The Naked Face had bad glasses

After listening to the audiobook of The Naked Face read by Roger Moore, I watched a crappy VHS copy of the film also starring Roger Moore. Because of, well, Roger Moore. It is really weird to see him playing some mild-mannered milquetoast kind of guy and I swear, his glasses in this film consume 50% of his face. Anne Archer looks goofy as hell even though she is supposed to be a heartthrob character. And the cops in the film are pretty much the stereotypical rough-around-the-edges policemen. One of the reviewers on IMDb said it's difficult to watch Roger Moore play such a wimpy dude after seeing him as 007. I agree. Plus the story was kinda lame. If you watch it and you don't laugh at the final scene, you are less jaded than me!

I'm sitting here relaxing, watching the '89 Batman movie for like the 1200th time. I love it, still do, think Jack as the Joker is great. Although I am really excited for The Dark Knight. What I have seen of Heath Ledger as the Joker so far is truly scary. One night, I was so tired I fell asleep with the TV on and something woke me up around 4:30 in the morning. The sight I saw on the TV was a snippet of Heath in the Joker make-up and it was genuinely alarming. I fucking hate clowns anyway ('cept for in Octopussy, of course) and there is something I find demonic about the make-up of Ledger's Joker. It's not funny, it's not jovial, it's not criminal but still laughable, it's downright disturbing. Like a psychopath in a psych ward painted that shit on in a fit of manic rage. *Shivers* Anyway, I bring this up because of the polluted Arkansas River. I have since learned that apparently, the trapeze artistry I observed while rocking out at the Brandon Clark show in Jenks is something that is an on-going deal down there. When we were down there, I told my friend that if someone fell in the Arkansas River, they would emerge like the Joker after he falls in the chemical vat at Axis Chemicals. This spawned a whole conversation of jokes about the pollution in the river being dumped there by Axis Chemicals of Gotham City and the news stations of Tulsa reporting on it. I gotta say, even though I am sure Dark Knight will be amazing, I will always have a soft spot for the '89 version. "This town needs an enema." *Blows party favor* One of the things that got me when I was kid that still gets me today is the part when the Joker is meeting with the mob bosses and he has on the fleshy make-up. After he blows the room apart with gunfire, he wipes his face and the flesh color comes off revealing white below, indicating that his skin is now permanently tainted ghost white.

I plan to go see Get Smart tonight. I hope it is as funny as the previews look. I also can't believe it is raining AGAIN. We have had the wettest, stormiest summer I can remember. I am sick of this crap. I ain't saying I want it to be 120 degrees but fuck. Enough is enough on the flooding. And the grass and weeds growing knee high overnight.

Oh wow. I'm to the part now where Joker is about to stab that man in the jugular with the quill pen.

"She's dating some guy named Wayne."
"Well she's about to trade up."