chris penn

at 17 years of age i took my best friend matt to see what i felt was one of the best movies i'd ever been lucky enough to witness in a theatre. "at close range" still holds up.

i am sad to know that chris penn is gone. he was perfect in that film, a joke in the joke of a film footloose, a perfect piece in the just ok(and let's all admit it's true)"reservoir dogs" and brilliantly good in countless other low grade films.

i don't know if it's because i grew up a fat boy, but i always loved chris penn. i always saw sean as the frat guy i can be ripped and great you can't guy, but honestly he is without a doubt the greatest american actor. despite the tard role we all regret. still, chris was gold to me growing up, i always went for the character actors, and in him i saw something more pure and great and amazing than i ever have with sean. that moment in "at close range" when chris walken shoots and kills his own son, chris penn, and he is bawling crying, is overwhelming and on par with anything brando or young pacino or good deniro ever mustered. it's real, it's sick real. it's i don't want to see this real.

i loved chris penn and it makes me feel terrible to know he won't have that great moment that was coming to him. god bless him.

boy, was i wrong.

it turns out that johnny cash and willie nelson were both in the turkish sci-fi film "dunyaya kurtaran adam".

i was a highway man

why, of all the highwaymen, did it have to be johnny cash singing about flying a starship? honestly, i can't imagine any of the highwaymen in outer space except for waylon jennings for some reason.

you see, this is where i get topical on your ass. everybody's thinking about the highwaymen and it took my words to articulate their feelings.

i am the master.