Yes, it's been a while, but I am back. I'm back to lay a blogtastical smackdown on all your candy asses. So, been a few days since my last blog post, and been up to some stuff since then, Thursday took in the Montreal beatdown at the hands of the Bruins and in the process got a little drunk, then watched some NCAA Basketball and watched my Bracket go from back to worse, but it then went to hell on Friday night and just got worse on Saturday, and got the final nail in the coffin today. I did get one team out of the Final Four right, and that was UConn, but I had them losing to Ohio State, and that is not happening. VCU? really, what the hell, they were in the First Four and now they are going to the Final Four, that's just craziness. Butler, what can I say, they did it last year, and they are doing it again this year, but seriously, who the hell had VCU vs Butler in the Final Four, that's just stupid, UConn vs Kentucky is one thing, but man, should be a good game though, someone has to lose. Friday I did take a little break from things, and watched the Celtics blow a huge lead to the Charlotte Bobcats, at home and lose, 2 nights after losing to the Memphis Grizzlies, what the hell Celtics? They did squeak one out tonight against Minnesota, but they blew a 25 point lead, and what's up with Rondo? Saturday, things go started early, 11:30 to be exact, pre-gamed, then went back to the Bruins, things didn't go quite as well as on Thursday, they lost 1-0 to the Rangers, and that was the 3rd time in 3 years I went to a Bruins-Rangers game and it ended 1-0, but the Bruins did bounce back very well tonight and beat Philly, so not back, I;m liking how they are playing right now. After the Bruins game, things got a little drunker. Spent the rest of the day drinking a lot of beers and hanging out at bars with some cool people, good times, many hours of drinking, but I paced myself well, I can still get my drink on, even at my advanced age, and then get up relatively early and got to a family outing, so take that world. With all this said, got to cool it off for a little bit, work is probably gonna kick my ass this week, to the point that I have tickets for Tuesday Bruins game against Chicago, not sure If I'm gonna make it or not, still haven't found any to go yet, not gonna really have time to find anyone, so if anyone reading this has interest in going, let me know. I may also end up selling them if people might be interesting in buying them.
Ok, so trying to think of some new and different things to write about, and for some reason, I have no idea why, I came up with a little bit of a poll for everything, a question that could very well be very gender and generationally divided. So, It's time for a survey, which Hanson Trio do you prefer? On the one hand you have the Pop musical group from the 90's who were basically a one hit wonder with their 1997 hit "MMMBop" which by the way, should not be confused with the 1993 song "Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm" by the Crash Test Dummies. Anyway, this trio, simply known as Hanson consisted of 3 Brothers Zac, Taylor and Issac, and while it was very confusing at first as to if they were boys or girls, some people are still confused. But as it turned out they are all guys and there was also some confusion about if they were related to Beck, who's last name people thought was Hanson, but it turned out it's Hansen and no he is no relation, ultimately making this Hanson trio much less cool. For any of you who have no idea who these people are, here's what we all had to listen to for much of the late 90's along with Tubthumping by Chumbawamba:
Moving on, the 2nd Hanson trio came along about 20 years earlier, the year was 1977, the movie was Slapshot, Jack, Steve and Jeff Hanson, a trio of brothers who all played Hockey and all loved to fight. Here's where things get a little tricky thought, cause in real life their last names were Carlson, and Killer Carlson in the movie was actually based on Dan Hanson, but then before they started shooting the movie, Jack Hanson got called up to the Edmonton Oilers of the WHA at the time, so they decided to switch things around, Dave Hanson ended up played the 3rd Hanson brother and they hired an actor to play Killer Carlson. Do you understand, cause I don't, but it doesn't matter, cause this was the result (warning: some NSFW stuff in here):
There's also more:
Old Time Hockey, Eddie Shore:
So, there you have it people, let me know. I have a feeling that females and the younger audience might go for Hanson, while the male demo and older, who make up probably most of the people reading this, are gonna go with the Hanson Brothers. But hey, let me know, It's survey time.
Ok, so got a few more views from some different countries, the Palestinian Territories and the United Arab Emirates. So, again, a lot of people from the Middle East are hitting up the blog, and as someone pointed out to me, maybe these are US Soldiers stationed in these countries, which would explain a lot, not really sure what I'm writing about that would really appeal to people from the Middle East, I don't know. But anyway, if the troops are out there reading this, thanks for protecting the country and all the things you do, and sorry about all the In the Army Now stuff, I realize Pauly Shore isn't gonna be saving anyone in Libya, and just sorry for Pauly Shore in general, and speaking of Pauly Shore....
I got Jury Duty on April 12, now last time I got a Jury Duty thing, I ended up not having to go, so we'll see what happens this time around, but something tells me, that even if I have to go, it won't be anything like the movie.
Now, time to continue on with the MTV 30th anniversary celebration fest. Last time we dove into 1984 with a vengeance, today we move on to 1985, and there are probably a ton of videos from 1985 that i could choose and throw out there, but really, there are 3 that need to be included in this blog. First of all, this video has always been a blast to watch, especially now, of course that was before they friggin ruined the song last year, Vince Vaughn, you will never be Dan Aykroyd, you hear me, never:
Next up, one hit wonders, in the US anyway, and really revolutionary, I didn't understand how this was possible at the time, it was mesmerizing:
And last but not least, this video was played all the time on MTV, which makes sense, it has Sting saying "I Want my MTV" the whole time. This one actually beat out Take On Me, for Video of the year at the 1986 MTV VMAs, cause they weren't eligible for the 1985 awards cause they came out after the awards, but anyway here you go:
Ok, folks, hope you have enjoyed this long overdue blog post, might have to tied you over for the week, not sure how much I'll be able to actually get to blog, work is gonna suck. Also be aware, that The Rock will be live on Raw tomorrow, so be sure and check that out. As always, I will leave you with a little treat and after last post treat decided to stick with the same theme this time around (naughty language):
Do you know my dad?
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
New Sh!t Has Come to Light, Man!
Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the blog, got to be honest, having some writers block the last few days, running out of things to talk about, but I feel that the blog has really gotten some momentum in the last few weeks, especially in Denmark, what it is with you people? got another 15 views or something like that the other day. Crazy, I guess I'm huge in Denmark, and I got to be honest, I don't know anything about that country, what language do they even speak there? Danish? isn't that some kind of pastry? I'm guessing some speak English, cause clearly if they are reading this, then they know it, or maybe they don't and just like the pictures and videos, but anyway, thanks for reading and hope you are enjoying it and have helped me get over 620 views, 2nd place with 29 views, only 480 behind the United States, but nice work. Also want to welcome Turkey to the blog, so was Turkey named after the bird or was the bird named after the country, can we get a ruling on this?
I've been trying to do my best and keep this blog entertaining and exciting, sometimes I may bog it down with some of my own crap, which I realize people don't necessarily want to read. If you click on my link expecting to see fun things like Mr. T picking apples with Conan O'Brien and instead get some rant from me about how so and so at work sucks, or how I have no money or whatever the case maybe. So, why am I saying this, well, I feel like at times I forget that, or might, so I want you, the readers to keep me in line, tell me if what I'm writing is lame or boring or crap noone cares about, ok? deal? sweet, let's move on.
Ok, so last time I discussed MTV, I talk about Michael Jackson took control and pretty much owned the station and put it on the map, sort of speak in 1983. Well, if 1983 was the year of Michael Jackson on MTV, 1984 was the year of Madonna on MTV, and while I could post a video from her, I don't like Madonna, and there were plenty of other videos from 1984 that I can post, like this one:
This actually upset Michael Jackson and Thriller at the 1984 MTV VMAs, the first VMAs btw. But then there was also this one:
Believe it or not that is Phil Hartman doing the voice for Waldo. Then again there was this gem from 1984:
Now, personally I always preferred the video for I Wanna Rock, but this was a good video too and came out first, almost seems like they tried it out with this one, realized they could have done better, and then did better with I Wanna Rock. But we can't go any further with talking about 1984 and music videos and not have this one:
I mean, what the hell is going on here? I realize it's the 80's, plus he is British, so maybe it wasn't obvious at the time, but seriously, is there any question now looking back at this that George Michael is gay? and what's the deal with the running costume change, and the outfits, good god, first of all, No, the CHOOSE LIFE shirts were not Pro-Life, at the time there was some campaign about suicide prevention, however the video seems to work against that, cause I'm pretty sure there are many people who probably rather kill themselves then to have to watch that video. Two Word: Yellow Gloves, what the hell? Needless to say that 1984 was when I really can first remember starting to watch MTV and watching these videos.
Ok, that's enough, but as always, here's your daily treat (Warning: Bad Words):
GI Joe is a real american hero, so take that Denmark.
I've been trying to do my best and keep this blog entertaining and exciting, sometimes I may bog it down with some of my own crap, which I realize people don't necessarily want to read. If you click on my link expecting to see fun things like Mr. T picking apples with Conan O'Brien and instead get some rant from me about how so and so at work sucks, or how I have no money or whatever the case maybe. So, why am I saying this, well, I feel like at times I forget that, or might, so I want you, the readers to keep me in line, tell me if what I'm writing is lame or boring or crap noone cares about, ok? deal? sweet, let's move on.
Ok, so last time I discussed MTV, I talk about Michael Jackson took control and pretty much owned the station and put it on the map, sort of speak in 1983. Well, if 1983 was the year of Michael Jackson on MTV, 1984 was the year of Madonna on MTV, and while I could post a video from her, I don't like Madonna, and there were plenty of other videos from 1984 that I can post, like this one:
This actually upset Michael Jackson and Thriller at the 1984 MTV VMAs, the first VMAs btw. But then there was also this one:
Believe it or not that is Phil Hartman doing the voice for Waldo. Then again there was this gem from 1984:
Now, personally I always preferred the video for I Wanna Rock, but this was a good video too and came out first, almost seems like they tried it out with this one, realized they could have done better, and then did better with I Wanna Rock. But we can't go any further with talking about 1984 and music videos and not have this one:
I mean, what the hell is going on here? I realize it's the 80's, plus he is British, so maybe it wasn't obvious at the time, but seriously, is there any question now looking back at this that George Michael is gay? and what's the deal with the running costume change, and the outfits, good god, first of all, No, the CHOOSE LIFE shirts were not Pro-Life, at the time there was some campaign about suicide prevention, however the video seems to work against that, cause I'm pretty sure there are many people who probably rather kill themselves then to have to watch that video. Two Word: Yellow Gloves, what the hell? Needless to say that 1984 was when I really can first remember starting to watch MTV and watching these videos.
