Mimicking is indeed the best form of flattery

That’s what the saying goes like (or at least similar). Well let’s see who is flattering who here.

Man (and I mean mankind here for being slightly politically incorrect) inherently mimics! Period.

I got this epiphany a while back but have been on hiatus from writing for some odd reason or another. The moment was riding a subway in Barcelona, with a colleague (also an avid blogger at http://howmanyroads.blogspot.com/ ) and as the train snaked its way in these tunnels I couldn’t help but think I was riding inside a well lit centipede’s belly! (I had a late previous night at the bar and I guess remnants were still flowing through my veins)

Then during my ride-in-the-centipede’s-belly I began to think and came up with my list of Man-mimics or Manimics as I would now like to call them (that’s my 2 bits of creativity thank you)

Here goes that list:

Subway – Centipede
Sky scraper Window Cleaners –Spider / Scum sucker fish
Helicopter – Dragon fly
Morse code – Fireflies
Rock climbing – Praying Mantis
Society – Ants
Scuba - Fish
General Male Habits – Apes
General Female Habits - Cats

Maybe these animals know something we dont! But heck I guess we are just flattering a better species

Wanted is definately wanted here!!

What is it about a good looking woman with a weapon that just makes a movie so watch-able?

Saw wanted over the weekend and boy were there some farfetched-physics defying turning Newton in his grave kind of stunts and scenes. I’m talking about cars being flipped over other cars and people being shot through open sunroof’s because the side windows were bullet proof. I’m talking about bullets doing things even boomerangs can’t while swinging through the air. I’m talking about guys jumping over bridges, buildings and alleys and landing on moving subways like they skipped a puddle after a light drizzle.

Enter Angelina Jolie:

Now I’m talking about her driving the red dodge viper through busy what-looked-like-New-York-streets at 100 mph without batting an eyelid on her Venus De Milo face. I’m talking about Angelina shooting a fat-ass gun that I want to buy just because she makes it look so good. I’m talking about Jolie making a simple act of ‘leaning back to duck under the bridge while the subway goes under’ look like a Bach symphony played by a 40 person orchestra at La Scala in Milan.

And yes I am talking about her walking out of a hot water and wax healing bath with tattoos that would get Michelangelo woken from his tomb to brush up on his painting skills!

Aah yes this was a good movie indeed and I’m headed to see it again later this week.




p.s. I did head straight to the gun club after the movie and no there is no possible way to curve a bullet around a corner and hit your target!!