2004: What I Loved/Liked

I was trying to think of a best movies I saw this year & best albums I listened to...but like my Top 25 Movies Ever list, it would just keep changing and changing so I am just going to run them down, in no order of importance with one exception...

Favorite Movies of 2004

Before Sunset & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

These two movies are without peer. There were other movies I liked, that I loved that I saw this year but those two changed my perspective.

The Rest
Maria Full of Grace
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Shrek 2
Spider-Man 2
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
I Heart Huckabees
Napoleon Dynamite
Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
The Bourne Supremacy
Shaun of the Dead
Team America: World Police
Alfie
Dodgeball
The Incredibles
Anchorman
Garden State
Dawn of the Dead
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Mean Girls

There are a lot of movies I'm ashamed I never got to see this year like Collateral, Saw, Open Water or Sideways (I may rectify that tonight)


My Favorites CDs/Downloads of 2004

I don't have one album. I do have one song tho.

I don't think it's because it's an amazing song or anything but it's the song I felt the most given where I am right now and frankly, where I want to be next year.

John Legend - "Ordinary People"
Song
Lyrics

Albums:
The Alchemist - 1st Infantry
Anita Baker - My Everything
Aya - Strange Flower
Bj�rk - Medulla
Brandy - Afrodiasic
Clara Hill - Restless Times
De La Soul - The Grind Date
Foreign Exchange - Connected
Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
Interpol - Antics
Jill Scott- Beautifully Human
John Legend - Get Lifted
Jon B - Stronger Everyday
Kanye West - College Dropout
Lalah Hathaway - Outrun the Sky
Lewis Taylor - The Lost Album
Lil' Wayne - The Carter
Madvillain - Madvilliany
Magic Number - That Day
Martin Luther - Rebel Soul Music
MF Doom - MM Food
MURS - 3:16 the 9th Edition
N.E.R.D. - Fly or Die
Nas - Street's Disciple
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
R. Kelly - Happy People
Rashaan Patterson - After Hours
Rapahel Saddiq - As Ray Ray
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
The Roots - The Tipping Point
Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow
Slum Village - Detroit Deli
Snoop Dogg - Rhythm & Gangsta: The Masterpiece
T.I. - Urban Legend
Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
Tortured Soul - Introducing Tortured Soul
Usher - Confessions (Special Edition)
Van Hunt - Van Hunt

Weird Thinking

You ever have a totally out of place thought during a serious moment?

I was watching the coverage of the Tsumani and seeing all that death and destruction...all those people floating in the water, some alive, most dead.

And before the enormity of the incident hit me, the first thought I had was...

"God, I need to learn how to swim."

I'm going to hell, aren't I?

R.I.P. iPod Ver. 2.0

Wednesday, I was delighted to receive a $200 iTunes gift certificate from my boss. I started to buy music and transfer it onto my iPod still contemplating the possibilities...

Then, it happened.

Not noticing that my iPod had been plugged in correctly, it died in the process and I was greeted with a series of error messages.

When I turned my iPod on again, it was empty

Nothing.

21 GB of music.

Over 3,000 songs imported over the last year.

Gone.

I felt like a family member had died and my girlfriend broke up with me during the funeral.

I almost wanted to go home sick for the day.

For anyone who has an iPod and uses it to its fullest capacity, they know how much work goes into it.

Most people just load their music and listen to it never really exploring the potential of iPod/iTunes.

I had some 30 playlists for every whim I might want, such as...

"Paisley Park"

"Adventures in Neo-Soul"

"Prince vs. Michael Jackson"

"No Skips Allowed"

(yes, I realize how corny I am)

I just don't have the energy to do all that again.

At least not yet...

So for now I say goodbye.

Goodbye to the 90's songs I'll never find again, playlists that got me through days of work and rough nights of sleep.

Until I fuck this up again.

What I want for Christmas...

What's the point of having a website if I can't make demands of my friends?

• Arrested Development: Season One
  
• Greg the Bunny
• Locas: A Love & Rockets Tale by The Hernandez Bros.
• Bone: Volume One by Jeff Smith
• Banana Republic nylon expandable messenger bag
• The Originals by Dave Gibbons
• The Wire: Season One
• Altec Lansing inMotion iM3 Portable Audio System (for the iPod)

Well...get to shopping!

Tuskegee Experiments '04

I'm Speechless

And of course, The UK tells us what is happening in our own country...but we were the first to report Julia Roberts' twins birth.

Who Wan Fi Artest?*

What a weekend!

I half-expected Jim Lampley, Steve Merchant & George Foreman to offer commentary on the fight. I think Ron Artest has a good furture as a welterweight.

My feelings on the matter:

1. I don't think Ron Artest going into the stands would have bothered me as much if he has grabbed and pummeled the right guy. The second he grabbed the guy NEXT to the guy that threw the beer. He lost me.
2. What the fuck was Stephen Jackson doing? He looked like he was just dying to fight.
3. How did Jermaine O'Neal get less games than Jackson when he cold-clocked that guy on the court who had already been hit twice by Artest and was being held back by someone else...nice punch tho.
4. I don't appreciate how David Stern is not commenting on the actions of the Detroit fans who were in the wrong. If these jokers aren't punish, what kind of message does that send? You can throw things at the monkeys but don't worry, they can't touch you. This ain't the zoo!
   

