I liked it. It covered quite a lot of ground, was a nice tribute to Hillel, touching, sad. 

TIL: He played on the demo, but Hillel didn't play on the first RHCP album (which I thought was their best, but I learned from the doc, it has only Flea and Anthony on it). 

Recommended if you like music documentaries...

--tg

I was randomly surfing YouTube like I do and this popped up. It stars Philip Ng, who I know personally, and Yuen Qiu, who you may remember as the Landlady in Kung Fu Hustle, or the Karate girl in You Only Live Twice, or as I think of her, one of the seven Little Fortunes alongside with Jackie Chan, Sammy Hung, etc. 

Phil plays a gangster who quickly rises up in the ranks, but then is double crossed at a party where he is blinded. Yep, another blind master. Yuen Qiu is a Kung Fu master/Chinese doctor, who kills a gang boss that set up her cop husband, and gets set to jail. She quickly takes out the jail shot caller, who dominates the toilet paper market, and has a baby, who gets taken away by her jailers. That's all in flashback. Enter Phil, years later, who is tasked to impersonate her long lost son, in a long game revenge play, but then a genuine bond develops. Oh, and she has Alzheimers. 

It play snout like a Kung Fu dramedy, with some crazy juggling fight scenes and amusing over-the-top assassins (a villainess with switchblade-spiked high heels is particularly entertaining). I am biased, of course, because I always enjoy seeing Phil on screen. He gets few emotional scenes too and it's good to see his range. Yuen Qiu seems typecast now as landlady types, older women with fantastic Kung Fu, and that works. It's good to see an older women kick a lotta ass. She still moves very well. 

Mildly D00M recommended. 

Seen here on YouTube:

Hail Mary!

That was a bit of alright. I read the book. And it was the usual Andy Wier competency porn. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller pare it way down but still keep the heart of a really good hard sci-fi movie. 

Grace is a scientist tasked with flying to Tau-Ceti in the hopes of finding out why this astrophage that is eating our sun is not destroying Tau-Ceti. Gosling does a really good job of playing astronaut grace bumbling towards the answer. There are numerous funny bits. There are numerous really tense action bits. And there are really sad bits. Even knowing a bunch of the twists going in did not lessen the impact of the movie. Sandra Hüller who plays Ezra Stratt as the no fucks to give head of the Hail Mary project does an astounding job.

Will see this again. Did I mention wears a 49er jersey?

(02-05-2025, 10:36 AM)Greg Wrote: Jurassic World: Rebirth. July

This franchise isn't tired at all.

Hail, the Jurassic Christ. Let us prey.

Happy Raptor Day!

Soundcheck
Wheel

Slipknot>franklins

Heard he was in the ER yesterday and posted that on the KFM forum.

We crossed paths when I was just starting to compete at martial arts tournaments. That must’ve been the early 80s. He was a VIP guest at a large tournament in San Jose, I think. Honestly I only remember that he was a judge at the finals and a leading competitor - George Chung maybe - did his form in a way that he threw a flurry of punches at Chuck’s face. Chuck didn’t flinch.

I didn't look to see if anyone had already come up with this, but I think this could be huge:

STROLLER DERBY
Like a demolition derby, but with strollers. Little tikes in protective gear. Death Race 2000 style strollers, moms with Roller Derby-esque nicknames like: Bad Mamma Jamma

--tg

Love w/ Johnny Echols @ Crepe Place - https://folkyeah.com/#/love-santa-cruz-311

I’ve been listening to A History of Rock and Roll in 500 songs podcast and we covered the band Love a few episodes ago (that is to say, I got to that episode which is probably a couple years old by now…). I highly recommend the podcast: https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-161...#more-1607

Love was a 60’s LA psychedelic rock band, a precursor to garage and punk bands, with some songs similar to 5th Floor Elevators and the like, and hits you probably know like Alone Again, or… and their cover of Burt Bacharach’s Little Red Book which they opened with




They were one of the first integrated bands. Echols is the only original member in this line up…the main singer said he was the drummer for the Untouchables for 10 years. They band was very tight, even if playing garage-y sounding music. They played on the patio behind the restaurant to a crowd of probably less than 100 people. Super intimate. Tonight they play The Chapel in SF and then I hear they are off to Spain.

I can only hope to be playing and enjoying myself when I’m 79…



—tg