Don't Cross The Streams: 2007-11

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Music Video Of The Year

Snoop Dogg - Sexual Seduction

Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction Closed Captioned
Uploaded by Elodie-74

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

My Mail-Order Bride Arrived!

We're gonna be so happy together. Please respect our privacy during the honeymoon.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

100 Opinions I Hold That Are Open To Discussion

Feel free to disagree with me but I think...

...MTV with their reality based programming is destroying the brains of young white girls everywhere.
...BET is matching them step for step on destroying the brain of young African-Americans.
...The only positive thing about the current state of hip-hop is that any kid now thinks he can be a rapper because bar has been lowered so low for what constitutes a "good song." It's nice to have dreams.
...Lost is better than Heroes and it's damn near insulting to compare the two.
...It's nice to support your team and all but until the Mets win at least two more World Series, Mets fans really shouldn't say shit about the Yankees.
...The reason Batman resonates with fans more than Spider-Man and Superman is because he has no powers therefore creating the belief that, however unrealistic, with an unlimited bank account and near psychotic levels of training and dedication, you too can be Batman.
...Women are generally smarter than men when it comes to matters of the heart. So much smarter that they end up out thinking themselves underestimating how dumb a guy can be.
...You can track the decline of society by watching every season of MTV's The Real World in chronological order.
...YouTube and WikiPedia are the two greatest things to happen to cubicle drones.
...Tabloids are destroying what little intelligence the Western World has.
...Men and women both get complacent in long-term relationships and stop doing the cute things that they did in the beginning of the relationships. Women just say something about it.
...Guys love "bitches" almost as much as girls love "bad boys".
...People don't change. They just learn to accept things.
...The reason some guys can't commit a relationship is they are always thinking about what else they can be doing. It's like being a quarterback. One receiver is WIDE OPEN but you still check your other receivers to see if you can slip a pass in there.
...When you are in the early stages of a relationship, it makes you blind to certain things. Most notably, how ridiculously you are acting in public.
...No one can remember when they stopped making out with their significant other.
...If Joey ended up with anyone, she should have ended up with Dawson, not Pacey. It was DAWSON'S CREEK not Pacey's Pond.
...The Matrix was not intended to be a trilogy. The Wachowski Brothers lied to get more money.
...The only friends worth keeping are the ones you can not talk to for long periods of time and nothing changes.
...Going out to clubs is overrated.
...Before you buy your favorite sports player's jersey, check out the terms of his contract with his team. Even then, it's still a short term investment.
...Facebook is better than MySpace because the design is the same for every page. MySpace was ruined when they let members add songs and change the design.
..."The Takeover" was better than "Ether" because Jay-Z dissed Nas from the perspective of a fan while Nas, while making a few valid digs, resorted to calling him "ugly" and "gay."
...Denzel Washington shouldn't have won an Oscar for Training Day. He should have won it for Malcolm X.
...It's a travesty that America doesn't have universal health care.
...Carrie ending up with Big after everything he did to her over the course of the series gave all men hope that as long as she loves you, you still have a chance.
...Women's shoes are designed to be comfortable to walk in for 10 minutes tops. That's how long it will take for them to decide to buy the shoe. Then they're proper fucked.
...Guys don't ask other guys for advice on their relationships.
...Paris Hilton is the most influential person in the last five years. She redefined (read: lowered the standard) for "celebrity" and was the harbinger of doom for the media.
...Protests and petitions don't change anything.
...The biggest mistake Marvel Comics made was bringing Jean Grey back from the dead.
...The top three Not Ready For Prime Time Players were Bill Murray, Phil Hartman & Gilda Radner.
...Spike Lee uses the movies to see the breast of actresses he finds attractive.
...Female bartending is the most sexually discriminating job next to stripper. But at least there are fat, ugly strippers. If there's a fat,ugly bartender, she's is the owner or having sex with him.
...George Lucas was lying when he said he intended Star Wars to have nine parts. He made it up as he went along.
...You shouldn't be watching MTV programming if you are over the age of 30.
..."Cancer" should never be used as a metaphor.
...Women should spend more money on their significant others and not just for gift-giving holidays and birthdays. It's only fair.
...Road House is the greatest B-movie ever made.
...Every third movie of a Marvel film franchise has sucked.
...Batman The Animated Series was the best cartoon based on a comic book character.
...R&B songs are boring when you aren't in a relationship or reminiscing on one.
...Brad Pitt's best role was 12 Monkeys.
...Movies are too long these days.
...Arrested Development (the TV show, not the hip-hop group) was ahead of its time.
...24 is right wing propaganda.
...Love Actually is the best romantic comedy of the last five years.
...The New York Giants will never win a Super Bowl with Eli Manning at quarterback.
...Technology is getting everyone to the point of never having to leave your house. The last step will be a video cell phone (meaning you can see the person you are talking to).
..."Douche" as an insult is in the midst of a renaissance.
...People who think they are special because they don't want an iPod are douches.
...Duke should have died in G.I. Joe The Movie.
...People who talk during movies should be sterilized.
...Parenting classes should be given alongside Lamaze classes.
...They shouldn't have made a trilogy out of Pirates of the Carribean.
...Die Hard is the greatest action movie ever.
...Tony Soprano was killed.
...The Rock was the best wrestler in the last 20 years.
...Val Klimer was a pretty good Batman but he sucked as Bruce Wayne because he spoke in the same tone.
...Dream On was a more realistic depiction of dating in New York City than Sex & The City.
...Carrie was given a second chance with Aidan so he could be somewhat vilified and Carrie can recover some of the likability she lost when she cheated on him.
...Will Ferrell, while appearing in a number of really bad movies, is incapable of not being funny.
...Adam Sandler has only tried to act in four movies - The Wedding Singer, Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish & Reign Over Me.
...Sega Genesis was a better machine that the Nintendo 64 but Nintendo had the 3rd party support.
...Mary J. Blige has one dance step. She should really try to stand still when she sings.
...High Fidelity is the closest we've come to "Bro Flick" (as opposed to a "Chick Flick")
...Living a long boring life is the worst way to die, followed closely by drowning and suffocating.
...If your ass crack shows when you bend over, your jeans do not fit. Take them off and change into something more appropriate.
...It is impossible for a guy not to stare at cleavage at least once. If you don't notice, it means he got his fill while you weren't paying attention.
...Chappelle's Show was funnier than The Chris Rock Show but Chris Rock is a better stand-up comedian.
...Racism will never end.
...Three greatest comic strips of all-time: The Peanuts, The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes.
...Whole Foods is one of the best places to meet attractive singles in New York City. Better than a bar.
...Fall is the best season because you actually can dress for it and it doesn't rain as much as it does in Spring.
...If you are constantly talking to your friends and family about your relationship problems but not to your significant other about your relationship problems, break up.
...Despite the advancements in birth control, you probably shouldn't sleep with someone you couldn't stand to be a part of your life forever. You never know.
...You shouldn't even think about getting married to someone if you can't sit in a room with them and not say anything to one another and not be bothered by that fact.
...You should be allowed to slap guys who have their polo collars popped.
...Monica should not have been able to afford that apartment on Friends. I don't care if it was rent stabilized. Rachel and her weren't consistently employed for the first six seasons.
...It's a cliche to say but Aquaman really was the lamest Justice Leaguer.
..."Bennifer" ruined Ben Affleck's career but Jennifer Lopez seemed to escape with only a few scratches.
...Kevin Smith peaked too soon with Chasing Amy.
...Futurama should have been saved instead of Family Guy.
...You shouldn't date your friends unless the basis of your friendship was mutual attraction therefore making your friendship a trial run at dating.
...DuckTales was the best Disney after school cartoon.
...Relationships with coworkers always end poorly.
...The A Nightmare On Elm Street franchise was ruined when they decided that Freddy Kreuger should be funny.
...The biggest problem with US sitcoms is that they never know when to end. If every show had a five season plan that they stuck to, even if it was a high rated show, the quality of television would improve.
...Kids shouldn't be allowed to read Cosmopolitan and Maxim and magazines like that until they are 18.
...If you could get quality vegetarian dishes at McDonald's prices, there would be more vegetarians.
...Crash (over Brokeback Mountain) was the most ridiculous Academy Award winner for Best Picture in the last 10 years followed by Shakespeare In Love (over Saving Private Ryan).
...Quentin Tarantino abuses the N word in his movies but he's not as bad as Martin Scorsese who has an affinity for racist characters.
...All of Wes Anderson's movies feel like they are taking place at the same time, in the same world, just in different parts of town.
...Lebron James is the future of the NBA but he won't win a title with the Cleveland Cavaliers before his contract is up.
...The future presented in Mike Judge's Idiocracy doesn't seem that improbable.
...Paparazzi are the scum of the Earth.
...Superman flying around the world to save Lois Lane was the worst deus ex machina ever filmed.
...If your name ends in "-quita," your parents have cursed you with a social disadvantage.
...It's harder to find someone you actually want to hold hands with than it is someone to sleep with.
...There has been a song written for every matter of the heart.

