Tough Old Bastards

I was watching the IFC special on Reservoir Dogs.
While it was not news to me that Eddie Bunker , who played Mr. Blue, was a real-life hardened criminal that served over 20 years in prison, it WAS news to me that Lawrence Tierney was such a trouble-maker in his youth.
I knew he always played toughs (even in the 50's) but I didn't know he was like that in real life.

So during the documentary, Eddie Bunker is talking about his role. He says that he was a little nervous the first day Lawrence and he were on the set the same day, because they had a brawl in a parking lot over 40 years ago!

For some reason, that struck me like "huh?"

I couldn't wrap my head around the idea of a breaking and entering, bank-robbing, real-life crook getting into a fistfight with a tough-guy Hollywood actor somewhere in LA in the 1950's...THEN both this criminal-turned actor and that Hollywood tough are in a movie together over forty years later.

Front now on, coincidences have a higher bar.

I don't want to hear about somebody saying "wow, I was just starting to call you when my phone rang, what are the odds?" Well, let's see; we've known each other for years, we get off work at the same time, and we call each other four or five times a week. Assuming one of us isn't going to call the other at 4AM, I'd say the odds are really good.

I haven't posted in a while, but I really haven't found anything that interesting for the past week.

I saw the trailer for LAND OF THE DEAD...looks good. I'm hopeful.

I guess there has been some weird shit in the news lately...But I don't really have any witty observations or scathing remarks about any of it...So who gives a rat's ass?

I mean, a bunch of Cubans crammed into a car that's been turned into a makeshift boat is always funny (especially since Cuba is such a fuckin' wonderland...we HAVE to preserve it's culture) but there's no need for further analysis...Cubans in tiny things that aren't really boats crossing the ocean is comedy gold.

So, I leave now to buy my comic books.

Yes, my comic books you cooler-than-thou fuckfaces! I'll knock your fucking jaw off your skull if you keep looking at me like that!

condescending motherfuckers.


I'm...I'm sorry babies. I didn't mean it. I promise I won't get angry with you again...just come back. I lost my temper, but it will never happen again, I promise babies.

That's right...come back to Mikey, I won't hit you again.


PS- This blog entry was written over the course of an hour, while I looked at other crap on the net...I won't be held responsible for it's disjointedness.