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so, no, this post doesn't really have anything much to do with pflügen, except that it's a cool german word. The way I understand it though, it has something to do with plowing...and, bear with me here...i was thinking about that William Blake line from the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, from the Proverbs of Hell, "Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead." And it seems good enough advice. So that's what I'm doing now...driving and, i guess, to a lesser extent--plowing. So I guess this really was about "pflügen."

Well it was a long time coming since Cannes and getting to meet Bill "Groundhog day, Ghostbustin' ass" Murray and Jim Jarmusch...but the movie finally came out in the states last weekend and so did my "official" interview piece, different than the blog stuff...
Click here to read my article on ajc.com

Alright, so a lot of people have asked me lately, "hey jon, like what is some good free stuff to download to keep my computer a bit safer?" so as a general nicety, i am gonna list a few links...nothing special, in fact, this is common stuff...but if i can help (or avoid) just one person...it's all worth it.

Microsoft Antispyware Beta

AdAware personal edition

Trend Micro online virus scan

Spybot search and destroy

and if you can manage to pick it up...ace utilities is worth it. voila.

Riptide / 1934 / with a sexy Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer

Edmund Goulding did a masterful job with film...sliding all of it's innuendo laced dialogue in under the radar of the production code. BUT...there are ways to make the film better. So I present the recipe for "Riptide Redux," dedicated to Lady Mary Rexford:

1.) There needs to be more sex. All this hinting just doesnt cut it. The code has gone by the wayside. There should be at least one naked love scene with the Lady and Tommy Trent. Preferably several. 2.) More drug usage...all that gin and no reefer is quite unbelievable. 3.) Lord Rexford is an unsympathetic, controlling, and untrusting fool. He has all this money but just wants to keep the Lady as his showpiece, and never let her have any adventures. There should be a scene where Tommy kicks his ass if we (or the Lady) are really supposed to feel pity for this guy. 4.) Ok, this is the most important. We have to nix the ending. The original ending comes out of left field and is completely unsubstantiated. No one buys it at all. It's supposed to play as a happy ending, but it's just the opposite! Come on, really...we're supposed to believe that Lady Rexford gives up a life of passion and adventure for this controlling hermit? I hear the smallest violin in the world playing the Stones' "Under my Thumb." So here's how that will change in Riptide Redux...she won't sacrifice her well-being for someone else's. That is too docile a move for such a strong leading lady. Tommy won't take NO for an answer and will steal her away. Then they will live happily ever after, as Tommy talked of earlier in the movie...sleeping all day and waking up just as the evening starts to get gay...dancing all night and living in their own beautiful world together. Now that's the happy ending we want. The End.