Movie of the Week: No Country For Old Men

I officially forgive the Coen Brothers for Ladykillers.

Let's see...this movie will be nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor/Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin (who's having an amazing year).

So why didn't I have it a full four stars? Because the ending is very anticlimactic. I understand why it ended that way but still, I was let down.

Without spoiling it, it's like knowing three trains are on a collision course to destruction. Then all of the sudden, one train crashes out of nowhere but you don't see it, only see the aftermath. One train keeps going while the other just stops and decides it isn't worth chugging along anymore.

Confusing? See the movie.

Do You Need Losticil?

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

MeLOVEism, Part IV

The saga continues courtesy of Tasha:

Does intense passionate love truly last in long term relationships (long term being more than 10 years)?
No it doesn't. Imagine how creepy that would be. Two people constantly thinking about one another, fucking like rabbits when they got home from work, being all schmoopie with each other for 10 years. How would they accomplish anything in life? Who would take care of the children? Who would want to be around that kind of couple? Just thinking about it makes me nauseous. You can have intense passionate moments which are better because they stand out in the monotony of a long-term relationships.

Do men and women truly love differently? And does one gender love 'harder' than the other?
Men and women do love differently but I wouldn't say one loves "harder" than the other. It really varies from person to person. People have a tendency to think that the way they love is the way everyone should love. So when their partner doesn't love them in their way, they take it as not being loved as much as they love their partner. I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone not named Sean.

Is the concept of romantic love as we know it
a. a concept manufactured by advertisers and writers?
b. a purely chemical reaction?
Love is a chemical, emotional and psychological reaction that would happen to a person who lived under a rock for their entire life, never having seen a movie, read a book or heard a trite ballad. However, how one is expected to act in a relationship tends to be "manufactured by advertisers and writers." They sold us on flowers and diamonds and cards and mixtapes as expression of love. I would love to live in a world where two people loving each other and spending time together is all that mattered in a relationship but alas, too many women have seen Pretty Woman. Personally, whoever does ads for Kay Jewelers should be hung from their ankles and have frustrated husbands throw rocks at them.

Do you think a man's current proclivity for distancing sex from emotion and woman's tendency to attach of emotion with sex nature or nuture?
It's too prevalent in my gender to not consider it nature but their is a nuture element. How old are boys before they first hear about love and relationships? When they pull all the girls out of 4th grade to talk about their periods, the boys should be made to watch High Fidelity.

Thanks, Tasha.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

MeLOVEism, Part III

Round Three courtesy of Sheila

Can you ever say "I love you" too much?
It depends why and how you say it. If you say to the point that it's commonplace (like the end of a phone conversation) than it's never too much. But some people say it with a certain level of fear like every time they say it is supposed to be a reminder. "Remember when you go out into a space that I'm not with you that I love you and you are supposed to love me so don't do anything that compromises that. Don't leave me!" You can tell when there's a hint of desperation in an "I love you" and it's really fucking creepy.

Can a couple ever have a successful relationship following a "break" (a la Friends)?
It depends why the couple broke up. If they broke up over a fight that wasn't an underlying issue throughout the relationship, just anger, then yes. But if the couple broke up over an issue in the relationship that wasn't resolved, something like key beliefs on marriage and children, then they probably shouldn't get back together unless one person truly has a change of heart. How often does that happen (without therapy)? If you decided a long time ago you don't want kids, what would it take for you to want kids? When people who break up over big issues get back together, they go under the same haze people just start dating are under that everything is fine but eventually the issue creeps back up. Hopefully, you're not already married when it does.

Do soulmates exist?
Yes, they exist. Doesn't mean you're supposed to date them. Whoever you consider your best friend - regardless of gender - is one of many soulmates in your life.