* I am taking total credit to making that up. If you see anyone but me with a shirt that says that, tell me so I can sue.

Wow b/w We R In Need Of A Musical Revolution

Damn Lebron.

Sign me up for the Lebron James Bandwagon

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We R In Need of a Musical Revolution
I want something moooorrre...
(Require Windows Media Player)

Where I am at right now...

"Why Georgia"
by John Mayer

I am driving up 85 in the
Kind of morning that lasts all afternoon
just stuck inside the gloom
4 more exits to my apartment but
I am tempted to keep the car in drive
And leave it all behind

Cause I wonder sometimes
About the outcome
Of a still verdictless life
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why Georgia, why?

I rent a room and I fill the spaces with
Wood in places to make it feel like home
But all I feel's alone
It might be a quarter life crisis
Or just the stirring in my soul

Either way I wonder sometimes
About the outcome
Of a still verdictless life

Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why Georgia, why?

So what, so I've got a smile on
But it's hiding the quiet superstitions in my head
Don't believe me
When I say I've got it down

Everybody is just a stranger but
That's the danger in going my own way
I guess it's the price I have to pay
Still "everything happens for a reason"
Is no reason not to ask myself

If I am living it right
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why Georgia, why?

My Top 25 Movies (At This Point and Time)

Ok, maybe not ever...

I watched Before Sunrise yesterday and probably 30 minutes in, I knew it would be in my "Top 25 Movies Ever" and then I started thinking "Shit, what are my Top 25 movies?".

In all honesty, I could never make such a list. I own over 150 DVDs and to pick and chose would cause to think about how much money I've wasted on movies I only kinda like.

But it's Sunday, I'm bored.

So...in no particular order:

1. Before Sunrise
2. Say Anything**
3. High Fidelity**
4. Swingers
5. Cool Hand Luke ****
6. Quick Change*
7. The Lion King
8. Fight Club
9. Chasing Amy
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
11. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy*, ***
12. The Fisher King
13. Goodfellas
14. The Godfather, Part II
15. The Iron Giant
16. The Professional
17. Kill Bill***
18. Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
19. The Usual Suspects
20. Better Off Dead**
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Seven
23. Unforgiven
24. Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
25. When Harry Met Sally*

* I don't own this for some reason
** John Cusack appears on this list three times. I guess that would make him my favorite actor
***For all intents and purposes, I consider these as one film.
****Oldest movie on this list.

I'm going to stop here because I will start fucking with this list if I spend anymore time looking at it.

(Note: I've already changed this three times. Damn edit function in Blogger.)

Sorry Everybody

Will the world accept our apology?

A Myriad of Thoughts

I go through periods where I am walking around somewhere and someone will say something and a little voice will scream in my head...

HOW DID WE LOSE THE ELECTION??? ARRRGH.

Then, I continue my day
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IQ & Politics

Is anyone surprised?

__________________

Seriously, someone invades my mind and wrote this...
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As my friend Tara wisely pointed out, GTA: San Andreas is stealing men away from the ladies. Halo 2 which people were waiting on lines in the bitter cold at midnight last night and are waiting on line now to pick up now will seal the deal.

I was lying in bed, just getting off the phone at midnight and for a second a contemplated just throwing some sweats on and heading over to Best Buy but I stopped myself.

In my mind, if I ever asked myself "Why am I single?", that I drove to Best Buy at midnight for a video game would surely be on the Top 5 list.

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Why are parents so stupid? Team America:World Police is RATED R.

How stupid must those parents felt during the puppet sex scene?

__________________

I have to say events of the last 7 days have made me happy that I kept this website going despite the fact that it is a constant reminder--at least--to myself how weird I am.

I can't even talk about this shit yet, but...

...Canada to the rescue!

Quote of the Month

"You don�t see men at bars sitting around saying, �Can I play her voice mail for you so you can tell me by the tone of her voice if she likes me?�"

--Liz Tuccillo, co-author of �He�s Just Not That Into You,� when asked if men need a similar book

For the complete interview

It could be worse...it could have nipples

Dear Yankees Fans, pt. II

Please mail all your "1918", Babe Ruth, and all "Curse" signage to:

St. Louis Cardinals
250 Stadium Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63102

Dear Yankees Fans...

Hey guys, it's Sean again.

Yeah, I know. This sucks.

But remember this...

The Red Sox curse extends to winning the World Series not just beating us.

So if they lose to the 'Stros or Cardinals, feel free to still yell 1918 next year.

Oh and next year, the payroll will be $300 million.

Trust.

