V For Vendetta

I picked up the film V For Vendetta this week, and I feel I must do my part to spread the word...this is an awesome film. Click here for the IMDb page. Finally, a movie with outstanding dialogue, plenty of action and very interesting story line! To whet the appetite, here are some cool quotes from the flick:

*After V rescues Evey, she makes the required inquiry into the identification of her hero...
Evey: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of "what", and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey: Oh...right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.

*Then, as V furthers his introduction to Evey)...
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-a-vis an introduction, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

*After Creedy threatens V...
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

*Of course, the brilliant poetic piece of the film...
Remember, RememberThe fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

*From the explosive final confrontation with the evil Creedy...
Creedy: Defiant until the end, huh? You won't cry like him, will you? You're not afraid of death. You're like me.
V: The only thing you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is that we are both about to die.
Creedy: How do you imagine that'll happen?
V: With my hands around your neck.
Creedy: Bollocks. We've swept this whole place. You've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy karate gimmicks. We have guns.
V: No. What you have are bullets and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.
Creedy: That's impossible. Kill him!
(At this point Creedy's men open up a barrage of bullets upon V, who though hit many times remains standing, then offers...)
V: My turn.

Awesome to say the least...I will watch again and spread the revolution!

Items Of Recent Interest

A couple of weekends ago I went to OzzFest with my brother Cory. Ozzy wasn't at the Indianapolis show, but the headliner was System Of A Down, which I've referenced before in a previous post. I've liked SOAD for a while now, but after hearing them in concert and seeing firsthand how awesome they are, my fascination has reached a new level. Other bands of interest I heard were Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold who were also quite fascinating, to say the least. I'll be back, though next time I'll be sure not to go looking like a surfer...I didn't quite fit in with all of the black, and am quite thankful I made it out of there alive...

I've also made it a point to let myself get rawked by Junk a couple times in the last month. If you're hankering for a place to cool off, wind down, get crazy or let your hair down, find a venue where they're jammin' and have at it...

I picked up the new album by The Fray titled "How To Save A Life"...it's a good mellow listen, the great-for-background-music-while-you're-working-type, in my opinion...

I've been reading the Rule #1 book by Phil Town. If I get rich, I'll jazz up my blog and hopefully have the spare time to post more frequently than once a month! Then again, that may not be what the world needs right now...

Football season is upon us, and I was pumped to watch a bit of the Hall Of Fame game this past weekend, even if it was just the Eagles and Raiders. My unapologetic predictions are as follows: in the N.F.L., the Colts will FINALLY do it this year and win the Super Bowl; in N.C.A.A. Div. 1, Notre Dame will recapture some of their glory from ages past, making an all-Indiana set of champs for the year. Seriously, it will happen, just mark it down and congratulate me next February...

I now have cable internet and the ability to use my wi-fi functions of my laptop at the house now. Newsworthy? No, not really. I'm just wondering how in the world I have lived without it for so long...adios.