Can "Momma's boys" ever love their significant other more than their mothers?
It depends what kind of momma's boy they are. If they are the kind that loves their mother because she's their best friend and they talk about everything, probably not but that's okay. The love he has for you and her aren't in conflict. If they are the kind of momma's boy who's mother did everything for them and babied them throughout their life, you DON'T want them to love you more than their mother because that means he thinks you have taken over the babying part. Plus, the mothers of those types of guys are particularly horrible to deal with.

Are bars actually conducive to meeting "relationship material" people?
Only if you list under your interests "dressing up to get drunk." Seriously though, you can meet "relationship material" people anywhere. It's just a matter of sifting through all the "one night stand" material people and the "I'm subconsciously looking for a rebound" people and the "I'm here every night" people and the "I seem like relationship material but I'm really batshit crazy KOO KOO KACHOOO" people. It's not necessarily a needle in a haystack but it definitely feels that way.

Will Britney Spears ever find true love?
Who's to say she hasn't? Hasn't her behavior over the last year proven that Kevin Federline was truly a soulmate?

Thanks Sheila!

MeLOVEism, Part II

Well, I didn't expect to already get some questions to answer.

This session is courtesy of Cindy.

How do you recapture the initial spark and "swoony" feelings? If it feels gone, is it just gone?
I personally think when it's gone, it's gone. That's why it's a spark and not an all-encompassing fire. You can recapture it in small moments by doing or receiving something totally unexpected for/from your love but something that only they'd/you'd appreciate and if they/you explained it to someone else, they might not understand the meaning.

Can you be friends with your ex? If so, what's the incubation period?
You can be friends with your ex but, like planting crops, it has to be under optimal conditions:

If possible, you probably shouldn't speak or associate with one another for a year minimum. Two years is optimal. Therefore when you do speak to each other, enough will have gone on in your life that the only thing you can think to talk about is when you were together.
Hopefully, you've both had relationships (or at least "relations") prior to being friends. It's easier when they aren't last person you did anything with.
You have to pretend like you never dated. I can't stress this one enough. When you speak, you never speak of things you did together. You never "Remember when..." about anything you guys did as a couple. If a story calls for you to recall this period in time, you treat as something you guys did as friends, not as a couple. The fact is no matter how much time has passed between you, the end of a relationship bothered one party more than the other.

How long should you be dating someone before you try to give it a label? Put in a another way, how long do you have to wait to have the status of the relationship conversation?
When you achieve "Last Call" status with one another. "Last Call" status means that if you are both at home at a reasonable hour, you are each the last person the other talks to before they go to bed. If one of you is out late, you send a "good night" text. You smile as you send it. They smile when they receive it (even if they were already asleep and kinda pissed the phone woke them up until they see it's you). When you are doing that for more than 2-3 weeks, it's time to have the talk.

How does sex change a relationship and "make things different"? Are there variations by gender?
Seeing anyone naked changes your relationship. Sex or no sex, once you see someone naked, you can never take it back (unless you gain or lose a whole lot of weight). I think women take sex in the relationship more seriously than men. Like it's the natural progression of a the relationship while men have more of a tendency to be like "Well, it's about time."

How do you get him to do the nice things he did when you first started seeing each other?
Do the nice things you did when you first started seeing each other. Hopefully, he'll reciprocate. If that doesn't work, randomly mention things he used to do like, "Remember when you..." And if that doesn't work, either you'll have to get it into his head that you're not a SURE thing (which is why he did those nice things in the first place) or you'll just have to live with the things he does everyday. It's good practice for marriage.

Thanks Cindy!

Monday, November 19, 2007

MeLOVEism, Part I

So I was reading some of my OLD posts and realized I don't theorize about love and relationships anymore. My favorite thing about this blog was to write thoughts and theories about love and relationships. What you think before you are in a relationship and what you think during a relationship are two TOTALLY different things. I just wanted proof that I didn't think love and relationships were all fun and games.

Anyway, I want to tap that part of my brain again but I'm lacking in inspiration. So I'm reaching out to you,my 5-7 semi-occasional readers, for questions for me to answer.

So leave me a comment or shoot me an e-mail.

For starters, the lovely Navani has agreed to ask me some questions for me to answers:

Do you think the idea of a rebound is universal for both women and men?
I think the idea of a rebound is universal for men and women but I think they approach it differently. I think guys have more of a tendency to hook up with someone to try to get the ex "out of their system." They actively seek out the rebound. Women actually date and have relationships with guys before they even realize that he's the rebound guy.

