Steve Buscemi's character gets almost cloven in twain by Peter Stormare with an axe. Stormare claims he was still alive after that - hence the woodchipper.
Yes, Conrad has been looking at old copies of "Empire" for a title inspiration, and that line just seemed appropriate.
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| This is merciful? Stay away from me when I cut myself! |
What's A Man* To Do?
Normally on a holiday morning like this, Conrad would brew up, sit in the kitchen with the doors open, bask like a lizard in the sunlight and make notes of TKW.
No longer! All annotation done. The pot of tea got made, the dog got sat (and walked) and I read more of "Against the Day". Yes, I'm still reading it. No, I'm not a slow reader, it's just a very long book and I still have 810 pages to go.
Facebook And Music
For an inexplicable reason that I suspect only Philip K Dick could unravel, FB was composed solely of posts about bands - Yes, REM, Deep Purple, The Who, Coldplay - all blathering on at length. Thankfully the list was broken by Kate changing her profile picture, as although Conrad does like music, a monotonous trawl across FB is not the best start to the day.
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| Royksopp, in traditional Norwegian garb. I think. |
Anaximander
In BOOJUM!s efforts to educate you, gentle reader, we come across another rarely-encountered word that Conrad will define for you.
Well, the "Anaximander" is obviously - obviously! - a species of giant lizard or salamander, an amphibian that inhabits the freshwater rivers and lakes of Greece, growing up to a yard in length and weighing up to 30 pounds, living on a diet of small crustacea and fry.
What's that?
It's not?
He was a 7th Century BC Greek philosopher?
Pah! Reality, I shall never have an anaximander as a pet, thanks to you!
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| An impresive bust. No laughing at the back there! |
Come In Willy Wonka, You Are Too Prophetic
Conrad hesitates to tickle the bunions of political representation, yet he cannot let a comic opportunity like this one go unchallenged.
Now, you may have head of the Ukraine. Hmm, yes, BOOJUM! normally steers clear of political and social hot-potatoes like this, however: they have just had a presidential election there and who did they elect?
Petro Poroshenko, a confectionery businessman who has been dubbed "the chocolate king".
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| Petro Poroshenko |
Once Again -
Proof that cats have an Awkward Gene - come on genetic researchers, I'm doing your work for you here! - if it were needed once again.
Except! I had lots of tidying and sorting to do so I didn't need that book straight away! Ha fooled you Jenny!
Full Metal Jacket
No! This is not a film about raincoats. The Vietnam War film made by Stanley Kubrick.
| "Raincoats? RAINCOATS? I am gonna KP you till you ******g DIE! Puke" |
Consider that this really is a film of two halves. First part, you see the Marines in training at Parris Island, under the simultaneously frightening-and-funny Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. Second part is in Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Except it was all filmed here in the UK. Yes, all of it. Those palm trees? Imported. The vehicles? Re-enactors. The city of Hue? The London Docklands.
Conrad likes how the action is set in an urban location, unlike the infestation of low-budget "Platoon" wannabes that were shot in the Phillipines' jungle. And you have to give credit to Mr Kubrick for the sheer cheek of making London a stand-in for both America and Vietnam.
| A commuter battles to get on the 8:15 at Edgeware |
Few blogs on BOOJUM! fail to include cute animals, the better to boost blog traffic. Today's is no exception. Meet Edna the (very small) Domesticated Wolf:
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| O the bothersome nature of dog-sitting |
* Yes, I know, but "Camouflaged Alien Spy" isn't as pithy
** Do you get it! Do You? Music and talking about - Oh you do.
*** Mainly because he's dead. But, still -
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