Since this site is about entertainment & politics it's always nice when there's an obvious crossover character. Turns out Al has pretty respectable taste in movies, like Groundhog's Day and Being John Malkovich. So he invited Spike Jones, director of the latter, to come shoot him with his family for the day -- wife, kids, grandkids, mom.
How cool to choose Spike Jones.
Speaking of the movies, you get to see him with the family deciding what video to watch that night. They're thinking The Straight Story (David Lynch!) or Shall We Dance (original Japanese release) and all lukewarm/rejecting rejecting Mel Gibson's The Patriot. Seems he has good videowatching habits as well, always pausing for anyone leaving the room, going for the full experience. The olde fashioned way.
I think you see a genuine guy you'd have a nice time hanging out with, a breath of fresh air in that alt universe where we kicked ass in Afghanistan, didn't let Bin Laden escape in Tora Bora, and spread democracy through diplomacy, in general bolstering rather than denigrating our global reputation and influence.
Here's the pity: it was shot in 2000, shown at the Democratic Convention but not on network television, and then Gore's weak-kneed/overpaid D.C. consultants never released it into the public sphere. I'm not saying it would have won over Justice Antonin Scalia, but y'know maybe he would have seen that Al was a regular guy with a nice family and voted to let the recount proceed in Florida.
The glory of our sprawling post-post-modern culture gives us all 13:12 to check out and make up our own minds on Google video. So I'm putting the brakes on the reverie if you promise to:
see Spike's Al.
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Agreed on the Tipper tip. Anybody who hates heavy metal is a villain in my book.
Shall we lighten the mood with some Spike trivia?
Mr. Jones has a tatoo on his stomach that reads "Han Solo" in gangsta-style gothic lettering.
Tom Waits was the house band when he married Sofia.
Spike Spiegel, the lead character of the awesome anime series Cowboy Bebop is named after him.
Spike got his start as a BMX photographer and was a contributor to Dirty -- the killer spinoff for boys Sassy magazine.
I haven't heard Tipper mention the PMRC in over a decade thank goodness, and one of my main bugaboos with Hillary C. is that she bothers to spend any waking moments trying to legislate against Grand Theft Auto. As a parent, I make sure my kids don't play violent videogames, and as a gamer I just have to say, "Don't you have anything better to do?" If any gamer out there is getting off on that sub-robot Hot Coffee sex parody scene hidden away in "GTA: San Andreas" I'd be mighty surprised. Don't you have a President to censure, Hillary?
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