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“Across 110th Street” (1972) #BlackAndWhiteAmerica #tfilms

Posted in Motion Pictures with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on 18.12.2010 by thomas

Across110Street

I got to watch this the other night. I’ve been trying to watch every good movie that was ever filmed in NY.

This is the kind of movie you watch today and it’s not just a dope movie, it’s a historical picture. This was not that long ago, even though it seems that way. It’s the same New York. It’s not based on a true story and some of the performances may be overacted a little,  but from what I’ve learned from old school New Yorkers, this isn’t so far off.

These 3 guys robbed a mafia safehouse for 300,000$ and took out some cops in the process. So they have not only the italian mob headed by a guy who has no problem using the N word in the most negative way, but the cops are after them too. Anthony Quinn plays the “old boys” Captain about to retire when this happens and the new Lieutenant is going to take charge, except the new Lieutenant happens to be black, and this change of power is something these 2 guys have to work through, the first with his lifetime of bias to get over.

All of the acting in this is good to great. I found this looking for more stuff Anthony Quinn is in, a favorite actor of mine.. everyone in this was good though. Real s#%t.  Some of the scenes are really powerful and all of the action scenes are some dope pre-computers realFX ish

#itsOnNetflix

Peace

~t

 

ps – i’ma do more of these

Oh and I forgot to say the soundtrack is great too. Check it

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here’s a free $100 million idea… (re: Sports & Television)

Posted in Life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 12.06.2010 by thomas

Make a “sports” / “TV” social networking site. Could pretty much copy how twitter is set up. It seems like a lot of the people just want to talk about sports or whatever TV show is popular the time. I really don’t care about 95% of the overpaid athletes, shitty non-actors, and plastic ass, silicone breasted, fake lip “actresses”. Sorry but that hour long episode you just watched was really an advertisement for Vitamin Water. You thought you were good with the DVR skipping the commercials right? Nah, it’s called product placement and they write and edit scripts to put in these advertisements. Getting played twice, because you pay for it too.

But I’m getting off topic. I understand that people love sports. I love sports too. For the most part, watching it is boring as shit though. I’d rather actually pick up a ball and play. John Lennon said “if every American demanded peace instead of another TV set – there’d be peace”. I bet if every American played sports just as hard as they supported pro games the overweight and health statistics in this country would be a lot different.

Twitter is great. I get all kinds of amazing information from the people I’m following. Until there is a game. Then everything is drowned in a sea of “OHHHH SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT?!”. I like to know what’s going on in the game, but there’s 100 people saying the same thing. I think a “twitter” just for sports would be good. The market is there. Someone take that idea. Save my timeline! GET MONEY!

ha

for real though.

peace&light

t

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C.R.E.A.M. – STILL in 2010

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on 06.05.2010 by thomas

Evidence Mounts for Taliban Role in Bomb Plot (NYtimes)

I started to read this article. I didn’t make it past the 1st paragraph, this sentence “elevating concerns about whether other militant groups could deliver at least a glancing blow on American soil.”.

I stopped.

Of course they could. Any idiot can buy an old pathfinder on craigslist, load it with a bunch of store bought shit and drive it into Times Square. Count your federal/state/local tax dollars going into investigating this amateur scheme. I wonder if someone is.

Then I thought, on top of everything else, it was a neglected by the government and society Viet Nam veteran street vendor who first notified police of the burning truck. An ABC7 reporter said “you must love your job you’ve been doing it 15-20 years” to which he replied “I didn’t have much choice” without hesitation.

