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.

John Wayne was a pussy....

That right I said it. While most of the world was celebrating freedom fighters by giving them all flash backs with their fireworks....never understood that tradition. I heard a roll go off in front of my house and wanted to grab my rifle, jump in the hole and aim in the direction. Took me a min to figure out that is was just a holiday, not a hell of a day...like many many many the soldiers have.....
Johny Wayne, I hope most of you burnt your movies and tshirts yesterday because there is a icon or a underrated underdog you should of been worshiping the whole time.
Robert Ryan
Take your favorite Wayne movies and put them up against these...then throw out your JW and buy you some RR flicks!


Day Of The The Outlaw (1959)
Best Western ever...and that's not a hotel recommendation. Where else can you root for the bad guy and not fell guilty. Even Burl "Snowman" Ives plays a baddy. Also "Ginger" Tina Louise plays a upstanding town lady that isnt flashy or Hollywood like. Two nice nice TV types playing against the stereotypes.

Men In War (1957)

Great war film and one of the two best Korean war films ever made, next to Fuller's Steel Helmet. When all hope is lost and the soldiers are all burnt out you have groups of renegades geared for survival. Featuring Aldo Ray, the real one, not the one made up at the QT studios. Features a great cast and one of the best performances in a movie by Robert Keith. Doing so much with so little.

The Setup (1949)

Robert Wise and Robert Ryan only need 70mins to tell this epic tale in real time about a fixed fight. Where everyone is in on it, except the boxer who is suppose to take a dive. Very refreshing is the role played by James Edwards (also fantastic in Fuller's Steel Helmet!) back in a day when black people played only servants, thugs and jazz musicians.

He plays a boxer not only just a boxer but one that is equal if not superior to the others around him. For those of you who are fans of African Americans in cinema should take note, James Edwards paved the way and made a better day for all black actors that came after him. D Washington, I am looking at you, time to get your tribute shoes on and pay some homage ol' Mr Edwards.

Speaking of race and the great direction of Robert Wise.

Check out, Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

Also starring the great Harry Belafonte. A boiler to the brim. Race relations 

Controversial, something Wayne would of never done.

Not only was Ryan tougher and a better actor, (that is to say JW acted at all or acted like anyone other than himself) Robert Ryan could share the screen with others where as Wayne had so much power he made sure that he had all the great lines and scenes, notice how great Wayne's movies should of been instead of the mediocre tripe that they are.

Wayne was a great big cry baby pain in the ass 

Robert Ryan would gave him something ton cry about, if he wasn't so busy making quality movies.

Stay cool in these hot days and do yourself a favor and get a little Rand R with the double R, Robert Ryan, the man who should be an American icon.

Whose your girl with the curl?
Earl
whose your boy?
Earl Roy.

The Price of Supermen, Saki and Seppuku

I have held many men’s dead bodies. In the military and also in my youth, my best friend Steve Brunson committed suicide in the parking lot of the apartments where my pop and I lived. You never would of known it. Upbeat feller, last words were "I'll see you at school!" and my dumb skipping every other day ass said "If I make it"...always the Joker........ His dad, Ox, former black Ops Vietnam. Never seen a hardcore mofo cry like that hope I never will. That and those who loose kids. Helpless feeling of being mad at no one but none the less mad as hell...want to bite a hole in the earth and spit it into gods face....harsh harsh words...we all have been to the brink...suicide is an alternative......go to escape. The debate and reinstate my mind...sit in thought and meditate through the cinema.... Me..like I have said before...escape through the cinema. The summer brings out the Samurai to me. Sorry ninjas and comic books but...

First up.

Harakiri(1962)
Seppuku (original title).

About a hungry Samurai coming to a feudal lord's home  in peace time...ol’ top knots did make much money in peace time. He comes to the house of Ily and asks to end his miserable life after 8 or 9 years of suffering. But first they have a story. Ohhhh and he has his story to tell as well. Whose is the honorable death? Is suicide, the price and the way it is death with in a harsh republic, is that, honorable? What is the price of, Suicide?

