Pacificapocalypse

REPO! The Genetic Opera
Saw this on Comcast previews a few months back and it’s stuck with me.
Now I see it’s starting to build a buzz. Looks wacky; a musical sci-fi splatter fest?
What’s not to like?
And from the above still pic: BOOBIES! YAY!
Opens November 7.
Maybe.

A little late, but better than not at all.

Ah the Fourth of July! Now the Fourth in Pacifica is a little different. Pacifica is one of two cities on the Peninsula where fireworks sales are legal. Come the week or so before, the stands pop up on every block like mushrooms after the rain. Each stand dedicated to an individual fund raising effort: the Pacifica Little League; the local Girl Scout troop, the  local Hells Angels ( ok I made up that last one), you get the picture. People from all the surrounding cities flock in to buy their fireworks and Pacifca makes a fair bit of cheddar from it.

The night of the Fourth though, Pacifica PD is on the lookout for illegal fireworks (you know, the fun, dangerous, explody kind). And as usual we were fogged in. Up on the point we’re above the fog so we got a sort of arena rock lighting effect from the fireworks on the beach floating up through the fog bank. Safe and Insane is the motto for fireworks in Pac. Anyway, we invited Melissa up for the weekend and mainly watched movies and drank.
Except for Saturday.
SATURDAY! GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! Ah yes it was time for yet another Calguns Shoot-n-Que at Chabot. We had, I would say, the best turn out so far. At least 50 members showed up, and as usual, more food than we could eat ( we did our best, but after tri-tip, hot links, salmon, samosas, and various sides, it was a forgone conclusion. The food wins every time). Brought out only iron sight rifles figuring that since Melissa had never fired a gun before, she should start simple, at the 50 yard line.
Check that smile!

And of course Court still love *her* M1A Scout.
Goodness knows why my darling 5 foot nothing buck and a quarter girl loves that .308 so, but I’m not complaining.
Now that’s a gun happy face.

Tip o’ the hat to Rivviepop for letting Melissa shoot his S&W 686; I didn’t bring any handguns this time out.  Good time had by all; the bullets went that way and the girls were so proud of their bruises the next day. Weirdos.
More pics here.

We Watch Movies: Wanted
First things first; this movie is based upon a comic book of the same name.
Same it with me: COMIC BOOK.
Got it? Ok now that that’s out of the way, it was pretty fun. Over the top special effects, very bad bad guys, ultra violent, automobile stunts that would have Newton spinning in his grave so quickly, he catches fire from the friction. I won’t go into all the absurd details ( wait a minute, you mean they get their orders from a… loom? The thing you weave cloth with? In binary code?
And where do they get the hand crafted, engraved bullets from anyway?) but it is fun.

Don’t go expecting it to have any sort of connection to reality and you’ll enjoy it. Plus Angelina is still easy on the eyes. Minor divergence: we’ve decided that, at this point in her career, nude scenes are pretty much off the table.  Except in the case of a serious film, like Selma Hayek in Frida. But it’s unlikely we’ll ever see the blistering hot loves scenes as in Original Sin.
One last observation, more of a question really; where can *I* get one of those old timey flintlock rifles, that has the optical capability to see into the future and shoots multi-stage bullets, from? Seriously. I’d like to know.