Tuesday, January 6, 2009

I watched "The Harder They Fall" on Saturday. If you're not familiar, it stars reggae superstar sensation Jimmy Cliff as an up and coming reggae superstar sensation. But when the record producer man only offers Jimmy Cliff $20 as a payment, Cliff tells him to go fuck off. Then Jimmy Cliff, in order to take care of his family, starts selling drugs, which leads to him killing a bunch of cops and other various people. Now that Cliff is famous for being a criminal, the record company releases his record which goes on to be a big hit. And then Jimmy Cliff frolics on the beach and kills more cops. And then other stuff happens which would ruin the movie if I were to tell you about, if you plan on renting it. If you're not going to rent it then e-mail me and I'll tell you what happens. I liked the movie alright. I really liked the scenes of Cliff in the recording studio and I wish that there had been more of that cause it's really awesome and everything. The film also enabled to me to tolerate the next day at work, which was a Sunday, which they play reggae music...all fucking day long. Sometimes I forget that I work at a health food store, which is full of hippies. And hippies love reggae music. I fucking hate hippies and I fucking hate reggae music. Really the only bit of reggae music that I can tolerate and actually enjoy is "The Harder They Come" soundtrack. Which is fantastic. It also reminded me of that great version of "Pressure Drop" that Izzy Stradlin did on his first record, "Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds" I bought this CD in 1992 and still actualy own it. I put it on and it was all skippy, which pissed me off. I then did a little bit of research and realized that it's sadly out of print. That's a bummer, cause that record is real cool. And you know, with this modern age internet downloading world that we are in, there is no fucking reason that any record or film or book should be "out of print". Totally stupid. You don't have to print physical copies, but make it available for people to download. Wouldn't cost them a cent. Like I said, totally stupid.

That's all I got.

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