Many of you loyal readers
have suggested I make a run for council in the upcoming municipal election and
while I must admit the benefits package is enticing (along with the ability to
give myself a raise at any time) I am going to have to politely decline. I’m
not sure even I could turn things around for our quiet mountain town.
That’s not to say I don’t
have a truckload of great ideas, free for any future councillor to use. For
instance, I’ve brainstormed a fantastic way to boost our local economy in March
2010, those weeks after the Olympic shitshow has rolled on and everyone is
predicting a lull — ‘Olympic economic hangover’ they call it.
Heck, everyone knows the best
way to get rid of a hangover is a little herb, so I propose we talk to the
people in Amsterdam and see if they’ll let Whistler host the Weed Olympics in
2010. Might as well bang off as many Olympics as we can in one year, eh? Pot
smokers like to eat, so our restaurants will be full. They like to drink too,
and watch movies — the spin-offs benefits are endless. And anyone who
considers it unwise to invite a bunch of potheads into town has obviously never
walked through the village on the May long weekend and seen what legally
purchased alcohol can do. Screw the laws, I’ll take the stoners over the drunks
any day. Just imagine the press — we’d make headlines around the world!
Sticking with great political
minds, this week the Village 8 is opening
W.
, Oliver Stone’s biopic about outgoing president
George W Bush. Stone is known for being controversial and he’s already made two
good ‘president’ flicks (
JFK, Nixon).
You might find it a surprise then that
W.
is neither overly controversial nor especially good.
In fact, Stone lifts the main conflict of his film from Andy Samberg’s
Hot
Rod
– the young buck motivated
solely by his desire to win love and respect from his father.
Not to say the film is a
total dud — it’s good to watch the leaders of the free world discuss
torture in ‘Guantanamera’ while eating lunch, and Josh Brolin (
No Country
For Old Men)
does a fine job
portraying Bush. Stone hired a fine back up cast behind him too, but all in all
the movie lacks punch. It dramatizes some events of Bush’s life, glosses over
other important ones, and in the end adds very little to our understanding of
the man or his politics. Too bad,
W.
could
have been the next
Dr Strangelove
Speaking of trimming,
Saw V
also opens Friday. They pump out one of these a year
so don’t expect anything especially new. Jigsaw is dead in this one and it’s up
to an ex-cop to carry on his noble tradition of torture-porn. That’s all I
know, they don’t give anyone pre screenings of this one and I didn’t watch the
last two either. There will be blood, and cool torture devices.
I wouldn’t expect much blood
in
High School Musical 3
though,
unless someone in the audience decides to slit their own wrists rather than
keep watching.
HSM 3
is pure
Disney — joyful, lighthearted entertainment that parents can take their
kids to while holding on to those hopes and delusions that the world is a great
place and their little babies would never do anything immoral or wrong —
like vote ‘Yes’ for the Weed Olympics in 2010.