Love always
Yankees Fan for life
Sean (Melanism)

Black Star Nova

Mos Def and Talib Kweli should have released The New Danger and Beautiful Struggle, respectively, as a double CD like Outkast and titled it Contractual Obligations...

Yeah, it's like that...

Open Letter to Red Sox fans...

Hey Guys:

It's your buddy, Sean.

This is it.

This is YOUR year.

I'm not going to talk shit because I think you guys are going to win.

A matter of fact, I think you guys are going to crush us.

With Schilling and Pedro (we failed the paternity test) and that ri-fucking-diculous offense and our so-so (I'm being nice here), this is your year to make it to the World Series. And you get to make it through us which must be sweeter.

I won't post during the series. Only to show up to congratulate your team.

HOWEVER...

If you guys lose, I never want to hear about the Red Sox again.

I want this whole Red Sox - Yankees post everytime they play to end.

If the Red Sox can't beat the Yankees this year, then they NEVER will.

They say never say never.

I'M

SAYING

NEVER

The stars are aligned. All our pitchers couldn't win a game in minors right now except Mussina and Brown on a good day. Mariano is in Panama right now.

So you better do it this year.

Because if you don't...you guys should fucking kill that team.

Signed,
Sean (Melanism)

Going back to Cali

My flight leaves in one hour.

Los Angeles and San Francisco

12 days.

Will I even want to come back?

Did I mention it was Hard Work?

Nuff Respect

Some choice jokes by one of the kings of the jokes:

Oh, when I was a kid, everyone thought I got plenty of girls. I used to go to a drive-in movie and do push-ups in the backseat of my car.

A lot of girls turn me down. One girl turned me down, she said she had to go to work in the morning. I told her, "I'll be finished by then!"

Oh, my wife loves vacations. The other night she told me, "I wanna go someplace I've never been before." I took her to a men's room.

I'm trying a new diet now. The diet is Viagra and prune juice. I tell ya, I don't know if I'm coming or going.

I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.
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Man, no one tells jokes anymore

Rest in Piece

Why Jennifer Lopez Isn't The Shit...(revisited)

When I first started this little website (before there was a blogger.com) in March 2001, this was the first thing I wrote about. Now I personally have grown physically, mentally and emotionally. However, 2 marriages, a gang of bad movies and a clothing line later and I still feel the same way about her.

why Jennifer lopez isn't the shit...
(March 6, 2001)

now, i will not deny that Jennifer Lopez is a damn fine looking women.

if i could bag her, i would...

My boy, Dee, would kill me if i didn't BUT...I have problems with her...

as most of us know, jennifer lopez...sorry...j-lo, got her start as a dancer, most notably on keenan ivory wayans skit comedy "in living color". back then, she looked aight. Definitely, not the "flyest" fly girl (i wonder what they are up to anyway...now that Bobby Brown isn't making videos anymore)

then she was in Money Train with Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson which she was ok in. it was a nice little debut (mainly because she showed breast when boning Wesley Snipes' transit cop-who-knows-kung-fu character)

then the movies roles started coming in. she played selena (who coincidentally had a bigger, nicer ass than j-lo), u-turn (another sex scene), & out of sight (the real story should have been when george clooney stopped tilting his damn head when he spoke)...and she was aight in all those movies. she didn't suck but nothing to keep you eye on as a rising talent.

then "on the 6 came out". what the fuck??? she can't sing. i mean she can hold a couple of notes, i'll give her that much but her vocals are doubled up (the effect 2pac used on a lot of joints) and the songs are soooooo overproduced that it could make anyone sound semi-decent. the mtv exposure was extensive because she is fine and of course, there's her ass.

now, she does have a big ass. but, c'mon, damn near every tight african/african-american/carribean-american actress has got a tight ass and body to boot. same thing applies to angeline jolie's "full" lips (for the record, i would bag her if i could too). her ass ain't singing. her ass can't act.

and she had the nerve to come out with ANOTHER album.

came on saturday night live as host and musical guest and she LIP-SYNCHED. this ain't soul train.

why don't i find jennifer lopez to be the end-all be-all? because she's not good at what she does.

thandie newton is a fine woman who can act.

sade is a fine woman who can sing and write.

jennifer lopez is a fine woman who tries to sing and gets to act because she is fine.

she's a trumped-up janet jackson backup dancer.

maybe a model.

tops.

so what? i'm a hater.

Everybody needs love...

...black or white, tall or short*

* Forgive me, Father.

Famous Last Words pt. 87

"You can knock me down, but you'd better put me cold asleep because when I get up I'm coming back."
--Roy Jones, Jr., right before his defeat at the right-hand of Glen Johnson.

At least he used to understand...

"My inclination was to support the government and the war until proven wrong, and that only came later, as I realized we could not explain the mission, had no exit strategy, and did not seem to be fighting to win."

--George W. Bush, regarding Vietnam
"A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House"

If you are a female friend of mine...

...you are getting this in your stocking this Christmas.

It will make all of our lives easier.

