Pastor Stewart is one of the funniest bits of local or even foreign humor in my opinion. With over 1.5 million views on Youtube, I am not alone. So while we wait for the Partnership to move mountains or even tiny molehills to make people happy, the diversification started without much fanfare from the powers that be - I Am Santana – The Movie – now showing at a T&T IMAX Near You
I am Santana - The Movie
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
There are many people who will be protesting the movie J. Edgar was omitted from the Oscar lineup this year. I am also disappointed but realize just because a movie featured good acting and opened way down in the back on Screen 8 at Movietowne, it should be nominated. Maybe the Academy feels that Clint Eastwood is too old and Leonardo DiCaprio too good for nomination.
I nearly fell asleep twice during an early showing of the Descendants so that alone should give the movie the Oscar nod. The Help was a movie I liked so I am a bit surprised it was even nominated. Just as surprising but most welcomed was the Best Actress Nomination of Rooney Mara for Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. A strangely sexy character, both on screen and page. I am one of those who will always agree Woody Allen should get the Oscar whenever he is nominated but it is never easy for sarcastic the man whose style of eyeglasses has gone in and out of style at least five times in his lifetime. Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy is one of the best dust collectors on my bookshelf and might remain so as the movie is already available on DVD at a store near me. Hugo has a good trailer and special effects which will no doubt heavily influence the way votes are cast.
So who really cares about the Oscars? Not too many as the show is not nearly as popular as is once was and several shades below average porn on the Net.
And The Nominations Are:
Best Picture
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best Actress
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Rooney Mara
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
Best Actor
Demian Bichir, A Better Life
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Best Director
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
The Descendants, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Hugo, John Logan
The Ides of March, George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball, Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Bridget O’ Connor and Peter Straughan
Best Original Screenplay
Woody Allen
The Artist, Michael Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids, Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
Margin Call, J.C. Chandor
Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen
A Separation, Asghar Farhadi
Best Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango
Vibes Cyah Done
Machel Montano
Yeah, ooohhhh
Yeah, Yeah, ooohhh
It’s the way that I do my ting, yea
Ah so from since I small, I’m telling you baby
If you feeling di music, bring yeah
ah cah behave at all, a whining like a mad man, who want to watch, could watch me,ah come to get on bad dan,* if u vex then ah sorry, is like every fete have d number to meh cell phone
De bacchanal does call me and i cannot say no
de vibes cyah done
de vibes cyah…
plenty jammin in d session, plenty rum to ease d tension, 20 man 100 oman, oh gosh
the vibes cyah doneee, yea…
When the music is everything yeah
It’s taking over me, and driving me crazy
Leading me on a string yeah
Ah dutty and ah walking and whining like a mad man
And I ain’t stopping so please
Girl if you have a problem, then go on call the police
It’s like I on the highway, head into the city
I’m ready for the whining, and nothing gonna stop me
de vibes cyah done
de vibes cyah…
plenty jammin in d session, plenty rum to ease d tension, 20 man 100 oman, oh gosh
de vibes cyah done
de vibes cyah…
plenty jammin in d session, plenty rum to ease d tension, 20 man 100 oman, oh gosh
de vibes cyah
So if I whine on yuh, and if ah grind on yuh
and get on wild with yuh
Is the music causing me to break away
I don’t care what you say, I go whine all day
When the rhythm hit me the vibes cyah done, the vibes cyah done, the vibes cyah done
de vibes cyah done
de vibes cyah…
plenty jammin in d session, plenty rum to ease d tension, 20 man 100 oman, oh gosh
de vibes cyah*
Is the music causing me to break away
I don’t care what you say, I go whine all day
When the rhythm hit me the vibes cyah done, the vibes cyah done, the vibes cyah done
Salma Hayek - The Wallpaper
Salma Hayek is the stuff my dreams are still made of. Selma is currently 45 years old but it probably doesn’t matter to my memory of her and the pictures I downloaded from websites quite unlike Megaupload. Like most beautiful actresses, she takes to a bikini like voyeur takes to a zoom lens. Apart from having the legs that will make any miniskirt look good, she once kissed a woman in a movie. Selma Hayek is Mexican by birth but sexy by nature. Unlike some fading female celebrities, she doesn’t have to do nudity in Playboy to get noticed once again.
Salma Hayek - Bikini
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
In my blog post on Black Swan I hardly said anything about Mila Kunis and what I should have said was that she is a great actress and sexy. She is so sexy she is now the new face of Christian Dior handbags or so the rumor goes and yes, expensive handbags do have faces.
Mila Kunis (Milena “Mila” Kunis ) is an actress and despite her Russian and Ukrinian names she is an American actress. Like all sexy women, Mila looks sexy when dressed up and when not. MIlas is no Megan Fox and some will say thankfully, but sexy comes in many packages and Milas is one of them.
Mila Kunis - Sexy
Mila Kunis - Sexy
The Corruption Culture
Winston Dookeran recently said in the Business Express that the Government is about to embark on a 24 billion TT$ public sector investment program – a well thought out spending spree – to help boost the economy. However, he, like many people, is doubtful the country has the capacity to implement those projects in 2012.
