...now that I think about it, "B.B. Bunny" looks awful familiar...
I think he went on to star in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail
At the start of the day I thought I knew what today's "Note From The Universe" meant and I laughed out loud at its perfect timing and choice of words.
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However, at the end of this day, I am less certain what it means than when the day started.
But it is Friday the 13th and perhaps it's time to think some entirely new thoughts.
The Universe is looking out for me. I just need to keep listening.
back in the olden days of b&w TVs, Friday night was fight night. thus,
Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky.
Rocky was a labor of love, the little movie that did, a personal tale that became a multimillion dollar enterprise. it is also the movie that has spanned the most sequels (Rocky II, III, IV, V, VI aka "Rocky Balboa"). what's the name for this? a hexology?
the taglines for the movie are interesting, if a bit confusing.
You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest bicentennial in history! *
A Philadelphia fighter who never made the big time...He showed he could take on a challenge...and won something bigger than a championship bout.
Meet the "Italian Stallion": a small-time guy with big-time guts
who yearns to be a hero...just once!**
He's a has-been battler with one dream left...and one last chance.
His whole life was a million-to-one shot.
* Rocky was released in 1976. references to the American Revolution of 1776 Bicentennial are everywhere.
** a small-time guy with big-time guts. I'm a 12-year-old at heart. I won't tell you what I thought it read.
Silvester Stallone gets mucho credit for writing the movie (in a 3½-day bender as legend has it) and more so for refusing to sell it to several studios that were interested in the story but wanted to cast their own choices (including Robert Redford. Robert fracking Redford. damn), but Stallone stood firm on his demand to himself play the role of Rocky Balboa.
no doubt Stallone was Rocky, but much of the movie's success was due to the fine supporting cast. Mickey, Adrian, Paulie. Apollo Creed
check the patch on Paulie's shoulder on the third pic. Philadelphia represent, yo.
(damn. for the second day in a row I can't embed from YT. is not just me, teh SO had the same problem)
here be the links to watch:
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8DlBN_LLiA
Cut me Mick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpYosdIQ9JA&feature=related
Gonna fly now (theme from Rocky) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioE_O7Lm0I4
and because is not something I expected to find while searching for Rocky pictures:
No animal posts tonight. It's been quite the day today, from crazy day at work to picking up my NEW CAR tonight, to some other stuff going on. My head is killing me and I don't have the energy to research and type tonight. I plan on taking my NEW CAR to get groceries tomorrow (especially since I now have to make sure I make and take lunch to work every day instead of throwing money away), then do a lot of studying.
So there you have it. A NaBlo post to say I won't be doing a post with any meat to it tonight. Ciao kiddies.
p.s. Did I mention I now have a NEW CAR???
I keep resetting the white balance.....
But everything's still white....
What's the oldest article of clothing you own? Bonus points if you show us a photo!
There goes Vox, reading my mind again.
I have a pair of gray sweatpants I bought right before I moved to California from Colorado, that was 11 years ago.
They now stay up with the help of a safety pin since the waistband elastic has long since gone and they never had a string. And there is a big air-conditioning run/rip in them right up the back seam.
I have another pair of sweatpants, but I always reach for those old ratty ones I bought while shopping with the only friend I made in Denver... May be that's I why I keep hanging on to them.... one good memory in a 9 month* long nightmare.
*9 months was the time I was in Denver, May to November. It's almost time for my get the hell out of Denver Anniversary. I got the hell out on Thanksgiving Day, and I've never been so thankful to leave a place... but I still wear those ratty sweatpants all of the time.