Ok, that's enough, but as always, here's your daily treat (Warning: Bad Words):
GI Joe is a real american hero, so take that Denmark.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Spring Transformation
Well folks today is the first day of Spring, which means many things, but in particular over the last few years for me has meant some spring cleaning. What does that mean exactly, well I'm not talking about cleaning my room or anything like that, but cleaning up my look. I get lazy during the winter, plus it's cold, so I often let my hair and beard grow out, and sometimes just forget about it, but it was finally time with the arrival of spring to change it up. At first I considered recording the shaving of the beard and posting it on the blog ala Zach Galifianakis did when he hosted SNL last year:
Ultimately I decided against that, but I did take a couple pictures to chronicle what went down, and I apologize for the quality of these pictures, the lighting kinda sucks in my room and the camera on my computer ain't great. So here's what I looked like:
You remember that guy, Christian Bale like beard, growing to epic proportions and the long flowing locks. Well, the first thing to go was the beard, it had been 3 months since I shaved it all off, did a little trimming here and there, and while I could have just trimmed it down to a manageable and reasonable non Christian Bale like beard, that's not what I do and not what went down. As you can see:
That took like 5 hours, or something like that, there was a lot of hair, it was like someone skinned a cat in the bathroom. So now what, the beard was gone, now it was time to deal with the hair, I guess I could have left it long, or I could have just trimmed it up a bit, but let's be honest, I don't do that kinda thing and after 7 and 1/2 months since getting my hair cut, I wanted to get my money's worth, so...
Gone, while it was pretty simple haircut and If I had trimmers could have probably done myself, I don't really trust myself with that sort of thing, so went to the barber, there was once again a lot of hair, skinned a small dog on this one, but since it was at a barber shop, I guess it kinda goes with the territory. I guess looking back If I had done it the other way, I could have done something along the lines of what Zach Galifianakis did this year on SNL and shaved my head like Mr T for a night, but I don't think it would have worked. Anyway, there you have it, what I like to call Spring Greg, but don't get too used to it cause the NHL playoffs start in a few weeks, which means playoff beard, and playoff Greg, although, the way the Bruins have been playing lately we may not have to worry about that. Speaking of the Bruins, if anyone is looking to go to a Bruins game, I got 3 games coming up I need people to go with, so let me know. But getting back on track...
I guess you can probably just call me Billy Joel cause I don't know why I go to extremes:
That video just screams late 80's btw, what the hell was everyone thinking back then?
Ok, so funny story about this whole thing, a couple years ago when I first decided to do this, it was really for no reason, and I had not shaved my head in the modern era, meaning after college, which was when we got our dog Max. So, I went to barber one day, decided to get my head shaved, went home and let the dog out, he just ran out the door as soon opened the door, but then when I went to let him in, he wouldn't come. I had to go grab him, and he kept running away from me and wouldn't come near me, eventually I got him and put him back in the house, but then it occurred to me, he didn't recognize me, he didn't realize it was me and thought this stranger had come out of the house and was trying to grab him. It was pretty crazy.
The one thing about shaving my head that does come about, while I do have a decent shaped head, so it doesn't look too awkward, when I was 4 or 5, I did have a little bit on an incident, and cut my head open, so I do have a nice long scar on the side of my head as you can sorta see here:
But, as Shane Falco once said "Pain heals, Chicks dig scars"
Haven't found this to be true however, but it is an appropriate clip given that we could be seeing some replacement players with this whole NFL labor issue. I also don't think that this in true either:
I have scars, and hit like 20 career HRs, hasn't helped me with the ladies. I have found that chicks dig Money, Fame, Power, Movie Star good looks and Big Muscles, none of which I have, so I guess I'm screwed. Women, am I right? bunch of gold diggers. Thank you for reading, Greg's sextist comment in honor of Women's History Month. Let's be honest, how many Women are really reading this blog anyway? But hey, if they are, and single, and are enjoying this, my name is Greg, I like long walks on the beach and pretzel M&M's, let's talk some time
This brings up something though, "Movie Star Good Looks" what does that mean? cause there are some pretty ugly people that are movie stars, and I'm sure they are doing pretty well with the ladies, so, yeah, that whole fame thing, I think is the catalyst.
Getting back to scars for a minute, I do also in addition to the scar of the top of my head, have another visible scar, now it's kinda covered by my eyebrow, so it's not as easy to notice, but it's there, got that when I was like 7 or 8 I guess, got lucky I guess, could have poked my eye out, which I didn't and the scar ended up in a not a terrible place. Anyway, with all this talk about scars, brings up the question which song about scars is better:
or
I don't know, tell me what you think.
So, a few more countries have joined the ranks as the blog closes in on 600 views, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel. What can I say, apparently I'm a big deal in the Middle East. No views from Libya yet, probably a good thing, but whatever it's all good, Pauly Shore is gonna head on over there and kick some ass again like he did in In The Army Now, and that whole thing will get figure out.
NCAA tournament, some good games we have been having, unfortunately I haven;t really picked a ton of them and my bracket sucks, so whatever.
Continuing on with the MTV countdown thingy, last time went with 1982's Hall and Oates Maneater, which was a solid video. 1983 however was the year that MTV, and music videos in general really started to take off thanks in most part to Michael Jackson. It's funny cause MTV had a bit of an issue with airing music by Black Artists, it was few and far between, which was odd, not like this was a 40s or 50s or something, it was 80's. But all that changed when Michael Jackson released the album Thriller and specifically the video for Billie Jean, and while that video was good and the video for Beat It was also a solid video, it was the Thriller video that changed everything about what a music video was or could be, it was a mini movie, directed by John Landis, a big hollywood director coming off big hits Animal House, Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London and Trading Places, it was needless to say a big deal at the time, so here you go:
Interesting to note, my Uncle actually dated someone in this video, I think she was in the movie theater scene and also maybe one of the Zombie dancers, I'm not totally sure, but there you go. The scene when he turns into a werewolf also used to scare the hell out of me, but I was 2 when this came out, so I had a reason.
Ok, folks, lots of stuff today, hope you enjoyed it all. But as always, I'll leave you with a little treat,
Don't be sad, that's why they call it Shpoople.
Ultimately I decided against that, but I did take a couple pictures to chronicle what went down, and I apologize for the quality of these pictures, the lighting kinda sucks in my room and the camera on my computer ain't great. So here's what I looked like:
You remember that guy, Christian Bale like beard, growing to epic proportions and the long flowing locks. Well, the first thing to go was the beard, it had been 3 months since I shaved it all off, did a little trimming here and there, and while I could have just trimmed it down to a manageable and reasonable non Christian Bale like beard, that's not what I do and not what went down. As you can see:
That took like 5 hours, or something like that, there was a lot of hair, it was like someone skinned a cat in the bathroom. So now what, the beard was gone, now it was time to deal with the hair, I guess I could have left it long, or I could have just trimmed it up a bit, but let's be honest, I don't do that kinda thing and after 7 and 1/2 months since getting my hair cut, I wanted to get my money's worth, so...
I guess you can probably just call me Billy Joel cause I don't know why I go to extremes:
That video just screams late 80's btw, what the hell was everyone thinking back then?
Ok, so funny story about this whole thing, a couple years ago when I first decided to do this, it was really for no reason, and I had not shaved my head in the modern era, meaning after college, which was when we got our dog Max. So, I went to barber one day, decided to get my head shaved, went home and let the dog out, he just ran out the door as soon opened the door, but then when I went to let him in, he wouldn't come. I had to go grab him, and he kept running away from me and wouldn't come near me, eventually I got him and put him back in the house, but then it occurred to me, he didn't recognize me, he didn't realize it was me and thought this stranger had come out of the house and was trying to grab him. It was pretty crazy.
The one thing about shaving my head that does come about, while I do have a decent shaped head, so it doesn't look too awkward, when I was 4 or 5, I did have a little bit on an incident, and cut my head open, so I do have a nice long scar on the side of my head as you can sorta see here:
Haven't found this to be true however, but it is an appropriate clip given that we could be seeing some replacement players with this whole NFL labor issue. I also don't think that this in true either:
I have scars, and hit like 20 career HRs, hasn't helped me with the ladies. I have found that chicks dig Money, Fame, Power, Movie Star good looks and Big Muscles, none of which I have, so I guess I'm screwed. Women, am I right? bunch of gold diggers. Thank you for reading, Greg's sextist comment in honor of Women's History Month. Let's be honest, how many Women are really reading this blog anyway? But hey, if they are, and single, and are enjoying this, my name is Greg, I like long walks on the beach and pretzel M&M's, let's talk some time
This brings up something though, "Movie Star Good Looks" what does that mean? cause there are some pretty ugly people that are movie stars, and I'm sure they are doing pretty well with the ladies, so, yeah, that whole fame thing, I think is the catalyst.
Getting back to scars for a minute, I do also in addition to the scar of the top of my head, have another visible scar, now it's kinda covered by my eyebrow, so it's not as easy to notice, but it's there, got that when I was like 7 or 8 I guess, got lucky I guess, could have poked my eye out, which I didn't and the scar ended up in a not a terrible place. Anyway, with all this talk about scars, brings up the question which song about scars is better:
or
I don't know, tell me what you think.
So, a few more countries have joined the ranks as the blog closes in on 600 views, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel. What can I say, apparently I'm a big deal in the Middle East. No views from Libya yet, probably a good thing, but whatever it's all good, Pauly Shore is gonna head on over there and kick some ass again like he did in In The Army Now, and that whole thing will get figure out.
NCAA tournament, some good games we have been having, unfortunately I haven;t really picked a ton of them and my bracket sucks, so whatever.
Continuing on with the MTV countdown thingy, last time went with 1982's Hall and Oates Maneater, which was a solid video. 1983 however was the year that MTV, and music videos in general really started to take off thanks in most part to Michael Jackson. It's funny cause MTV had a bit of an issue with airing music by Black Artists, it was few and far between, which was odd, not like this was a 40s or 50s or something, it was 80's. But all that changed when Michael Jackson released the album Thriller and specifically the video for Billie Jean, and while that video was good and the video for Beat It was also a solid video, it was the Thriller video that changed everything about what a music video was or could be, it was a mini movie, directed by John Landis, a big hollywood director coming off big hits Animal House, Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London and Trading Places, it was needless to say a big deal at the time, so here you go:
Interesting to note, my Uncle actually dated someone in this video, I think she was in the movie theater scene and also maybe one of the Zombie dancers, I'm not totally sure, but there you go. The scene when he turns into a werewolf also used to scare the hell out of me, but I was 2 when this came out, so I had a reason.
Ok, folks, lots of stuff today, hope you enjoyed it all. But as always, I'll leave you with a little treat,
Don't be sad, that's why they call it Shpoople.
