Sunday Morning Shout-out

Happy Sunday to all my fellow bloggers and readers! It's around 8:18am and I just decided to drop my two cents on the web this morning. Pebbles and I spent yesterday up in Pittsburgh shopping at IKEA. We got a few knick-knacks for the house, including a very nice little shelving unit to place on our wall. IKEA is a Swedish company and they always give really exotic-sounding names to their products, so you never really know what it means. For instance, the shelving unit in question (see pic below) is called ENETRI. I have no idea what that word means, but it sounds cool still! Though it's quite possible that the word itself could mean something like "Cheap-ass good looking bookshelf that can just barely fit in the back of your compact car!" Any Swedes out there would lik to tell me what the word means?



Anyhow, not much went on last night still...we came home and assembled ENETRI, followed by me preparing a quick dinner of brown-stew pork and New Orleans style red beans and rice. Settled in to watch a few movies, saw The Core and Bulletproof Monk. The Core could watch still, pretty interesting movie about a bunch of really smart folks digging down 700++ feet into the core of the earth to launch weapons of mass destruction at said core in the hopes of "jump-starting" the planet, thereby averting world destruction. Delroy Lindo was brilliant as the loopy black professor who invented the technology to get into the core in the first place. Overall not a bad flick still. Bulletproof Monk on the other hand was utter nonsense IMHO...also quite depressing because Chow Yun Fat is perhaps one of the best looking, articule actors to ever come out of Hong Kong! Seann William Scott (Stiffler from the American Pie series) just doesn't seem to cut it as an action hero (though he was pretty good as the Rock's sidekick in The Rundown) and it just doesn't make sense. Anyhow, after a vibrant fun-filled sushi of nonsensical scenes tied together by a moronic plot, the movie climaxes with a beautiful shot of the lovely Jaime King's tattooed midsection. Thank God I ended up with some stomach bug that prevented me from seeing the movie in the theaters when I had originally planned to a while back!

Oh yes, a word of note to my Jamaican readers. Highway 2000 rules! Driving on the Interstate yesterday toward Pittsburgh, we spent the bulk of our time in the car bouncing around and dodging potholes, dead deer, and a huge metal thing in the middle of the road. Highway 2000 is so much cleaner and smoother that I have to say once again that I was much impressed by it and can't wait to drive it again this coming summer and I'll be more than happy to give them my $130 toll to make it to May Pen in 30-minutes! It would be sweet if they could get it finished for Mobay still, cause that would mean we could get there faster!

Anyhow, me gone go eat some breakfast! So likkle more! Have a great Sunday everyone!

Comments

Jdid said…
yea man bulletproof monk was silly. it was filmed in toronto so i saw a few sights that i recognize but the movie real real foolish.

yep love those ikea names, actually got to go bck an get a bookshelf there sometime soon. think it name markor or something so
Anonymous said…
Never been into Ikea (doh usually go looking fe furniture up so)....

I haven't used the highway 2000 yet. A bredrin seh that when he first got on it, the car felt like it was full o gas and let off a good fart, after which it breathed a sigh of relief and drove well!

Watched the Devil's Advocate on Cinemax las nite. Good. Maybe if I get in the mood to post later I will make mention of it.

How did the pork turn out? Dr. D.
Anonymous said…
When we read the description for Bulletprook Monk, Midas declared that there was no way he would watch it. I just thought, "Hmmmmmmmm... I'll have to wait for him to be out to watch it, then! Because I love a "Kickaz" movie. But now, having read your review, i think I'll pass...

As for Ikea, they don't have stores in Florida unfortunately - they did in Vancouver where we lived for a short while, and their stuff is great and greatly priced! Since we're still in the home decoration and fixing up process, I've even taken a look at their website for stuff, but they don't even ship here! Huh... what's up with that?

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Anonymous said…
Bulletproof monk WAS silly, but then, most Kickaz movies are, you done know! The real fun in watching them is to pretend that you're watching it at the State or thr Regal Theatre (both closed long ago) or even at Carib, and just get into that vibe and give the neighbours something to talk about. ;-)

Mad Bull
Stu said…
I saw both those movies. Yes, they weren't that great, but they had to be better then "Bridget Jones Diary 2" Ha!!
Melody said…
IKEA sells some really nice furniture, but de biggest plus is that they appeal to both men and women. It must be de only place where a couple can shop for hours without anyone becomin' bored.
Anonymous said…
The Core had a few moments of crap but the did the bird dieing scene bpretty well. B Monk stole alot of a scenes from the matrix or had alot of matrix like scenes (chaingun helicoper, agents etc), story, ending, crap.
Scratchie said…
HI Dawg,
The shelf looks good. Don't know anything about that company though. Yuh come yaad and use the new highway and I live here an haven't been on it yet? Life still. Saw The Core. Not bad. Wouldn't pay at at the movies to see it but it could watch.