UFC 130 Fight Card

It's a big weekend, so we get a great holiday UFC card. After a couple of injuries his deceased fight for our headliner big party (Edgar - Maynard III), what remained of the former movie star and defending champion Rampage Jackson will try to sell the show. If you can accept that there is a very good card to watch.

Fury is not fought since November, the great scheme of things not so long ago. Rashad Evans Rashad lost rampage a year ago and still waiting for the fight. Hamill is not fought since winning a decision over Tito Ortiz in October. Hamill is one of the fighters in a harsh beating. He can only Rampage? Sure. I guess the plan for the knockout rampage Hamill as always running back and kick the scalpel.

These guys are friends and businessmen. They are ready to put it all aside and hit each other and trying to send to each other. It's the kind of thing that all fighters were seen and assessed that "I'm not going to fight with team mate" thing ends. After 15 minutes Nelson took a beating in the Junior dos Santos was also the title of his most enduring fighter in the UFC. Not many people can take such an ass-whooping. I really like both guys, and I'm not sure who I think will win or who want to drag. Probably Roy Nelson, who has a bigger upside (...?) at this point in his career.

Apocalypse Now

The year was 1970, Coppola decade. Participated in the successive masterful films as a screenwriter Patton, American Graffiti, producer, director of the first two Godfather movies and talking, and finally, in 1979, as the author of Apocalypse Now. Burned our time, and now we see that the Apocalypse is now not only the best movie to come out of the Vietnam experience, but one of the great works of the madness of our time. Immediate early morning preview screening of "Apocalypse Now" and then a press conference in Cannes, where it began, saying: "My film is not about Vietnam, Vietnam, " and added that, while filming "Little by little we went insane. " What was brave and prophetic.

Coppola took Heart of Darkness, mysterious story of Joseph Conrad's the atrocities of colonialism, and turned it into the 20 century story about neo-colonialism, where the story perfectly sober narrator, Marlow, Captain Willard is the killer of special services, so crazy when he is assigned to quarry, Colonel Kurtz. The difference is that unlike everyone around him, from the top brass, Willard knows that's crazy.

Everything about the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the pressure to take us to Afghanistan and Iraq, Abbottabad and deadly attack on the problems facing us are the way of Willard. This is a brilliant falter a bit towards the end, but not fatal. This newly released version is more or less the one shown in Cannes and final. A half hour of material has been introduced 10 years ago, Apocalypse Now Redux "there is no value, reducing the film, and should be avoided.

Death Cab for Cutie

The last time Death Cab for Cutie played in Bend, in the opinion of the 2008 album "Narrow stairs" poured in, hailing as a sharp, dark and experimental. Except for the album was not really such a thing. The song was one of a long, ominous intro, and had some tough lyrical parts, but the most "narrow stairs" sounded like Death Cab.

Three years later, the Seattle-based pop-rock quartet return to the city (see "If you go"), again riding the wave of a new version, Death Cab seventh full-length "codes and keys," is from Tuesday. "If you told me that ... it just sounds like a Death Cab record," drummer Jason McGerr said in a telephone interview last week: "I might say that listening to a bad stereo."

The band is still essential components: the singing guitarist Ben Gibbard and Chris Walla, a reliable rhythm section McGerr and bassist Nick Harmer, Gibbard and the earworm melodies and plenty of heartbreak / love lyrics. This is the formula that propelled the quartet to the rise in the late '90s indie-pop upstarts play amphitheaters, and embeds the "Twilight" soundtrack.