Friday, March 18, 2011
F*ck Sake Man, You're Amateur
What up all you blogies and blogites, I'm back for more fun. Hope everyone had a great St. Patrick's Day, hope everyone is enjoying the NCAA Tournament and is doing well with the brackets. Not taking it as serious this year as I did last year, just don't have the time right now, didn't run a pool or have any side bets going, I little disappointing, usually I'm more into then I am this year, but oh well. There have been some good games so far, I only got to see some of them, but the Butler game came down to the buzzer, Morehead State, Temple and Kentucky all won near the buzzer, Mich State almost made a big comeback, Richmond pulled one out, and Arizona just beat Memphis in a close one, so it should be a good tournament. Of course watching NCAA tournament always reminds me of this commercial:
Chris Farley, that was one funny dude. And for some reason this reminded me of this commercial:
That was a great jingle, ESP N Your Face, they should have kept that one.
Ok, so last night was St. Patrick's Day, which usually results in drunken foolishness, and last night was no exception, and I will spare you with all the details, but a couple of observations, very young crowd that was hanging out last night, probably a little too young, fairly subdued, didn't see any fights or anything which usually is associated with drunken Irish people, but whatever. I will however share one story, coming back on the train some dude sees me and calls me Christian Bale, now if you haven't seen me or Christen Bale lately, we both have extensive growth on our chins, beards, take a look:
ME
Bale
So, I played along, first he wanted to hear a quote from Batman, I couldn't think of anything of the top of my head other than "I'm Batman" then some other dude, said say a quote from Terminator, now from the actual movie, I couldn't remember anything, but I did remember that he did have this rant on the set: (warning: naughty language)
This was a couple years ago, but I thought people might still remember this, so I threw out some lines from this rant, and while I'm pretty sure the guy who ask knew was I was referencing and probably why he ask, a lot of other people on the train I don't think understood what was happening, and thought I was just yelling and swearing at the guy, but hey whatever, it's not like this was a small little known story, it was all over the place for a while, hell Family Guy even made fun of it:
Anyway, there was some other shenanigans on the train, but I'm not gonna get into that. Somehow there was also a ton of Pauly Shore quotes, thought we might have had enough of that but clearly not.
Want to welcome aboard Indonesia to the blog thanks for checking it out.
Continuing on the MTV thing, the year was 1982, the artist Hall & Oates, the song Maneater, and here is the video:
Ladies and gentlemen have a great weekend, be safe and fight the good fight. Might have a surprise for the blog world sometime this weekend or maybe next week, or maybe not at all. but as always I'll leave you with one last treat:
Stackenblochen!
Chris Farley, that was one funny dude. And for some reason this reminded me of this commercial:
That was a great jingle, ESP N Your Face, they should have kept that one.
Ok, so last night was St. Patrick's Day, which usually results in drunken foolishness, and last night was no exception, and I will spare you with all the details, but a couple of observations, very young crowd that was hanging out last night, probably a little too young, fairly subdued, didn't see any fights or anything which usually is associated with drunken Irish people, but whatever. I will however share one story, coming back on the train some dude sees me and calls me Christian Bale, now if you haven't seen me or Christen Bale lately, we both have extensive growth on our chins, beards, take a look:
ME
So, I played along, first he wanted to hear a quote from Batman, I couldn't think of anything of the top of my head other than "I'm Batman" then some other dude, said say a quote from Terminator, now from the actual movie, I couldn't remember anything, but I did remember that he did have this rant on the set: (warning: naughty language)
This was a couple years ago, but I thought people might still remember this, so I threw out some lines from this rant, and while I'm pretty sure the guy who ask knew was I was referencing and probably why he ask, a lot of other people on the train I don't think understood what was happening, and thought I was just yelling and swearing at the guy, but hey whatever, it's not like this was a small little known story, it was all over the place for a while, hell Family Guy even made fun of it:
Anyway, there was some other shenanigans on the train, but I'm not gonna get into that. Somehow there was also a ton of Pauly Shore quotes, thought we might have had enough of that but clearly not.
Want to welcome aboard Indonesia to the blog thanks for checking it out.
Continuing on the MTV thing, the year was 1982, the artist Hall & Oates, the song Maneater, and here is the video:
Ladies and gentlemen have a great weekend, be safe and fight the good fight. Might have a surprise for the blog world sometime this weekend or maybe next week, or maybe not at all. but as always I'll leave you with one last treat:
Stackenblochen!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Alternate titles for post: Georgia On My Mind or Midnight Train to Georgia.
Why all this Georgia talk, well, Georgia joined the ranks, and yes, I realize that those songs are about Georgia, the state which counts for views for the United States, and not the country Georgia, which is where the view came from, but whatever, welcome aboard Georgia. I also got a view from the Ukraine, which always reminds me of this:
So, the NCAA Tournament "started" last night, but not really, I mean, lets be serious, things don't really get started until tomorrow, I don't know any bracket games, that matter anyway that are counting these first 4 games. I will say this though, I don't like having to wait until the at-large games are over to fill in the brackets though, I mean USC I think could have a good shot at beating G-Town, I don't think that VCU will though, so I got to wait and see who wins that game to really make a decision. It's pretty crazy that St. Patrick's day and the NCAA Tournament 1st full day are the same day, and of course I have to work, sucks.
Ok, so have you seen the Taco Bell Shrimp Taco commercial? This one:
Now, I guess they are supposed to be like wedding crashers that like shrimp or something, but I'm sorry, this just seems to be a blatant rip off of this: Beaver Boys Couldn't find a video that I could upload, but basically those characters from Tim and Eric, they love Shrimp and White Wine.
Speaking of commercials, I've been meaning to bring this up for a while now, but you know the Sullivan Tire commercial that has been running all winter, and pretty much every winter for like 15 years or so, the one with the little kids talking about how bad the weather is. Well, have you seen it lately? out of nowhere they added Dustin Pedroia saying "I can't wait for spring." First couple times I saw it, I thought I imagine it.
Ok, so continuing the best video of the MTV era counting down to MTV's 30th, since last time I did the first video, eventhough that was aired in 1981, it was not from 1981, so here is a song that did come out in 1981 and had a cool video:
Plus it's Mike Tyson and Kevin Garnett's favorite song, so I wouldn't mess with either of those guys.
I don't want to have to even acknowledge this, but after what transpired on Raw on Monday, yes, Snooki is wrestling at Wrestlemania, so stupid, and you have to throw Vicki Guerrero into the match also, you already have Michael Cole wrestling, how many people do you need that aren't wrestlers wrestling at Wrestlemania? Just dumb, and of course The Rock, Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels, all won't be wrestling, they'll be there, but yet Snooki is the one gonna wrestle.
One more random thing that I wanted to bring up that I've been meaning to, so, the Beastie Boys recently announced that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out, ok, so you are asking yourself, hey was there ever a Hot Sauce Committee Part 1? Well, there was, it was supposed to come out in Sept 09, but when MCA got cancer, they had to postpone it, they said it wasn't done, they did release one song with Nas called "Too Many Rappers" and a couple tracks got on DJ Hero. They also release a track listing, but some of the songs were not totally complete, however they did say that they had finished all the songs for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2, and it would be released in 2011. So, now it's 2011 and they announced that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 will be out May 3rd, and then they release the track listing, which with the exception of 1 song being left off, were all the same songs that were supposed to be on Part 1, so I don't really get it, why not just keep that one named Part 1 and whenever the other one comes out, call that Part 2, and what happened to all those songs that were supposedly done for Part 2? The whole thing makes no sense, hopefully it's good, hopefully MCA gets better and hopefully it all comes out at some point, and they tour so I can go see them, which I never have had the pleasure of doing.
I saw that Nate Dogg died today, pretty sad he was only 41, had some strokes, not gonna lie, wasn't really a big fan of his, but still, was just talking about him the other day, talking about Regulators, and trying to figure out if it was him or Warren G that was related to Dr. Dre, it was Warren G btw, he is his step brother. Anyway, just wanted to acknowledge that.
In other news, be careful if you are headed to Bennington, Vermont, there is apparently a crazy squirrel that is attacking people, it's a gray squirrel, not like those black squirrels they have a UMass, what was up with those things?
Folks, I hope you enjoyed reading this, and as always, I end it with a little treat and since tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, got to have something to do with that, so here you go:
and I can't show that and not show this:
and then if you are gonna have Leprechauns and the hood, gotta go with this:
Wait, no, no he didn't, he went Back 2 Tha Hood? Oh yes he did
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!
Why all this Georgia talk, well, Georgia joined the ranks, and yes, I realize that those songs are about Georgia, the state which counts for views for the United States, and not the country Georgia, which is where the view came from, but whatever, welcome aboard Georgia. I also got a view from the Ukraine, which always reminds me of this:
So, the NCAA Tournament "started" last night, but not really, I mean, lets be serious, things don't really get started until tomorrow, I don't know any bracket games, that matter anyway that are counting these first 4 games. I will say this though, I don't like having to wait until the at-large games are over to fill in the brackets though, I mean USC I think could have a good shot at beating G-Town, I don't think that VCU will though, so I got to wait and see who wins that game to really make a decision. It's pretty crazy that St. Patrick's day and the NCAA Tournament 1st full day are the same day, and of course I have to work, sucks.
Ok, so have you seen the Taco Bell Shrimp Taco commercial? This one:
Now, I guess they are supposed to be like wedding crashers that like shrimp or something, but I'm sorry, this just seems to be a blatant rip off of this: Beaver Boys Couldn't find a video that I could upload, but basically those characters from Tim and Eric, they love Shrimp and White Wine.
Speaking of commercials, I've been meaning to bring this up for a while now, but you know the Sullivan Tire commercial that has been running all winter, and pretty much every winter for like 15 years or so, the one with the little kids talking about how bad the weather is. Well, have you seen it lately? out of nowhere they added Dustin Pedroia saying "I can't wait for spring." First couple times I saw it, I thought I imagine it.
Ok, so continuing the best video of the MTV era counting down to MTV's 30th, since last time I did the first video, eventhough that was aired in 1981, it was not from 1981, so here is a song that did come out in 1981 and had a cool video:
Plus it's Mike Tyson and Kevin Garnett's favorite song, so I wouldn't mess with either of those guys.
I don't want to have to even acknowledge this, but after what transpired on Raw on Monday, yes, Snooki is wrestling at Wrestlemania, so stupid, and you have to throw Vicki Guerrero into the match also, you already have Michael Cole wrestling, how many people do you need that aren't wrestlers wrestling at Wrestlemania? Just dumb, and of course The Rock, Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels, all won't be wrestling, they'll be there, but yet Snooki is the one gonna wrestle.
