You Can't Fumble and If You Gots to Rumble, Then Word to Bryant Gumble

Ok, now what you have all been waiting for: First of all huge win by the Celtics yesterday, obviously doesn't make up for losing game 7 last year, but good win and Paul Pierce really stepped it up like he usually does in his hometown. NHL All-Star game was typically, good to see Tim Thomas get the win, but then Big Z loses, so not sure how I really feel about this new format. Would have been interesting who the crowd would have cheered for if any of the Hurricanes were on the other team, but they weren't of course. Big Z was a big winner the night before at the skills games, hardest shot record, breaking his own record with 105.9mph, that big man can shoot a hard puck. Didn't watch any of the Pro Bowl, looks like it sucked. and the reason I did not watch it, was because I was at the TD Garden watching the Royal Rumble in person.

The Royal Rumble was a pretty solid, good times some good twists and surprises, I tried to take some pictures, but the camera on my phone kinda sucks and I was up in the Balcony, so kinda far away to really see much, but nonetheless, got there and there was a dark match going on, R-Truth beat someone, not sure who, missed it. The I got to my seat, and this was what the Stage area looked like:

The show started, and since there were only 4 matches, things kicked out with the World Heavyweight Championship match, which is kinda bizarre, can't really remember a PPV starting with the world Title match, but there it is. Edge vs Dolph Ziggler w Vicki Guerrero, spear was "banned" Which of course means that Edge was gonna win after using it, which to some degree he did,  Kelly Kelly coming out and attacked Vicki Guerrero, not really sure why, made no sense, last time we saw Kelly Kelly she was dealing with Drew McIntyre which had nothing to do with anyone involved in this match. So, then the ref knocked down, and Edge hits the spear, then finished him off with his "brother" Christian's move, Kilswitch, used to be called unprettier and impaler. And here he is celebrating his win:

Next up The Miz told everyone he is Awesome and Tom Brady sucks, to get cheap heat, which moved right into the WWE Championship match between The Miz with Alex Riley vs Randy Orton, here is Randy Orton's entrance:

Randy Orton was in control, Alex Riley had gotten involved many times, and then someone was coming out, and it's weird when you are there, especially in the balcony cause you can tell that something is going on and someone is coming out, cause all the camera men start running around, so out came the new nexus sans CM Punk, Randy Orton gets distracted, then throws Alex Riley into Nexus, of course knocking out the Ref in the processes, and after Randy Orton hits the Miz with an RKO, CM Punk, who was hiding under the ring gave Randy Orton a GTS and allowed The Miz to get the victory:

Why did CM Punk and Nexus help out The Miz and attack Randy Orton, no idea, maybe to setup CM Punk vs Randy Orton at Wrestlemania perhaps?

Next up was the Divas match, supposed to be 2 on 1, turns into a 4 way, Eve who wasn't supposed to be in the match win, whatever, most people went to the bathroom and to get food.

Then it was time for the Rumble, CM Punk got #1, but then Wade Barrett and the Corre came out all came out, which prompted the Nexus to come out and they are started brawling, eventually everything settled down and the Rumble started. Throughout most the beginning of the Rumble, CM Punk and the nexus, who all seemed to be coming out early were in control. One crazy spot by John Morrison, when he was on the ring apron got knocked into the barrier, but didn't hit the floor, then was able to climb on the barrier and jump back on the stairs and back into the ring was pretty cool. Punk an Nexus remained incontrol when the first surprise of the rumble came, Can You Dig It Sucka?

 Yup, that's Booker T making his return and about to do the Spin-A-Roonie, before being promptly eliminated by the Nexus, who would once again remain in control untill...

Hometown hero John Cena would come in a clear house of Nexus, then with the help of Hornswoggle, stay in control until the other hometown hero Kofi Kingston would come out, they would have a little big a stare down, was it cause they are both from around here, I don't know, but then things started filling up again, and then the 2nd surprise of the Rumble took place:

Big Daddy Cool Diesel, making his first appearance, as Diesel anyway in 15 years. Unfortunately I think he still was wearing the same old gear, looked a little tight. Also interesting to note that Diesel makes his return in the same building that Shaq Diesel now calls home, and for anyone that has played the new NBA Jam, for some reason the announcer just calls Shaq Diesel the whole time. He lasted a little bit longer then Booker T, but not much and after he got eliminated, had a stare down with The Big Show as he was coming out, another possible Wrestlemania Match there?

At some point Alex Riley entered, and The Miz came out with him to do commentating, this would be important later on.

Ok, so people are entering and getting eliminated, and once again it's weird being there, cause you could tell when certain guys were gonna be coming out, like when Alberto Del Rio was about to come out you could see the Car getting ready and Ricardo Rodriguez getting ready. Also for guys that have pyro, they had to set it up cause there was no stage. Santino Marella came out at one point and got knocked out and to the floor, but not over the top, know while on TV, you couldn't see him, from our view we could see him the whole time, this became important later. So, all the people came out Kane was #40, also interesting to note that both Dolph Ziggler and Randy Orton were in the Rumble after losing their matches earlier.

