I just received The Social Network from Netflix. Am I going to like this thing? What about Shutter Island? I’m thinking about watching both over the weekend. Is this a four-hour mistake, a two-hour mistake, or a pretty good idea? Provide me some guidance, won’t you?
FYI: I’ll never see The King’s Speech. I was mildly interested, until I found out it had something to do with stuttering. Instant disqualification… I don’t watch heartwarming movies about people overcoming ailments or mental defects. Same goes for films that feature dragons or magical dwarves in wizard hats. What “genre” of film earns an instant disqualification from you?
Today is my last day of work this week, and it’s been excruciating. For months I’ve been working sixty or more hours per week, and now I’m struggling with a puny little thirty hours. I can’t explain it, I can only report the facts. I’m about ready to start kicking in voice boxes.
Yesterday everything was fine, but today I need a haircut. I apparently crossed over some kind of threshold while I slept last night. I call it the Kotter Line, and I’m now north of it. A radical outpatient procedure at Super Cuts is in order. Outta my way people! The patient is fully Kaplanized!!
Over the weekend I want to work on my Twitter and Facebook pages. Facebook especially has been neglected, and I want to do a little weed-whacking and raking, and get things back in order over there. Twitter, too. I like both, but go through periods when I don’t. I want to be more consistent. Is that so wrong?
Speaking of Twitter, I just found out I have a “Klout score” of 37. Is that out of a hundred? Shit. It’s like high school, all over again. Does Mrs. Wagner run that site? Are they going to send a note to my parents? Screw it. I’m just going to go out, drink beer, and break something.
I have roughly a hundred, or possibly twenty, Smoking Fish photos saved to my desktop, which need to be added to the Big Swollen Gallery. Some of them are quite old. Remember the days when I kept up with these things, and posted them within a day or two? Yeah, those were fun times…
Yes, I’m repeatedly slugging myself in the genitalia today. Metaphorically speaking, of course. It happens from time to time, and it’s happening today. Norman Vincent Peale can ram it deep, and on a slant.
My parents gave me a Canon AE-1 camera when I graduated from high school a hundred years ago. I’m thinking about taking it to a camera shop and having it cleaned and checked-out. It’s in great shape, but I haven’t touched it since roughly 1995. Can a person still buy film at a regular store? Is it still in production? For some reason I like the idea of using that great old camera again.
Today I’ve been listening to some obscure records from the late ’70s/early ’80s. Like The Biggest Prize in Sport by 999, and Go For It by Stiff Little Fingers. They’re going down quite nicely, thank you very much.
Speaking of The King’s Speech and music, what are your favorite stuttering songs? I’m going to have to go with “My Sharona” by The Knack, and “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive. What are your f-f-faves?
And how’s this for a big disjointed mess? I’ll see you guys next time, but probably not tomorrow.
Have a great cuppa two tree days!
I can’t believe none of you had the same childhood experience I did. My father ruled the television in our house, and he liked westerns. During the late 50’s-early 60’s there were fricken westerns on every goddamn night and we watched every one of them. I can still reel off the names of a dozen of them without thinking. I will never willingly watch anything with cowboy, an indian or a horse in it. Pisses me off just thinking about it. Other than that, no genre is out of the question, just any movie that I can figure out the plot from the title.
Hehehe…I grew up in the same era (actually, it sounds as if we had the same Dad). My old man didn’t NEED a remote control. If he wanted the channel changed, he’s just yell to my little sister to get up and change the channel.
Of course, these were the years before cable, and all we had for reception was a bubious set of rabbit ears perched atop the TV set. On nights with poor atmospheric contions, I or my brother wouls be enlisted to “hold onto the rabbit ears” to enhance signal reception.
Add me to the list of “Shutter Island” haters. I wasn’t a fan of “Inception” either, probably because I dislike DiCaprio so much. And I was just “meh” about “The Social Network.” I did enjoy “The King’s Speech,” however.
Favorite stuttering songs: “Changes”, “My Generation”, and “M-M-Motor Vehicle” by Philly native Ben Vaughn. You can hear the song here, while watching some doucheketeer’s homemade video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9C_0Tjmamo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Oh, favorite movie genres: Japanese monster movies and 50s/60s horror/sci- fi. I also enjoy what my husband describes as “those shitty art house movies.”
Starman was a classic japanese sci-fi series.
A great, recent stuttering song that hasn’t been mentioned is “Ch-Check it Out” – The Beastie Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E4fVLJpgO0
That’s more recent than The Who et al, but 2004 was a while ago by now. I guess it’s all relative. Still, a good song and a good album.
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Oh yeah! Forgot about that. Good one.
Instant disqualification: Westerns
Klout: 45 but it means nothing really
Loving the Kayisms
(just another neglected corner of thewvsr)
I call it the Kotter Line, and I’m now north of it. A radical outpatient procedure at Super Cuts is in order. Outta my way people! The patient is fully Kaplanized!!
🙂
Shutter Island was good. It grabs your attention and leaves you feeling all creepy afterwards. I was a little dissapointed when I realized it was more of a ‘Beautiful Mind’ concept rather then ghosts, which I originally thought it was from the misleading previews. Haven’t seen Social Network, but its on our list of movies to watch eventually.
I have to come to the defense of Adam Sandler. He does seem to play the same exact person in every movie, but I’d have to disagree that he hasn’t had a good movie since 1996. And seriously, how the HELL do you not like Wayne’s World, Dazed and Confused and Half Baked? They didn’t make you laugh at all? Not once?
