Men in Black

So, a week or two ago I got the urge to watch the movie Men in Black.  I guess with these various 'alien' themes coming up, it popped into my head.

I believe I watched all the Men in Black movies when they came out many years ago.  I usually remember the general plot of everything I have seen, but for MIB I couldn't really remember anything besides Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and the fact you had aliens running around disguised as people.

So, I watched it and had a good time as it kind of felt like I was seeing it again for the first time given how much I had forgotten.

I thought about this yesterday as two different 'men in black' came up yesterday (actually kind of 3 if you count the Fall Out Boy reference).

I had posted the link of the Battle of Wits between Westley and Vizzini, where Westley is the man dressed in black.  Indigo (the Spaniard that Westley defeated) even calls him the 'man in black' several times in his search to find him.  Here is one:

The second man in black (or at least referenced as black), was Sirius Black, brought up by William Tychonievich in his post "Giraffe on the Big, Fat Planet".  Here, Sirius is mentioned in relation to the actual star Sirius.  I left some comments there which I may pull into a comment here just to document them as the Toys R Us logo, in particular, seemed to have some meaning one could read into things.

Third, I had mentioned in conclusion of the Battle of Wits post, that Fall Out Boy had sung the line "The war was won before it's begun", demonstrating that like the game Westley set out for Vizzini, this 'game' on Earth between Good and Evil was similarly set up.  That line comes from the song "The Phoenix", and as part of that verse, the singers say "Because the world is just a teller and we are wearing black masks" in the context of bank robbers.

Anyway, just interesting - I will hold off on my usual tendency to create more narratives from all of this, and just conclude with Will Smith's catchy tune:

Actually, one interesting thing I noticed as I was posting this.  The video starts with an image of, from what I can tell, is a refrigerator.

In my words on April 22 which included the "Good times to roll!" phrase said in time immediately after Asenath's victory over the Balrog and return home (see this post for the complete context), an interesting sequence involving an alien-looking Being and a refrigerator was played for me.

In the sequence, a woman said (while laughing in a nice way - the whole sequence of words was like an excited party... hard to describe) "Beware this one!".  As this was said, I saw a cloaked figure standing in front of a refrigerator holding the door open.  The room was dark, so I couldn't make much else out.  Suddenly, someone turned the light on, and it was as if the cloaked figure was caught in the act of trying to sneak something out of the refrigerator.  Everyone started laughing even more, and I could see a profile of the figure's face now as it turned to the side.  It was a non-human face, with a long beak-like nose (something perhaps like one of the Skeksis from the Dark Crystal, but not exactly).

Following this scene, the next immediate thing someone said was "When I dream, I dream about books!"