Thursday, February 19, 2009

Stupid film list meme

I stole this meme from a friend of mine and I just wanted to see how many of these I've seen. Probably too many. There are a few things on here that I'm embarassed to have seen, but also some that I'm emabarassed to have missed. Cest la vie. I think that going through this list also shows that today I really don't have much going on...this is the high point of my day so far.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane

Total: 10

(x) The Princess Bride
(x) Anchorman
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
(x) Saw
(x) Saw II
(x) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
( ) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 19

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 26

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Resident Evil 1
(x) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 35

(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
( ) Robots

Total so far: 42

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
(x) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
(x) King Pin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
(x) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG

Total so far: 53

( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
(x) Final Destination 2
(x) Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(X) Flubber

Total so far: 61
(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
(x) Ghost Ship
(x) From Hell
(x) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 69

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child's Play
(x) Seed of Chucky
(x) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
(x) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
(x) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask

Total so far: 82
(x) Bad Boys
(x) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
(x) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
(x) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
(x) Predator I
(x) Predator II
(x) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George

Total so far: 96

(x) Independence Day
(x) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
(x) Darkness Falls
(x) Christine
(x) ET
(x) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2

Total so far: 106
( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
(x) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
(x) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3

Total so far: 118
(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
(x) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
(x) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2

Total so far: 131
( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
(x) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old Virgin

Total so far: 138

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Total so far: 144
(x) BASEketball
(x) Hostel
(x) Waiting for Guffman
(x) House of 1000 Corpses
(x) Devils Rejects
(x) Elf
(x) Highlander
(x) Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
( ) Three

Total so Far: 153

( ) The Jacket
(x) Kung Fu Hustle
(x) Shaolin Soccer
(x) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.

(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard

Total so far: 160
(x) High Tension
(x) Club Dread
(x) Hulk
(x) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
( ) Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
(x) Phantasm
(x) Waterworld

Total so far: 168

(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
(x) Mortal Kombat
(x) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
(x) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
(x) Re-Animator
(x) Army of Darkness

Total so far: 173
(x) Star Wars Ep.
I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep.
II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep.
III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep.
IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep.
V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep.
VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor

Total so far: 179

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
(x) Evil Dead
(x) Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal

Total: 188 of 239. Is this good or bad? I dunno. My friend that I stole this from had seen 202 so he's either more impressive or more loser-ly than I am. I guess it depends on yer point of view.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I... I... but I...

I really don't know what to say about this picture so I think I'll leave it up to ya'll to say it better than I can't.



P.S. I think those are my shorts from my 7th grade PE class.

Friday, February 13, 2009

It's meme time, boys and girls!

( ) Gone on a blind date (nope. never even had the opportunity)

(X) Skipped school (probably more than I didn't)

( ) Watched someone die

(X) Been to Canada (the Yukon Territories. the Wal-Mart kinda sucked)

( ) Been to Mexico (perhaps someday.)

( ) Been to Florida

(X) Been on a plane

(X) Been lost (I've even given fake directions to someone else who was lost)

( ) Been on the opposite side of the country (wha? dunno what this means, exactly)

( ) Gone to Washington, D.C.

(X) Swam in the ocean (killed a shark with my bare hands)

(X) Cried yourself to sleep (only so other people would, you know, feel better about themselves)

(X) Played cops and robbers

(X) Recently colored with crayons

(X) Sang Karaoke (haven't done this for awhile, but I've been practicing The Bad Touch just in case)

(X) Paid for a meal with coins only

(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't (like, every day)

(X) Made prank phone calls (Them: Kentucky Fried Chicken, can I help you? Me: (snickering) Do you have big breasts?)

(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose (more than I care to admit)

(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue

(X) How about a snowball in the face

(X) Danced in the rain

(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus

(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe

(X) Watched the sunrise with someone

(X) Blown bubbles

(X) Gone ice-skating

(X) Been skinny dipping outdoors

(X) Gone to the movies

(X) Rode on a Motorcycle

(X) Did any acting or on stage performances

(X) Shot a gun

1. Your nickname?
B-Rad. Boo Radley. Weasel.

2. Your Mother's name?
Phylus LaRae Barrett

3. Your Favorite drink?
Diet Coke

4. Do you have any Body Piercings?
Nope.

5. Do you have any Tattoos?
Nope.

6. How much do you love your job?
Meh.

7. Your Birthplace?
Rexburg, ID

8. Favorite vacation spot?
Santa Barbara. Alaska.

9. Ever been to Africa?
Nope.

10. Ever eaten just cookies for dinner?
Dinner. Breakfast. Second breakfast. Snacks. Brunch. You name it. (this was Mark B.'s answer and I concur.)

