Let's start Friday with a couple of great videos.

First, Eric Cartman singing Lady Gaga's "Poker Face".  On of the best covers EVER!  Love Butters saying "No,no, no. I got stuff to do."




I heard this on the way to work on the XM. Love Natalie. Had a thing for her back in the day. Probably still do. She is a woman afterall. Way hotter in the 80's though.

MCW "The greatest actor of your lifetime."

Welcome to Movie Clip Wendesday.  I'm your humble host while our gloriuos host Boxer takes a well deserved hiatus.  Here's how it works, you look at the theme and find a clip that matches. In the comment section you post that you "are up" and we will all read it and comment.

My choice is Robert Duvall. The best actor I've ever been able to watch.  This guy has range.  Bad guy, I can do it, tough guy, got that too, everyman well I can do that as well.  The thing to me that Duvall has over Pacino and DeNiro ( who always get the accolades as the "greatest") is that he can play whoever, whenever.  Those other two yotes are the SAME guy every fucking movie with different accents. That's all they do. Duvall was Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird a bit part.  He was the notorious Ned Pepper in True Grit he was in the Eagle Has Landed which is the movie Howard Hughes watched over and over until he died.

He was Joe Kidd in Joe Kidd he was the Great Santini.  He played the dirty newspaper guy in my theme "movie you watch when know you want to be alone" (or something like that, The Natural). He was Max Mercer in that movie, the dirty reporter trying to get the shit on Roy Hobbs (played by Rob Redford). He was the crew chief for the dwarf Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder he was in the critically aclaimed and Acadamy Award winning Sling Blade and he carried the robotic Kevin Costner in Open Range.

But of all the characters (including Tom Hagen in The Godfather where he was HOSED for best supporting) my favorite is as Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove. Here's my favorite scene from the series. It's way over the three minute alottment but it describes Gus perfectly.  As well as Captain Call play wonderfully by Tommy Lee Jones, the best character in the series.

Thanks for playing.  I'm doing the best I can. We all miss Boxer.  Just go with the flow my dear friends. If you've read the book, you know this scene.  Gus doesn't really have a temper. But when the bartender disses him, he handles it like a champ.  Call knows its coming and steps away, at about the 3:40 mark. He knows Gus is fucking pissed and not to get in the middle of it. It's cinematic beauty on the small screne. Enjoy. "Now besides the whiskey I think we'll require a little respect"  You surly bartender you.  It's where I get my saying "Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago".  God, how many times have any of us wanted to whack a surly bartender? You never had too wack Wee Wille Montgomery.  Nuff said.



Six times nominated for and Academy  Award. He won for Tender Mercies. Four times nominated for an Enmy. He didn't win for Lonesome Dome he did win one for Broken Trail which is AWESOME.  

Here's a Duvall on that. The western is "our Shakespeare"  great line.



Happy MCW

I'll have next week's theme this week.  Look for it underneath the "MCW" logo.

The War Is Over!!!!

I'm so happy to announce that the war in Iraq and, soon, Afghanistan is over.  You see, after Pastor Olson changed his plans about burning the koran, the terrorists insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan saw it as the supreme gesture they've been waiting for that we really are a tolerant people and just want to co-exist in peace, you know, the way the moslems have been asking us to do.

You see, because Islamic apologist President Obama was able to stop this horrid and painful event from occurring, the insurgents have laid down their arms and are now helping our soldiers build roads, schools and hospitals.  They are feeding starving children. It's a beautiful sight.

I'm so ashamed that I ever thought that islam was so violent and hateful.  Afterall, I was only basing my opinion of 1400 solid years of murder, slavery, torture, etc. I didn't look deeper at a faith that has such great ideas as making women walk ten feet behind you, stoning them for adultery, honor killings, genital mutilation, chopping of limbs for theft.  This is all my mistake.  Why, the koran is so close to our own Constitution that I'm embarrassed that I caused such a stir with all the moslem apologists for my comments about the mosque. Very short sighted of me.

Speaking of that, build the mosque.  Build the temple to the destruction of the Twin Towers high and proud.  Let us always be reminded that it was our own fault that these honorable men flew jets into buildings.  We deserved it. We live free.