Now when is some woman going to step up and write the books that men, like myself need to read:

"She's Just Stringing You Along Because 'You Never Know'"
"Are You Driving Her To See Other Men: and Other Stupid Things Men Do"
"Nothing and Other Women Mind tricks"

Get on the ball, ladies. We can't help ourselves.

I'm the Tim Duncan of this Love shit

I figured it out.

I mean I've always known it but I couldn't find a way to describe it until this morning.

I'm the Tim Duncan of love.

My game is fundamentally sound.

Classic even.

However I lack that "star" quality to take me to the next level.

Damn, Michael, don't hurt em.

I might actually buy this*

*Yea right.

Don't totally agree or disagree...

According to this, I am...

eXpressive: 6/10
Practical: 4/10
Physical: 4/10
Giver: 10/10

You are a XSIG--Expressive Sentimental Intellectual Giver.
This makes you a Teddy Bear.Hee! I just want to give you a big squeeze. You are tender, honest, generous and fair. You are an excellent kisser and a sensitive, communicative lover, and you know it. You would never intentionally hurt someone's feelings or overstep his/her boundaries. You have beautiful eyes.

Most people take your laid-back attitude, blazing wit and subtle sexiness and stick you in "friend." But some see your extreme hotness for what it is and latch on. This means you have a few members of your target sex in the bank at all times -- I call this "money in the sex bank" -- but you're too sensitive and thoughtful to exploit them. More than once.

You are so rational and deliberate in an argument that it can frustrate and exhaust your partner. Your fights can take forever, but your press on with them until they are completely resolved and both you and your partner are satisfied. If your partner is weak of will, s/he may just give in -- be wary of this! An emotional or passive-aggressive outburst later will hurt and horrify you.

It is *critically important* that you are able to respect your partner. The moment you lose respect for him/her, you lose everything.

When you make friends, you make them for life -- you can go without speaking to a friend for years and pick up right where you left off. You are completely faithful, both physically and emotionally. You are the second best (to XPIG) parent of any type.

If you are male, you have a huge shlong. Just saying.

Of the 59428 people who have taken this quiz, 8.4 % are this type.

Calvin gets it...

Spider-Man Reviews Crayons

I am buying this Spider-Man

http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0913/

Flip Flop Rock

Bush on "The War on Terror":

April 13th - "One of the interesting things people ask me, now that we are asking questions, is, 'Can you ever win the war on terror?' Of course you can."

July 14th - "I have a clear vision and a strategy to win the war on terror."

August 30th - "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world."

August 31st - "We meet today in a time of war for our country, a war we did not start yet one that we will win."

Keep Michael Jackson Out of Jail

Listen, I don't know if Michael jackson is innocent or guilty.

But all I know is if he goes to prison, he will no longer have access to the makeup crew he has now.

See, as hideous as Michael Jackson looks these days, it is better than what i can only imagine he looks like without makeup on.

I don't ever want to know what he really looks like..

And neither do you.

He should go to court one day with half his face undone just to give the prosecution a sneak preview.

A Great Adventure (a.k.a. The Six Flags Hustle)

So this Saturday was the annual clusterfuck known as the OKP Six Flags Great Adventure trip where everyone says they want to go, but only a handful of people actually shows up.

Accompanying me on this--the final Melanism-organized trip--was Bill and Yusef. Two others would show up later but my adventure was with Bill and Yusef.

So once we arrived, we went straight to Nitro.

After waiting on a line for 40 plus minutes, I was ready to go home. And so was Bill.

Yusef noticed that some guy handed the ride conductor a blue sheet, conductor signed it and the guy got on the ride right away.

After we got off Nitro, Yusef asked the Six Flags employee what the form was and he told him that it was a handicapped pass.

Yusef was intrigued and was ready to get his hustle on.

Yusef went to guest services while Bill and I sat down and tried to hide from the blistering heat.

He came back with a pass in hand.

He told him that he had a handicapped person in his party and all they asked him was "How many people in your party?"

After some hesitatation on my part and Bill's, we all went along and went on every ride with NO WAIT.

None.

Yusef attributed to the fact that these kids make $7 dollars an hour and don't give a fuck.

They didn't even ask us which one of us was supposed to be handicapped.

This is easily the most interesting trip that I ever had a Great Adventure that had no romantic underpinnings.

Yes, I know my spot in hell is reserved.

I hope I get a handicapped pass so I don't have to wait on that hot ass line.

Signal da Plane! No. Row the Boat!

I'm over it.

Let's move on.

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I think one day we are going to get to the point where we are judged by our iPod's.

You're gonna be talking to some girl and she's gonna ask to see your iPod and browse through it and see one too many Elton John tracks on there and it's going to be a wrap.

I think my iPod would say that I'm eclectic...or that I was a thug lesbian born in the suburbs in a previous lifetime.

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If I ever (Ha!) get a job that gives me an office, don't be surprised if you see this on my desk


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The U.S. Beach Volletball team won the gold.

Misti May and Kerri Walsh

I'm sorry but they just wasted two good porn names.

Maybe this is my problem...