Who should initiate communication between a man and a woman? Does it matter? Are there still rules regarding this?
I don't think it SHOULD matter but it does. In a perfect world, people would approach the people they are interested it - years of social programming be damned. But some guys are scared by the kind of girls who would approach them and some girls will NEVER approach a guy and why should they?

Can booty calls ever really turn into real relationships?
My initial reaction was "No. Never. Never Ever." But you know what? You never know. Eventually, the booty caller and the booty have to have some post-coital conversations. Maybe they'll have some inside jokes. Learn something about each other's personal life. Next thing, you know, you get a phone call at 1 PM...

When is too soon to say you love someone? is there a too soon?
Yes, there is a "too soon." I understand the desire to tell someone the second you feel it but you should hold off until you are at least 85% certain they feel the same way. It's about letting your relationship grow at a comfortable pace. If you tell someone too soon, it creates a countdown of sorts: The How-Many-Days-From-Me-First-Saying-'I-Love-You'-To-You-Reciprocating Countdown.

Can you have a successful relationship with someone that maybe you have no sparks with but is a really great person otherwise...and offers you everything you've ever wanted in a relationship
Yes, you can a successful relationship with a really great person who you don't feel the romantic spark for. It's called a friendship.

Thanks for playing, Navani. Hopefully, you won't be the last.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Movie of the Week: Gone Baby Gone

I generally hate movies in which the title of the movie is out of a line in the movie but I'll make an exception.

It was definitely a good flick despite being directed by Ben Affleck. I kid. I actually have no animosity towards the elder Affleck as he starred in one of my favorite movies of all-time.

Anyway, even though they were both by adapted from Dennis Lehane novels, elder Affleck follows the Mystic River playbook a little too closely.

Who would have thought Casey Affleck couldn't hold a consistent Boston accent?

Thursday, November 08, 2007

100 More Facts About Sean

Since the last one was so popular and I forgot a couple, let's do 100 more...

