Romeo and Juliet

Oh, Juliet. Oh, Juliet.

Come up on differents streets they both were streets of shame
Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals ?

Where you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything you promised me think and thin
Now you just says oh romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above I’ll love you till I die
There’s a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ?

Oh, Claire Danes too.

Cormac Thoughts

Years after All the Pretty Horses hit the big screen (somewhat ingloriously) and freshly on the heels of the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy is vogue in Hollywood.

First up, The Road is set to come out Novermber 26. Then, Outer Dark, early Appalachian McCarthy, will follow soon after.

Cities of the Plain and Blood Meridian are also both in the works, although Blood Meridian just changed hands. Of all these, The Road probably sets up most easily for the box office, it would be the most difficult project:
Making Blood Meridian into a movie is like making Moby Dick into a filmstrip or making The Idiot into a Hallmark Special. But Todd Field will try.

After a trip to Barnes and Noble, I have lots of reading to do. But suddenly, I'd like to go back and re-read Blood Meridian.

My favorite commercials 11 years ago

Loved this series by Levi's -- and this was my favorite:



But then again, I fell in love with this girl:


. . .

Now I'm watching Spike Jonze movies (from this decade):



What was a guy to wear in 1997?!

College Football!

It's officially the best time of the year. Until the first week of January.

Sexy People

sexy people.



amazing.

My New Crush is a . . . Javelin-a ?

I love the Olympics. They bring the world to me . . .



. . . and make my heart go pitter-pat.

Of course, the Olympics are full of wonderful contrasts: victory/defeat, rich/poor, youth/age and, appropriately, there is ugliness to offset Ms. Franco's beauty.

That is to say, Bob Costas' hairpiece . . .



. . . which makes me throw up in my mouth.

However, please note: if you zoom in close enough, you can see that Bob's toupee is actually the inspiration behind . . .



. . . the Bird's Nest. I have yet to confirm my suspicion that the NBC nickname for the arena was actually an inside-joke about Bob's hair, another Olympic icon, which unfortunately has preceded him in retirement.

The best part about being grown-up?

It may not be #1, but it's up there:

Being able to run and jump on the shopping cart without anyone telling me to stop.