It eventually came down to Alberto Del Rio, Wade Barrett, Randy Orton, John Cena and (Santino Marella). Alex Riley, who had been eliminated came back out and distracted Cena, which allowed the Miz to come from the announcers table and eliminate Cena. Seems like that will probably end up being a Wrestlemania match. After this Randy Orton eliminated Wade Barrett, and right behind him Alberto Del Rio eliminated Randy Orton, with Santino still on the floor, Alberto Del Rio thought he had one, Santino came in hit the Cobra on Del Rio, but when he went to throw him out, Del Rio turned it around on him and threw him out and Officially won the Royal Rumble. Ricardo Rodriguez then ran around yelling Alberto Del Rio's name, and it was funny cause you could see the Refs telling him to keep going. Anyway, here is Alberto Del Rio celebrating:

And with that and some fireworks, the Royal Rumble was over, good show.

Update on Sawathon, it will continue, not sure when, but I will continue it at some point soon. Saw IV is next up, and from what I remember with that one, they did something pretty weird with it, don't want to ruin it, and not totally sure it was actually that one or not, we shall see soon.

More snow, great, a couple months ago I joked around that I was gonna go into hibernation for the winter, probably should have followed through on that. I hate fake people. It will be interesting tomorrow during media day for the Super Bowl if anyone makes any Jay and Silent Bob references to Clay Matthews, I just want him to finish answering one question by saying Snoochie Bootchies, is that too much to ask? It's more fun to burn bridges then mend fences. Ok, so anyone else notice that the guy from the Miller Lite commercial that is wearing skinny jeans, is the same same guy that wins the Degree contest where the guys have meat hanging off them and running from wolves?

In closing, in honor of Bobby Brown and his winning medals in the Winter X-Games, his buddies Bel Biv Devoe just had a little something for him:

Never trust a big butt and a smile, words to live by.

Just In Time

Ok, not gonna get to much into it today, just want to get a blog post in for today just to keep the streak alive. I will be back tomorrow with an action packed post, Celtics, Royal Rumble, update on Sawathon, and much, much more. But for those of you who want a little treat for tonight, here you go, it's always a classic.

Best part of this whole thing is clearly Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's outfit.

SAW III

Now we are getting into the middle portion of the Sawathon, getting a little tougher, but we are pressing on. SAW III released October 27th, 2006. Starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Costas Manylor and Donnie Walhberg and Leigh Whannell make appearances, and then once again a bunch of people that I've never heard of before or again. Directed once again by Darren Lynn Bousman. This was the 2nd most successful at the box office domesticallly grossing 80m domestically and actually did better worldwide then II with 160m on a huge budget of 10m, well huge when compared to the first 2.

00:00: From what I remember I enjoyed this one not as much as 1 but more than 2, So, let's see if that holds true

00:05 Well then, we start where we left off, with Donnie locked up in the bathroom, which I totally forgot about, he instead of using a saw, smashes his leg in order to fit it through the chain, I guess that's all well iand good, but the name of the movie is Saw, and while that had already been done, haven't really seem many Saws other than in the first one. Interesting note to this, apparently after Saw II, the set for the bathroom got destroyed or something, in Scary Movie 4 they did a spoof of Saw and made a set, Dr. Phil and Shaq were involved. So, then when they went to film SAW III, they ended up having to use the set from Scary Movie 4.

00:07: First appearance of Mark Hoffman, he will become a significant part of the story eventually, but much like Amanda in the first one, they introduce him slowly at first.

00:09: Random first kill of the movie, like I was talking about at the beginning of the last movie, doesn't seem to be connected to anything, but who is doing the killing? Seems awkward, might not be the real jigsaw.

00:14: Creepy Doll is back for more, they probably should have done some sort of spin-off series just staring that doll, that would have freaked a lot of people out.

00:17: While it certainly establishes that the characters are some sick people making these extremely elaborate and brutal traps for the games, the fact that someone actually did think it up for the movie, that's actually pretty scary.

00:20: Meet Lynn, she has a big of a prescription medicine addiction, her family it falling apart, she works at the hospital where jigsaw was originally, and she will be one of our participants in the movies game.

00:24: So, Jigsaw is not dead, so the mislead at the end of 2 was not accurate. Shocker.

00:28: The other major subject in this game is Lynn's husband, Jeff, and see, that's what makes this a more interesting movie then 2, you got these 2 people that you can now and learn about and actually have a reason to care about them, unlike in 2 where there are way too many people to keep track off and learn about, But they do use an interesting was to get people involved that they can kill off, but we'll get to that later.

00:37: Well, they are cleary establishing Amanda to be a psycho in this film,

00:40: It's interesting to see what exactly the original plan was, was there ever plans to be sequels at all, or was it only ever meant to be one and done, cause it just seems that while Jigsaw is certainly an interesting character and it's cool to have the story keep going, but giving him cancer right off the bat, while obviously critical to the plot of the films, the fact that we are only in the 3rd movie and we already thought he died in 2, and is now having some serious issues in this one, how long were they planning to string him along. They do end up doing a lot more back story and messing with some timelines to have it work, but wouldn't have been better if they hadn't just had him on his deathbed so early.

00:45: Ok, so here is the thing that I thought was well done in this movie to be able to keep the kills up, but not to have to have too many main characters that you can't keep track off or that you don't care about, Have random people that are somehow connected to the main character already set up in traps, works well, I say,

00:51: Oh great, the origin of the creepy doll, and the creating of the Amanda trap. Which is actually something that I really enjoyed about some of these films is that they do tie everything together pretty well, might not be for 2 or 3 movies down the line, but they do tie stuff together.