One more random thing that I wanted to bring up that I've been meaning to, so, the Beastie Boys recently announced that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out, ok, so you are asking yourself, hey was there ever a Hot Sauce Committee Part 1? Well, there was, it was supposed to come out in Sept 09, but when MCA got cancer, they had to postpone it, they said it wasn't done, they did release one song with Nas called "Too Many Rappers" and a couple tracks got on DJ Hero. They also release a track listing, but some of the songs were not totally complete, however they did say that they had finished all the songs for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2, and it would be released in 2011. So, now it's 2011 and they announced that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 will be out May 3rd, and then they release the track listing, which with the exception of 1 song being left off, were all the same songs that were supposed to be on Part 1, so I don't really get it, why not just keep that one named Part 1 and whenever the other one comes out, call that Part 2, and what happened to all those songs that were supposedly done for Part 2? The whole thing makes no sense, hopefully it's good, hopefully MCA gets better and hopefully it all comes out at some point, and they tour so I can go see them, which I never have had the pleasure of doing.
I saw that Nate Dogg died today, pretty sad he was only 41, had some strokes, not gonna lie, wasn't really a big fan of his, but still, was just talking about him the other day, talking about Regulators, and trying to figure out if it was him or Warren G that was related to Dr. Dre, it was Warren G btw, he is his step brother. Anyway, just wanted to acknowledge that.
In other news, be careful if you are headed to Bennington, Vermont, there is apparently a crazy squirrel that is attacking people, it's a gray squirrel, not like those black squirrels they have a UMass, what was up with those things?
Folks, I hope you enjoyed reading this, and as always, I end it with a little treat and since tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, got to have something to do with that, so here you go:
and I can't show that and not show this:
and then if you are gonna have Leprechauns and the hood, gotta go with this:
Wait, no, no he didn't, he went Back 2 Tha Hood? Oh yes he did
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!
Monday, March 14, 2011
I think something really is rotten in the state of Denmark
Welcome back to to blog ladies and gentlemen. Don't really have a ton of new stuff for you today, but I just wanted to follow up on a few things from yesterdays post. Literally moments after posting it, with the majority of it being about Pauly Shore, I got like 12 page views from Denmark, so, what's the deal? Is Pauly Shore big in Denmark or something, can someone help me out with this? I did a google search and couldn't really find anything, is this like a David Hasselhoff in Germany or Jerry Lewis in France thing. Speaking of France, they have joined the ranks, not sure if I had mentioned that and Kuwait, so another middle east country. Iran picked it up with a few views following the posting of the Nikolai Volkoff & Iron Sheik video. I also went over 500 pageviews, so that's pretty awesome, thanks for reading.
I also forgot to mention something about Son-In-Law yesterday. Brendan Fraser had a cameo in it as Link, he was at a party dressed up in his prom outfit, played with a lighter and ate a dead frog. So, this actually got me thinking, here's what must have happened to the Link character, they of course dig him up in Encino Man, he goes to High School, he must have graduated, then he went to college in Son-In-Law, then decided to join the Army in In The Army Now and then must have died in combat, cause was not in Jury Duty or Bio-Dome, so he was the lucky one. But I will say this, I would much rather watch all 6 Pauly Shore movies then watch 6 minutes of Jersey Shore, but...
Tonight Snooki is gonna be on Monday Night Raw, not totally sure what she's gonna do, she's only like 4 feet tall, right, so like I don't see her doing anything physical, unless she wrestles a midget, which I guess could happen, anyway you look at it, I'm sure it will be stupid. But Jersey Shore brings up something else, it's on MTV, which believe it or not at one time used to be sort for Music Television, apparently it doesn't anymore, and I'm actually not making a joke about that, look it up, it's officially called MTV now, not Music Television. Anyway, I'm going somewhere with this, we are little under 7 months away from me turning a certain age, but before I do MTV does, August 1, 1981 was when it debuted, and for the first 20 years it was actually pretty good, I used to watch it all the time, they had music, some shows, it was very influential and where you went to see cool videos and hear cool music. In the last 10 years it turned into a crappy reality show station, with the exception of them bringing back Beavis & Butthead this summer. So, what does this have to do with the Blog, well, over the course of the next few whatever, I'm gonna be throwing up some of the best videos that aired over the years, well, the important years anyway. Here to start it off is the first Music Video that actually aired on MTV, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, and it's kinda interesting, cause that was kinda true, prior to MTV, there were some shows that aired Music Videos, but it wasn't imperative that music acts have videos, until MTV started. There was actually a song that came out last year by The Limousines called "Internet Killed the Video Stars" which is pretty accurate, probably could have came out in like 03 or 04, but whatever, once the internet did kind of ruin MTV, there was no reason to have music videos on there anymore, if you want to go watch music video you just go on the internet, youtube or the bands website, no reason to watch MTV and wait until the video comes on. But anyway, here it is along with the actually launch of MTV and the 2nd video ever aired Pat Benatar "You Better Run".
Ok, so also wanted to follow up with something else from yesterday's post, the whole secrets thing, which btw that whole this just totally sucked, you know it's not that people found the secret, but it's kinda like that episode of Seinfeld, when George tells the Ross's he has a place in the Hamptons, but then Elaine tells them they don't, but then they don't tell George that they know he is lying, you know this one:
Snoopy and Prickly Pete. Anyway, lies, if you know that someone is lying, you call them a liar, well if you know some has a secret, whatever. I got off topic the point was more the videos from Conan, man watching those brings back some memories, that's when Conan was throwing his fastball at 98mph, that was great stuff, his new show just doesn't compare, neither did when he was on The Tonight Show, nothing will come close to the old Late Night stuff, so here is your treat for today, unfortunately the quality of this one kinda sucks, but it was the only version I could find, and it's one of the best things he ever did, so I just have to post it.
T-1 B-0
I also forgot to mention something about Son-In-Law yesterday. Brendan Fraser had a cameo in it as Link, he was at a party dressed up in his prom outfit, played with a lighter and ate a dead frog. So, this actually got me thinking, here's what must have happened to the Link character, they of course dig him up in Encino Man, he goes to High School, he must have graduated, then he went to college in Son-In-Law, then decided to join the Army in In The Army Now and then must have died in combat, cause was not in Jury Duty or Bio-Dome, so he was the lucky one. But I will say this, I would much rather watch all 6 Pauly Shore movies then watch 6 minutes of Jersey Shore, but...
Tonight Snooki is gonna be on Monday Night Raw, not totally sure what she's gonna do, she's only like 4 feet tall, right, so like I don't see her doing anything physical, unless she wrestles a midget, which I guess could happen, anyway you look at it, I'm sure it will be stupid. But Jersey Shore brings up something else, it's on MTV, which believe it or not at one time used to be sort for Music Television, apparently it doesn't anymore, and I'm actually not making a joke about that, look it up, it's officially called MTV now, not Music Television. Anyway, I'm going somewhere with this, we are little under 7 months away from me turning a certain age, but before I do MTV does, August 1, 1981 was when it debuted, and for the first 20 years it was actually pretty good, I used to watch it all the time, they had music, some shows, it was very influential and where you went to see cool videos and hear cool music. In the last 10 years it turned into a crappy reality show station, with the exception of them bringing back Beavis & Butthead this summer. So, what does this have to do with the Blog, well, over the course of the next few whatever, I'm gonna be throwing up some of the best videos that aired over the years, well, the important years anyway. Here to start it off is the first Music Video that actually aired on MTV, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, and it's kinda interesting, cause that was kinda true, prior to MTV, there were some shows that aired Music Videos, but it wasn't imperative that music acts have videos, until MTV started. There was actually a song that came out last year by The Limousines called "Internet Killed the Video Stars" which is pretty accurate, probably could have came out in like 03 or 04, but whatever, once the internet did kind of ruin MTV, there was no reason to have music videos on there anymore, if you want to go watch music video you just go on the internet, youtube or the bands website, no reason to watch MTV and wait until the video comes on. But anyway, here it is along with the actually launch of MTV and the 2nd video ever aired Pat Benatar "You Better Run".
Ok, so also wanted to follow up with something else from yesterday's post, the whole secrets thing, which btw that whole this just totally sucked, you know it's not that people found the secret, but it's kinda like that episode of Seinfeld, when George tells the Ross's he has a place in the Hamptons, but then Elaine tells them they don't, but then they don't tell George that they know he is lying, you know this one:
Snoopy and Prickly Pete. Anyway, lies, if you know that someone is lying, you call them a liar, well if you know some has a secret, whatever. I got off topic the point was more the videos from Conan, man watching those brings back some memories, that's when Conan was throwing his fastball at 98mph, that was great stuff, his new show just doesn't compare, neither did when he was on The Tonight Show, nothing will come close to the old Late Night stuff, so here is your treat for today, unfortunately the quality of this one kinda sucks, but it was the only version I could find, and it's one of the best things he ever did, so I just have to post it.
T-1 B-0
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Hey Bud-dy!
So, you may or not remember, but a while ago I mentioned on the blog, that there were some rumblings about doing a Pauly Shore Marathon day, well yesterday was that day, I was thinking about doing a running diary for it, but that didn't happen, but I am now here to give you the full recap.
A little background before we get started, a few weeks ago on the trip down to NYC, my bud-dies Mike and Matt and I for some reason started talking about Shawshank Redemption, don't remember exactly why, but anyway, that lead to a discussion about how that and The Godfather always go back and forth for the top spot on the IMDB top 250. I then pulled up the list and were went through it, on the flip side of that, we then decided to go through the bottom 100, which brought up, the question of how many Pauly Shore movies were on that list, so we just started to name Pauly Shore movies and decided we needed to have a Pauly Shore Day. Surprisingly there are actually no Pauly Shore movies on the bottom 100.
The first movie up was In The Army Now, the 1994 movie starring Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, David Alan Grier and Lori Petty with a brief appearance by Brendan Fraser as Officer Link. Grossed $28m domestically, so not terrible. This movie is not good, but not terrible, Andy Dick hadn't become super annoying yet by this point. The plot for this one is pretty simple, Pauly Shore with the name Bones in this one, and Andy Dick want to open a store, but lost their jobs, so they decide to join the Army Reserves to get some money, then then of course get called up to active duty, and actually have to go to fight against Libya, so it's still topical today. They then get lost in the desert and everyone else gets killed or something, and they end up having to save the day, and Pauly Shore of course is the one to save the day, there are mischief and hi-jinks, and in the end Pauly and Andy get their Store. Decent start, the best and worst were yet to come...
