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[Sep. 2nd, 2005|07:30 pm] |
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| |  can't get o-ver it Ready or No | ] |
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| | t here we come- getting down onn the one which we believe in | ] |
Yesterday my sister was bored out of her skull and I was in and out of a midday coma, so she took me to The Grove. It's a very nice upscale place, ginormous fountain, bookstore, movie theater, ideal date territory. The nicest part of it was the massive food court/farmer's market across the street. Wonderful area, lots of diversity.
 In a corner of the market somewhere. I'm trying to mentally explode the television off camera as it had been playing Yu-Gi-Oh of all things. That show is so terrible, no wonder kids these days are fucked up.
MM-MMM. This burger was the size of my neck. I'm surprised I finished it.
Movie previews. Hate 'em. They've gotten so much worse with time. Now it's just a big TV that you can't mute or turn off that plays goddamn commercials. Whatever happened to idle music and trivia screens, then 3-5 previews, and then the feature? These days it's screens w/corporate pop & country radio, car commercial, gum commercial, energy drink commercial, air force commercial, TV series commercial, TV movie commercial, turn off your cell phone ad sponsored by Best Buy, six to eight movie previews, raggedy & overused theater bumper, and then the feature. All for 11 bucks! Total bullshit.
We saw the 40-Year Old Virgin. Great movie. At first I was afraid it would be along the lines of Something About Mary, but what I heard from my friends indicated otherwise. Despite the raunchy material, the jokes come off extremely well because the characters never go overboard with it- no Deuce Bigalow shit. Normally I completely abhor bathroom humor but what little there was in this film is forgivable. The racial humor was FUCKED UP in a great way ("So when your baby is born, is he already on probation?" I fuckin' DIED), and I was glad there were several outstanding minorities in the cast. Steve Carell was on-point throughout and kept his awesome supporting cast from stealing the show (as they very well could have, were it not for Steve's great consistency as a lead). The parts I enjoyed most were the co-workers talking shit to each other because basically that's how real guys DO talk- you can't get far in a pack of straight guys without a very casual yet scathing tennis match of gay jokes at some point. The body wax scene was incredibly funny since it was real, I haven't heard people bust up that hard for that long since the conference room scene in Liar Liar. It was also great to see Nancy Walls in a cameo. Verdict: 3 out of 4 stars. I might just buy it when it's released. The Farrelly Brothers and Rob Schneider should get the fuck out of the business.
As my sister observed and became painfully obvious as it got later in the evening, ALL the guys were fucking metro. I am just not feeling this metro shit, it definitely isn't something that I would ever try. The jeans, the pinstriped dress shirt, the HUGE SUNGLASSES, god damn it is just one awful 'male slut' look and it is eeeevvverrryywwwhhheerrrre. *shudder* Not diggin' it at all.
At the burger joint they were playing a Best of the 90's radio station, and on the way home we listened to a bunch of classics from that period. During elementary & middle school I really didn't know what I liked musically so I just listened to my sister's and my friends stuff which was predominantly hip-hop. In retrospect I completely love some of it to death, and the rest is pretty embarassing shit. Some longstanding favorites:
De La Soul - Me Myself and I (used to dislike it, love it to death now)
Coolio - Fantastic Voyage
Ice Cube - Bop Gun
Digital Underground - Same Old Song & The Humpty Dance
MC Hammer - damn near everything before The Funky Headhunter
Then there's Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Das EFX, Young MC, SWV, En Vogue, Kriss Kross, Bobby Brown, Jade, Salt N Pepa, Bobby McFerrin, Boys II Men...
I hate Boys II Men because of the trendy Asians in my high school. These skinny fuckers in a capella would put on wife-beaters and wail the singles in the WORST way. Imagine a Chinese guy, two Filipinos and a half-black guy who THOUGHT he was Asian belting out "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday", "End of the Road", "I'll Make Love To You", and "On Bended Knee". PAIN. TOTAL UNMITIGATED PAIN. |
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