If you feelin like a pimp...

A*V*P

So I bought the Predator Collector's Edition on Friday out of boredom and it came with a free ticket to Aliens vs. Predator.

I had nothing really going on Friday so I decided to cash it in.

It wasn't as awful as I thought it could be but that's not good enough for Aliens vs. Predator. I had more fun watching Freddy vs. Jason which was corny but it knew what the fans wanted.

The end was cool and Sanaa was mailing it in.

Would I blow 10 bucks on it?

Probably not.

But if you bought the Predator Collector's Edition and saw Aliens vs. Predator with the free ticket, then it is totally worth it. A matter of fact, that is the ONLY way it is worth it.

I feel like I could eat a horse!

Anyone who smokes on the regular and maintains a stellar figure, I salute you

Garden State

Great movie.

Impressive for someone's first movie but it still felt like someone's first movie.

The ending was too blah for this movie. Not blah but not on par with the rest of the film. It was like he had everything but an ending when he originally wrote it and he needed something.

Fair enough for your first time, Zach.

But Natalie Portman?

I fell in love with her.

She reminded me of this girl Fran I used to be in love with my senior year of high school. She reminded me of everything I liked about this girl. Of course, Natalie Portman is like 25 and Fran was like 17 so that kinda weirded me out.

But I don't Natalie Portman has done a better movie.

Go see it when it comes to your city.

I'll be fine.

I was thinking about Swingers yesterday and I remembered this part. This is why I go to the movies

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ROB
That's your problem, man. You can't see what you've got, only what you've lost. Those guys are right. You are "money".

Mike smiles, then...

MIKE
(starting to cry)
Then why won't she call...?

ROB
Because you left, man. She's got her own world to deal with in New York. She was
a sweet girl but fuck her. You gotta move on. You gotta let go of the past. The future is so beautiful. Every day is so sunny out here. It's like Manifest Destiny man. I mean, we made it. What's past is prologue. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. All that
shit. You'll get over it.

MIKE
How did you get over it? I mean how long 'til it stopped hurting?

ROB
Sometimes is still hurts. You know how it is, man. I mean, each day you think about it less and less. And then one day you wake up and you don't think of it at all, and you almost miss that feeling. It's kinda weird. You miss the pain because it was part of your life for so long. And the, boom, something reminds you of her, and you just smile that bittersweet smile.

MIKE
You miss the pain?

ROB
... for the same reason you miss her. You lived with it so long.

MIKE
Wow.

R.I.P. Superfreak

It's sad that Rick James died on Friday.

What's sadder are the two thoughts (aside from every Dave Chappelle as Rick James quotable)

1) I hope it's of natural causes so i won't have to listen to people say "Cocaine is a helluva drug" a gazillion times.

2) I hope this doesn't effect the planned Dave Chappelle/Charlie Murphy moive based on Rick James' autobiography. I know now that he's dead such a venture would seem kind of tasteless. But I think it's what he would have wanted...

He's Rick James

Bitch

"So sorry to hear that..."

I think the worse post-breakup thing having nothing to do with the actual breakup is having to constantly tell people who don't know that you've broken up.

I contemplated sending out a press release or little "I'm sorry to inform you that..." (Hallmark is going to steal that idea. Mark my words"

Honestly, it blows.

I am going to write a book/screenplay about a guy who's just broken up with his girlfriend and throughout the movie I'm going to have people inquire about his ex has a truty comic tool.

I find myself actually avoiding calling people who don't know because I am going to have to break the news to them and then deal with the following questions that I don't want to answer.

"What happened?" (I've narrowed my response down to "things just didn't work out")
"Was it mutual?" ("Yes")
"Are you okay?" (I usually lie and say "I'm fine" if only to change the topic)

So, if you still read my website, and I haven't spoken to you in the last month...

Times a-changing

So it has been a little over two months since I last posted.

Let's see what has happened since then.

I turned 27

Happy Birthday to me.

I am single again.

*groan*

Yeah, that's about it.

So needless to say, i have been too busy moping to post.

I have reverted to my post-breakup college days where I forsook the music of Jay-Z and Outkast for Sarah McLachlan and Aimee Mann.

Yes, ladies and gentleman, I am a little bitch again.

So I will be here a whole lot. Seeing I have nothing else to do.

---

Bush Straight Talk starring Will Ferrell

"And don't watch the news...unless it's Fox"

File under "Only in New Jersey" or "Jersey Sucks"

'Ladies Night' Discount Axed in N.J. Bars
From Associated Press

TRENTON, N.J. - The state's top civil rights official has ruled that taverns cannot offer discounts to women on "ladies nights," agreeing with a man who claimed such gender-based promotions discriminated against men.

David R. Gillespie said it was not fair for women to get into the Coastline nightclub for free and receive discounted drinks while men paid a $5 cover charge and full price for drinks.

In his ruling Tuesday, J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, director of the state Division on Civil Rights, rejected arguments by the nightclub that ladies nights were a legitimate promotion. Commercial interests do not override the "important social policy objective of eradicating discrimination," he ruled.