I don’t expect the Government to be able to spend 24 billion in 2012 unless the wheels of the economy are greased with corruption. That is how things work in our country. Corruption is the root of our economy and unless it is well watered with US$ and fed with political fertilizer, the economy will bear no fruit.
Every elected politician and appointed party crony seem to be waiting for the avalanche of dollars to fall their way so they can stop worrying why they supported their political party and now seriously start looking at those Florida real-estate brochures. In our country, businessmen don’t know how to get rich without running some grease and the Corolla-driving, high-up public servants, along with their political bosses, usually resent awarding contracts to those BMW-driving businessmen unless properly motivated. It appears that the old trick from the previous administration will be used – accuse others of corruption to distract the population from theirs.
I now have this uneasy but yet hopeful feeling that the only man who can catapult the local economy out of the recession is Jack Warner because he has the experience other politicians only feel they have. Winston Dookeran may have good intentions but he should know that an ounce of grease, applied locally, can do more for the economy than a million pounds of good will.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
Crunchy numbers
London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 690,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 9 sold-out events for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 57 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 713 posts. There were 189 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 41mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was August 27th with 8,271 views. The most popular post that day was Snooki Made Simpler.
Click here to see the complete report.
As shaky as the World looks right now, I want stretch my optimism and use the popular quote by Joey Adams to say to everyone “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!“
Paula Patton - Closeup
Paula Patton
The car sported a BMW emblem - A Ghost Protocol BMW
Paula Patton and Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 4:Ghost Protocol
Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol is clearly the butt-kicking action movie of the year. Not only that, but the movie starred the sexy and mostly unknown Paula Patton as main attraction for male fans, closely followed by various BMW vehicles and Dell servers. Throughout the movie I was wondering not only what the salary of secret agents are and how much they charge for endorsements, but why I haven’t dreamt about Paula Patton before and hoping I will see her wearing a short, tight-fitting skirt in the near future. Everybody knows that Tom Cruise is a fine actor though he is on the short side even with platform shoes but Paula Patton was the homing missile that propelled Ghost Protocol to the top of the box office charts.
Ghost Protocol may not be a feel-good movie like “Miracle on 34th Street” , “It’s a Wonderful Life” or “Dr. No” but the movie left the audience feeling that the secret of life is knowing all about curves: where to find them and how to negotiate the finest curves the world has to offer without ending up wrapped around a light-pole at 2 a.m.
Sexy Christmas
Form: The management and staff (one and the same) of This Beach Called Life
To: All those who managed to come visit this blog at random intervals during the last 12 months – have a Sexy Christmas and may the stockings, g-strings and/or Speedos that you bought fit that special someone almost as well as it did the mannequin and/or sales person in the store. May your tingles be in the right place and be bright and cheery.
Ian Harnarine
Although the word has been around since August, I only found out about the movie Doubles With Slight Pepper from the Trinidad Guardian on Monday. It was good news for movie making in Trinidad and Tobago. Doubles With Slight Pepper is a movie by Ian Harnarine, a Canadian with Trini parents and who is a movie sound recordists and mixer. The movie won Best Short Award at the International Toronto Film Festival (ITFF) has been considered among the top ten movies in Canada this year. According to the ITFF website the movie runs for 16 minutes and has the famous American director, Spike Lee listed as one of the executive producers. The Trinidad Guardian’s article said the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company (TTFC) assisted Mr. Harnarine with grant funding for the movie. I checked the listing for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF I suppose) for listings for 2011 but didn’t see Doubles listed. Maybe Flow will offer it on-demand soon.
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Here is another photo-project which I am calling “Trini Christmas.” I will start with a few photos and as I find more time I will take and post more shots. The photos shown are some of what I observed during this Christmas season. Christmas in Trinidad has a high content of foreign decorations, foreign movies and local pigs. None of this is a criticism since nearly everybody is happy with what we do during the Christmas season with the one exception being dying and killing with drinking and driving. Local Christmas music is mainly the Spanish influenced Parang, White Christmas and Scrunter wanting A Piece of Pork for the Christmas. Sorrel is the most popular drink in Trinidad and Tobago at Christmas time after Scotch and coconut water. Sorrel drink is made from the fleshy red calyx of the hibiscus sabdariffa (ttltt.com). Ginger beer is popular but not something I am fond off so I will not try to big it up via blog.
There are several new trends developing over the years in Trinidad and Tobago for the Christmas Season such as avoiding the malls and streets and instead depending on Amazon and skybox addresses for everything from books to underwear for that special someone. There are now a number of these skybox services available in Trinidad and Tobago, services that can easily frustrate customers with unreliable delivery during this season of buying affection with credit cards.
The best way to describe the weather in Trinidad in December is tropically cool. Only last week I heard thunder then got soaked but generally the skies are sometimes blue and even bluer if a polarizing filter is used – no Photoshop is necessary for the season.
Christmas time is the best time of the year in TnT for those who have some money. Even if a person fell through the cracks and was never able to make any money because they lacked the skills and health necessary to get a job and live like people, there might be short-term charity made available by the rich and the Government. Nobody wants to be poor and in an attempt to combat poverty and unhappiness some public servants, politicians, and contractors team up to dabble in the corruption field at the expense of even those who don’t have any money.
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