The U10 lads dominated my weekend, we lost ignominiously 6-2 on Saturday and then exited the 5 v 5 tourney in the first round. I've heard all the excuses, but we were short two lads in the first half on Saturday, and robbed of 4 minutes playing time in the first of two games on Sunday. Had we won that game (it was all us all the time, naturally) and not drawn it we'd have advanced.
Inter lost 2-0 unluckily to the Deportivo Tierra Blanca division leading 'big-boys' and so Dinamo Internazionale holds its head up high mid table with a couple of games left after promotion.
Tuesday game off - I didn't play then either so I'm a bit rusty.
We're supporting Dave's great endeavor up at Rob's on Saturday in aid of http://oaprojects.org/play-soccer_so_they_can Dinamo will be represented. Dave is part of what makes the club so energetic, so he courts Hollywood once in a while (like Boyley) but if you cut them in half you'll see Dinamo like Blackpool rock.
David Lipski is so solid it's unbelievable. He's been a great addition to the FK squad and a great bloke. We're solid in fourth as I write, and though Jeff M has his 5th Anniversary on Friday and will be spending the time with Jade, not us - I'm feeling good that Seany and Kareem will hold down the back in his absence. Above all it's my bliss that Carr is back.
Carr is a hard bastard in the best way. New Dad, to be so admired for his sacrifices and tolerances and Blackpool rock Dinamo (I'm liking that term today !). Injured for the longest time but Uber Podiatrist Quinn Fauria treated Carr and now he's back ! Quinn is the best there is, period.
And so, with Tuesday off I chose to see The Damned United at the bastard shithouse scumbag rip off Laemmle cinemas and Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story at AMC Promenade 16. Both theatres are hideous shit, frankly - but what choices do you really have ?
Leammle's film buying locks up their product exclusively and film distribution has no bollocks to cut them off, and AMC single handedly saturated the market with poorly designed low specification shit, minimum wage staff and branded ugliness and land-development-cleverness-within-the-law REITs. Buying / merging with Loews, General Cinema, Megastar et al put them in a functional monopolistic situation being the number 1 or 2 in market share in the biggest markets - more than 17 theaters in Los Angeles and more than 40 in California. I can't be bothered to see what that means in number of screens - but does it really present a choice ?
Leammle in Encino has no air conditioning to speak of - at least not when I was there - and the sound system is absolute arse. Loved Michael Sheen though, and the movie is brilliant - totally got lost in the 1969 - 1974 mise en scene, on my own David Peace journey.
Capitalism asked so many questions, which lead to other questions, and while I've heard it said that Michael Moore goes after too many things in this movie - I think the truth is that he expects the audience to join the dots and think about what connects the foreclosures, the poorly paid two-job working airline pilots, the dead peasant insurance policies and the fact that financial oversight is at best a poacher turned gamekeeper scenario.
Ironically - and I don't know if this was planned or part of the AMC random-ness or technical failure - but there was no 'pre-show' in the Capitalism auditorium - by that I mean the cheap commercials and info-torial low production values nonsense they can feed in because they've got some digital projectors.
One of the groups Michael Moore skewers is JP Morgan Chase. AMC is owned by Marquee Holdings apparently an investment entity affiliated with JP Morgan Chase.
The Blackpool rock test - cut them in half and it says POACHER.
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