Also featuring and actor that make Daniel Day Lewis seem like Sylvester Stallone in a boom boom film…the chameleon of thespians, Tatsuya Nakadai. Who as of this posting is still alive!!! One of the best actors ever.                                           

Another in that same cannon

Sword of the Beast(1965)
Kedamono no ken (original title)

Suicide missions and their results.Who is the beast? It may be you.
Check them out. Top knot head choppers with a lot of thought and brains to boot.

Coming soon: Why Robert Ryan kicks John Waynes ass!
Dont believe me stay tuned
Summer Saftey do good tip of the week.
Cold Drinks
Share one with someone who needs one
Also if your friend is on fire....poor your cold drink over his firework poppin pee pee!
Peace To your hearts.
Earl Roy

Foreign Film through an American eye. Lets play TWO!

in the days leading to the fourth of July. Americas independence day... I will make a argument for you to throw out an American icon and take in and over looked under dog. But first foreign cinema through a American eye part one.
Movie. Gillo Pontecorvo's beautifully graphic movie The Battle For Algeries (1966)
About a revolution of Algerian refugees against the 130 reign of French oppression.... Oppressed and hunted by French officers that once were part of the resistance in W W part 2!
Talk about holding the mirror up!
Also could be spine shivering comparison to today's wars.
Also the ultimate noir underdog movie Rifii (1955) from the all American guniess Jules Dassin...directing a heist movie in French using Italian and German actors...a melting pot of movie production. . As import as Citizen Kane and here is why!!!

Gentleman Jules, survivor of the blacklisting, lover, patriot, citizen of the world and director of fine cinema. One of the most under appreciated directors. His stretch from 1947-1957 is a template for brilliant cinema. Jules Dassin, An artist with a wide canvas and big brush.
1947 Brute Force
1948 The Naked City
1949 Thieves Highway
1950 Night and the City
1955 Rififi
1957 He who must die. (Never in print on DVD)
Criterion, I am looking at you.
He had many commercial and critical successes. 
For beginners, I recommend starting with Night and the City (1950) or Rififi (1955)
Du Rififi Du Chez Hommes is as important in the discussion of Cinema as Orson Well’s Citizen Kane.
Wells fought for his film. He picked his fight
Dassin fought for his life and his fight picked him.
HUAC-McCarthy
Rififi is Dassin's commentary on his and other artist’s blacklisting disguised as great Heist flick! Banned in Mexico due to copycat crimes, some were successful
....BEAT BREAK AND THEN!!!....its like that WHAT and that is the way it is huh ha HOOOOW HAAAAA!
-Run dDMfreeC
alt double feature Gillios Wide Blue Road (1957) and Dassin's Night and The City (1950)
THERE AINT NO GOOD GUYS THERE AINT NO BAD GUYS THERE JUS YOU AND ME AND WE JUS DISAGREE....
stay hydrated and be cool to each other..whose your girl roy earl...whose your boy earl roy...

Double Feature Double Trouble

Hello people! A Howdy Hey and How are ya to you! Earl Roy about to enjoy some hot weather!

Stay cool if you can. Shake the hand of every man and woman that needs a hand getting their feet out of the sand and a cool drink of water like mother milk seeping from a silk shawl  bra....bros and sisters with those who need motivation, Earl Roy doesn’t take vacation. I am watching over those in the nation or in the KC vicinity, can you get with me? Are you gonna be prophet or a pimp, royalty or walk with a limp or lean to help us all achieve MLK’s dream .

The Heat can really mess with your mind and make you irritable and less likely to move in positive directions. You can get a rash and the high temps can make you make rash decisions.

Double Feature of the Day.

Spike Lee’s masterpiece where everyone does the Right Thing and sometimes The Wrong Things,  

Do The Right Thing (1986)

Mostly due the pressure of the heat from the Sun that brings racial tensions to a boil.

I wore out 2 video tapes of this movie when it was released, in addition to being a projectionist at a dollar house in 89. Every time I come away with more distinct  perspectives than the time before. I asked myself the other night after watching my second dvd copy, “Who Did The Right Thing?”