Next up, the 1996 Film, Bio-Dome. starring Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, Joey Lauren Adams, Kylie Minogue, the dude from Die Hard/Ghostbusters, the old guy from The 'Burbs who lives next to Tom Hanks and kills people, and brief appearances by Rose McGowen and Tenacious D. Good God, this movie is terrible, by far the worst movie of the day, just awful. Little bit of trivia, when the script was first being written, this was supposed to be Bill & Ted 3, but then Keanu Reeves did a movie called Speed, and well, he turned that down, so they rewrote some of it and got Pauly Shore and the rest is history. Interesting this is that this came out after The Usual Suspects, so what the hell Stephen Baldwin? The Plot to this one, there's a Bio-Dome, Shore, who's name in this one is Bud, but has a nickname of squirrely for some reason, and Baldwin, are gay, or just seem that way, but they have girlfriends who are environmentalist, and somehow they get locked in a Bio-Dome for a year, this of course mischief and hi-jinks, the dude from die hard/ghostbusters goes crazy and tries to blow it up, Shore and Baldwin have to stop him, they do, another happy ending. Just awful.
For the next selection we decided to go in a different direction and check out the 2003 mockumentary film Pauly Shore is Dead. I don't think it was ever in the theaters, and the version that I found was a promotional screener, and would go black and white, and had stuffed blurred out and stuff, but that's all I could find. Anyway, once again, pretty topical, starts off with Pauly Shore talking with none other then Charlie Scheen. So, basically, there are a bunch of cameos by people saying how much Pauly Shore sucks, then he fakes his death so that people will feel bad for him or something, they then find out, he has to go to jail, but some dude tries to kill him. It does feature the other mian guy from the 'Burbs that is not Tom Hanks, he'll be back for more later. Anyway, something happens, he gets out of jail, Ben Stiller got blackmailed, I don't know, the parts will people just talking about him were pretty good, the movie story part sucked, but there it was.
Then we took a break for a while, ate some food watch some Basketball, geared up for the 2nd half of the Marathon and started that part off with:
The 1992 movie Encino Man, starring Pauly Shore, Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, the Dad that was also the dad in License to Drive, that other guy from The 'Burbs and Rose McGowen in her first movie role. It grossed 40m.This is probably the best Pauly Shore movie, mostly because while he is certainly heavily featured in it, he's not the star, so it's not just all him, which is good. This was also classic Pauly Shore: Nugs, Chillin and grindage. The Weasel at his none sensical best. Anyway, plot of this film, Astin and Shore, who's name in this one is Stoney, are kinda high school losers, Astin is in love with this girl that he knew growing up, but she's going out with the cool, jock douchebag. So, Astin is trying to dig a pool in his backyard to become cool and impress her, there's an earthquake, they find a frozen man, it's Brendan Fraser, he's a caveman, they name him Link and try and teach him stuff, more mischief and hi-jinks, there's a prom, the douche finds out he's a caveman and outs him, noone cares, Link beats him up, Link, Pauly and Astin become popular, Astin gets the girl, there's a dance sequence, and then Fraser's cavewomen wife is unthawed. Another Happy Ending. Interesting note, at some point someone mentioned that they should have had the caveman be a women and have it be Encino Women, somehow I knew that that had already happened, I then proceeded to stab myself in the arm with a fork for knowing that. This was my pick for the best movie, but there was some debate that the next one was the best...
The 1993 movie Son-In-Law, starring Pauly Shore, Carla Gugino, The Coach of the Hawk from Mighty Duck AKA the Procecuder form My Cousin Vinny, The fat redhead kid from Big Green and Sandlot and Tiffani Amber Thiessen. It grossed 36m at the box office. Pauly Shore in the one named Crawl plays a RA at a college in LA, Carla Gugino plays Becca, who grew up on a farm in South Dakota, and has a boyfriend, but decides to go to school in LA, meets shore, he helps her change her image and then comes back for Thanksgiving and brings Shore with her. So, Becca's boyfriend is gonna propose to her, she doesn't want that, Shore pretends that they are already engaged, Mischief and hi-jinks, including a lot of farming stuff, which I had a little bit of an issue with. It's South Dakota, it's the end of November, shouldn't it be pretty cold there, is there that much farming going on at that time, like what the hell? I don't know, anyway Shore and Becca end up falling for each other for real, the boyfriend ends up being a douche, Happy Ending. An Finally...
Now, unfortunately by the time we got around to watching Jury Duty, everyone else bailed on me only a few minutes into the movie, probably a good idea by them, but I don't like leave things unfinished, so I watched most of it by myself. It came out in 1995 and grossed 17m, it stars Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Brian Doyle-Murray, Abe Vigoda, Charles Napier, The Other Guy from the 'Burbs, The Jump to Conclusions Map guy from Office Space and the Car Attendant from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There was also a cameo from Dick Vitale, so that was timely, his head blew up for some reason. This move was really bad, not as bad as Bio-Dome was close. Shore, with the name Tommy Collins, is an out of work loser, he tried stripping at his Andrew Dice Clay's male strip club, that didn't work out, he was living with his mom and her styroform loving boyfriend in their trailer, with his dog, They decide to take the trailer to vegas to get married, so he has nowhere to stay, so he gets summond to jury Duty, get's on a trial, everyone things the guy is guilty, but he says not guilty so that he can keep staying in the hotel. Well, turns out he was right, and then he gets Tia Carrere to fall for him and he becomes a lawyer, Happy ending, big surprise, I think I may have fallen asleep at some point. So, yup, watched 6 Pauly Shore movies in one day.... I hate my life.
Ok, so to recap, here is order that I would put them in from best to worst:
1) Encino Man
2) Son-In-Law
3) Pauly Shore is Dead
4) In The Army Now
5) Jury Duty
9999999) Bio-Dome
Want to thank everyone who came out and watched some of the Marathon, there was lot of beverages consumed, which there needed to be, especially with all the unnecessary Male ass that was shown in these movies, that was a unfortunate reaccurring theme for some reason. Also I was a little disappointed that it took us until Son-In-Law to come up with the idea for the drinking game, should have started that at the beginning, although we might have died. Next up, a Carl, wait for it, Weathers day, not sure when, still figuring out what movies, but it will happen.
Ok, a couple other things going on this weekend, went to the BU hockey game on Friday, they beat Northeastern to tie up their Series at 1, 3rd game is tonight, and I will be going that that as well, not sure what the crowd will be like, I think it's spring break, cause it was empty on Friday, but not sure it was the start or the end, cause it it was the end, then people could be back in time. Anyway, UMass did not have a good showing they are out, BC, UNH and Merrimack were all able to take advantage of their home ice and move on to the Garden with sweeps, only 1 spot left. The BU basketball team was able to pull off the win and move on to the NCAA Tournament, Harvard was not so lucky, losing at the buzzer to Princeton. Getting excited, brackets are out tonight, getting ready to fill it out, just not sure how the first 4 games are gonna be handled, will they count, will they not, cause if they do, then brackets have to be in before 6 on tuesday, but if they don't how can we fill them out not knowing who the last teams are? Oh well, find out soon
One last thing, what good is having a secret if everyone apparently already knew it? So, that then when you finally let the cat out of the bag, it's just like, oh, everyone already knew, great, fantastic, now I feel like the idiot, and angry, betrayed, violated. I blame Michael Scott, shouldn't have told him. Well, apparently I'm easier to read then I thought, so either no more secrets and just tell everyone everything, or just do a better job at hiding my secrets, 2nd one is probably a better option. But anyway, with all this talk about secrets, that leads up to today's treat, enjoy.
Want more?
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Last one
Ok, hope you enjoyed all these fantastic Secrets. Mine wasn't as good
A little background before we get started, a few weeks ago on the trip down to NYC, my bud-dies Mike and Matt and I for some reason started talking about Shawshank Redemption, don't remember exactly why, but anyway, that lead to a discussion about how that and The Godfather always go back and forth for the top spot on the IMDB top 250. I then pulled up the list and were went through it, on the flip side of that, we then decided to go through the bottom 100, which brought up, the question of how many Pauly Shore movies were on that list, so we just started to name Pauly Shore movies and decided we needed to have a Pauly Shore Day. Surprisingly there are actually no Pauly Shore movies on the bottom 100.
The first movie up was In The Army Now, the 1994 movie starring Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, David Alan Grier and Lori Petty with a brief appearance by Brendan Fraser as Officer Link. Grossed $28m domestically, so not terrible. This movie is not good, but not terrible, Andy Dick hadn't become super annoying yet by this point. The plot for this one is pretty simple, Pauly Shore with the name Bones in this one, and Andy Dick want to open a store, but lost their jobs, so they decide to join the Army Reserves to get some money, then then of course get called up to active duty, and actually have to go to fight against Libya, so it's still topical today. They then get lost in the desert and everyone else gets killed or something, and they end up having to save the day, and Pauly Shore of course is the one to save the day, there are mischief and hi-jinks, and in the end Pauly and Andy get their Store. Decent start, the best and worst were yet to come...
Next up, the 1996 Film, Bio-Dome. starring Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, Joey Lauren Adams, Kylie Minogue, the dude from Die Hard/Ghostbusters, the old guy from The 'Burbs who lives next to Tom Hanks and kills people, and brief appearances by Rose McGowen and Tenacious D. Good God, this movie is terrible, by far the worst movie of the day, just awful. Little bit of trivia, when the script was first being written, this was supposed to be Bill & Ted 3, but then Keanu Reeves did a movie called Speed, and well, he turned that down, so they rewrote some of it and got Pauly Shore and the rest is history. Interesting this is that this came out after The Usual Suspects, so what the hell Stephen Baldwin? The Plot to this one, there's a Bio-Dome, Shore, who's name in this one is Bud, but has a nickname of squirrely for some reason, and Baldwin, are gay, or just seem that way, but they have girlfriends who are environmentalist, and somehow they get locked in a Bio-Dome for a year, this of course mischief and hi-jinks, the dude from die hard/ghostbusters goes crazy and tries to blow it up, Shore and Baldwin have to stop him, they do, another happy ending. Just awful.
For the next selection we decided to go in a different direction and check out the 2003 mockumentary film Pauly Shore is Dead. I don't think it was ever in the theaters, and the version that I found was a promotional screener, and would go black and white, and had stuffed blurred out and stuff, but that's all I could find. Anyway, once again, pretty topical, starts off with Pauly Shore talking with none other then Charlie Scheen. So, basically, there are a bunch of cameos by people saying how much Pauly Shore sucks, then he fakes his death so that people will feel bad for him or something, they then find out, he has to go to jail, but some dude tries to kill him. It does feature the other mian guy from the 'Burbs that is not Tom Hanks, he'll be back for more later. Anyway, something happens, he gets out of jail, Ben Stiller got blackmailed, I don't know, the parts will people just talking about him were pretty good, the movie story part sucked, but there it was.
