Ocean Avenue
By: jmloverink
tags: beach, Cannon Beach, color, HDR, ocean, Ocean Avenue, Robert Downey Jr., sand, Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder
Category: HDR, Landscape, Photography, color, nature
The salty sea air, the wind blowing in your face. It is good to be a sailor. Evidently, my ancestors were all seafaring people. I’m a Euromutt, you see. Dutch, Danish, German, Norwegian, and a little English if I’m not mistaken. Some people (my mom and wife) were tying to convince me that I have French in me but I refuse to believe that. I won’t have it. I’ll get a frenchectomy if I need to. Anyhow, you see, most of my blood comes from civilizations that were very active on the high seas: Norwegians, Dutch, Danes, and English specifically. It’s a wonder I’m not a pirate… on the ocean…
I saw Tropic Thunder over the weekend. It was pretty funny. I will say this about it: Tom Cruise stole the show. That’s right, Tom Cruise is in it and he upstaged everyone. Even Robert Downey, Jr. as a real life white actor playing a white Australian actor playing a black U.S. soldier in Vietnam in a movie within a movie. But before you get all up in a hissy fit about how you hate Tom Cruise because he jumped on Oprah’s couch and went crazy with all his Scientology-ness, allow me to explain. This is not a role you would imagine Tom Cruise in. This is the role of a minor supporting character, and a jerk at that. You read that correctly, Tom Cruise is not the leading man and he plays a dislikable character. Surprise! But, in my opinion, it was a good move for him. This character is so dislikable as to become likable. Thus, we all like Tom Cruise again. Brilliant; he should pay his agent more. Unless his agent is anything like Cruise’s character, who is also, in point of fact, an agent. Overall, Tropic Thunder was quite entertaining. It made me laugh on many occasions, which is what comedies are for. All, except one unfortunate similarity between Stiller and a disembodied head and a certain incident on a Greyhound bus in Canada several weeks ago, which I’m sure was unintentional, yet still rather unfortunate.
~Jake
Robert Downey Jr. cracks me up… he’s got a real knack for not taking himself too seriously