Summer Movies

I like Ed Norton as much or more than anyone, but can anyone explain to me why in the heck they remade the Hulk? What a waste of perfectly good CGI. Iron Man has done well and deservedly so, but man, Marvel studios is really beating dead horses. Although, I shouldn't talk. The only movies I get to see are PG and under. But I love that boy....

Battlestar Galactica

Another pop culture recommendation from Uncle Skippy to you. Battlestar Galactica on Sci-Fi is just a brilliant program and it is in its last season as the colonists try to make it to Earth ahead of the cylons. Why the cylons won't just kill them all on Earth, I'm not sure, but there it is. I'll post a comment on each episode over in the IMVU group for feedback and discussion, so if you'd like to join us there, just click the linky. Frack!

Yo! MTV Raps!

Just had to mention that I was up way to late the other night and Yo! MTV Raps came on MTV2 (or was it MTVJams?). I had forgotten how great old school rap was. There are moments in rap in this decade, but they just can't compare to brilliant stuff that was being recorded in the late eighties early nineties before gangster gained such a stranglehold on the rap scene. The Fugees, Tribe Called Quest, classic Queen Latifah, just excellent music and amazing words paired beautifully. There were videos from all three on the episode of Yo! that I was watching. Can't forget DeLaSoul either. Three Feet High and Rising is one of the great rap albums of all time.

You kiddies out there, take a tip from one who knows and download some of this stuff. You'll never listen to today's rap the same again....

Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Metalocalypse

Just wanted to riff for a little on ATHF. If you haven't checked this show out; you simply have to watch. The show is stupid and brilliant all at the same time. Totally appeals to my absurdist sense of humor (honed at a young age on the Muppets and Monty Python).

Check out Metalocalpyse too. It comes from the group associated with Brendan Small, who worked on other great adult animation series like Home Movies and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist. Maybe its because my brother is in a heavy metal band, but I just love the send up of death metal taken to the extreme. The counter conspiracy cracks me up as well.

Anyway, my recommendations to you.

Maybe I'm a Bad Blogger

January was my last post?!? I'm not sure why I don't blog more. I guess I'm not always motivated to do it. Just back from a family vacation. One house, two parents, two siblings, one son, one niece, and two foster daughters. It was nice, but it wasn't exactly margaritas on the back porch at sunset. Ah well, I guess that's gone for a while. Perhaps one day again.

Watching the Lady Tar Heels lose right now, but the men have advanced to the Final Four for a record 17th time. That I like....

Who's House? Heels' House!

I promise not to blog to much about sports, but my Tar Heels are 17 and 0, baby, and for all the things going poorly in my life at the moment, sometimes you got to just enjoy a sports team that you care about whomping up on everyone else. Especially NC State. LOL.

My Redskins are out (remind me to tell you why I am still a Redskins fan). But the Packers are playing well and the Plowboys are done as well. I'm ambivalent about the Patriots going all the way. It would be interesting to watch but folks from Boston are hard enough to take without 19 and 0 to brag about. JK Uncle Lance and Aunt Lolly!!

Uncle Sam to the Rescue

Don't want to offend anyone, but I have to say that I am pissed off about the White House's plan to bail out the mortgage industry on the sub-prime loan fiasco. I'm not in favor of kicking folks out in the street, but there was a reason that the sub-prime loans sounded too good to be true. They were too good to be true. If you bought a house that you had no business affording, why is it a big surprise when you can't afford it? I looked at sub-prime loans and decided (based on the facts) that I couldn't afford to take that kind of a risk. What if I didn't get raises? What if the housing market didn't do all that well? Then I'd be stuck with a mortgage I couldn't afford.

Well, now I'm the one that looks like an idiot, because I should have bought a house that I couldn't afford, because now my tax money will pay for the bailout of people who didn't think before they bought with a sub-prime loan.

I know. I'm a scrooge.