Gov. James E. McGreevey criticized the decision, calling it "bureaucratic nonsense."

"It is an overreaction that reflects a complete lack of common sense and good judgment," McGreevey said in a statement.

The governor does not have the authority directly rescind the ruling. But he met with state Attorney General Peter C. Harvey on Wednesday, telling him that the civil rights division had better things to do with its time, said Micah Rasmussen, a spokesman for McGreevey.

A spokesman for Harvey did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

The ruling specifically addressed the weekly ladies nights at the Coastline in Cherry Hill, but it carries the force of a court decision and applies statewide. Vespa-Papaleo said state officials would write formal rules after a public hearing.

The restaurant's attorney, Colleen Ready, did not immediately return a telephone message left Wednesday by The Associated Press.

Courts in other states have issued divergent opinions on such promotions.

Judges in Pennsylvania and Iowa have said similar events are illegal, but courts in Illinois and Washington state have said that ladies nights are permissible because they do not discriminate against men but rather encourage women to attend.

Shrek 2 & Laughing at the Mentally Challenged

I think I'm going to hell but it's not my fault.

Me and my girlfriend went to see Shrek 2. We were slacking so we got there 10 minutes before showtime (I know. We missed "The Twenty") so we had to sit in the front.

Anyway, a group of mentally-challengened individuals took up the row in front of us.

I didn't notice until one of them occasionally yelled things throughout the movie:

"Nooo!"

"I Hate The Cat!"

"Shhreeeek!"

Now this was fine, albeit annoying.

However, the same child, mind you I did not know it was entire row of mentally-challenged children until after the movie but this girl was the only speaking, said one thing that made me lose my shit.

There was a scene where Shrek was in bed with Fiona and had to get out of bed to answer the door. He was wearing boxers.

The girl then joyously yells out to his companions (and the entire movie theater)

"He sleeps in his underwear just like WE DO!"

Lost it.

Tears streaming down my face.

I felt so horrible.

But I'm laughing right now.

Father forgive me for I have sinned.

Shrek 2 was great and I highly recommend it.

But be careful where you sit.

And somehow, I still think Kerry will lose

Melanism = Chris Elliot in "Get A Life"

So I had a free pass to see The Day After Tomorrow on Saturday and was very amped to go see it.

So Saturday morning, I drove my girlfriend to work and when I came back, my mother was cleaning my room.

Not wanting to deal with her, I went to another room.

When I came back, the ticket that had been sitting on the dresser was gone.

She swears she didn't throw anything out but I found everything but that ticket.

All I could think is, "I swear to all that is Holy, I live in a sitcom"

I'm just glad I didn't invite anyone to accompany me so I wouldn't have to tell them, "We can't go. My mom threw away the ticket."

July can't come soon enough.

Random Thought

How can anyone make love to a Michael Jackson or R. Kelly song?

You could lose your focus and hear a lyric that--given their current circumstances--would have a double-meaning and it would throw your whole shit off.

You betta stick to Maxwell and D'Angelo.

Ladies, I'm gonna help you out for a bit...

Most single guys are not going into a date looking for a relationship.

The sooner you understand that, the beter off you'll be.

Guys, for the most part, kind of fall into relationships.

Some of us are looking for a relationship.

But for the rest it's a kind of rationalized process.

"I like her. She's cool. We've had sex. I really don't wanna mess with someoen else. i guess we are together, huh."

Simple.

Don't be mad because we know what we don't want.

Thus Endeth the lesson

Fishy circumstances

I'm still salty about the Lakers beating the Spurs which pretty much assures that the Lakers will win another NBA championship unless the greatest rapist to ever play basketball gets happy in Sacramento or Minnesota and rapes the bellhop*

But really, .4 seconds.

What the fuck can you do in .4 seconds, really?

The NBA rules state that all you can do in .3 seconds is a tip-in.

So an extra .1 allows you to catch, turn and shoot.

That's some fucking bullshit.

And I know what the Lakers faithful are gonna say...

"Well, he should have had .8 seconds after Duncan's shot"

You're right, he should have.

But he didn't.

No way that clock started when fisher touched the ball.

You can't even blink twice in .4 second

Everytime I touch a key is a second.

That game changed this series.

David Stern can smile again.

*Funny until proven innocent

The EA Curse got Roy Jones Jr.!

I hear Carmelo Anthony is gonna be on the cover of the next NBA Live.

So young...

Ko Be Yourself

Y'know people have been talking lately about is Kobe the best player in basketball right now and is he Jordanesque now

I don't know about all that.

But...

I will concede this point.

He is the best rapist* to have ever picked up a basketball.

if not him, then who else.

Only the good people of Colorado can take that away from him.

Black women & American Idol don't mix

It's okay, baby.

I hate this show.

I was never really into it.

I watched it the first season out of morbid curiosity and when Tamyra got booted, I was done.

Well, this year I am done.

