Thank you! Yes the title is a tiny bit misleading...
In reply to this comment by ponceleon:
I'll tell you why this doesn't have more votes. About 1/3 of these are just glasses and not sunglasses as promised. There, I said it.

Gonna *promote this guy to see if others agree

Val had a 6000 acre ranch in the USA southwest. You definitely need sunglasses.

i can't believe val kilmer is dead....
the man was awesome!!!

"The Nokia tune (also called Grande Valse on old Nokia mobile phones) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_tune

New Val-U-Brand kibble! Now with 20% more helium!

Sounds like a carn(e)val to me!

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:

Agreed. It was all downhill after Willow.

>> ^artician:

Awe, but he was Madmartigan!
>> ^brycewi19:
Val Kilmer deserves worse simply for the beach volleyball scene in Top Gun.

I had to tell you that your message here prompted me to watch Top Gun this night.

http://www.piratenz.eu/play.php?url=NTE0MzU=

In reply to this comment by brycewi19:
Val Kilmer deserves worse simply for the beach volleyball scene in Top Gun.

Awe, but he was Madmartigan!

>> ^brycewi19:

Val Kilmer deserves worse simply for the beach volleyball scene in Top Gun.

Val Kilmer deserves worse simply for the beach volleyball scene in Top Gun.

It is insane, but when people know someone or think someone will lose, they vote against that person. I.e., Christ. Add that percent to Christ's and you come up with a bigger voting base.

The great part was---even burning with utter loss before the battle was finished, Christ still earned what he earned. I was pleased. Independents went to Rubio because he was the winner... Sad.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^Lawdeedaw:
Christ to me will always have lost because he was tag-teamed. Meek was asked to drop out because he was a loser that siphoned votes. He intentionally stayed for what purpose? I can't think of one besides pride, and that doesn't motivate politicians often enough to be valid.
Crist had a huge grassroots, and large support even if it wasn't tea party fanatics. He should have never been the one to walk off stage. He did the right thing, but right typically loses to the wrongs. I think Crist would never have been happy being a slave to either party--and that's why he left the insanity that is Florida's republicans.
He supported the Obama stimulus and that's fine. He went on attacks but even then kept a positive attitude. And this is why winners cannot be politicians.

Take a look at the exit polls. Scroll down to the breakdown by party ID.
Rubio got 87% of the Republican vote, and 51% of the Independent vote. Crist and Meek split the Democratic vote (with Meek getting slightly more of it than Crist), but Crist getting 38% of the Independents, with Meek getting only 10%.
Crist lost because Republicans abandoned him. He only got 12% from the party he was in just a few months prior.
Hell, looking at these numbers again makes me think Rubio would've won in a straight-up contest with Crist.
FWIW, it sounded like Crist was a good guy. I'd rather have him in the Senate than Rubio. I probably would've voted for him if I were a Floridian, even.

>> ^Lawdeedaw:

Christ to me will always have lost because he was tag-teamed. Meek was asked to drop out because he was a loser that siphoned votes. He intentionally stayed for what purpose? I can't think of one besides pride, and that doesn't motivate politicians often enough to be valid.
Crist had a huge grassroots, and large support even if it wasn't tea party fanatics. He should have never been the one to walk off stage. He did the right thing, but right typically loses to the wrongs. I think Crist would never have been happy being a slave to either party--and that's why he left the insanity that is Florida's republicans.
He supported the Obama stimulus and that's fine. He went on attacks but even then kept a positive attitude. And this is why winners cannot be politicians.


Take a look at the exit polls. Scroll down to the breakdown by party ID.

Rubio got 87% of the Republican vote, and 51% of the Independent vote. Crist and Meek split the Democratic vote (with Meek getting slightly more of it than Crist), but Crist getting 38% of the Independents, with Meek getting only 10%.

Crist lost because Republicans abandoned him. He only got 12% from the party he was in just a few months prior.

Hell, looking at these numbers again makes me think Rubio would've won in a straight-up contest with Crist.

FWIW, it sounded like Crist was a good guy. I'd rather have him in the Senate than Rubio. I probably would've voted for him if I were a Floridian, even.

>> ^spoco2:

I don't know who Deanna Russo is, but I like her

On the excellent FX series Rescue Me, and formerly of the not-so-excellent Knight Rider remake (the one with Val Kilmer as KITT).

Is that Val Kilmer?

...and so we come full circle.
As it mentions at the bottom of the first page of music, the (now infamous) Nokia ringtone was itself based on four bars from Tarrega's "Waltz in A Minor", or "Gran Vals".

This is like one of those situations where you've got a "Novelization of the Film"...based on a movie...that was itself based on a novel in the first place.