I can't use chopsticks.
I have four tattoos.
I can't tell good stories. Like when people describe something that happens at work and it sounds interesting...I can't do that. it always falls flat.
I think I have 15-20 anecdotes that I tell over and over again because I don't think anything else that's happened to me or around me has been that interesting.
I spend too much money on alcohol
I failed my driver's exam on the first try. The test lasted less than two minutes as I drifted into the lane of oncoming traffic as I was preparing for a left turn.
I am not very good at sports. I can't catch fly balls, I shoot basketballs awkwardly and either I can't throw a spiral AND connect with my target.
My friend Lance who went on to play college basketball once told me that you could have come out and played basketball with me and gotten really good or stayed home and played video games and read comics. Guess which I went with?
My parents bought me a video camera for Christmas one year. Why? I don't know. All I ever did with it was re-enact Wu-Tang Clan videos at my friend's houses.
I lost my virginity at 18.
My mother only spanked once but it was so bad, I blacked out and have no recollection of the beating. I just woke up in bed like what happened?
The reason I love England so much is it was the only non-Jamaica trip I went on as a kid (Canada doesn't count). That and I LOVED DangerMouse as a kid.
I went to my senior prom with this girl who I was friends with. We really just wanted to go to the prom. Her father picked her up at 11:30 PM on the dot and took her home which was fine because I was in pursuit of someone else.
I miss one thing about each of my exes.
When I was in 8th grade, I was into heavy metal. My favorite album at the time was Metallica's ...And Justice For All. I had magazine posters of various groups. I was teased by the black kids in school and the neighborhood.
I like buying gifts for people.
When I was in grade school, I once bought my mother these cheap earrings (but expensive for me) at a fair. She never wore them, keeping them in the original packaging. This coupled with the fact that she kept all the plants I bought her in the downstairs bathroom reminds me why I don't like buying my mother presents.
I apparently have a lot of Cancerian-typical mommy issues.
I can't swim.
I almost drowned in 4th grade at a friend's pool party. I was in an inflatable donut over the deep end and my friend thought it would be funny to run and jump into the donut and kick me out. I went straight to the bottom. Another parent pulled me out.
The most I ever weighed was 207.
I have never attempted to obtain a woman's phone number at a bar, club or any other social gathering.
I took two years of high school Spanish, five semesters of Spanish at NYU (you were only required to take four but i failed the competency test and was forced to take a fifth) and I still can't maintain a conversation in Spanish beyond "Hola", "Como estas?", "Asi asi. Y tu?"
I'm not sure if I believe in God or a celestial omnipotent being because I actually believe or because of my years of Lutheran Sunday School and Catholic school make it impossible for me NOT to believe in the existence of a divine being.
I don't however support religion. They are like different futbol teams in the same league with fans that can act like hooligans.
I have over 11,000 songs on my iPod.
The most tracks I have by one artist is Jay-Z with 167.
I have been balding since I was 19.
I think people who jaywalk with babies should have their children taken away.
I think OJ is innocent but knows who did it. To do all the things they say he did that night would make him a) superhuman and b) the dumbest criminal alive. I just don't think he was both.
I get nervous around cops.
The first time I shaved my head was an accident. It was the day before Senior year yearbook photos and I neglected to get a haircut so I woke my brother up at 5:30 AM to give me a haircut. He ended up cutting off all my hair except a patch in the back. I took my picture and had to shave my head to even it out. Unfortunately, bald heads were forbidden in my school and I had detention until it grew back to a reasonable length.
The first album I had sex to was Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite.
I wish I could be a better son but I'm too stuck in my ways.
3 or 4 years ago, my father was having a stent put in his heart and I drove him to the hospital for the surgery. Feeling the potential mortality of the situation, he chose this opportunity to tell me, "I wish you had gone to graduate school." I'm still pissed about that.
I only eat hot dogs because it gives me excuse to have ketchup.
I have two groups of friends who probably won't meet until my wedding or, more likely, my funeral.
I have only smoked cigarettes twice - once when I was a little kid and we found a pack at the park we used to play at and we each took a puff and once when I went to England and got drunk and smoked 3-5 of my friend's Marlboro Lights. I thought about smoking for the next 2 days and can see how it might be addicting.
I went through this weird period in Junior year of NYU when Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing was my favorite album (Thanks, Eva).
I've never dated someone close to my complexion. Not by intention.
I stopped reading comics in freshman and sophomore year for two reasons: 1) I couldn't afford to take the LIRR to see my girlfriend in Queens and buy comics every week on my crappy pay and 2) I was kind of embarrassed that I read comics and hid it from her.
Song vs. song, I still think Jay-Z won.
