lynching). A classic of the cinema.

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I love you phillip morris (2009) - glen ficarra

I love you Phillip Morris is a movie based on the true story of Stephen Jay Russell (interview here). Jim Carrey plays Stephen with just the right amount of humour and pathos to make the film a success. Stephen is an upstanding citizen, married, church going etc, but decides he has to come out as a gay man and get divorced. He eventually gets sent to prison (not, l hasten to add, for being gay). While incarcerated, he meets and falls in love with another inmate (guess his name) played by Ewan McGregor. He then proceeds to escape from prison (on more that one occasion) to live and be near him as Phillip was only serving a short sentence and Stephen kept being caught for other crimes. It is a tragi-comedy with a love story at the heart of it, and it is done remarkably well, although McGregor was not exactly stretched in his role (there is a gay joke in there somewhere). Carey keeps his over the top humour in check, and is totally believable as a man dying from AIDS. Was not too keen on all the man kissing, but it made me cry at the end, especially the scene when McGregor was on the telephone (big softie that l am).

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