UnsubstanTial Verbage or Substandard Verbage

I stuck a couple bobbie pins in my hair while cutting up gallons of peaches, trying to keep the sweat out of my eyes, when I caught a glimpse reflecting off the window—amusing—I’d look like Travolta in Battlefield Earth, if it grew a little longer!

(Have you ever looked at their feet?)

This started me daytrippin about movies and how Dan had found the cool truck from the movie Overboard (did you watch the video?), and how many older movies I am fond of—and some of them are not any good…it might just be a small scene, or a certain movement, or catchy tune. I started putting together a wee list of items that have caught my fancy and whether I truly liked the movie or not, well, I probably did, just based on a few artistic or bizarre moments…

Face Off: the crisp way Cage’s coat snaps at precisely the right moment/ the way the knife unfolds right before it stabs into flesh/ Travolta’s face as he says ‘wee—what a predicament’.

Kalifornia: Juliette Lewis’ (Adele) tender display with the cactus/ abandoned buildings

Con Air: about anything that comes out of Garland Greene’s mouth!/Cyrus’ displays of intelligence

Desperado: the music w/ the entire ‘walking down the street’ scene right after Banderas kills all those people in the bar and then sees Selma/ the way he ‘kachunks’ his arms and guns come out his sleeves/reaches back behind his head and pulls out a gun.

The Usual Suspects: when the coffee cup lands on the floor exposing the word Kobayashi…and Verbal.

Pulp Fiction: dance scene in 50’s restaurant/ aaahh!---worst scene—the shot to Uma’s heart!

Moulin Rouge: the can-can dance with Nirvana/ elephant scene/costumes

The Fugitive: Harrison Ford’s quiet desperation and the look in Tommy Lee Jone’s eyes—when he begins to realize Ford's innocent.

The Fifth Element: the use of the color orange and its endearing stupidness

The Cell: the way the cape peels/floats around the walls, the despicable beauty, the live Odd Nerdrum painting

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: the first part of the movie while Gibson has long hair

Edward Scissorhands: Depp’s lips

Legends of the Fall: Tristan’s hair/ the first scene of the almost kiss…too sad to go on …

Batman: lips when he’s Keaton and Kilmer

Event Horizon: the creepy Stardrive/flashes of horror/Baby Bear/ the Latin phrases (was one of the movies that creeped out the kids and they’d seen much worse…)

Predator 2: fixing his stomach in the bathroom with freaky contraptions/ last scene when all the predators pick up the body

What Dreams May Come: the way scenes remind me of Hieronymus Bosch paintings

Tombstone: the enchanted moment when Josephine first sees Wyatt and says, ‘I want one’/when Wyatt realizes who the devil is/Johnny Ringo and Doc Holiday’s interplay with the cup and gun/ the way Curly Bill says, ‘Prettiest man I ever saw’.

The Matrix: follow the white rabbit (music Dragula)/ the entire ‘cartwheel with a machine gun scene’/+ more

13 Ghosts: the Jackal

Waterworld: the awesomest clothes/ Exxon being ‘rowed’/ the crayon scene; little girl’s dirty look

Interview With a Vampire: ferocious intensity when Cruise bites Pitt and the way his eyes change/Claudia at the piano scene/the little twisted smile on Stephen Rhea's face

Chicago: the jilted husband’s song/jail dance scene

Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow’s hair./And the rest of him/cool costumes

Indiana Jones: when the music pulses and the Nazi’s faces melt off

Oh, I could go on forever…just too many movies… and it looks as though I grow shallower and shallower...

So…

Brigham is bringing home a new friend to live with us. I think his name is Fritz. I guess I will see him at 8:30 tonight since Brigg had a double shift today……
UGG. IT IS A TARANTULA.