Latoya was the best singer to ever grace the stage at American Idol.

E V E R.

This show is forever tainted by her departure at this stage.

Fuck you, Hawaii.

Melanism Spring Movie Preview

There really isn't shit I want to see this Spring...

* Shrek 2 (May 21)
* The Day After Tomorrow (May 28) - I might need to see a couple of reviews before I committ
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (June 4) - I am only anticipating this movie becuase Alfonso Cuaron (director of Y Tu Mama Tambien is directing)
* Spider-Man 2 (June 30) - I will NOT be at work this day

Where are the good R-rated movies?

Slut Rock

Buy the album when she drops it.

There is no thought involved here.

Some Fed Ex Bullshit

So my company needed to send out a major mailing of 700 press kits but our mailroom did not have enough Fed Ex envelopes.

Fine. So we called Fed Ex and they said they could get supplies to us in 1-2 days and they couldn't even guarantee 2 days.

At first, I just started thinking of a Plan B when it occurred to me during my lunch break

"Fed Ex can't get me a package from their own facility overnight but if I wanted to send some anthrax from here to California by 10:30 AM, not a problem"

Needless to say, I was livid and I injected my anger into the mailroom employees and they called them back asking why they couldn't Fed Ex us some Fed Ex supplies.

Policy.

Assholes.

They ended up letting us go across the street (!) and pick some up from one of the Fed Ex spots.

Are You a True New Yorker?

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My theory on women's shoes

Yes, I have a theory.

You ladies are being robbed.

After sitting through a number of shoe fittings for female friends and girlfriends, it has become quite clear to me.

Women's shoes, for the most part, are made to be comfortable for 3-5 minutes tops.

Think about it.

How many times have you tried your shoes on in the store and they felt great, look great and you are ready to set down your credit card?

And then when you go to a party, maybe 5 minutes away from the house, you're feet are KILLING you.

If you're a guy, odds are NEVER

If you're a lady, more time than not.

Y'all are getting hustled.

I think the band-aid industry is in on it too.

R.I.P. Pat Tillman

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4815441/

While I am as against the war in Iraq as I am the cancellation of Angel in lieu of the renewal of yet another season of Charmed, not many people would have done what this man did so much respect due

Man on Fire

Damn, that was long.
It's like two movies.

The first movie is the story of a hardened CIA assassin learning to love again thanks to a little girl he is hired to protect,

The second movie is what happens when you kidnap a little girl who taught a hardened alcoholic CIA assassin how to love again.

I'm getting really tired of Tony Scott's style. Can't he just shoot a movie straight. If you saw "Enemy of the State" or "Spy Games", you know what I'm talking about. Sometime it was cool like how he handled the subtitles of the Spanish (and sometimes the English) but a lot of the time it was just annoying and dragged the movie out.

Denzel was on point as usual. In some ways, the things he does in this movie were colder than anything in "Training Day". Dakota Fanning once again proved that she's a great child actress and that she needs to go to the dentist sooner than later. She's like the exact opposite of Haley Joel Osment. While he is a adult in a child's body, she just comes across as a smart child. Unfortunately, like him, I see her growing up awkward.

I don't highly recommend it because of the length and the over-stylized directing but it was solid flick.

Kill Bill Vol. II

I have seen a lot of good movies....

But this was the first classic I knew I was watching in the process

Highest possible recommendation from me.

Have some level of control

http://www.subservientchicken.com/

Really freaky.

Rupert Murdoch = Satan

C'mon.

Hasn't anyone noticed that all the Fox reality shows are centered around the Seven Deadly Sins

Temptation Island?

Forever Eden?

Joe Millionaire?

The Swan?

Cops?

Think about it.

They are just trying to prove that Americans are really sinners only care about physical appearance and money.

Bow to the dark lord...

Now, it's gone too far

Rappers and oral sex

Why do women lust after rappers?

I mean, sure they are rich and powerful and, except Kanye, alpha males?

But they have made it quite clear that they will giving you ladies oral sex.

I believe Sadat X or Brand Nubian said it best:

Your pussy can't see these lips
I keep my tongue in my mouth.. cause I can't see down South
-- from "Love Me or Leave Me Alone"

I mean, almost every hip-hop album is peppered if them.

If I was that upfront about it, it would be a wrap.

I feel bad for groupies who score.

Ms. jackson if ya nasty

The Art of Psychological War, Part 1

I've always believed this and please feel free to let me know if I'm wrong.

But if you really want to take a girl down from her pedastal...

Call her fat.

Not angry or yelling or in a "Oh Yeah" kinda way.

Just very matter-of-factly.

Examples:

"Have you put on some weight? No, seriously" (then tilt to get a view of their rear)
"Did you have a big breakfast/lunch/dinner?" (playfully pat the tummy)
"Us fat people gotta stick together."

You get the picture.

While this may not be as effective to your really big girl who has come to terms with her weight, the skinny/in shape girls are easy targets.

The skinnier they are, the fatter they believe they are.