00:59: Out of all the saw traps that there have been, this one right now, where the judge is locked up in the bottom of a vat, while pig are being slaughtered and all the crap is being dropped in the vat, that's probably the worst one there is. However the guy is saved, from that anyway, so maybe it's not all bad.

01:05: Nothing like a little brain surgery to lighten up a horror movie.

01:10 - Good job of establishing more back story on Amanda, as well as how they set up the whole game for the first Saw, which, like I said before I really liked about this movie, cause it gave you more of a sense on how exactly the first move all came togehter, which for obvious reasons they never did in the first 2, cause they wanted to have the surprises.And once again, apparently not the original set, but the Scary Movie 4 set

01:20: Even more back story on what exactly happened with Adam after Saw, Amanda ended up finishing him off, I wonder if that was a big criticism of the 2nd movie that they didn't really explain enough about what happened after the first 1 or something, cause it just seems that they really went out of there way to explain all that in this movie, it's basically half the movie.

01:28: Alright, well I guess the rack thing that twist all your limbs is pretty damn bad too, clearly I wouldn't want to be in any of these traps, they are all pretty bad.

01:30: Amanda is clearly in love with Jigsaw and is now jealous of Lynn, why did this become a chick flick for no reason.

01:34: Now they go into what happene after the end of Saw 2, and explains what happened with Donnie, but not completely, gotta leave some stuff open ended, for the next sequel.

01:40: Well, the twist in this one wasn't exactly great, the test was for Amanda instead of Lynn or Mark, not a great twist, but I did enjoy the explaining of the first movie.

01:46: Yup, it's appropriate that jigsaw was ultimately killed by a saw, or was he?

01:47: Forgot about the twist about the daughter being kidnapped, but still that's not a great twist, guess it establishes something good for the next one. Not really sure what the point was of showing random pictures of stuff from the series at the end like that, i mean what did Ben Linus have to do with anything in that movie.

Ok, gonna take a little break now, get some food, probably watch the NHL All-Star skills competition, might be back later, or not, we shall see. next up is SAW IV, whenever I do.

SAW II

The Sawathon continues with SAW II released on October 28th, 2005, Starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Dorchester's own Donnie Wahlberg of NKOTB fame, Beverley Mitchell of 7th Heaven fame, and then a whole bunch of people I never heard of before or since. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. This was actually the most successful Saw movie at the box office grossing 87m domestic and 147m worldwide on a little bit bigger of a budget of 4m.

00:00:  Twisted Pictures, don't really know too much about them, pretty much just horror films I guess, kinda a cool logo I guess.

00:05: Seems like starting with Saw II they would start these movies off with someone stuck in a trap that didn't really end up having anything major to do with the actual story, I'm guessing they did this cause they wanted the gore factor to go up, and someone probably just had an idea for some trap and wanted to get it in the movie.

00:10: The one thing that's always been a major thing with sequels to horror films as opposed to action films or dramas or whatever, most of the people from the previous movie is dead, so they have to introduce a whole new set of people and they have to develop their characters, so they can get a bit repetitive.

00:13: Ok, so clearly for the 2nd movie, they took from the first movie what creeped people out the most and used it more for the 2nd one, that Doll is all over the place so far in this one.

00;15: If within 15 minutes of the start of a movie, they catch the killer, generally speaking, it's probably a common rule that they wanted to get caught.

00:20: Amanda re-appears, which will become significant part of the movie, but here's the thing that I don't really get, none of these people know who the hell she is, why would she be so open about everything?

00:24: If there is a key that says don't use this key on the door, then you use the key on the door and you get shot in the face cause you did, well then you are an idiot.

00:25: These Donnie Wahlberg-Tobin Bell scenes are riveting

00:30: Biggest problem I had with this movie certainly in comparison with the first one, there are just way to many people kidnapped, I guess I could see the point of it, they wanted to have a bunch of people to kill off, but it just takes away from getting to know the characters, other then Amanda and Donnie's son, why would I care about the rest of the people. In the first one, I cared about the kidnapped characters, I got to know them, these people are like whatever.

00:35: So, after making the Obi-Won joke in the last movie about Ben, totally forgot that there is actually a character named Obi in this movie.

00:40: Now, I was never really what you would call a 7th Heaven fan, but I did occasionally watch the show cause well Jessica Biel was on it and she's pretty hot, but Beverley Mitchell was not bad either, she tended to get overshadowed a bit. Always thought it was kinda funny in that show how in real life Beverley Mitchell is older then Jessica Biel, but Biel played the older sister.

00:45: I wonder how in these movies and really any horror movie do they establish how people are gonna get killed. Like do they have a retreat and just think up crazy ways for people to die, seems a bit crazy.

00:50: Unlike the first movie, since they wanted to keep who the killer was a surprise, this is the movie where they really started to establish the character of Jigsaw

00:52: Got to imagine being thrown into a pit of syringes would suck, doubt that was part of the plan.

00:55: It seems like the show 1000 Way To Die might have been started based on some of this stuff, just cause while obviously these deaths are fake, alot of the deaths in that show seem pretty ridiculous much like these and also seem to happen to terrible people all the time, much like these movies.

01:00: Oooh, twist, so all these people were set up and sent to jail by Donnie and now they are all in a house with his son, but they are dying, who exactly is this whole thing supposed to be about then?

01:05: So, the mexican dude had to put a spiked baseball bat in the back of the head of the black dude just to see what the number on the back of his head was. Why not just as him to turn around for a second.

