"Everyone deserves the chance to fly"

29 September 2005

are theme songs dead?

so, i was watching lost: season 1 on dvd and i remember thinking that the opening title (just the word "LOST" getting closer to the screen over some ominous chord of music) was very progressive at the time... but now all the new shows are doing just a "title screen" (surface and out of practice being the two most recent that i've noticed...)

what happened to the late and great theme song or theme music??? ... this blog may be a little pre-mature, but i guess i just want to get this out there, before everyone decides to go with the trends. please tv people, take a page out of firefly's book and keep your theme songs! :)

23 September 2005

my sister's friends are dumb

so my sister is officially evacuating huntsville and driving to dallas, which as of this post has taken close to 5 hours and she's not even half way there... guess what the rest of her friends are doing?? throwing a margarita party in honour of hurrican rita! RITAS 4 RITA!!! B.Y.O.R.! UGH! :) they are all gonna die, but at least they'll go down drunk and happy! :)

ride of the valkyries

courtesy of netflix, i recently watched the muppets wizard of oz and cosi. both films were enjoyable... i still think that the muppets has a lot to work on before they can recapture the magic that made the earlier films so much more amazing... HOWEVER... i digress, the funny thing was that both films, although completely different, had versions of wagner's ride of the valkyries! if you don't know it, take a listen... you'll notice the tune right away. i think it's funny how classical music can be put into almost any context... from flying pigs, to mental patients playing accordians! :) just something i noticed :)

17 September 2005

alcohol and colouring books

so late last night, as i get off work, i am driving home... it's about 1:30am, and it hits me, i'm out of vodka! so i steer over to ralphs to get alcohol and as i find the alcohol aisle, i see right across from all the vodka, rum, gin, tequila, liquers, and what not, is the kiddie reads and colouring book section of the grocery store! :) what kind of subliminal messages are we sending to the youth of america if we make them go the liquor aisle to get things that they like, items that make them feel good and happy! :) just a thought!

ah well... my screwdriver awaits.

14 September 2005

7 days

while this movie does feel a TAD too long, the over all feel of the film is great. you leave this film having laughed a little and shed a tear or two. the plot is well crafted and believeable, and you care about the 2 main characters. some of the best chemistry is between the main kid claudio and tony, the son of the mafia hitman who gives claudio 7 days to pay back the $500,000 he owes. at the end of the film, you feel like both characters had helped the other grow up a little and gain a better world view. my friend and i both got free passes to this film and we didn't really know if we wanted to go see it... we went into it thinking it was gonna suck, but we were both VERY pleasantly surprized! give it a chance... you may be too! :)
4 out of 5 stars!

12 September 2005

poetic passage

well i just finished reading the book clay's way. i dont really suggest it as "good" reading unless you wanna feel like killing yourself. catcher in the rye is a WAY better novel and worth so much more of my time, but, toward the end of the book there was this one paragraph that i thought was really affecting:

"we just believe what we want to, no matter what the signs and the earth and our friends and parents are saying from the outside. we just veer into danger like a drunk driver on our own blind paths of least resistance, steering towards tragedy, heartbreak, and being totally alone so that no matter how hard we scream, no one will care. we're able to ignore everything we've learned and just abandon our intuition and careen into the face of hell"

sex facts

There are more 20-year-old virgins now than there were in the late '50s.

You wouldn't know it from watching Sex and the City, but most women have had fewer than five sex partners. Most men chalk up fewer than 10 sexual conquests in their whole lives.

Both women and men are most likely to have their first orgasm alone.

The US has more laws governing sexual behavior than every country in Europe combined.

A condom will lasts about a month in a wallet before the rubber gets worn down by friction, making it more likely to break.

The record for male orgasms is 16 in one hour.

According to a 1996 study, homophobia men show a higher arousal rate when shown gay porn than do men with ambivalent attitudes toward homosexuals.

Jews and Atheists have more sex partners than Catholics or Protestants.

A woman sexually peaks in her early 30s, a man in his late teens.

Circumcision for Christian males became widespread after doctors claimed it helped curb self-abuse. (Since this isn't the case, Why is it still happening?)

Thirty percent of men suffer from premature ejaculation.

The average male member in all its glory is five inches long and four inches in circumference.

Seventies porn star Annie Sprinkle claims to have had sex with more than 3,000 men.