Then we took a break for a while, ate some food watch some Basketball, geared up for the 2nd half of the Marathon and started that part off with:
The 1992 movie Encino Man, starring Pauly Shore, Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, the Dad that was also the dad in License to Drive, that other guy from The 'Burbs and Rose McGowen in her first movie role. It grossed 40m.This is probably the best Pauly Shore movie, mostly because while he is certainly heavily featured in it, he's not the star, so it's not just all him, which is good. This was also classic Pauly Shore: Nugs, Chillin and grindage. The Weasel at his none sensical best. Anyway, plot of this film, Astin and Shore, who's name in this one is Stoney, are kinda high school losers, Astin is in love with this girl that he knew growing up, but she's going out with the cool, jock douchebag. So, Astin is trying to dig a pool in his backyard to become cool and impress her, there's an earthquake, they find a frozen man, it's Brendan Fraser, he's a caveman, they name him Link and try and teach him stuff, more mischief and hi-jinks, there's a prom, the douche finds out he's a caveman and outs him, noone cares, Link beats him up, Link, Pauly and Astin become popular, Astin gets the girl, there's a dance sequence, and then Fraser's cavewomen wife is unthawed. Another Happy Ending. Interesting note, at some point someone mentioned that they should have had the caveman be a women and have it be Encino Women, somehow I knew that that had already happened, I then proceeded to stab myself in the arm with a fork for knowing that. This was my pick for the best movie, but there was some debate that the next one was the best...
The 1993 movie Son-In-Law, starring Pauly Shore, Carla Gugino, The Coach of the Hawk from Mighty Duck AKA the Procecuder form My Cousin Vinny, The fat redhead kid from Big Green and Sandlot and Tiffani Amber Thiessen. It grossed 36m at the box office. Pauly Shore in the one named Crawl plays a RA at a college in LA, Carla Gugino plays Becca, who grew up on a farm in South Dakota, and has a boyfriend, but decides to go to school in LA, meets shore, he helps her change her image and then comes back for Thanksgiving and brings Shore with her. So, Becca's boyfriend is gonna propose to her, she doesn't want that, Shore pretends that they are already engaged, Mischief and hi-jinks, including a lot of farming stuff, which I had a little bit of an issue with. It's South Dakota, it's the end of November, shouldn't it be pretty cold there, is there that much farming going on at that time, like what the hell? I don't know, anyway Shore and Becca end up falling for each other for real, the boyfriend ends up being a douche, Happy Ending. An Finally...
Now, unfortunately by the time we got around to watching Jury Duty, everyone else bailed on me only a few minutes into the movie, probably a good idea by them, but I don't like leave things unfinished, so I watched most of it by myself. It came out in 1995 and grossed 17m, it stars Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Brian Doyle-Murray, Abe Vigoda, Charles Napier, The Other Guy from the 'Burbs, The Jump to Conclusions Map guy from Office Space and the Car Attendant from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There was also a cameo from Dick Vitale, so that was timely, his head blew up for some reason. This move was really bad, not as bad as Bio-Dome was close. Shore, with the name Tommy Collins, is an out of work loser, he tried stripping at his Andrew Dice Clay's male strip club, that didn't work out, he was living with his mom and her styroform loving boyfriend in their trailer, with his dog, They decide to take the trailer to vegas to get married, so he has nowhere to stay, so he gets summond to jury Duty, get's on a trial, everyone things the guy is guilty, but he says not guilty so that he can keep staying in the hotel. Well, turns out he was right, and then he gets Tia Carrere to fall for him and he becomes a lawyer, Happy ending, big surprise, I think I may have fallen asleep at some point. So, yup, watched 6 Pauly Shore movies in one day.... I hate my life.
Ok, so to recap, here is order that I would put them in from best to worst:
1) Encino Man
2) Son-In-Law
3) Pauly Shore is Dead
4) In The Army Now
5) Jury Duty
9999999) Bio-Dome
Want to thank everyone who came out and watched some of the Marathon, there was lot of beverages consumed, which there needed to be, especially with all the unnecessary Male ass that was shown in these movies, that was a unfortunate reaccurring theme for some reason. Also I was a little disappointed that it took us until Son-In-Law to come up with the idea for the drinking game, should have started that at the beginning, although we might have died. Next up, a Carl, wait for it, Weathers day, not sure when, still figuring out what movies, but it will happen.
Ok, a couple other things going on this weekend, went to the BU hockey game on Friday, they beat Northeastern to tie up their Series at 1, 3rd game is tonight, and I will be going that that as well, not sure what the crowd will be like, I think it's spring break, cause it was empty on Friday, but not sure it was the start or the end, cause it it was the end, then people could be back in time. Anyway, UMass did not have a good showing they are out, BC, UNH and Merrimack were all able to take advantage of their home ice and move on to the Garden with sweeps, only 1 spot left. The BU basketball team was able to pull off the win and move on to the NCAA Tournament, Harvard was not so lucky, losing at the buzzer to Princeton. Getting excited, brackets are out tonight, getting ready to fill it out, just not sure how the first 4 games are gonna be handled, will they count, will they not, cause if they do, then brackets have to be in before 6 on tuesday, but if they don't how can we fill them out not knowing who the last teams are? Oh well, find out soon
One last thing, what good is having a secret if everyone apparently already knew it? So, that then when you finally let the cat out of the bag, it's just like, oh, everyone already knew, great, fantastic, now I feel like the idiot, and angry, betrayed, violated. I blame Michael Scott, shouldn't have told him. Well, apparently I'm easier to read then I thought, so either no more secrets and just tell everyone everything, or just do a better job at hiding my secrets, 2nd one is probably a better option. But anyway, with all this talk about secrets, that leads up to today's treat, enjoy.
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Standing Tall On The Wings of My Dreams
Well, it appears that McDonald's has abandoned the Give me back that Filet-O-Fish singing fish, as I saw this years ad, which involves pirates bobbleheads trying to steal some guys Filet-O-Fish or something, while it is pretty lame, it's not as annoying, but also not as catchy, bad move I think on their part.
So, that whole thing about giving up beer for lent, yeah, that didn't work out. Thanks for the suggestion anyway Kathleen, there you go, there's your shout out. So, still going with Giving Up, Giving Up. Once again no idea what that means.
Apparently they love this blog in Russia got a couple more view from there, so you know what, I'm gonna give my Russian readers, and Iran too, a little treat, so here you go:
Actually, I guess that's not really appropriate anymore, technically that's the Soviet National Anthem, which doesn't exist anymore, but whatever, there you go. Also want to welcome Jordan, got a view from there today, was unaware that Michael Jordan had his own country, but glad to see that they are looking at the blog.
Celtics, what the hell was that last night, almost made the comeback, but really, losing to the Clippers at home? That's not cool. I'm not sure about this team anymore, I realize that the injuries have piled up and that forced them to make some trades and other moves, but when the entire lineup on the floor are guys that weren't on the team 2 weeks ago and your losing to the clippers at home by 20, that's not a good sign.
So, Montreal police is starting an investigation on Zdeno Chara over his hit the other night to Max Pacioretty, come on, that's stupid, NHL did the right thing, he shouldn't have been fined or suspended, probably shouldn't have even been a 5 minute major or a game misconduct, now given the situation, made sense to give him a game misconduct, they kinda had to, but, an investigation? Only thing to investigate is maybe if there should have been more padding on the boards or maybe redesigning it, that's what did the damage, not Chara.
I was called out yesterday for not mentioning that it was college roommate Jay's birthday in the blog, thank you Todd. So to make it up to him and I hope that he is reading this, I have 3 special treats that everyone will appreciate, but him especially, I'll explain, here's is the first one:
So, that whole thing about giving up beer for lent, yeah, that didn't work out. Thanks for the suggestion anyway Kathleen, there you go, there's your shout out. So, still going with Giving Up, Giving Up. Once again no idea what that means.
Apparently they love this blog in Russia got a couple more view from there, so you know what, I'm gonna give my Russian readers, and Iran too, a little treat, so here you go:
Actually, I guess that's not really appropriate anymore, technically that's the Soviet National Anthem, which doesn't exist anymore, but whatever, there you go. Also want to welcome Jordan, got a view from there today, was unaware that Michael Jordan had his own country, but glad to see that they are looking at the blog.
Celtics, what the hell was that last night, almost made the comeback, but really, losing to the Clippers at home? That's not cool. I'm not sure about this team anymore, I realize that the injuries have piled up and that forced them to make some trades and other moves, but when the entire lineup on the floor are guys that weren't on the team 2 weeks ago and your losing to the clippers at home by 20, that's not a good sign.
So, Montreal police is starting an investigation on Zdeno Chara over his hit the other night to Max Pacioretty, come on, that's stupid, NHL did the right thing, he shouldn't have been fined or suspended, probably shouldn't have even been a 5 minute major or a game misconduct, now given the situation, made sense to give him a game misconduct, they kinda had to, but, an investigation? Only thing to investigate is maybe if there should have been more padding on the boards or maybe redesigning it, that's what did the damage, not Chara.
I was called out yesterday for not mentioning that it was college roommate Jay's birthday in the blog, thank you Todd. So to make it up to him and I hope that he is reading this, I have 3 special treats that everyone will appreciate, but him especially, I'll explain, here's is the first one:
Now, while this is certainly a great movie and we must have watch it a dozen times, and this is a great scene, that reason for this one is actually because of the song. "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" by The Cowsills. While on a random trip on a random Thursday that Jay and I took to visit our buddy Baggsie in Rutland, VT, which by the way is the birth place of both John Deere and Aaron Lewis, there was an Oldies radio station that tag line was "Oldies Are Cool" and they at some point played this song, which was awesome. For what I remember from that night, it was probably one of the unhealthiest nights of my entire life, between 3 of us we polished off 2 cases of Busch Light Bottles, we also took down the Rutland Buffett, and watch Cabin Boy. We then had to get up early and get back to UMass so I could take a Spanish exam, I don't think I did very well on that exam, but not because I was hung over or didn't study enough, more just cause I suck Spanish. Moving on, here's the 2nd treat:
This was always one of Jay's favorite songs, but the reason I'm putting this up there, is because of one time in particular I remember driving somewhere with Jay, this song came on the radio, he then mentioned that he actually had their CD "Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?" in the car, he went to grab it, but the case was empty, which he then had to pull the car over so that he could find it. And Finally:
This one probably make the least amount of sense, at some point in my AIM profile I had posted the lyrics to this for no real reason, so the at some point after a night of drinking, Jay asked what that was, I in turn downloaded it onto his computer and proceeded to play it at a extremely loud volume and start singing along as Jay danced for some reason. This became a reoccurring thing after nights of heavy drinking, up until the point where the people upstairs got pissed. Good times.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Something Witty or Topical
Ladies and gentlemen, Happy Ash Wednesday, and no not this Ash:
But as in the Ash from the palms from Palm Sunday from last year, and it marks the beginning of Lent, so while I prepare my meal of fish, I realize that for Lent you are supposed to give something up. I can't really think of something to give up, someone at work suggested I give up beer, I told her she should give up being a bitch, she said there was no way she could do it for 40 days, good times. But then when I got home, I found 2 bottles of Tonic that I totally forgot I had, and they have a date of March 14th on then, and I do have a bottle of gin, so I guess I got to start drinking that, so I could give up beer for a little while, but I don't think 40 days. So what else could I give up, I have no idea, so I'm going philosophical on all your asses, and I'm giving up, giving up, and while I really have no idea what that means, it sounds good and sounds inspirational, atleast as much as anything that Charlie Sheen has been spiting out lately.
