j is for jaws!

yes, jaws! good old spectacular jawsity-jawsity jaws!! man, i love this movie. (mmm, can you tell?) and i also love any photo that can be described as 'never before seen.' i stumbled across this great shot a few hours ago, and i just love it. from left to right, we have the unscrewed and sorta-crazy robert shaw as quint, the bespectacled and independently wealthy matt hooper, (richard dreyfuss) and the dutiful and streetwise cheif martin brody. (roy scheider) wow, man... i love jaws! even in the boarding house where i live, everyone knows how i feel about 'jaws,' ...there's sort of an unspoken rule that if someone sees that 'jaws' is on, then someone needs to come tell me about it. because you know, 'jaws' always puts me in the mood... to do what, you may ask? well, it puts me 'in the mood' to watch 'jaws!' its one of those films that i don't even have a 'favorite part' of. what's my favorite part of 'jaws?' the part where its on, and i watch it. (?) and i don't even count the limp-dicked sequels as real true parts of any kind of real-or-imagined 'jaws' series. to me, there is only one 'jaws,' the first 'jaws,' the one true shark ride that IS the original ahhh-jawsity-'JAWS!' (click to enlarge)

gone fishing

after recognizing tom ewell's birthday (below) i'm going to take the rest of the night off. i'm going fishing. yeah, i've noticed my nets and traps have been a little slight lately, so i need to dive deep and replenish the stock if i can. so in honor of fishing, please dig this practically perfect reproduction of the movie poster for the classic film 'jaws.' i know it by heart. that proves i'm not a 'chick flick' kind of girl. hey, i also dig 'scarface' and 'the shining.' anyway, so wish me luck. i don't know if the waters have anything to offer, but there's no other way to tell except to put my knife between my teeth, jump off the cliff and dive. see you tommorrow, lovers.

orca drucker

hey, if there's two things i love and can't get enough of, its the genius of mort drucker, and the thrill of the original 'jaws.' here's a frame from the mad magazine movie parody. 9.9 times out of ten, mr. mort drucker's renderings were dead-on. this strip is a prime example... although i daresay his scheider looks a little more 'french connection' than it looks like chief brody, but hey, its still a groovy likeness. and his dreyfuss couldn't be better. man, i could seriously watch 'jaws' back to back, for ten hours, and literally not get tired of it. does it make me a movie geek? perhaps. but man... 'jaws' ...it doesn't get cooler than that.

o roy

i didn't want to let another day go by without paying a solemn tribute to the one and only Police Chief of Cool, mr. roy scheider. i can't say enough about the coolness. not only was he the bolt that held the wild bloody ride that is 'Jaws' together, he also starred and stunned in such great flicks as 'the french connection,' (where he looked hot) and also as the cruel slick pimp in 'klute,' and the thinly-veiled pusher Dr. Benway in Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch.' (i never saw 'Sea Quest.') so lets all raise our glasses and bow our heads to the late great roy scheider.