Its easy to say who did the wrong thing. However, no one is clean and clear. Even the watcher/God's messenger, Mother Sister (RUBY DEE!!!!!)  is chanting at the end “Burn it down to the ground” . She, serine and wise succumb to the fires of violence, hostility and devout change through aggression. She  comes off her perch and wails with the chorus of gods vengeance “BURN BURN!!!”.

Who did do the right thing?

Spike is a fan of many many different genres of film. One in particular the noirs of the gold and silver age.  There is one that stands out amongst the others,  starring Robert Mitchum, directed by Charles Laughton called Night Of the Hunter(1955).

 (worthless fact number 6000 it was said the Laughton directed the adults and Mitchum the kids since Chuck didn like the little one....must of been hard since Mitchum was the baddy in this pic...long a$% parethisis)

In fact Radio Raheem’s gold finger rings are homage to that film where Mitchum's preacher character, Like Bill Nun’s Radio.Raheem, has Love tattooed on one hand and Hate on the other. Both preachers have their stories of love conquering hate. Night Of the Hunter, also explores the human conditions under strict pressures, instead of racial persecution it is more religious. Told  from a child’s perspective through a story/nightmare during one deep hot summer in the deep hot south.

Enjoy folks…if you like this double dip of movie trips try another combo of High Sierra and Emperor Jones. Let me know if you wanna talk shop IE movies, films, cinema, peanut butter cookies and lemonade….secretsamuraicinema@gmail.com

Be nice to each other do not let the heat affect or effect your judgment, no punishment will be dealt to those who overcome and don’t circum the heat of the sun, grab a hand full of Icccees and give one to someone!

I am watching you and thinking of you all with a happy heart.

Earl Roy.

Two Times For Your Minds Eye on the sly without stalone

Okay todays double feature is much like the puzzle of life…a total mind truck…with an F.

Christopher Nolan, the world’s hottest and smartest director of the moment with

Inception (2011)

Leo De Cap this generations James Dean and a whirlwind of Nolan players trippin in the head

Next

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

More mind Puzzles, with stories within stories and spirits perpetuated by the believers of Christ and the devil and all else lost in the hills of Spain after the Napoleonic wars. What is real? Odd in a good way, as much fantasy feel as a G. Del Toro flick but without the latex effects…..Starring the amazing  Zbigniew Cybulski…..if you can that name 10 times  fast that is about 10 times more than I can say it once in an hour…. amazing man, man.

Known as the Polish James Dean…hate to type that because I feel if James was as talented as Z then his movie might be more member able for something other than icon status. Go check out Ashes and Diamonds and then burn your copy of Rebel Without A Cause.  James Dean wishes he was the American Zbigniew Cybulski…jockstrap holder.

Yes…I just dissed James dean…the Leo de cap of his time….and mark Leo Dissed as well….whose your girl with the curl..

Earl Roy.

email me and talk about the grovey movies that truck your mind with an F? secretsamuraicinema@gmail.com


oh yeah...be nice tip of the day!!!
Gift of water on a hot day is like a brick a gold to the poor. Bus stops, fix it shops, cold sholder corners on 100 degree days....buy an extra moutain springs aqua gold and give it to someone who needs it.

Frankenstein Vs Madonna!!!!!

INTRO: My son died on 5 23 2009....hard line....Hard thought....Babies die in this world ....boys and girls...Not like the “Movies...”So my brain escaped to the cinema So here is my dilemma....Tell me the last good movie that you see or seen.....And why?I need more cinema before I die. ...And if I do …will they roll credits at the end and play the sad music from the Hulk TV show circa 1970’sMovies are brief escapism but not remedies. ...Just a moment and time, space and brain that keep the thoughts of babies dying making me insane

Music: Okay, there should be a Vegas poll on how long Madonna will be on tour before she cancels, Van Halen did, the Police with Stinger should have....proving once again old is the new young, Obscure Punk Jazz outfit from Canada NoMeansNo is better with age and taking the fame low road is usually the better path