Ok, this is starting to get a little bit out of control now, today I got a view from Hungary and Romania, as well as another hit from both Russia and Denmark, is it really people from there, or are people just messing with me?
So, watching the Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Championship last night on either ESPN or ESPN2, not sure which it was, between Arkansas - Little Rock Trojans and North Texas Mean Green, ended up being a pretty close game, Arkansas-Little Rock won by 1, didn't really watch much of the game, I'll get to why in a little bit, but the part I did watch contained a very odd exchange between the commentators. The color commentator, talking about Arkansas said "Their Offense is a lot like my prom date, not pretty, but effective." then there was a little bit of a pause, like 10 seconds later, I said to myself, "What did he just say?" then like 20 seconds after that, the play by play man said "I am not going to say anything about that." Yup, that's what happens when you use random dudes off the street for these low level conferences I guess.
Ok, so the reason I didn't really watch any of that game, was cause I was too busy watching the Bruins being terrible in Montreal, they did atleast score a goal, and Chara did almost kill a guy, which really wasn't that bad of a hit, it was just the timing and the place on the ice that caused the damage, and the NHL agreed, he was not fined or suspended. I was also watching the UMass Men's Basketball team stink up the Mullins Center, and that was fun.
Well, that's all I got for today, but as always, got a little treat for you, and why this one is totally random, for whatever reason it always kills me:
He's right you know
But as in the Ash from the palms from Palm Sunday from last year, and it marks the beginning of Lent, so while I prepare my meal of fish, I realize that for Lent you are supposed to give something up. I can't really think of something to give up, someone at work suggested I give up beer, I told her she should give up being a bitch, she said there was no way she could do it for 40 days, good times. But then when I got home, I found 2 bottles of Tonic that I totally forgot I had, and they have a date of March 14th on then, and I do have a bottle of gin, so I guess I got to start drinking that, so I could give up beer for a little while, but I don't think 40 days. So what else could I give up, I have no idea, so I'm going philosophical on all your asses, and I'm giving up, giving up, and while I really have no idea what that means, it sounds good and sounds inspirational, atleast as much as anything that Charlie Sheen has been spiting out lately.
Ok, this is starting to get a little bit out of control now, today I got a view from Hungary and Romania, as well as another hit from both Russia and Denmark, is it really people from there, or are people just messing with me?
So, watching the Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Championship last night on either ESPN or ESPN2, not sure which it was, between Arkansas - Little Rock Trojans and North Texas Mean Green, ended up being a pretty close game, Arkansas-Little Rock won by 1, didn't really watch much of the game, I'll get to why in a little bit, but the part I did watch contained a very odd exchange between the commentators. The color commentator, talking about Arkansas said "Their Offense is a lot like my prom date, not pretty, but effective." then there was a little bit of a pause, like 10 seconds later, I said to myself, "What did he just say?" then like 20 seconds after that, the play by play man said "I am not going to say anything about that." Yup, that's what happens when you use random dudes off the street for these low level conferences I guess.
Ok, so the reason I didn't really watch any of that game, was cause I was too busy watching the Bruins being terrible in Montreal, they did atleast score a goal, and Chara did almost kill a guy, which really wasn't that bad of a hit, it was just the timing and the place on the ice that caused the damage, and the NHL agreed, he was not fined or suspended. I was also watching the UMass Men's Basketball team stink up the Mullins Center, and that was fun.
Well, that's all I got for today, but as always, got a little treat for you, and why this one is totally random, for whatever reason it always kills me:
He's right you know
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Beware the Ides of March
Well, I'm not totally sure what Ides are and why we should be beware of them, in fact I should tell them where to be. Anyway, I think it has something to do with Rome, Julius Caesar, Shakespeare and pretty sure Brutus The Barber Beefcake.
So, today is Mardi Gras, so have some drinks, eat a bunch, flash someone for beads, do whatever it is that you are gonna give up for lent for the last time, it's all about Jesus.
So, forgot to mention this yesterday, but in the last week, got a few new places on board, Germany, Hong Kong and India, that makes for a total of 10 countries on board, so that's pretty awesome. I would also like to mention that I got the view from Germany before I made the comments about the Scorpions, but there you go Germany, little home cooking for you. Hong Kong and India, got nothing for you at the moment, but stay tuned.
Big Bruins game on tap for tonight, Bruins are in Montreal to play the Canadiens for the first time since this:
Plus, the Canadiens are playing well, Bruins are playing well, other then that little mishap in OT the other night against the Penguins, Seidenberg, what were you doing? Should be a great game, 1st place vs 2nd place, battle for the Adams Division, I mean Northeast Division.
Here's one for you, you are walking behind someone, clearly you are walking faster of them, but there's not really enough room to go around them, what do you do, you could slow down, but then you are just kinda creepily walking behind them. What else can you do, ask them to go around them, is that polite, I don't know, just go by them if you can get by, that seems a bit rude. I don;t know, I always struggle with this.
We are 1 week away from the start of the biggest NCAA Tournament in History, get ready, getting you dancing shoes on, sharpen your pencils for your brackets, figure out your cinderellas, do what you go to do.
Went over 400 views of the blog today, so that's pretty exciting, Thank you all for reading, and tell your friends, or if you don't like it, tell people you hate, make them suffer.
That's all I got for today, but as always, here's a little treat for you:
Yup, if you didn't know, Shamrock Shakes are back, no word on if Uncle O'Grimacey is coming back, but we can only hope.
So, today is Mardi Gras, so have some drinks, eat a bunch, flash someone for beads, do whatever it is that you are gonna give up for lent for the last time, it's all about Jesus.
So, forgot to mention this yesterday, but in the last week, got a few new places on board, Germany, Hong Kong and India, that makes for a total of 10 countries on board, so that's pretty awesome. I would also like to mention that I got the view from Germany before I made the comments about the Scorpions, but there you go Germany, little home cooking for you. Hong Kong and India, got nothing for you at the moment, but stay tuned.
Big Bruins game on tap for tonight, Bruins are in Montreal to play the Canadiens for the first time since this:
Here's one for you, you are walking behind someone, clearly you are walking faster of them, but there's not really enough room to go around them, what do you do, you could slow down, but then you are just kinda creepily walking behind them. What else can you do, ask them to go around them, is that polite, I don't know, just go by them if you can get by, that seems a bit rude. I don;t know, I always struggle with this.
We are 1 week away from the start of the biggest NCAA Tournament in History, get ready, getting you dancing shoes on, sharpen your pencils for your brackets, figure out your cinderellas, do what you go to do.
Went over 400 views of the blog today, so that's pretty exciting, Thank you all for reading, and tell your friends, or if you don't like it, tell people you hate, make them suffer.
That's all I got for today, but as always, here's a little treat for you:
Yup, if you didn't know, Shamrock Shakes are back, no word on if Uncle O'Grimacey is coming back, but we can only hope.
Monday, March 7, 2011
...and that's the bottom line, cause the blog said so.
Alright, I know what you are saying, "What the hell Greg, it's been over a week, and no blog post. What's the deal?" Well, I was on vacation, so I took a little vacation from the blog, and well, if you got a problem with that, you can go to hell. I'm sorry, that was a little harsh, just dealing with some crap. I mean you go on vacation to take a break, get away from it all, regroup, recharge, and then when you come back, you should be all ready to go, but instead you get hit with a shitstorm. I'm the only one technically on my team who will be at work tomorrow, should be fun, at least I'm gonna get some help from an old member of the team coming back, so I guess that's something, should be a blast, not the last person in the world I would want to have to work with.
Ok, so here are some observations that I made while on vacation. First of all, I'm trying to figure out what the appropriated age for a song is to be considered classic. I was listening to a classic rock station and they played "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, at first I was like what the hell, this isn't classic rock, but then I started thinking about it, the song is almost 20 years old, is that enough time? One of the next songs they played was "Wind of Change" by The Scorpions, and that I had no problem with being on that station, but that song came out the same year as Teen Spirit, I guess just cause it was the Scorpions and they were around a lot longer then just then, but still, same age. I started to break it down, and while 20 years is a long time, most songs that came out in 1991, don't seem like classic rock to me, so what about 25 years, 1986, I don't think that there are any songs that came out in 1986, that if played on a classic rock station, I would be like, this isn't old enough to be classic rock. Now granted, you could probably say that about 87, 88, 89 probably, but I feel like establishing a definite time makes sense, so 25 years, lets go with that. I did also hear "When I Come Around" by Green Day on that station, which came out 1994, yeah, that's not even close to being classic rock in my mind.
Speaking of Music, favorite song right now is "Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)" and while it's not exactly new, it was on the Expendables soundtrack which came out last August, I have been hearing it a lot lately, definitely a solid song, but there was also this:
Also wanted to point something out, something weird, so try and stay with me. After I heard "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions, I was trying to think of what other hits that they had other then that, "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "No One Like You" and while in the US they didn't really have any others, they were bigger in Europe, being German and all. However, while scrolling through their discography, found an odd pattern of their Album art being banned, and now while most of them are kinda whatever, i guess I can see why it was banned, but whatever, there is one, and you're gonna have to look it up yourself, and extremely NSFW, not even sure what they were thinking, like there was no chance that wasn't getting banned, and it probably could have gotten them arrested in some circles, but whatever, weird stuff.
Went 3 for 6 on my Oscar predictions, should have stuck with the buzz and went with Natalie Portman, and while my theory about the correlation between Best Director and Best Picture was accurate, picked the wrong director and therefore the wrong Movie, oh well, don't really plan on seeing The King's Speech, so whatever. Looked up to see how many times an movie won best picture and the director didn't win for the same movie, it has happened 21 times out of 83, so a little over 25% of the time, but, 7 of those 21 times were in the first 10 years, so yeah, it doesn't happen often, last time was in 5 years ago when Ang Lee won for Brokeback Mountain, but Crash won Best Picture.