In order of effect:
1. The slightly chubby girls who are not fat but not skinny enough to be labeled skinny. When they sit down, they got a lil roll.
2. Girls who go to the gym alot but don't have a six pack
3. Naturally skinny girls. They might take it as a compliment because they have probably heard all their life how they ned to gain weight.
4. Fat girls.

Now, when you say this, don't expect an immediate reaction.

They'll probably laught it off and say whatever.

But when they go home...

When no one's around...

They will be looking at their ass in the mirror and they won't be having that slice of cake for dessert.

Game. Set. Match.

You Stupid Bitch!*

Why do people cheat on reality shows?

Actually I take that back. i'm sure people cheat on reality shows for the same reason people cheat everywhere.

That being said, why do people confess about cheating on reality TV?

I mean, if you don't care about your significant other and have been looking for a way out, by all means blow up his spot on TV

But if you still want to be with them...Wait until the show is over, dumbass.

Then you and your love can have an OFF-CAMERA chat about it and we won't find out if everything was worked out until the reunion during sweeps the following year.

Instead these morons make themselves and their boy/girlfriend look like a fool on NATIONAL TV.

Do that to me and you better stay where you are.

Actually, if I was dating someone on a reality show and they cheated on me and I got that call, I would act all serial killer calm:

Girl: Sean?

Me: Hi, baby!

Girl: I have something horrible to tell you.

Me: (concerned) What is it?

Girl (sobbing): I slept with someone. It only happened once and I'm so so..

Me: (Interupting) Ok. Did I tell you that I got a raise?

Girl: (sniffling): What?

Me: I got a raise. Isn't that great?

Girl: (yelling with a snot bubble) DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME? I slept with someone.

Me: I know. I heard. Can I call you back? Sopranos is coming on and I heard someone gets whacked this week.

And I would never talk about her sleeping with that dde until she came home.

Why? You ask

Because she would be mentally tortured for the rest of her stay.

And, I'm not making an ass of myself on TV.

At least, not like that.

*Shandi's boyfriend upon finding out she had sex with someone in Milan.

Don't you forget about me...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Go see it.

I think this may end up as my favorite romance film since When Harry Met Sally

But you might still hate it...so don't hold it against me

A Requiem for Sex & The City

Ha.

For such an empowering show for it to end like that makes me laugh.

Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda had satifying conclusions but Carrie's...

Well, let me say this.

After Carrie made her "I'm looking for love" speech, she gets back with John aka Mr. Big, the man who had dicked her around more than Beecher got dicked around in OZ.

Because he said "You're the one"

Allow me to laugh again.

Ha.

So, fellas, I hope you took notes. If a girl thinks that you are the one, you have 5-6 years to do whatever you want, with or without her, until you have to decide if you want to be with her.

Have fun. She will be waiting.

At least, Aidan, the show's greatest crime, was married with children and happy.

Another perspective

From this Sunday's New York Times

My War
By LARRY DAVID

Published: February 15, 2004
LOS ANGELES

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. I can't tell you how many people thought I had signed up just to avoid going to Vietnam. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, I was itching to go over there. I was just out of college and, let's face it, you can't buy that kind of adventure. More important, I wanted to do my part in saving that tiny country from the scourge of Communism. We had to draw the line somewhere, and if not me, then who?

But I also knew that our country was being torn asunder by opposition to the war. Who would be here to defend the homeland against civil unrest? Or what if some national emergency should arise? We needed well-trained men on the ready to deal with any situation. It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas. Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then. If only. Once a month, for an entire weekend - I'm talking eight hours Saturday and Sunday - we would meet in a dank, cold airplane hangar. The temperature in that hangar would sometimes get down to 40 degrees, and very often I had to put on long underwear, which was so restrictive I suffered from an acute vascular disorder for days afterward. Our captain was a strict disciplinarian who wouldn't think twice about not letting us wear sneakers or breaking up a poker game if he was in ill humor. Once, they took us into the woods and dropped us off with nothing but compasses and our wits. One wrong move and I could've wound up on Queens Boulevard. Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to find my way out of there and back to the hangar. Some of my buddies did not fare as well and had to call their parents to come and get them.

Then in the summer we would go away to camp for two weeks. It felt more like three. I wondered if I'd ever see my parakeet again. We slept on cots and ate in the International House of Pancakes. I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish. When the two weeks were up, I came home a changed man. I would often burst into tears for no apparent reason and suffered recurring nightmares about drowning in blueberry syrup. If I hadn't been so strapped for cash, I would've sought the aid of a psychiatrist.

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. I'll always be eternally grateful to the Pentagon for allowing me to pursue my dreams.

Still, after all this time, whenever I've mentioned my service in the Reserve during Vietnam, it's been met with sneers and derision. But now, thanks to President Bush, I can stand up proudly alongside him and all the other guys who guarded the home front. Finally, we no longer have to be embarrassed about our contribution during those very trying years.

Larry David, who served in the Army Reserve in the 1970's, appears in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

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