Movies I hate – Blood, gore and guts. Made the mistake of seeing Hostel in the theater and am forever scarred by that bullshit.
Best I love – Big Fish, Beautiful Mind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Notebook (Hate if you will, it’s a good story)
Movies that I love but people seem to hate: Bill and Ted, Anything by Tim Burton, Hot Rod, Billy Madison, and all those movies that I’ve seen everyone hating on. But that’s ok, they make me laugh and laughing good for you.
I’ll agree with some of the Sandler.
I really liked Funny People.
The Longest Yard was ok.
Mr. Deeds was good.
Punch Drunk Love was good.
Big Daddy was good.
The Waterboy was good (except I hate people doing stupid voices).
The Wedding Singer was good.
And everything else if 1996 or later.
The stupid voices thing is a huge turn off, as well as facial deformities. Choke on your snaggletooth Nanny McPhee.
Yeah…it is…one I hated was Little Nicky…I’ve tried to give it a chance on numerous occasions that it’s on TBS and I just can’t get into it. I always end up turning it off. Anger Management was one of my favorites. Jack Nicholson whipping a plate of eggs at a wall just makes my day.
Movies I love*
is good for you*…GOOD GOD.
Famous writers’ sheds:
http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/email/famous-writers-small-writing-sheds-and-offthegrid-huts-140587
Is Jeff’s yurt destined for the same reverence?
Yes, it is.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_X5zY1uZR5qA/TVGugF7YdEI/AAAAAAAAAZM/eeyLv70-2oA/s1600/yurt.jpg&imgrefurl=http://georgiakemball.blogspot.com/&usg=__MgdjFoQ_WEvcMi0PS105NLbBqiU=&h=396&w=700&sz=82&hl=en&start=44&zoom=1&tbnid=KhzB5dWiJdgagM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=190&ei=YgJzTc6ZFZDCsAOrvOS7Cw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyurt%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D802%26bih%3D463%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C2293&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=314&vpy=170&dur=2531&hovh=169&hovw=299&tx=122&ty=84&oei=UgJzTdjzFpGusAPa88GdBw&page=8&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:44&biw=802&bih=463
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jtb
Gretchen, just to combine the yurt and the stuttering motifs…
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And Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind.
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jtb
If that link got any bigger there would be a museum devoted to it. 😉
Gretchen…
Do you think the same size Uniform Resource Identifier can be used to locate a yurt a couple hundred clicks north of Tbilisi than would be required to find, say, Forbes Field? OK, bad example, but at the minimum both are as remote as Ozymandias and as desolate as NFL owners’ brains.
Sometimes it just takes a lot of ‘splainin’ to point a browser to the right zip code.
jtb
I can’t watch anything with Yahoo Serious.
Actually I just wanted to make a Yahoo Serious reference.
Oh, I got another one! “Poker Face” – Lady Gaga.
Pa-pa-pa-poker face, pa-pa-pa-poker face.
A unfortunately catchy song that includes the line, “bluffin’ with my muffin”. Excellent! 😀 That gal’s nuttier than squirrel shit.
By my informal count, we’ve used the word genre 18 times on this post, including me twice. Either I’m gonna have to change my name to genrethebasket or we’re going to have to use a little more verbal variety.
If songs in which singers stutter (Peggy Sue, etc) are a genre, I know even less than I thought I did about what that expression means. Fuckin’ French words.
jtb
the stutter question… anything my b-b-b-boyf-f-f-friend sings. so mean of me… hope he never see’s this
Gotta be “My Generation” by the Who
That’s quite an all-Web girl, Alana,
She quickly ripens my banana,
If I were young I’d roll the dice
And face her once and book her twice.
While we are waiting for the new boxscores:
http://vimeo.com/9970489
Holy crap! If had a camera strapped to me for that ride the first thing you would see would be the ramp, then the ground real quick. The dog cracked me up. Can’t believe there wasn’t a wipeout there!
Ok…me too. I’m in some of the photos (look quick…I’m wearing suspenders) and this is where I’ll be and playing May 1. Las Vegas. And this is a little of what I did. That pretty girl there is Bev…my wife. Vegas Hall of Fame is her next notch. Mine too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-c9xyE-SI
Whoa…you my friend are one very fortunate individual. Your wife is a stone fox as the kids say. =8^-) I saw a guy with no shirt and suspenders. Was that you? Is that your bass work in that song? If so, very nice.
Thanks Chuck. I’m wearing a shirt. I’m also the the guy standing above Bev in a white jacket in one pic. I’m a trumpet player and that’s Marty Prevette on bass there (now a Nashville cat).
OK…for some reason I thought you played bass. Must be someone else here. Anyway, nice video.
We were a lot better live than the studio stuff. In your face take no prisoners attitude every night.
Long time reader. Have contributed to the beer fund so consider:
The acting performances/writing and certain scenes in the King’s Speech transcend it above the typical feel good piece.
You will like it. Most of it anyhow. It is NOT sappy.
And it is also terrifically scary to realize, once again, how close England came to having a total jerk as King.
Immediate Disqualification: War Movies (esp WWII) and most Pre-WWI Eurocentric Period Pieces (you know, where the costumes do all the acting, and no one gets decapitated). God forbid it happens to be both.
Only exception: Dangerous Liaisons.