Speaking of movies, watched a few movies over my vacation, Unstoppable, which was pretty much what I thought it would be based on the commercials, a tamer version of Training Day, but on a train, it was alright, kept me somewhat entertained for 90 minutes, despite the fact that I pretty much knew what was gonna happen and more or less how it was gonna happen the whole time. Next up I watched Due Date, which was pretty good, but in terms of Todd Phillips films, it wasn't as good as the Hangover of Old School, but pretty much on par with Road Trip, which makes sense, cause it was also a road trip. It was tough to watch this and trying to not see Zach Galifianakis' character as the same character as the Hangover, but whatever, again kept me entertained for 90 minutes, so not bad. Then I watched Hereafter, the Clint Eastwood movie starring Matt Damon, it was not exactly what I thought it would be, thought the whole thing was gonna be about Matt Damon talking to dead people and stuff, which was actually only part of it, there were like 3 different stories that all kinda come together at the end, it was alright, was pretty predictable and a little on the long side, so eh, whatever. The I went to the Movies and saw The Adjustment Bureau, which again starred Matt Damon and wasn't exactly what I thought it was gonna be. Thought it was gonna be move Inception/Matrix kinda thing with some action thrown in and stuff, but in reality it was kinda a love story mixed with a little bit of action and a little bit of mind bending, not the ratio I was expecting, but it was pretty entertaining, so if you got nothing else to see, go for it. I do want to bring up something that did kinda annoy me about Hereafter and The Adjustment Bureau, in both movies, Matt Damon plays a guy who apparently has trouble meeting the ladies, come on, really, we're supposed to believe that, give me a break, speaking as someone that does have trouble meeting the ladies, I'm offended, course in the end of both movies he gets the girl, big shocker.
So, while the Taco Bell 4 times the meat commercial is gone, looks like it's been replaced with an even more annoying commercial, the Arby's Good Mood Food commercial, I can't really see this one ever becoming funny, but it's airing every 2 seconds it seems like the Taco Bell, and it's got some guy singing some annoying song, haven't seen it, here it is:
Of course, tomorrow is also Mardi Gras, which means Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, which is the start of lent and the annoying commercial contest should get a new leader if the last few years have taught us anything, don't know what I'm talking about, really? REALLY? ok, well, you asked for it
That was 2 years ago
That was last year, can wait to see what they have in store for this year, oh wait, I can.
So, tonight The Rattlesnake, Stone Cold Steve Austin returns to Raw, not sure for what, but I'm sure he'll come out, say Hell Yeah a few times, drink some beers, someone will come out and confront him, probably Sheamus or Ted DiBiase or someone like that, he'll end up stunning them and drink some more beers. Should be good. Certainly will be better than whatever Snooki does next week on Raw, yup, she's hosting Raw next week, that should be "great", whatever.
So, are there more songs about Rain or Wind. Let's see, there's No Rain, November Rain, Raindrops keep falling on my head, Singing in the Rain, Chocolate Rain, Love Reigh Ov'r Me by Pearl Jam or The Who does not count, cause that's a different kind of reign, but in the case of Slayer even though the album is Reign In Blood, the song is Raining Blood, so that counts. As for Wind, Wind of Change, as mentioned before, Dust in the Wind, Wind Beneath My Wings, The Wing Cries Mary, Summer Wind, not sure if Summer Breeze should count or not, a Breeze is a kind of Wind though. Hurricane by Bob Dylan does not count for either, cause even though there is both Wind and Rain in a Hurricane, that was about a guy with the nickname Hurricane and not a real Hurricane. Well, it's a toss up, I don't know.
Charlie Sheen is crazy, great, good for him.
Last but not least, while skiing, it was snowing and then the sun came out, which got me to wonder, well when it rains and the sun comes out, sometimes you get a rainbow, so is there such a thing as a snowbow? I've never heard of it, so I'm guessing not, and honestly a snowbow sounds more like something from Zelda or something, like how do you kill the Fire Demon in the 5th dungeon, oh well you need to get the snowbow and the icicle arrows and shoot him in his fiery heart. Or maybe melt his icy heart with a cool island song. Anyway, he's your treat, since I mentioned Rainbow:
DIO!!!
Ok, so here are some observations that I made while on vacation. First of all, I'm trying to figure out what the appropriated age for a song is to be considered classic. I was listening to a classic rock station and they played "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, at first I was like what the hell, this isn't classic rock, but then I started thinking about it, the song is almost 20 years old, is that enough time? One of the next songs they played was "Wind of Change" by The Scorpions, and that I had no problem with being on that station, but that song came out the same year as Teen Spirit, I guess just cause it was the Scorpions and they were around a lot longer then just then, but still, same age. I started to break it down, and while 20 years is a long time, most songs that came out in 1991, don't seem like classic rock to me, so what about 25 years, 1986, I don't think that there are any songs that came out in 1986, that if played on a classic rock station, I would be like, this isn't old enough to be classic rock. Now granted, you could probably say that about 87, 88, 89 probably, but I feel like establishing a definite time makes sense, so 25 years, lets go with that. I did also hear "When I Come Around" by Green Day on that station, which came out 1994, yeah, that's not even close to being classic rock in my mind.
Speaking of Music, favorite song right now is "Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)" and while it's not exactly new, it was on the Expendables soundtrack which came out last August, I have been hearing it a lot lately, definitely a solid song, but there was also this:
Also wanted to point something out, something weird, so try and stay with me. After I heard "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions, I was trying to think of what other hits that they had other then that, "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "No One Like You" and while in the US they didn't really have any others, they were bigger in Europe, being German and all. However, while scrolling through their discography, found an odd pattern of their Album art being banned, and now while most of them are kinda whatever, i guess I can see why it was banned, but whatever, there is one, and you're gonna have to look it up yourself, and extremely NSFW, not even sure what they were thinking, like there was no chance that wasn't getting banned, and it probably could have gotten them arrested in some circles, but whatever, weird stuff.
Went 3 for 6 on my Oscar predictions, should have stuck with the buzz and went with Natalie Portman, and while my theory about the correlation between Best Director and Best Picture was accurate, picked the wrong director and therefore the wrong Movie, oh well, don't really plan on seeing The King's Speech, so whatever. Looked up to see how many times an movie won best picture and the director didn't win for the same movie, it has happened 21 times out of 83, so a little over 25% of the time, but, 7 of those 21 times were in the first 10 years, so yeah, it doesn't happen often, last time was in 5 years ago when Ang Lee won for Brokeback Mountain, but Crash won Best Picture.
Speaking of movies, watched a few movies over my vacation, Unstoppable, which was pretty much what I thought it would be based on the commercials, a tamer version of Training Day, but on a train, it was alright, kept me somewhat entertained for 90 minutes, despite the fact that I pretty much knew what was gonna happen and more or less how it was gonna happen the whole time. Next up I watched Due Date, which was pretty good, but in terms of Todd Phillips films, it wasn't as good as the Hangover of Old School, but pretty much on par with Road Trip, which makes sense, cause it was also a road trip. It was tough to watch this and trying to not see Zach Galifianakis' character as the same character as the Hangover, but whatever, again kept me entertained for 90 minutes, so not bad. Then I watched Hereafter, the Clint Eastwood movie starring Matt Damon, it was not exactly what I thought it would be, thought the whole thing was gonna be about Matt Damon talking to dead people and stuff, which was actually only part of it, there were like 3 different stories that all kinda come together at the end, it was alright, was pretty predictable and a little on the long side, so eh, whatever. The I went to the Movies and saw The Adjustment Bureau, which again starred Matt Damon and wasn't exactly what I thought it was gonna be. Thought it was gonna be move Inception/Matrix kinda thing with some action thrown in and stuff, but in reality it was kinda a love story mixed with a little bit of action and a little bit of mind bending, not the ratio I was expecting, but it was pretty entertaining, so if you got nothing else to see, go for it. I do want to bring up something that did kinda annoy me about Hereafter and The Adjustment Bureau, in both movies, Matt Damon plays a guy who apparently has trouble meeting the ladies, come on, really, we're supposed to believe that, give me a break, speaking as someone that does have trouble meeting the ladies, I'm offended, course in the end of both movies he gets the girl, big shocker.
So, while the Taco Bell 4 times the meat commercial is gone, looks like it's been replaced with an even more annoying commercial, the Arby's Good Mood Food commercial, I can't really see this one ever becoming funny, but it's airing every 2 seconds it seems like the Taco Bell, and it's got some guy singing some annoying song, haven't seen it, here it is:
That was 2 years ago
That was last year, can wait to see what they have in store for this year, oh wait, I can.
So, tonight The Rattlesnake, Stone Cold Steve Austin returns to Raw, not sure for what, but I'm sure he'll come out, say Hell Yeah a few times, drink some beers, someone will come out and confront him, probably Sheamus or Ted DiBiase or someone like that, he'll end up stunning them and drink some more beers. Should be good. Certainly will be better than whatever Snooki does next week on Raw, yup, she's hosting Raw next week, that should be "great", whatever.
So, are there more songs about Rain or Wind. Let's see, there's No Rain, November Rain, Raindrops keep falling on my head, Singing in the Rain, Chocolate Rain, Love Reigh Ov'r Me by Pearl Jam or The Who does not count, cause that's a different kind of reign, but in the case of Slayer even though the album is Reign In Blood, the song is Raining Blood, so that counts. As for Wind, Wind of Change, as mentioned before, Dust in the Wind, Wind Beneath My Wings, The Wing Cries Mary, Summer Wind, not sure if Summer Breeze should count or not, a Breeze is a kind of Wind though. Hurricane by Bob Dylan does not count for either, cause even though there is both Wind and Rain in a Hurricane, that was about a guy with the nickname Hurricane and not a real Hurricane. Well, it's a toss up, I don't know.
Charlie Sheen is crazy, great, good for him.
Last but not least, while skiing, it was snowing and then the sun came out, which got me to wonder, well when it rains and the sun comes out, sometimes you get a rainbow, so is there such a thing as a snowbow? I've never heard of it, so I'm guessing not, and honestly a snowbow sounds more like something from Zelda or something, like how do you kill the Fire Demon in the 5th dungeon, oh well you need to get the snowbow and the icicle arrows and shoot him in his fiery heart. Or maybe melt his icy heart with a cool island song. Anyway, he's your treat, since I mentioned Rainbow:
DIO!!!
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