The immaculate sandwich

 I was on a road trip once and stopped into a fast food place to eat. Normally I wouldn't even think of what I was eating, just a weight to fill the emptiness in my stomach. But, this was a small town and these people took this crap seriously. The only places to work in this pinhole on a map were this drive thru sponsored food stop or the abandon grain silo. And I hear the silo doesn't have any openings. Since it being abandoned and such. Maybe you could fight a raccoon for a stale half eaten corn nibbled and a hand full of cold fries blown in from the chain restaurant across the field. So getting an job where they make you wear a orange, yellow and black pants suit in this town was like getting vice chair at IBM.
This "restaurant" was like the store in the franchise that made the stuff that they have pictures of in corporate broshers. The only time they make it this good in the shittier inner city version is when the district manager comes to visit and is standing over the polyester employees shoulders.Not that food flavored substance that they make that is usually smashed and wadded up in cheap ass butcher paper and then stepped on by an elephant under a heat lamp fuel by the light bulb from a broken Easy Bake Over
(insert registered trademark..HERE!).

 It was the immaculate sandwich!

Be Cool tip of the day
do your job like you give a crap. I think that one was just for me.

The King Of Nothing

I know a little of everything which means;
I know a lot of nothing.
Blogs
Post
Twits
tweets
treats
all feel imperial at the time and in the moment
but once they are out there they just get lost in the net
Like a piss in the ocean, you feel like a mighty god
like your piss is the water for the world.
But once it mixes in with the other pisses
it becomes meaningless.
Just like the time you wasted reading this.
However
I love your face!
Tell someone who needs it
and hasn't heard it in a while if ever
say
"I Love YOUR FACE!"
and maybe a smooch if you are so bold and they are so worth it.
Unlike this blog
no need to heckle
I will do it
myself.

Backside to the future.

I am procrastinating. I wish I could get a job doing that, I would make billions.
 I will work on that...tomorrow.

Be cool to each other. Niceguy tip of the day, say Hello to someone you often see but do not know.

People's Republic Of Montana.

I read in the paper that some politician in Montana wants to make disobedience from teenagers punishable by law, from fines to prison time to death row. This is outrageous, unheard of and just all around nauseating, the fact my wife said no when I asked if we could ship the kids to Montana.

Be Cool to each other .....even your teenagers.

The Godfather made you a funk you can’t refuse!

Got to seen James Brown once about 20 years ago. I even got to see him and the band warm up before the show. Got to see JB himself verbally tear into that incarnation of the JBs.

Funking Phenomenal!

dude was playin the drums and I thought

"Damn thats funky"

then James stopped him and said

"NO NO NO You need to hibba hoobba balkdfjasldjkasdl;fjadl;kfjasdl"

He took the sticks from the dude, laid it down for drummer to repeat and then I said

"HOLY SHIT NOW THATS FUNKY"

Took my honkey ass to a level a funk I didn’t know was there!

Have you ever heard James Brown Live in Paris 1971? Holy shit the funkiest moment in the history of funk is during the closing and they do Get Up and Get into and then they flow right into Soul Power and then Get Up reprise. Them French Funkers didn’t know what hit them either. They were all like

"We wee wee ….we should go see the James Brown"

"Hmm maybe not Jean"

and then BAM the funk landed on they assessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

and they said

“ HELL FUNK YEAH”

Everybody over there

GET ON UP

Everybody over there

GET INTO IT

EVERYBODY OVER THERE
GET INVOLVED GET INVOLVED

HIT ME!

Gonna Jump back, kiss myself!

The Godfather made you a funk you can’t refuse!

Be good to eachother

Earl Roy

Open Letter to Theater Heads and Studio Execs

Dear Theater and Studio Executives,

In light of the recent Colorado incident, as a fan of both Cineplex’s and art houses, two different worlds in the sister hood of cinema. I think the Cineplex needs to rip a page from the art houses crib notes. Make the theater going experience, at least a few showings, if not one showing, that is affordable for all walks of life, where people from different cultures and classes can come and cognate in the family of film.  Instead of showing 40mins of previews that make us wonder why we left the comforts of our TVs or make us forget what we came to see. Maybe show one preview and the movie, then set aside some discussion time for the audience, the community, to share their movie going experience with each other. Enlighten each other, sometimes sharing thoughts on movies might change your mind on what you think about the world. Movies are a common ground for all! If we let people congregate and feel like they are a part of something, maybe we may be able to understand each other better. Maybe show a classic and have a film scholar or expert come in and briefly give you some highlights before the showing and then lead a peaceful organized open minded discussion afterword. A community rallied around the cinema, just one show a week. That is all I am asking. Like a film of the month club!

