SECOND REVIEW : I don’t just love this movie I want to BE this movie so from now on can everyone just call me Courtney “Withnail and I” Taylor-Taylor or something?
I spent the afternoon at Warwick Castle yesterday. I’ve been wearing a t shirt from the place for a couple years now so it was about time.
Anyhoo, I must say it’s really worth the trip. All that medieval nonsense just sends me.
The most fascinating thing though is this waxwork of a young Winston Churchill. The man was gorgeous.
I’ve heard a couple stories of how the Brits got into WWII:
One is that they had a very old pact with Poland which left them no choice.
The one I like best is that Hitler told Churchill he would leave England alone and make him the highest ranking official in the realm if they would abolish the royal family and pay some kind of monetary tribute to Germany.
Winston Churchill told Adolph Hitler to fuck himself.
Even the ham-fisted writing, scoring and sometimes editing can’t stop Robert DeNiro and several other great actors from entertaining you for around 100 minutes of “okay, let’s have another car chase….um, again”.
Not only is this amazing (in spite of the cheap drama of Kirk getting the crap beat out of him for about two solid hours) but more importantly it will go down as the greatest feat of casting in the history of motion pictures.
We had some of the New York Dolls over to the Odditorium for dinner the other night. So fun. Really cool guys. Had great food and drank a case of damn nice wine. Then we jammed. Zia and Sylvain Sylvain put some French vocals on a piece of our Tafelmusik record and boy is it cool. I think we might actually have a single in french speaking countries for our three hour record. We also had them play on the Breathe Easy project which we will hopefully have time to crank back up fairly soon.