01:10: Donnie broke jigsaw's finger pretty easily there, and man that device with the blades cutting the chicks arms when she tries to take them out, damn that looks like it would hurt like hell. But too be honest, why would you even think about putting your arms into a thing like that? I realize the antidote was in there, but just look at the thing.

01:15: Well that was pretty lucky that the guy who had the key you needed just happened to be killed in the room that you were trapped in and needed the key in. Strange how things like that always happen in movies

01:17: Oh, another twist, it was the same place that the bathroom was that the first saw took place.

01:19: The Mexican guy cuts off the skin on the back of his neck to figure out what the number is, that's pretty impressive. and to even know exactly where it is, that's risky.

01:20: Uh Oh, wrong house, Silence of the Lambs anyone? Also not live, tricky stuff, won't be the last time that they mess with the timeline in the series.

01:23: His son was at the original place all along, should have just listen to jugsaw and stayed there and talked to him, but now he is trapped him that same bathroom, thanks to Amanda, who was working with jigsaw the whole time, which is a decent twist.

01:27: Ending was a bit misleading there, which whatever, horror films always have misleading endings, makes it seem that Jigsaw was dead and Amanda was taking over, but we will soon see that is not the case. Mudvayne - Forget to Remember, another good credit song.

Ok, first one is definitely better, now on to Saw III

SAW

First Up, the Original SAW movie released October 29th, 2004. It stars Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung (aka Miles Straume from Lost), Michael Emerson (aka Ben Linus From Lost), Benito Martinez (aka Aceveda from The Shield), Shawnee Smith, Moinca Potter and Tobin Bell. Directed by James Wan. Grossed 55m domestic, 103m worldwide on a budget of 1.2m

00:00: LGF - Lions Gates Films, they have been pretty successful in recent years I gotta say, they do a lot of horror and stuff like that, but I feel like they just used to be associated with low budget direct to video crap, and now they have huge films that do a lot of business. Then of course their TV division with Mad Men and Weeds has taken off, and of course they also did ALF, so that's awesome.

00:05: The one thing that I really liked about this first movie, is how it was for the most part focused in the one room, and while they go in and out with the back stories and everything, everything centralizes in this one room. Seems like in the rest of the series, probably because they had a bigger budget, they try and to expand it more, and I don't think it works as well.

00:10: Something that I just realized is that Leigh Whannell, the guy who plays Adam, also wrote the movie with the director James Wan, not sure how much he really was involved after this first one, I mean I'm sure he gets writing credits for all of movies, but I wonder what his involvement actually was.

00:15: And there it is, they find the Saws and realize it's the work of the Jigsaw killer, which raises the question why was this move called Saw, is it cause they have Saws, or cause of the jigsaw killer, cause it's for him, I feel like the movie should be called Jigsaw, which probably would have made more sense for the series.

00:20: And Ben Linus, I mean Michael Emerson makes his first appearance, It's really hard to watch him in anything and not think of him as Ben, so I'm just gonna call him Ben, kinda like Obi-Wan. Also just the way he talks about the patient and tells everyone his name is "John"  just reminds me of any time he would talk to Locke in lost, he was the only one that ever called him "John" Gonna be weird to have Ben and Locke in a show together and not being Ben and Locke, not sure that's gonna work. BTW, when watching this for the first time, this scene seems pretty irrelevant, but it's interesting just how relevant it is.

00:25: Amanda makes her first appearance, seems fairly inconsequential at the time, but little was it known how big a part she would play in the series, which makes sense seeing as how she actually survives a test and is thankful for Jigsaw.

00:32: Of course seems like in all horror movies, you got to have a creepy scene with some kid acting all weird and something crazy happening, the parents then always just ignore it, but then of course it ends up biting them in the ass.

 00:40: I wonder if Michael Emerson's performance in this movie had anything to do with his casting in Lost, he plays his role as a psycho following someone elses orders pretty well, much like in Lost him following Jacob's orders.

00:43: I've never really been sure that I totally like the casting of Danny Glover in this role as the obsessed ex-detective who goes crazy and rogue after his partner dies. I guess he's alright, but I don't know feel like it could have been someone else. Meanwhile Ken Leung in this movie, I like him as a sidekick detective, kinda like in the alternate reality in the last season of Lost when him and Sawyer were detectives, didn't remember it at the time, but I guess he got some practice in this movie first. BTW was it wrong to me to have assumed that Donald Glover from Community was Danny Glover's son, seemed to make sense, but it's not true.

00:50: Ok, so when I was originally watching this movie, this was the part when I realized who the killer was, not the character, but the actor, cause I recognixed his voice, cause it's not distorted, and at the time I as catching up ond 24, and Tobin Bell was in season 2, I didn't not realize that was him at the hospital however, and obviously didn't see the end coming, but when I saw who the actor was, I was not surprised.

00:53: Poor miles, you almost had him, but with all the traps this killer has setup, you got to be more careful then that, just dumb right there.

00:57: I must say that out of all the games in all the movies, this one was probably the most involved and elaborate. Sure in the other movies, they may have had ones that were obviously more brutal or complicated, but this one was much more involved. Saws, glow in the dark paint, hearts on toliets, cigarettes, 2 way mirrors, keys, chains blood, poison, guns, holes in the wall, Shaq, Dr. Phil, oh wait, nope, that was one of the scary movies, although there is an interesting story that goes along with that, but I think that has to do with Saw III.