Let us never again remember the fallen of 9/11 with somber hearts and wet eyes.  Instead, let us chant "allah akbar" with our moslem brothers.  9/11 should be a time of celebration, not remembrance.  Afterall, we'll make both moslems AND liberals happy.  Its the latter who really want to forget about 9/11.  That's why you never see images of planes flying into buildings. EVER.  They'll replay images from Pearl Harbor, Nagasaki and Hiroshima every year, but not 9/11.  Is that because the don't like Japanese people? It has to be.  Or maybe its because Japanese people live in the 21st century.

Remember, this is a great country.  Liberals celebrate the right to put a Crucifix in urine and call it art, but will not have a koran burned. Liberals love to view an image of the Virgin Mary smeared in feces but will take to the streets to make sure there is a never an image of Muhammad portrayed. And liberals will surrender to terrorists, who have NEVER honored one agreement, and call it a victory

So, go celebrate my friends.  Celebrate that at long last this war is over.  A war we directly started by having the audacity to live free, despite liberals wanting us to live otherwise.

I was gone all weekend and was just now checking the internet.  I wrote this post on the assumption that our peaceful moslem brothers would do the right thing and lay down their arms but they aren't.  Actually, they're pretty pissed we would even think about burning the koran.  So nevermind I guess.  The religion of peace fools me once again.  Damn it.  This must be what the Jews in Gaza feel like. You know, they assume Hamas will keep its word but it never does.  I assumed the moslems would want to live in peace but they don't.  Hell, they even have different factions within the religion just so they can fight amongst themselves if there aren't and Christians or Jews about. 

As you were.

Bobcat preview and road trip to Spokane/Pullman

Heading to Spokane for the Bobcat game.  Here's the quick rundown for the weekend.

Bobcats lose but look good against a D-1 school.

Griz win by10 and don't look as good as previously thought.

Notre Dame gets ROLLED by Michigan 157-0.

Malta crushes whomever they are playing. 

Bret Favre does not throw a pick this Sunday.

Nothing new.

OK. So I've been scrimmaging for the MONTANA STATE vs. Washington State game tonight.   I don't have a pregame analysis on Thursday like I usually do.  I'll give you all one tomorrow while I'm packing and heading west for Bobcat victory day.  Many thanks to all who read this. The chances of MSU winning our 30-70 but those are good odds.  All I know is that I have tickets on the 50 yard line four rows up (I think) and that the Cats might win. More on the morrow.  Old English (or JC).

MCW - Best movie that became a hit TV show *blog jinx, blog jinx comin!

Hello devoted followers of the drivel. While our great host and meme creator extradnaire Boxer continues to let me host (begrudgingly to more and more all the time HA) this week's theme is " Best movie that became a hit TV series".  Well, really only one became a hit.  And that one is M*A*S*H.   I had to choose it.  It was my late father's favorite show of all time.  When I left Malta (the Center of the Universe) and would come home, Dad would know when MASH came on and on which channels.  If it was on 4 times a day he knew when and where.  He thought Hawkeye was the greatest. I was a great fan when Trapper and Frank were on but lost interest a little after that.  Not my Dad.  He watched it till the bitter end and then a thousand times after that.

I do love the movie though.  I'm not a Donald Sutherland fan but he was outstanding in this but Elliot Gould as Trapper was the man in this movie.  Duvall plays Frank and was his stellar self as well.  Forget DiNero and Al Pacino.  Duvall IS the greatest actor of the three. The other two guys always play the same character.  Duvall can do it all.  The greatest actor of my lifetime.  Hmmm.  That seems like a good theme for next week.  Who do you think is the greatest actor of your lifetime?  THATS IT!  A theme.  All on my own.

Anyway, enjoy this clip of the "Pro's from Dover".  Brother Bill says that all the time. "Just tell them the pro's from Dover are here."  Classic line.

"How do you want your steak?" 

Happy MCW.

Going on a cruise? I think I'll pass

So, I found this on Barstool Sporst today and it is nothing but good times.  People getting tossed around, bouncing of poles.  Forklifts in the hold be thrown around like Tonka toys and set to a great song.  Enjoy.