On the morning of 9/11, I left my girlfriend's house, took the bus with my headphones on. There was an announcement but I didn't hear it because I was listening to music. I got on the E train and the train stopped and the conductor said something over the speaker and people started talking but I missed it because I was listening to music. When I got out the subway, I saw the streets were crowded and people were looking up but I didn't notice because I was late to work. When I got to work, it was pretty empty and I didn't have Internet access so I didn't know what had happened until about 9:15 AM when my co-worker came in.
My favorite color is red.
If I drink too much Stella Artois, I start speaking in a British accent. This has become known as "Cockney Sean."
I have never cheated on a girlfriend.
I suspect one girlfriend actually cheated on me, while I was definitely the victim of a couple of emotional affairs.
If I could be stuck on a deserted island with one book, it would be The Complete Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
In 8th grade during class, one of my classmates decided to dry hump his hand during Science class. I told a couple of some people and it spread like wildfire and we were all laughing at him. Someone told it was me who started saying it and, despite the best effort of my female classmates, he punched me in my chest and sent me straight to the nurse.
I can deal with racism and all the other shit that comes with being a Black man...but the razor bumps are a pain in the ass.
I love the words "myriad" and "delve".
I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't surf the net when I get bored at work which is often.
I can't snowboard but that doesn't stop me from trying.
I miss riding on the LIRR because of all the time I had to read.
I'm pro-life.
I loved each of my girlfriends or at least what I understood love to be at the time I was with them.
I have over 300 DVDs that I rarely, if ever, watch.
When I was a kid, my brother had me intercept any mail that would piss my parents off - letters from school, parking tickets, credit card bills.
The only pets I ever had were gerbils. The plan was to buy a male and female gerbil and sell the babies but Petworld gave me three male gerbils before they finally gave me a female one. Then it turned into a gerbil rape cage. I only sold one gerbil. They started to multiply quickly. There wasn't enough food so they started eating each other. At the peak, I had 21. My room smelled of gerbil piss 24/7. My father let them into the woods when I wasn't home...or so he said.
I'm not secretive. I'm just not forthcoming with personal information unless asked direct questions. Luckily, most people are content to talk about themselves.
The scar under my right eye is from a bike accident I got into when I was 13.
If there was a fire in my apartment or my office, I'd be okay as long as I had my iPod.
I was a prolific writer of notes in high school. I had five shoe boxes of notes: one each for notes from Jen, Eva, Tina and Elysia, and one more miscellaneous notes. I held onto to them until I was about 25 when my parents finally threw them away. I would love to read them again.
I like being a "boyfriend."
That said, at this stage in my life, I can't even imagine what kind of girl it would take to make me be a boyfriend again.
I used to hate when people say "You don't sound Black." They don't realize how stupid that concept is.
I can tell when I like someone when I have to stop myself from buying things for them that I'd think they'd like.
I can't drink and "eat sandwiches*" in the same outing. The combination causes my brain to shut down completely.
In my History class, the teacher told us on the first day that if you didn't do the homeworks, you wouldn't pass the class. I took it as a personal challenge. I never did the homeworks but aced all the tests and papers. I got a 78.
If I could grow my hair back, I'd grow back a hi-top fade like I had in 8th grade.
I've never gotten a flu shot. I look forward to the flu because it gives me a reason to not go to work.
The last memory of my maternal grandmother is when I was 10 or 11 and at her house in Montego Bay with my Aunt Rose and she was talking to me but her patois was so thick, I caught maybe every 3rd or 4th word. I wonder what she was trying to say. It sounded important.
I don't think I exchanged more than 10 words with my maternal grandfather before he died.
I used to love theorizing about love and relationships. Now, I just consigned to being as confused as everyone else.
My blood type is O Positive.
I don't think I could name all 50 states.
Sometimes I see people from college or high school on the street and I purposely avoid them because I don't feel enduring the "So what's going on with you?" part of the conversation.
I am highly neophobic when it comes to food.
I have a hairy back and chest. I'm not Sasquatch hairy but I still hate it.
I'd shave my back and chest but a) I can't reach my certain parts of my back, b) I'd probably slack and end up itchy all day and c) everyone knows I have a hairy chest (at least) so it would be like getting a toupee or hair plugs.
Fall is my favorite season, followed by Spring.
My bike got stolen once from the mall. My father and my friend's father drove around with baseball bats and got it back.
My brother thought my bike got stolen once. This little kid in the neighborhood saw me riding with my friends and this kid I knew but he didn't yelled, "Get off your bike, Sean!" The kid ran to my house and told my brother. They drove around the neighborhood heavily armed looking for my bike until I told them it was a misunderstanding.
I've only gotten into one real fight with my brother and it was over a camera of his I broke when I was a kid. It lasted all of 20 minutes.
I have no sense of direction.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with You Can't Do That On Television. I think that's why I like Alanis Morissette so much.
I fall asleep in the fetal position.
I don't like jelly. I eat peanut butter only sandwiches.
Movies I will hold against you if you haven't seen/hate:

say anything...
The Princess Bride
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
High Fidelity

I once went out with a girl I liked and everything was going fine until she told me Meteor Man was one of her favorite movies.
People I've been told I look like: Andre Braugher, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Harris (from The Practice), Ernest Thomas (Raj from What's Happening).
I don't agree with any of them.
I have a problem hitting "Send" on e-mails before re-reading what I wrote.
The night John Starks shot 2-18 from the field in Game 7 of the 1994 NBA Finals was one of the saddest nights of my life. I turned off the TV before the game ended so i didn't have to see the celebration and tried to make myself go to sleep.
I was a Boy Scout for a couple of years. My father pulled me out because he thought someone was dressed as a Ku Klux Klan member at the Halloween party. I didn't find out about this until years after the fact. If he had told me, I would have informed him that it was just someone dressed as a ghost.
My first job was at Hicks Nurseries. I helped load packages into cars amongst other dirty work. We frequently received tips for our work. The highlight of my tenure as my best friend mother showed up and I loaded eight bags of manure into her Pathfinder on a hot ass day. She gave fifty cents as a tip. It was the cheapest tip I received in the many months I worked there.
I always need to have a cover on me in bed, preferably my comforter. If it's too hot, I'll make my room cold enough to compensate.
I was so freaked out after The Blair Witch Project that I didn't sleep the night I saw it and I was flying to Miami the next day at 7 AM. I stayed up talking to Tara on AIM who I saw the movie with for as long as she'd stay awake.
If I talk to someone with a British accent too long, I start speaking in one as well.
I don't know if I act like a prototypical Cancer because I am a prototypical Cancer or because I've read enough horoscope books to know how a prototypical Cancer acts.