11. Ever been on TV?
Yes.

12. Ever steal any traffic signs?
I once stole a sign from the Snow building at Ricks College. It said "Performance in Progress. Please Enter Between Numbers Only." I put in on my bathroom door.

13. Ever been in a car accident?
Two. I was not driving either time.

14. Do you drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle or no vehicle?
4-door.

15. Your Favorite number?
13

16. Your Favorite movie?
This one is a coin flip. Casablanca or Godfather II.

17. Your Favorite holiday?
Meh. Any one that gets me off of work?

18. Your Favorite dessert?
Pretty much any kind of sugary goodness.

19. Your Favorite food?
A really good steak and some sort of potato. Why, yes, I was raised in Idaho. Why do you ask?

20. Your Favorite day of the week?
Whatever day I am not working.

21. How do you relax?
I read, watch movies, go for drives. (this also is Mark's answer, and again I concur)

22. How do you see yourself in 10 years?
Skinnier hopefully. Nicer. Better looking. Richer. (yep, again. Except maybe that 'nicer' part. I have a reputation to maintain.)

23. Furthest place you will send this message?
I am trying to get this onto Obama's BlackBerry.

24. Who will respond to this the fastest?
Your mom.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me...

The above title is actully a quote from Dorothy Parker. I put it there because I'm about to say something not very nice.

I was just watching a bit of the Duke/North Carolina game and I began to have a little cranial itch, you know, where you kind of remember something from years ago simply by association.

I remembered that I have a general loathing of jocks. This is odd coming from a sports fan, I s'pose, but let me clarify. I don't usually have a problem with professional athletes (except for anyone who is a Los Angeles Laker or a New York Yankee) but I don't dig collegians because I think they can remind me of that specific dumb jock type who tormented me in high school.

As I was watching this game there was one in particular who stood out as that 'dumb jock type', (and it's not like I've met this guy, he just has that air about him) North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough.



I couldn't find exactly the kind of picture I wanted but if you watched this particular game you probably saw what I did. A guy who has a perpetual look of that guy from your college dorm who would commandeer the TV lounge on Friday night with his 24 pack of beer while bogarting the remote so you can't change it away from his favorite country music videos before he passes out and then when he wakes from his drunken stupor has a look that says "I'm not sure, but I may have crapped my pants."



I have no definite proof that Tyler Hansbrough has ever crapped his pants in my old college dorm after an all night bout with CMT, but I've decided I don't like him anyway. And apparently neither do the folks at the Onion...



Part of this is probably the fault of me being in a general bad mood tonight and having this tool leer out of my television being all cool because he won the genetic lottery and he doesn't realize that not everyone in the civilized world adores him because he plays basketball at a storied university and he'll soon make millions in the NBA while having hot chicks with dreams of a paternity suit throw themselves at his dumb ass while I sit here in my jammies eating Fruity Dino Bites wishing I had some skill set I could have used to my advantage coming out of high school besides being a smart ass who bought his way out of a sure thing 'F' in parallel parking by bribing his drivers ed teacher with Ho Ho's and Dr. Pepper so I could get a 'C-' thereby negating anything resembling a work ethic I might have developed so now I coast through my job and life like a freakin' zombie on Thorazine attracting dorky chicks wearing Twilight T-shirts trying to hide their daddy issues and other assorted baggage so they can stalk me and make promises that they'll never want to change me and can I loan them a hundred bucks so they can go to Stephenie Meyer hack writer camp with special guest Michael Crichton's corpse...



But I digress.



Seriously though. Doesn't this guy look like a douchebag?

To be fair, Hansbrough and North Carolina won the game and he is, by all accounts, a fine young man who works hard and has a bright future. I am the douchebag in this scenario... directing my vitriol at a type of person on the periphery of my memories rather than praising the accomplishments of an individual who works hard for his success. I suck.

Man, I hated high school.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Lux Interior, RIP.