01:00 - It's always interesting to hear foreign people doing American accents, cause like usually when an American actor does english accent or something like that, it's often easy to tell if it's kinda crappy, but like when an english person tries to do an American accent, like Cary Elwes is doing here, it's just weird.

01:05 - Ok, so he gets electrocuted and all of a sudden he remember how he got there, well that;s convenient, is electrocuting someone a good way to bring back memories? Is this some kind of scientific fact that I missed along the way?

01:10: I wonder who came up with the idea of this creepy doll? That thing is just weird looking and when it's riding the bike? Imagine that thing coming after you with the weird laugh it has. Some people have some messed up minds.

01:15: Now we establish how these people aren't all they seem to be, and that they have issues and need to straighten out their lives, hence the reason why they were kidnapped. Jigsaw is an interesting guy really, like is he really supposed to be the bad guy here, sure a lot of people died because of his traps and games, but apparently they were all people that were messing up theirs or other peoples lives, and maybe they didn't deserve to die, but he never actaully kills anyone, although Miles getting shot seemed to go against the rules a little bit, they never established that he was really a bad guy or did anything wrong, and he ends up getting shot just doing his job.

01:20: " I don't give a crap if you covered yourself in peanut butter and have a 15 hooker gang bang."

01: 22: Time runs out, of course Ben does the typical movie thing of instead of just killing the person like they are say they will, they take their time and it backfires.

01:27: The acting in this movie is pretty bad at times. Cary Elwes and Leigh Wanndell are pretty bad in some of these scenes.

01:30: And finally the Saw is used for what it was meant for, he saws off his foot. Meanwhile Ben shoots Glover and the kids from Angels in the Outfield don't have a father again.

01:32: I'm not sure why he then shoots Adam, clearly the time was up, not sure why killing him at this poiint mattered, he should have done it way before if he was really ever gonna do it, coiurse he doesn't kill him, so it didn't matter anyway.

01:36: Glad we get to see Ben's story now that Adam already killed him.

01:37: And then your mind gets blown, he was there all along, the killer was the "dead" guy. The weird thing is that they never really seemed too concerned with him other then briefly mentioning him a the beginning, guessing that was on purpose to get you to forget that he was even there. Here's the thing that has always kinda bothered him, he tells him that the key is in the bathtub that he was in at the start, which of course went down the drain at the beginning, but what if it hadn't and he found it right away and unlocked his chain, what then? and where was the key to the other chain? and also didn't it just seem that he didn't have nearly as much on the line, Cary Elwes had his family's life at stake. Like the Fear Factory for the credits.

Ok, off to a good start, now on to Saw II

Sawathon

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the first ever Sawathon. I am going to attempt to watch all 7 Saw movies in a row, maybe with a couple breaks here and there, and while doing it, I'm gonna have a running diary a la Bill Simmons, and while I'll give him all the credit with coming up with the concept, I don't think he has or would ever do it for a Sawathon. So, just keep checking back throughout the day and I'll keep updating after every one with all my comments and observations. Just want to point out that if you have never seen any of the Saw movies and are planning too, might want to skip these, gonna be lots of spoilers and I'm not gonna hold back and also not gonna make any apologies for ruining anything for anyone. So, with all that said, I'm gonna get things started with the first and Original Saw. Check back in a couple hours.

Create Your Own Title

Justin Bieber movie, really? and in 3D no less, no wonder the rest of the world hates us. Speaking of movies that are coming out soon, there are some awful movies coming out now, and while I understand that this is usually when the lull for movies comes and most people are usually catching up on the Oscar nominees, but still The Eagle, The Mechanic, some movie about a cave, a cartoon about a gnome, some terrible looking Adam Sandler movie, I Am Number 4, Some crap with Nic Cage, another Big Mama movie yeah, it's pretty bad right now. Only thing that really looks even remotely interesting is the Liam Neeson movie Unknown. Cash Cab is a pretty good show, not really sure why, the guy isn't really all that funny, but I guess I just enjoy general trivia, and the fact that it's in a cab I guess makes it a bit more interesting, plus a lot of New Yorkers are really stupid. So after winning a bunch of money last year doing a weight loss thing at work, decided not to defend my title this year, don't really have any more weight to lose, which is definitely a good thing, but at the same time it was fun winning money and being a team member, but the rules changed and it wouldn't make sense, money would have been nice. Looking for a new show to watch that I can catch up on, have kinda run out of shows that I haven't watched that I would be interesting in getting into, so send me some suggestions.

Ok, so was kinda planning something a little special here on the Bliggity Blog for tomorrow, don't really have anything to do, sounds like it might be a little snowy, so going just do nothing and watch movies, which movies you ask, well how about all 7 Saw movies aka a Sawathon, gonna try it, not sure I'm gonna make it through all of them, there is some other stuff on like the NHL Skills challenge, so we'll see what happens. So what does that have to do with the blog, well, I'm gonna to attempt to steal a page from Bill Simmons and do a running diary, not sure how it will work just yet, but gonna try it out. So, if you have nothing to do tomorrow and want to watch a lot of people get killed in some crazy ways and have some comments to add, feel free to stop on by, or you can just follow along.

And lastly, just want to give a shout out the Alisha and Dan, not sure if they are reading this, if they aren't then they can go to hell, course if they aren't reading this, then they won't know that I wrote that, and if they are reading this, the they don't have to and  I just hurt my brain. Anyway, just want to wish them luck on all their future endeavors, it was great working with you guys and who knows maybe someday down the line we will again.