Movies: Okay double feature of the Day. The Avengers (2012) Big Bang Boom Zoom with wit by Robert Downing Jr. Satisfying the inner child in us or with us at the cinamaplex.
Then The Spirit of the Bee Hive (1973) A quiet film about a child obsessed with the silences in the the original Bang Zoom Hero Anti Hero pic, Frankenstien (1931).
Both movies will quell the child in all of us...now give me some candy...have fun and be kind to one another. Brothers and sisters, peace to your hearts. Earl Roy. After Dark.
secretsamuraicinema@gmail.com
let me know what you have seen and herd that is any good....

Country Mouse Sinner City. Bitter feelings with a crackeled smile.

INTRO: My son died on 5 23 2009....hard line....Hard thought....Babies die in this world ....boys and girls...Not like the “Movies...”So my brain escaped to the cinema

So here is my dilemma....Tell me the last good movie that you see or seen.....And why?

I need more cinema before I die. ...And if I do …will they roll credits at the end and play the sad music from the Hulk TV show circa 1970’s

Movies are brief escapism but not remedies. ...Just a moment and time, space and brain that keep the thoughts of babies dying making me insane

……whose your boy?

-Earl Roy.

Pass on the paper to those need it more than me and more than you..Do good is the path of pursuit.
BLOGG STARTS>>>>HERE>>>>>>

I am somethwere between Fellini's 8 1/2(1963) and

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042619/

I need to put on a happy face like a kid that just saw E.T. for the first time

do you need a link to Speilberg's E.T....?

If you cant make it fake it

NICE TIP OF THE DAY: Stop at a garage sale or thrift shop, buy as many kids books as 2 dollars can buy and give them to children with the parents permission at your local bus stop. I gave little William a copy of Danny the Dino off of 40 Hwy, enjoy your treck to the city....take care and be good to each other.

Peace into your hearts

wanna talk shop aka film cinema movies

secretsamuraicinema@gmail.com

Double Feature is the teacher!

My son died on 5 23 2009....hard line....Hard thought....Babies die in this world ....boys and girls...Not like the “Movies...”So my brain escaped to the cinema

So here is my dilemma....Tell me the last good movie that you see or seen.....And why?

I need more cinema before I die. ...And if I do …will they roll credits at the end and play the sad music from the Hulk TV show circa 1970’s

Movies are brief escapism but not remedies. ...Just a moment and time, space and brain that keep the thoughts of babies dying making me insane

……whose your boy?

-Earl Roy.

Pass on the paper to those need it more than me and more than you..Do good is the path of pursuit.

Today's double feature in memory of all the babies that have passed

Millions By Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366777/

The Children Are Watching By Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034493/

Both shot at the perspective of children.

One with subtitles...my apologies to those who "don't like to read their movies!!!"

worked at a video store briefly...still don't understand...I get it....but don't understand anyway.

Millions is British in the Queens English however you may need them durded subtitles.

Watch the first with the kids and cry with joy and watch the other and...that is all I will say. Put the kids to bed and cry....cry for those that graduate from the school of hard Knox

Peace into your hearts

wanna talk shop aka film cinema movies

secretsamuraicinema@gmail.com

Andrew And Mt Dew make me high...?

My son died on 5 23 2009

hard line

Hard thought

Babies die in this world

boys and girls

Not like the “Movies”

So my brain escaped to the cinema

So here is my dilemma

Tell me the last good movie that you see or seen

And why?

I need more cinema before I die.

And if I do …will they roll credits at the end and play the sad music from the Hulk TV show circa 1970’s

Movies are brief escapism but not remedies.

Just a moment and time, space and brain that keep the thoughs of babies dying making me insane

……whose your boy?

-Earl Roy.

Pass on the paper to those need it more than me and more than you

Do good is the path of pursuit.

Its Hot OUt There PEOPLE
maintain and urge each other to do the same!
Don't blame or rule or judge
hold a grudge or bull headed nudge
stay cool and hydrated
keep a level head and dont get fadded.
talk shop?
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