The Rum Diary Streaming Now On The Netflix

 vespajet posted on Friday, 15th June 2012 - 11:37 am

Just put it into my queue and will be watching it later on today.

 BigHoss posted on Friday, 15th June 2012 - 12:38 pm

Thanks for the heads up.

"Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks, the lonely sound of time passing in the long Caribbean night."

You can kind of see how he wound up in Vegas.

 jonasjones posted on Friday, 15th June 2012 - 1:32 pm

Cool! Thanks for the heads up Chuck. I've always liked this quote from Rum Diary:
“Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.”