The average amount of male ejaculate is about one tablespoon, or 10cc, which is how the bands 10cc and Lovin' Spoonful got their names.

White women get 97% of boob jobs.

Texas law makes it illegal for a woman to own more than six sex toys.

August and September are the months with the highest level of sexual activity.

Brainy chicks are kinkier.

College grads have more oral sex than high school dropouts, and those with Ph.D's are twice as likely to want a one-night stand than those with bachelor's degrees.

Oral sex is illegal in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, Louisiana, part of Michigan, North and South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. In Idaho, it can get you life in prison.

Premarital sex was illegal in Connecticut until the late 1960s.

A 15-year old girl in Mississippi can marry without parental consent, but must wait a year to legally have sex with her husband.

One in three men cheats on his partner, as opposed to one in four women. Only 28% of female cheaters get caught.

Fifteen percent of priests and nuns break their vows of chastity.

The vast majority of men come within six minutes of penetration.

The age of consent in the US is primarily between 16 and 18.

However, in liberal Hawaii, 14-year-olds are allowed to have sex as adults.

For centuries, the Catholic church declared "man on top" the only acceptable position for sex. It's called the missionary position because missionaries were to teach it as part of their efforts to "civilize" non-Christian races.

Receiving oral sex is No. 1 on American males' sexual top 10, with straight intercourse, threesomes and groping in the top five.

The biggest wang on record is 12 inches erect.

J. Edgar Hoover, Oscar Wilde, Chief Crazy Horse, Pope Paul II and Pope Julius III, Leonard Bernstein, Alexander the Great, Sigmund Freud, Lawrence of Arabia, Plato, Peter Tchaikovsky and Florence Nightingale were all gay or bi.

Until 1972 in the US, homosexuality was officially a mental illness, classified as such along with schizophrenia and multiple personalities.

The average age for both genders for a first sexual experience is 17.

10 September 2005

my yahoo launchcast just called me gay!

only have a minute, but i was listening to my yahoo launchcast player... this was the order of tunes...

michael jackson - thriller
jennifer paige - crush
hilary duff - wake up

and then

the dragon tales theme song!

am i THAT transparent! :)

08 September 2005

the BIG 100!!!!

wow... my 100th post...

i feel like it should be momentus, something that oozes of not only my stellar wit, but my personality, my hopes, my fears, my passions and my dreams! however we all know that wit as dry as mine is not only overrated, but too often, not understood, so i shall stick to my normal routine of what i do best...

THE BROTHERS GRIMM
well, for a movie that had a lot of potential, this was a kinetic disappointment! i was really looking forward to terry gilliam's new film, especially after having just seen Lost in La Mancha... and although i don't think that ehren kruger writes the best stuff in the world (with the exception of scream 3 being arguably the best of the scream trilogy!) this movie looked like a GREAT concept! alas, that is all it was... a concept film... drew may disagree with me, but i think that this movie would have been handled much better had it been directed by tim burton, or joel schumacher both of whom have had their fair share of hits and misses but who both have also shown time and again that they can handle the dark epic which this film clearly TRIES to be. the story was ALL OVER the place, and the editing was poor (or amazing, depending on what the guy had to work with...) but i just think that a 2 hour film could have done SO MUCH MORE with not only it's main characters, but it's plot development. however, i will say this... the special effects were great :) overall... 2 out of 5 stars

ok... what else is new in my life... OH! remember this post about willy fog?? WELL,... i was at fry's the other day, buying Gargoyles: The Complete First Season on dvd when i happened across 2 dvd titles: Willy Fog: Around the World in 80 Days and Willy Fog: Journey to the Centre of the Earth!!! amazing huh?? it always happens that once you start looking for something they inevitably start releasing it on DVD or VHS or something else... the same thing happened when i was pining for my 80's cartoons... now we have he-man on DVD, thundercats on DVD, my little pony on DVD, jem on DVD, dangermouse on DVD and count duckula coming to DVD soon! :) i do feel personally responsible for getting these much loved titles to DVD for the world to enjoy and now now the world can enjoy my willy fog!! the only downfall to these 2 dvd's i got was that they were the "made for tv versions" which meant that they took the entire series (25 episodes, each one 30 mins long) and shortened them into a one hour and 30 min "movie" :( but that's okay... i'll take what i can get! :)

well, i guess that's it for now... my next post will be from entry #101 and i'll officially be in syndication! :) YAY ME! :)