Lux Interior, lead singer of seminal garage punk/psychobilly band, the Cramps, passed away February 4th, 2009. I just found out tonight and I am bummed out. I'm listening to my fave Cramps song 'Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon' as I write this. Apparently, Lux (nee Erick Purkhiser) had a pre-existing heart condition, and this was the cause of death.



Lux and Cramps front woman Poison Ivy (sometimes Poison Rorschach) were husband and wife and they combined with ever-changing band members to release (I'm doing this off the top of my head) probably a dozen albums. Lux and Ivy were indefatiguable, pushing their act (some say schtick) forward despite whatever the prevailing trends of the music industry happened to be.



The Cramps were the kind of band my parents hated. My pops, an Elvis and Roy Orbison lover, would have dismissed the Cramps immediately if he'd ever heard them. I never had the nerve to play their version of 'Jailhouse Rock' for my old man, but I'm sure he would have hated it.



'Bikini Girls with Machine Guns' is playing now and I'm smiling at the sleaze and passion that the Cramps exude. We lost one of the good ones this week, people. I will offer no 'moment of silence' because I'm sure Lux would have rather had 'a moment of punk rock or rockabilly with middle finger extended' instead.

RIP, Lux. You're on your way to the big cheetah printed, velvet covered, martini soaked, patent leather VIP lounge in the sky.

Movie list o' January

I've decided to keep track of all the movies I watch this year. I'm kind of curious about volume, trends, and other random stuff. This is not too serious of a venture, just a list for the sake of satisfying my shallow curiosity. So there.

At present I plan to post the titles once per month because it will take less work to do it that way.

Here's what I watched in January, 2009, in alphabetical order.

1. Appleseed
2. Appleseed: Ex Machina
3. Azumi
4. Batman: Gothic Knight
5. Black Sheep (New Zealander zombie sheep, not Chris Farley)
6. Big Lebowski
7. Bourne Ultimatum
8. Burn After Reading
9. Dark Knight
10. Fight Club
11. Kekko Kamen
12. National Lampoon's Senior Trip
13. National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
14. Paprika
15. Redbelt
16. Resident Evil: Regeneration
17. Snatch
18. Sweeney Todd
19. Wall.E

Okay then. I feel that this is probably a decent representation of my tastes. I'm kind of all over the map. Anime, horror, comedy, Grand Guignol, Pixar, blockbusters, independents, quality, and crap. Yay for me being all diverse and stuff.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Steven Covey, eat your heart out.

This is far more motivating than your bullet-headed 'Seven Super Duper Habits' crap...

Monday, February 2, 2009

Things I like

Some of my friends have been posting 'Best of 2008' type blogs and I was thinking of perpetuating that particular meme, but it's now February and to me it seems too late to do that so I'll make a list of things that I am enjoying right here, right now.

My good friend Mark B. sent me via post a Flaming Carrot action figure. The Flaming Carrot was billed as The First Surreal Super Hero. He had a mask of a giant carrot with flames coming out of the top. He fought villains such as The Artless Dodger who stole worthless crap (like a box of disco records owned by Ernest Borgnine) and then he would make his escape. The Flaming Carrot is one of my top five comic heroes of all time and Mark was kind enough to find his figurine in America's heartland and send it to me. Yay!



Netflix/Xbox 360 have partnered up to let me watch streaming movies on my TV as opposed to on my laptop. I always like the idea of streaming movies from Netflix, but in acutality I kinda hated it because, simply put, I don't really enjoy watching movies on my laptop. Tinny speakers, little screen, bleh. But if I can do the same thing on my regular ol' TV, then it's much cooler. Stereo sound, big screen, comfy chair, wheee! I already thought this was awesome, and then I discovered that the entire series of Kolchak the Night Stalker was available! I'm addicted forever.

ummm...on a quick side note...remember when Madonna was hot?



Now she scares me. Ick.



I like a blog I found through a friend of a friend called superdickery.com where the guy who publishes it spends much time showing how Superman is, well, a dick.



There is also a section called Seduction of the Innocent that shows creepy innuendo-laden pictures and/or photos from old comics that are, um, creepy and innuendo-laden.



March 24th is the DVD release date of season 3 of the Venture Bros. that airs on Adult Swim. An irreverent lambasting of action shows such as Jonny Quest, the Bros. is I think my favoritest show on TV right now. Brilliant characters, funny satire and parody work, daft villains/situations all tied together with overreaching themes of failure and incompetency. Genius.



That's all I got for now...