And well, I guess, That's All...

Are they supposed to be homeless for no reason, I don't quite understand that.

Moron That Later

Not too much to say today, but wanted to keep the streak of making a daily post alive. Well, if there was Blue Monday, then Too Bad Tuesday, Whatever Wednesday, I guess today would be Torturous Thursday, cause you know that it's almost Friday, but yet it's not. I don't know that other ones were better, at this point it's tough.

Snow sucks, not really sure that's news, and probably have already said that, but just wanted to make sure that was clear, and just when you think there's been enough, possibly more in store for Saturday, and then maybe another big storm next week, so that should be a blast.

Not really a ton of stuff to say today, kinda in a weird mood, feel like I need a change, not sure what or how, things seem to be changing around me, but feel like I need to do something, but whatever.

Guess that's it for today, but not gonna leave you without a little treat as always. Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr. Phil Collins (For no reason, that you know anyway)

And I Wonder Day to Day, I Don't Like You Anyway

From the makers of Blue Monday and Too Bad Tuesday, welcome to Whatever Wednesday. So after the events of Blue Monday and Too Bad Tuesday, Wednesday is kinda like Whatever.

So, for anyone that has seen me lately, you may have noticed that I have quite a beard growing, I haven't shaved, aside from a little touch up, since Dec 23rd. You are probably saying  "Why in tarnations would you be doing a thing like that?" And once again you said it like that and in a southern accent, what is your deal? Well, I don't know, why not? Kinda just seeing how long I can go until I get sick of it, and gotta be honest, it's gonna be a while I think. Also haven't gotten a haircut in almost 7 months, kinda doing the same thing there, little bit of a Dirk Nowitzki thing, grow it out and then shave it off. Maybe if I grow it long enough, when I get it cut I can donate it to making wigs for women with cancer like Nick Swisher did back when he was with the A's, you know cause the Yankees would it let him do that, cause they unlike most decent people hate people with cancer, they are evil, and speaking of which...

Anyone see that the Yankees signed Bartolo Colon today, really? come on, remember when the Red Sox did that 3 years ago, didn't work out too well, and that was 3 years ago, so good luck with that Yankees.

So, for those of you that are reading this and maybe don't quite understand what the deal is with the whole razorvader thing, speaking of which, remember to follow @razorvader on twitter. Well this might help explain things:

And so another snow storm is upon us, and I know alot of people are getting pretty sick of the snow, and I'm right there with you, but I will never get sick of this snow:

And always remember, Shan won't turn Informer. BTW anyone know where I can get a shirt like that?

Stupid is as Stupid does

Was pretty close to doing that stupid thing that I was talking about in yesterday's post, luckily I changed my mind about it and it didn't happen, but that was a close one.

So, today is Too Bad Tuesday, you maybe asking yourself "Now, just what in the dog gone world is Too Bad Tuesday?" and for some reason you said it like that and in a southern accent, it was really weird, you need help. Anyway, Too Bad Tuesday is the day after Blue Monday, as in Oh, Blue Monday was so depressing, maybe tomorrow will be better, well, Too Bad it's only Tuesday, and guess what, here's some snow on top of it, but don't worry that's just a little taste, there's a lot more coming tomorrow. Yeah, so that's Too Bad Tuesday.

Was just watching King of Queens and the episode featured Turtle from Entourage, obviously before he was Turtle from Entourage, but it's weird to see him and think of him as anything other than Turtle from Entourage, and not even just Turtle, but specifically Turtle from Entourage, it's like Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, you have to say the whole thing. Speaking of which...

The Oscar nominations came out today, some interesting inclusions and some interesting exclusions. I guess I just don't understand how like a movie True Grit got no golden globe nominations and then for Oscars, bang Best Picture nomination (which now with 10 nominations, whatever) Jeff Bridges gets nominated for Best Actor, he was good, I don't know that he'll win or if he even should have been nominated, but it just kinda seems that since he won last year, they are throwing him a bone, but just odd that he didn't get a Golden Globe nomination. The Fighter got nominated for best picture but Mark Wahlberg did not get a nomination, and while he was good, he was definitely overshadowed by Christian Bale and Melissa Leo, Amy Adams also got nominated, which doesn't even make sense, she wasn't even the best supporting actress in that movie, so what's the point? Just watched The Town and Jeremy Renner got nominated, he was good, but no way he is winning over Bale.

Ok, Celtics get back at it tonight, after the crap that happened in Washington on Saturday, they better not play like that again, I realize they are at home and playing Cleveland, the worst team in the NBA and losers of 17 in a row and 21 in a row on the road. But they better not take this one off.

That's all for now

Ladies and gentleman: Mr. Lionel Richie (for no reason)

Well La De Freaking Da!

What's on tap for today's post, well first of all, you know what really grinds my gears: What is the deal with people who feel the need to go running outside, when A) it's 0 degrees out B) There is snow everywhere, so they have to run basically in the middle of the street and/or  C) It's the middle of a damn snow storm and you can't see sh!t. So, are these people morons, or maybe they are trying to kill themselves or others, have they never heard of gyms or treadmills.

Have a feeling I'm gonna do something stupid soon, not sure what, not sure when, can just feel it coming. Hopefully it's not something too stupid and not something that I can't undo, but something stupid is coming, get ready for it.