And that is another 100. I don't think I'll be doing this again. Otherwise, I'll post something I'll regret.

* How I Met Your Mother reference

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

I Wish I Had Friends That Lived Near and Visited...

...then I could justify buying Rock Band for the XBOX 360.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Movie of the Week: American Gangster

File under: "Good but not great" or "Could have been better"

The performances were great especially Denzel Washington and Josh Brolin but the movie had problems:

It felt like it was based on a timeline because everything kept jumping around. You would think the entire movie took place in the span of a month.
I don't think we needed to see Richie Roberts' (Russell Crowe) custody hearing or to be constantly reminded that he was a "good cop" amongst corrupt cops. I think because it was because they wanted Crowe to have as much screen time was Washington. I wonder if the movie would have been different if Benicio Del Toro played Roberts as was originally planned.
I think it should have ended with Lucas' arrest. The movie was long enough was it was.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Fall TV 2007: Thoughts and Comments

After my initial Fall schedule, there were early casualties. Here are some more casualties, additions and thought on new and current shows.

After trying to hold on, I finally had to eliminate Bionic Woman (NBC) and Aliens In America (CW). Aliens In America was a cute show but I didn't care enough about it to keep watching it. Bionic Woman was a bad show that I only stuck around for because of my love for Katee Sackhoff. But no woman is worth that much bad TV.

I picked up Gossip Girl (CW) at the behest of my friends Andrea and Noma. We'll see how long that lasts. I'm also picking up Samantha Who (ABC) and The Big Bang Theory (CBS). I saw the pilot for The Big Bang Theory in the summer and as a part-time geek I was offended. But every once and awhile I check it out in the time between How I Met Your Mother and Heroes and it's gotten much better and some of my fellow part-time/full-time geeks seem to like it so I'll give it another chance.

As far as everything else goes:

How I Met Your Mother needs to find a way to reintegrate Robin into the fold without it being awkward between her and Ted. I know it's more realistic for there to be awkwardness but it's hurting the show because Robin has these solo adventures that suck while the rest of the group is interacting with one another. The last two episodes have been a step in the right direction
Yes, Christine, I'm still watching Private Practice. It has greatly improved since the first episode when I hated it so much I wouldn't refer to it by name, only as "That show." The biggest problem with the show is Addison. It's as if Shondra Rhimes developed this show about an alternative medicine practice and as an afterthought threw Addison in there (this very well may be the case). Addison isn't acting like Grey's Anatomy Addison, she's acting like Grey's Anatomy Season 1 & 2 Meredith and that doesn't work for an almost 40 year old character.
I don't know if its because they are no interns anymore or they can't think of reasons to keep Meredith and Derek apart so they apart "just because" or because they lost two of their better actors (Kate Walsh and Isiah "I didn't call TR Knight a faggot" Washington) I think the magic is gone from Grey's Anatomy and I don't think they'll ever get it back. At least it still has a nice soundtrack.
Heroes is going nowhere fas. I won't get into it here. I elaborated my problems on my PrepTimePosse post, "Why I'm Not Blogging About Heroes Anymore"
Pushing Daisies is great. It isn't perfect (no show is) but it's the only new show I feel I HAVE to watch the night it airs. An honor only bestowed on a few shows - 24, Lost, The Office, How I Met Your Mother
Friday Night Lights isn't as good as it was last season but I think that's because they weren't expecting to get a season two. I think if they knew from the jump that they were getting a season two, we would a better more focused show. Too many characters have reverted back to their pre-enlightened Season one selves (Matt, Smash, Riggins) and I won't even talk about the The Bad Thing (coined by Alan Sepinwall). It's still better than most shows on TV.
The Imaginationland trilogy on South Park, which concluded tonight, has been some of the best South Park in years. How is this show still so good after 10 seasons?
My Name Is Earl is also having some of its best episodes ever but no one's noticed because it's airing before critical darlings, 30 Rock and The Office.
The Office should avoid doing full hour episodes from now on. It was a noble experiment but a failure except for the last one hour episode. Darryl is the new Creed.

Are there any shows I'm not watching that I should?

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