I have been reading some biographies of one of my favorite directors Sam Peckinpah. The best of them is "Sam Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage."
It details Sam's life. He was a legitimately tough guy and he really liked to party. He had an artistic vision but he was forced to continually compromise in every sense of the word. He hated it and made movies like "The Killer Elite" where he told you what he thought about it.
But as tough as he was he compromised. For money. Like we do.
He had a saying. "I'm a good whore. I go where I'm kicked."
I have been taking comfort in that lately.
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don't emulate the cocaine my son.
The yacht and mansion will make it feel better, then this time will just be a bad memory.
I ain't a drug guy.
But I like my tequila and beer and wine and brandy and wiskey and rum and gin and vodka. Just sayn'
I can relate to the second half of the quote. Funny, but I've tried to live a principled life, as opposed to his admission of being a sellout, yet we share the same ditch.
Have you tried the whipped cream vodka yet, Troop? One of my employees swears by it.
One of the people from the production showed up today. She was a two faced lying cunt who did the bidding of the scumbag show runner. She did it for the money. Just like me. But she didn't have to hide that fact that she worked on the prior TLC fat show that was a joke. If we knew that we would have been a lot more careful with her and her suggestions.
I am not a phony so I didn't come out to say hello. She is a piece of shit in my book and there is no coming back. Especially when she was laughing up her sleeve at some of my customers. I caught her and a couple of the others doing that and went after them in a big way but was told I had to back down. So I did.
For money.
Like a good whore.
I stick with the classics windbag. I have a liter of Stoli in the freezer and when I come home I make us a cocktail of pear nectar, Stoli and a drop of Triple Sec over a lot of ice.
Very refreshing summer drink.
Or winter for that matter. Just sayn'
Oh and sometimes I put a sprig of mint from the garden for a little extra zing.
I knew Sam, Sam was a friend of mine, and you Trooper are no Sam Peckinpah.
Are you drunk - on the job - by Noon?
Has Charlton Heston tried to run you through with a Sabre?
Have you wasted hundreds of thousands of investor dollars because you were too drunk? But still so charismatic, that no one cared?
I thought not.
I just finished Driving Mr. Yogi. He drinks 3oz. of Ketel 1 before dinner every night. Yogi is like Rain Man, very OCD. That was surprising to me. He is also absolutely unpretentious, which was not surprising.
Keep your hemp and your mushrooms
Your smack and Nembutal
Me, I'm in to fruit and grains
Give me alcohol!
Best Peckinpah hands down: The Wild Bunch
Best scene in The Wild Bunch is where the gang passes around the bottle after their escape into Mexico, making sure it's drained dry by the time it gets to Lyle Gorch, the Warren Oates character.
Best Quote: Pike Bishop (William Holden): We're not gonna get rid of anybody! We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal, you're finished! "We're" finished! All of us!
Dillinger, directed by Milius, was a great movie. They got the firearms right - Thompson submachine guns, Browning automatic rifles, pistols in every hand - well done, for sure.
And they got the attitudes right. When Homer Van Meter, played by Harry Dean Stanton is outwitted by the college student he had carjacked, and is left in a small town, the townspeople, who were clearly fed up with shenanigans, surround him and send him to his reward in a blaze of gunfire. Great scene.
Milius' best role was as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebwoski.
John Milius is John Goodman?
John Goodman is doing John Milius; the resemblance is uncanny.
Whoa - cool. Now I want to see TBL again.
The Dude abides.
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