Gonna be a late night tonight, Bruins are on the west coast and start at 10:30, unfortunately they will be without Marc Savard who got another concussion and I would bet is probably done for the year, too bad, but honestly he never looked right, hopefully he can get it back together like Bergeron eventually did after his concussions. We also will not get to see Marco Sturm play the Bruins for the first time since the on again, off again, then on again trade, as he got injured and won't play, no big surprise there.

Ok, so it turns out after some confusion that today is in fact Blue Monday, which I'm totally on board with, today sucked big time, extremely depressing day, and damn cold, so with that said here is some New Order:

What? not enough Blue Monday for you, or maybe you don't remember that version, well then here's more:

Want to point out that I went over 100 pageviews yesterday, now granted I didn't have it not count my pageviews at first, so not sure how many of mine are in that number probably not over 100 just yet, but getting close. Got a couple hits from google today, so that's pretty exciting. If whoever you people are viewing this stuff, if you are actually reading it and enjoying it, let me know, leave a comment, got any questions you want me to answer or any topics you want me to cover, let me know. Planning something big for later in the week, we'll see if it happens of not.

Back At It

Not really sure what to talk about in today's post, but I just want to throw this out there, now I can't take credit for discovering the ridiculousness of it, Conan make fun of it the other night, but then I did some research and found the website, and well, just take a look: http://www.snazzynapper.com/ Ok, now while the concept of this product, I guess I can understand, but come on people, is this something that really needs to exist. The best part about the site is the tag line "It's like privacy in a bag." First of all, what does that even mean? and second of all, leaving out the stupidity of the whole bag part, how is this privacy, just cause you can't see people, doesn't exactly make it private. I mean like, if I had my eyes covered and started getting naked in public, when I was then arrested for indecent exposure, I couldn't just be like "Well, my eyes were covered and I didn't see anyone, so I thought I had privacy." It doesn't work that way. One other thing I will say about this, kinda upset that I didn't discover this thing about a month or 2 ago, would have a made an excellent crappy Yankee Swap gift.

Well, Packers are going to the Super Bowl and while I don't really care, I'm kinda glad that someone named Caleb Haine, someone I had never heard off before today, didn't just lead his team to the Super Bowl, cause if that were to have happened, what's the point? As far as the Steelers vs Jets game goes, I want both teams to lose, not really sure how that will happen, maybe an earthquake that collapses the stadium and while that may sound rather mean, I hate the Steelers and Jets, so whatever.


Guess that is all for now. Not really looking forward to going to work tomorrow, it's gonna suck, have a feeling this whole week is gonna suck, oh and there's more snow on the way? good, great, grand, wonderful, NO YELLING ON THE BUS!!!

Here's some new ish for you to think about

Ok, so something that I've noticed over the last few months or so I guess. Alot of big celebrities are doing voiceovers for commercials, mainly car commercials, which in itself is fine, but in some cases it's just odd. Like hearing Don Draper trying to sell me a Mercedes, or in the same vein Roger Sterling trying to sell me a Lincoln, I mean is this a episode of Mad Men or commercials. Course then there is Jeff Bridges who not only does Duracell as well as Hyundai, and unfortunately he did voice over those stupid holiday ads with those annoying hipster dufuses singing, so now every time I hear his voice I can't but help think about those damn commercials, altleast they have stopped airing. It would be pretty funny if when he was doing the Voice over, if he was like "So, in this commercial, there isn't gonna be any stupid idiots singing annoying song as my voice is talking over it, is there?" Then the ad people look at each other and nervously answer "No" then a month later he's watching the TV and sees the commercial, yells "Son of a Bitch" and throw the remote through the TV. But anyway, this brings me to the reason I'm bringing this all up, there is a new Dodge commercial featuring the voice over talents of Michael C. Hall aka Dexter, which he's been doing for a little while now, but this one in particular has one point in it that he's talking about picking up kids from soccer practice, then the Caravan will have plenty of space, I'm half expecting him to say "When you just killed a rapist and need to bring his remains to your boat, Caravan provides plenty of space." I think the biggest problem with him doing voice overs for commercials, is that he does so many voice overs in Dexter, so it's tough to watch the commercials and not think that it's Dexter telling you to buy a car. But, if we really want to talk about celebrities in commercials, can't go much farther without this little number:

Needless to say this was before Die Hard.

It's wet and it's dry people, how the hell is that even possible?

Want more, check this one out:

It's funny, this was obviously before Basic Instinct, but if Sharon Stone was back to doing Wine cooler commercials now, I wouldn't be surprised.

It's Wet and It's Dry!!!

Do You Know The Muffin Man?

Not really too much to say today. Feeling like crap, so that's fun. Found out some changes are happening at work, which means there is gonna be more work for me, which I guess could be a good thing, but we'll see, losing some good co-workers though. Just want to point out that in my last post, I was not aware at the time that Conan O'Brien had said something similar on his show about words, trying to get the word Thrice used more often, I am now aware, had the episodes on DVR was like a week behind. However, this did bring up something interesting, there's Once, Twice, Thrice, but then that's it, there's no Fourice and Fivice or anything, seems kinda odd that it would just stop at 3 like that, but whatever, English is a messed up language, I mean "close", what the hell happened there? and don't even get me started on their, there and they're or to, two and too. Just "Watched" Clash of the Titans, not good, might have been "cool" in 3D I guess, but whatever, didn't really keep my attention. Well, it appears that thanks to facebook it appears that some people are actually looking at the blog now, well according to the Stats anyway, might not be reading it, but whatever, atleast I'm getting some traffic on this thing. In closing just wanted to post a random video for all those of you who used to watch Nickelodeon in the 80's.