GET THE MONEY

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Apple vs. Oranges

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on 03.04.2010 by thomas

Apple vs. Oranges

Exploring in the forest for Origins

of gravity laws and man’s descent

the motivation fell on my head

as I sat one day thinking about when

I could

create everything in this big brain of mine

and it was funny just as I thought, that a sign

things changed

and now there’s progress

more people connected who understand that East is West

Against is For

When it’s Apples vs. Oranges

Right vs. Left, Capitalism vs. Communism

Food to eat vs. A college education

How much you have vs. How much you should be making




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Change is in the face of every man with broken hands…

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 22.03.2010 by thomas

2008

(2nd verse)

the ink from the last page bleeds into the next
ancestry of both slaves and Kings
from forgotten civilizations, heirlooms and rings, lost riches,
now forced to be supported by government
Change isn’t always so great
first you feel the blessing and then you feel the curse
and you might just say that’s the way it is, and work
and get on facing your challenges
but don’t let success change what the worst days meant
or ever stand in silence when you know that you should represent
Change
is in the face of every man with broken hands
trying to pick up where his father left off
in remembrance or respect
things have changed yet some are inevitable
Life & Death you never know when it changes at a moments notice
and you’re left standing on a corner alone
but one day you will find your way home
no matter how it changes

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I was imagining being in the middle of a Senate session

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 28.02.2010 by thomas

I was imagining being in the middle of a Senate session
nobody said anything to each other or me they spoke to the distance
it all bounced off the walls and of course I said what I thought
but no one would listen

no Democrat or Republican would hear my union songs

I wonder if they care what I saw in my 24 short years

If they respected my quarter century here

on this long island I was born they call New York

All my hard work

I heard late in the night the President I voted for extended the Patriot Act

can’t say I agree with that

what’s my freedom worth?

A million questions

I was imagining being in the middle of a Senate session

[[soundtrack to my thoughts]]

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TODAY YOU ARE THE LAW #JUSTICEFORALL

Posted in film, Life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 15.01.2010 by thomas

You know so much of the time we’re just lost, we say please God, tell us what is right, tell us what is true. And there is no justice, the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time we become dead. Little dead we think of ourselves as victims. And we become victims. We become weak. We doubt ourselves. We doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law, but today you are the law…

You are the law. Not some book. Not the lawyers, not the marble statue. Or the trappings of the court. Those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are in fact a prayer, a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion they say “act is if ye had faith, faith will be given to you”… If.. If we are to have faith in justice we need only to believe in ourselves, and act with justice. See I believe there is justice in our hearts.

PEACE

TO OUR WORLD

ACT WITH JUSTICE

PLEASE DONATE AGAIN IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY TO THE HAITI RELIEF EFFORT

‘YELE’ TO 501501 HTTP://YELE.ORG

OR ‘HAITI’ TO 90999 RED CROSS

WE ARE ONE WORLD

ONE LOVE

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Don’t Fall Asleep #poetry #ink

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 21.12.2009 by thomas

just wrote this

don't fall asleep

peace

t

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#30YearsOfWarinAfghanistan – Reload

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , on 12.12.2009 by thomas
Gen. Stanley McChrystal

U.S. military chief: ‘We cannot have an endless surge’ in Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said his forces will take the security lead in five years, despite doubts among military analysts that the Afghan army and police will be able to provide a sufficient number of trained forces in that period.

McChrystal rejected concerns that the July 2011 withdrawal is too early.

OK so Karzai says 5 years. We say : 18 months. We’ve already been there at war officially for 8 years. I was reading that article and one of the commenters said

AndersonClay

“To watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters battle modern arsenals with hand-held weapons is an inspiration to those who love freedom.”

President Reagan speaking about Afghans battling Russian “infidels.” @ yaleglobal.yale.edu

AndersonClay

… even AFTER Reagan, to watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters battle modern arsenals with hand-held weapons IS STILL an inspiration to those who love freedom.
In the past Afghan FREDON fighters were funded by the US now they are funded by US and EU DRUG LORDS, the BIG importers of the HIGH YIELD Heroin produced in Afghanistan THANKS to American INVASION!
Are we HELPING anyone here? (Well except drug traffic?) We are just OPENING A BIG DEBT HOLE ON THE GROUND where you and I will ultimately lie at the end of this mess!
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I also read another article about the 5 Americans they arrested in Pakistan for terrorist activities and the lack of real information and use of really loaded ‘target’ words really make me think about what’s going on. I’ve never trusted the media, I never will.
peace
t

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Liberty

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 07.12.2009 by thomas

“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. 

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
 With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
 Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
 A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
 Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
 Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
 Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
 The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
 “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
 With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
 Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
 The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
 Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
 I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Shine On

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