John

some CSI chick will tell us the full story about these little friends

John Woo is a movie director from Southern China. He grew up in Hong Kong where he started his movie career. I got to know this guy because he is a favorite of Quentin Tarantino and I am a fan of Quentin (friends meet friends).

Super-Violence and Super-Story-Telling are the only two keywords that you need. "A Better Tomorrow" (ying hung boon sik) from 1986 is an award winning classic. It comes with some of the best Asian blam-blam-blam gangster action scenes.

John's "Bullet in the Head" (die xue jie tou) from 1990 gave him the international reputation that he deserved and the Hollywood exposure. It's definitely an Asian action/gangster/war movie but it also has a story about keeping/winning/loosing friends in the Vietnamese war. Yes, John McCain's story crossed my mind.

Some critic wrote;
Best friends Ben, Frank and Paul have known each other for 10 years, and they promise that no matter what, they will always stick together. The story begins in 1967 Hong Kong, and from the opening scenes, we figure that these guys aren't your clean-cut individuals. A brawl with a rival gang shows their toughness and attitude. When Ben and his girlfriend Jane get married, Frank gets overzealous with the gang on his way to the wedding, and finds himself cut up and bleeding at the ceremony. Frank and Paul get revenge, and when the gang leader is killed, the police search for the suspects. Frank and Paul drag the hesitant Ben with them, forcing him to depart from his new wife after only one day of marital bliss. The three have to get out of Hong Kong, and their ticket is to become smugglers to get a free ride to Saigon, which is embroiled in the Vietnam War at that time. The men meet up with partner Luke, and together they plan a double-cross to get a box of gold from gangster Mr. Leong. Saigon just isn't the place to be. With demonstrations, mad bombers, protestors and American soldiers around every corner, Ben and his buddies have difficulty getting around the country. Their new surroundings prove to be overwhelming, and after a particularly unlucky streak of events, their loyalty is put to the test like they could have never imagined.

The "Killing Of The Yankies" scene is [WARNING] heavy stuff and very much the [3:20min./50MB.] climax of the movie;

The full 126:18min. .avi comes in 14x100MB. parts
All credits go to the original uploader;
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Jones

Grace Jones eats men for breakfast

I definitely blogged her before but I can't find it anymore. And now there was an item in my newspaper that she [60 yo.] just released her new Hurricane album, 19 years after her previous album.

This icon really got a sexy and nasty reputation, touching upon some of the lowest racist exploits. A black caged wild and dangerous female Afro animal. When you come near her, she will drag you into her darkness.

- Her Best Of Album from some time ago. All credits go to the Grumpy Old Boss down under ... ;)
- Her Nipple To The Bottle song as a teaser
- Nice Hurricane clip from the tube

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Brussels

Herman Brusselmans [1957]

When you Google or Wiki for Belgian Writers, you never-no-way find this guy. I had to ping his name among my iPals, because I forgot.

He is a smoking, drinking 50+ long-haired ex-hippy look-a-like with some hardening of the arteries; almost my role model. He is often on Dutch TV and has a cool/great sense of humor. He's no fake, I just love this guy.

He lives in the Flemish town of Ghent, one of the greatest places you must visit when you are around.

- Here is a crazy clip [in DUTCH] from Stijntje88; thank you Stijntje.
- The Brussels song [in FRENCH] from Jaques Brel is iconic.
- And I must mention Toots Thielemans; the grand/great jazz/harmonica player from Belgium. Here is the love song of Quincy Jones from "The Getaway" movie.

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Found

Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation (FID)

Is it just me? A four-girl grind-metal band from Tokyo with a funny name. They were on my radar more than a year ago, but then I lost them because I was totally riddled what to Google for and I lost track of my own blogs.

It still gets only 20,000 hits from Google but now there are many more tubes.

I liked the interview from the big guy with these four small girls.

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Born

Bruce Springsteen, Live, Born in the U.S.A., 1986

It is hard to neglect Barack Obama's election victory - of historical proportions indeed. The most impressive part for me was, that people all around the world were dancing in the streets.

There was a quote in my newspaper that all USA'sies should imprint; "The USA Just Won The War On Terror". It probably means that the USA has some more friends now and lost some enemies - but you must keep them close (both).

After a multi-day chill-down you must hope and pray that He can clean up the mess that Bush left behind [Yes We Can ... Are You Sure?]. It's a f*cking tough job and He probably needs more than four years.

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Yesss

The Pointer Sisters, Yes We Can, with Gaylord Birch, 1974

Hang

I blogged their "Book" episode before - the elderly raunchy students from Amsterdam - without taking into account my international visitors.

The language is still Dutch but this is a more graphic episode, called "Hang-Over" that needs little explanation. It's all about "the day after the night before" and it's among their best ones.

Chica

On average this movie is imdb-rated at 2.5 [12 votes] and a recent critic rated it at 10.0 [in 2001]. This is a typical score for a Jess Franco movie; you just hate or love this guy.

Private Eye Al Crosby (Robert Foster) is hired to do some tracking down and he gets the help of two hookers (one played by Lina Romay). At first Crosby thinks this is your typical murder hunt but it turns out a woman has hired him to find her missing penis. You see, she was once a man and after her operation, she returned home with her penis in a jar and someone stole it. Yep, this is a Franco movie. That big revelation doesn't come to the end, which is a shame because it would have been a lot more fun if the PI was going after that instead of the murder plot we have to sit through. The story makes no sense whatsoever so the film becomes very boring. There's a great music score by Pablo Villa and Franco and of course there are countless sex scenes with all sorts of beautiful women getting naked. There's an erotic threesome at the start of the film as well. Franco is known for leaving mistakes in his films if they come off as something that might happen and one of these is the highlight in this film. During the threesome, Romay is trying to get Foster's pants off but both of them are struggling to do so and they finally break out of character and just start laughing.

All credits go to my iPal for providing the links [in VHS-quality];
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