{"id":771,"date":"2007-10-24T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/just-stuff\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T17:48:00","slug":"just-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Just stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <i>True Romance<\/i> last night, the Uncut Director&#8217;s Cut. I have to admit that except for the Quentin Tarantino association, I knew virtually nothing about the movie. Was taken aback by the Sonny Chiba references. Too many monologues abound &#8211; but hey, what&#8217;s a Tarantino-scripted movie without  monologues? Dennis Hopper waxes forth on Sicilians, Christopher Walken makes a chilling guest appearance, Christian Slater talks about Oscar movies, Sonny Chiba, Elvis Presley, James Gandolfini gets poetic about killing, and Tom Sizemore and Chris Penn get into detail about the how prison life contributes to a happy marriage. Probably the best Doctor Zhivago reference in any movie I&#8217;ve seen. What also struck me was the uncanny resemblence to some of the plot points in <i>Preacher<\/i> ( the comic book) &#8211; the &#8220;Mentor&#8221; appearances in the restrooms ( Val Kilmer played that? Wow! ), the way the characters Alabama Worley and Tulip O&#8217;Hare have this inherent ass-kicking ability inside themselves that manifests in odd, scary ways. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i37.photobucket.com\/albums\/e59\/beatzosan\/TrueRomanceposter.jpg\" height=\"400\">   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i37.photobucket.com\/albums\/e59\/beatzosan\/5247_4_036.jpg\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>My DVD ( bought for 20 Rs in Kathmandu ) appears to have three commentary tracks, the deleted scenes and the alternate ending. Heard the first fifteen minutes of the Tarantino commentary today morning &#8211; yum!<\/p>\n<p>Awesome music find of the week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaldiscoveries.com\/reviews\/balligomingo.htm\">Balligomingo<\/a>. Luscious female vocals over soaring, lush electronic soundscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw True Romance last night, the Uncut Director&#8217;s Cut. I have to admit that except for the Quentin Tarantino association, I knew virtually nothing about the movie. Was taken aback by the Sonny Chiba references. Too many monologues abound &#8211; but hey, what&#8217;s a Tarantino-scripted movie without monologues? Dennis Hopper waxes forth on Sicilians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,98,87],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies-2","tag-moviews","tag-music-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}