Affordable, educational, entertaining, enriching and community building, bringing people back to the theater, making them feel wanted and safe amongst friends.  I’d be willing to donate my time and I willing to bet I am not the only one.

Thank you for your time and consideration

Your Boy

Earl Roy.

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Paramount Pictures

Warner Bros

Sony Columbia Pictures

Disney 

Universal Movie Studios

20th Century Fox

Plus list of some theater chains. Look yours up and forward away today. Thx!

Alamo Draft House

AMC Theaters

B&B Theaters

Bowtie Cinemas

Carmike Cinemas

I have always wanted to die watching a movie but NOT LIKE THIS!

Some could call me a film snob. And rightfully so (see most of the posts above, love all forms of the cinematic arts, mostly the history…and what we can learn from it and do with it….dot dot dot) I got a confidential confession…I saw The Dark Knight 13 times in the theater. Everywhere from The Plush Berry Woods as close as you are to get real IMAX to the independence 2-dollar house with trash bags on the seats and trash in the concession stand display cases…not kidding. Yesterday my daughter took me to see The Dark Knight Rises with tickets she bought me for father’s day. And I and I believe she, have been looking forward to every day since. She with her hard earned money wanted to take me to the movies as a gift of love to see THE DKS, a sweet independent film about a masked baker that makes cupcakes for kitty-cats and then Bane breaks his back. We sat the Saturday July 21 at 215pm in a plush like IMaX theater with scowls on our face and eyes fixed on every exit. Every time the person in the seats next to us flinched or checked their phone during the 4000mins of previews beforehand we both thought “Is this it?” I have always wanted to die in the theater, more of an old age and passing at a sparsely seated retro house watching Rifif or YoJimbo. Not in a mob of families looking for some escapism and closure to a series we hold near and dear only to have our lives taken at our most vulnerable time. NOTE TO THEATER OWNERS do not put 20mins of preview before a nearly three hour film.

The Passing of Heath will forever be the mark on the Dark Knight

When they mention Dark Knight Rises, Colorado will on our minds and our guard will up everytime we go near a multiplex. This is not fair to the cast, crew, caterers, janitors and even the fat cat CEOs. Everyone in my theater 15min into the film, as Bane is being introduced and a plane is being torn apart. Everyone was scanning the exits and our neighbors like security cameras. My daughter was shaken by the conclusion and the outcome,  mostly thinking of Colorado and only by a bit of the film. I agree, but fathers must be stone statues at times. Much like the Dark Knight or Gordon Joseph Levitt’s character says; put on the false smile... During the long film, my daughter would look at my face; I don’t think she knew I could see her. I would take my eyes off the exits; fix them on the screen and grin ear to ear, just like I did when she presented me with the tickets. Just as we both imagined since she bought and gave them to me. Everyday up until July 20th. Theater going will never be the same. NOTE TO THEATERS: Instead of ramping up to airport style security to snatch every twizzle carrying child. Maybe make the theater a more community based experience. While this incident no doubt will drive me and others back to our DVD/Streaming dens. Theaters need to welcome the community in for some good movies, AC from the heat, and discussion after the film…make an area where we can share the experience in a positive manner rather than holding hands and crying the back of a ambulance. Nothing beats a good conversation with strangers and friends after a movie. Good bad or otherwise peaceful conversation between open and cool minds can only bring about understanding. Maybe I should set up my own confidential compliment super-secret samurai theater and invite everyone to talk and laugh with each other after words?.... And the 8 people or the one reading my blog 8 times will come. I don’t mind. Lets break cinema and pass it around, let’s all feast on the spirit of cinema. The cinema house needs to be the community not the center for disaster and harsh feelings.

I do not anticipate seeing the DKS 13 times. I bank on three; I have to go with my teenage son and then my wife. They both live me and have for 13 years, we have togo separate because we have a baby and I do not bring babies to the theater. Unless it is a theater designated day to do so. NOTE TO PARENTS DO NOT BRING YOUR BABY TO THE THEATER UNLESS IT IS A THEATER DESIGNATED DAY TO DO SO!

Peace be in your hearts higher than the highest mountain.