Lanolin?

Well, now that I'm back on facebook and posted my blog link on that page, there maybe some people reading this, so let me explain. Basically I'm just using this space to go off on subjects, yup like most blogs, I'm using this in particular to post stuff that's too long to be posted on twitter or facebook. In addition I don't want to annoy people with posts that show up on news feeds all the time, so there you go. Now on to a weird topic, words I feel need to be used more: Guff and Bollocks. Words that I feel need to be done with: Holla and friendemy. That's all for now. Keep Rocking

Fahrvergnügen

Well, doesn't appear that anyone is reading this, so guess I can just say whatever I want then, so..... What's the deal with Obama, am I right? Pretty sure something weird is going down at work, sounds like someone is getting fired, or quitting, or something. Could be me I guess, I have no idea what goes on around there, guess I'd know if I was quitting though, maybe I am, we shall see, probably should figure out some stuff before that or whatever is gonna happen happens, I think I have an idea, oh well. Somehow I'm back on facebook, not really sure how that happened, guess I logged in accidentally, probably through some other site and didn't realize it. Guess I'll stay on, but don't really plan on using it much, maybe just to promote my twitter page and this blog, and just in case anyone needs to get in contact with me and can't figure out how other than facebook. Guess I was pretty naive to think me quitting facebook was gonna make a difference, but whatever.  What's the deal with Corn Nuts? Snow sucks, especially when you need to drive, park and walk in it, skiing on it is fun. Invisible Touch by Genesis is a solid song, and I get it. Watched True Grit the other day, pretty good, not great. Big win by the Celtics last night, good to see KG back and playing well, guess it takes a little sting off what happened Sunday, but not really. Oh well, that's enough for now.

Anyone reading this?

Just wondering if anyone is actually reading these blog posts. Anyone? Bueller? If so leave a comment. Otherwise I'm just gonna start using this space to blast people and reveal deep dark secrets about stuff, maybe some of it's true maybe some of it isn't, who's to say. I'll be like Homer in that episode of the Simpsons when he was Mr. X. Now if noone is actually reading then whatever won't make a difference, however if someone happens to come across it or is in fact reading these, well then, there could be trouble. But you know what, deep dark secret #1: I enjoy causing trouble, it's fun and it's entertaining, plus I really don't have much else going on, so what the hell.

You have 1 day.

Whoot or Whoomp?

Ok, so in a followup to that last post I have learned a few more things about this whole thing that I don't remember, possibly because I was 11 or maybe because I'm white, not sure. Anyhow, apparently Tag Team and 95 South had a rap battle on the Arsenio Hall show (sidenote: apparently people under the age of 25 don't know who Arsenio Hall is???) both Tag Team and 95 South preformed their jams and then people voted via a 900 number on which song they thought was better, with proceeds going to charity. Don't believe me, check this out:

and then check this out:

Apparently Tag Team won the battle, and ultimate the war, thanks in part to Arsenio Hall. If you want more info, check out this Chicago Tribune article form 1993:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-09-08/features/9309080144_1_phrase-arsenio-hall-show-cecil-glenn

Whoot/Whoomp There It Is

Whoot There It Is

So, I know most people are familiar with the 1993 song by Tag Team called Whoomp (There It Is), if not, here we go:

But how many of you remember the very similarly title song Whoot There It Is by the group 95 South also from 1993

Pretty crazy that those 2 songs came out around the same time, seems like there should have been lawsuits and stuff, maybe a gang war. Both songs were pretty successful at the time, Whoomp more so getting to #2 on the charts, while Whoot got to #11. But I would assume most people probably don't remember Whoot, while they do remember Whoomp, even though Whoot did come out before.

Why?

Ok, so a lot of people have been asking me why I quit facebook, and telling me I'm being stupid and I should just rejoin. Honestly, at first I kinda figured that I probably would, and who knows, probably still might, but after not even a week, I can honestly say I don't miss it. But back to why I quit, there were a number of factors, probably the least of which was the movie the Social Network, but having said that there were some facts that the movie brought up that did bother me and Mark Zuckerberg, regardless of how he was supposed to be betrayed bothers me, not just in the movie, but in general. The bigger reason why I quit, was cause it just really started to annoy me, and not just it, but the fact that I would spend hours reading random stuff, that I really don't care about or need to know about people I hardly even know, and the worst of which was for some reason some of it would bother me. Most of the people that I'm "Friends" with, I'm really not friends with, and the ones that I am, I barely communicate through facebook with anyway. So, what's the point? Sure sometimes I can reconnect with someone, and it makes it easier, but the fact of the matter is if these were people I really wanted to reconnect with, I shouldn't need facebook to have to do it. So, with all of this said, if you miss reading my stuff on facebook, or chatting on facebook or posting stuff on my wall or whatever, your gonna have to do it in person or by more personal means then facebook, maybe this will actually help me realize who some of my friends are and who some of my "friends" are. And with that, to facebook and my facebook "friends" there's nothing left to say but goodbye.

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What up world. Started a blog, I've had then before, they are cool at first, then I forget about them. Noone is probably reading this anyway, so Shabba Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp bitches!