Geeked

This poster just got me that much more psyched for this movie.  Everything about it is perfect, making this hands down my most anticipated movie of this summer.

The Mclovin’ Fund

Hillarious!

Websites that I like

These are a few of my favorites outside the usual (myspace, youtube, nba/nfl/mbl.com. espn etc.)

The Drudge Report: Although conservative, they cover everything in the political and current event world, leaving no stone unturned. I read this daily.

The New York Times: Need I say more?

With Leather: Hillarious sports blog about the idiots in sports.

Ball Hype: Links to every cool story/video in the wide world of sports.

Bill Simmons: One of my favorite writers for ESPN. His column is always worth reading.

Hype Beast: Fresh streetwear/sneaker blog

High Snobiety: See Hypebeast

Nike Talk: If you are able to get past all of the douche bags, it can be informative . I usually check for the release dates of whatever shoes I want and then bounce.

Digital Gravel: Great online store.

KarmaLoop: See DG.

Pick Your Shoes: Every shoe that you would ever want resides here. They’re pricey though.

Hip Hop Game: The most recent interviews, songs and stories in the world of hip-hop.

Stuff White People Like: Hillarious!

The Fail Blog: See “Stuff White People Like.”

Perez Hilton: Sure he’s a douche, but celebrity gossip and fuck-ups are a guilty pleasure of mine.

What Would Tyler Durden Do? Basically a better, more satirical version of Perez.

Film Drunk: Film news, insight and opinions brought to you by the same people who write With Leather and WWTDD.

Nintendo 8: Every Nintendo game known to man. I just beat Contra for the first time since I was a kid. (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, start)

Facts of Life: Fuck you Cody.

City Weekly: I’m not a huge fan of their writers or opinions, but they do keep me up to date on the haps of SLC.

IMDB: Everything about movies. Everything.

College Humor: Immaturity at it’s finest

Ebaums World: See College Humor. I really am 6 at heart

If any of you have sites that may relate to these, and aid in me wasting me free time, I urge you to participate and share.

Thank you 2007

Because of sheer laziness I did not write up my annual “yearly wrap up”, however after this weekends trip to BlockBuster, I realized just how many good movies were made in 2007. For the first times in several years there was movie after movie that I was standing in line for at the theater. For a skeptic like myself that doesn’t happen very often. So thank you 2007 for making some incredible movies and restoring my faith in Hollywood.

The list

Another fantastic weekend in the books.

Signed, sealed, delivered and in the books. Another fantastic weekend has come and gone.

Friday: Watched the second half of the Jazz/Suns game to my delight. The Jazz came back and scored 41 points in the fourth quarter and sealed their best road win of the year (yes better and more meaningful than the OT Denver game).

After that, the night only got better when I went to the movies with the fiance (my favorite thing to do ever) and saw Into The Wild, which was hands down one of the top 5 movies I have seen in the last few years. Emile Hirsch gives a phenomenal performance in a story about self discovery through nature instead of conforming to the norms of society. Not only was his performance stellar, but the cinematography was breathtaking, and proved once again just how beautiful America is from coast to coast. Very few movies actually move me, but I have no problem admitting that this one did just that. Leaving me to the conclusions that I need to travel more and read the book. It’s a shame this movie was so slept on.

Saturday: Slept in and woke up to my first flag football practice of the year. I’m excited and am anticipating a stellar season. We’ve made some key additions to the team, namely athleticism and speed which I guarantee will make my team a bigger threat than we were last year. This was a better practice than we had all of last year, and it was only our first one. Things can only go up.

Next came homework, which always sucks but it was completed in record time.

Afterwards I came home and watched another fantastic film with BA- Gone Baby Gone. Facts already blessed us with a review, so I won’t bother typing one, but you can read his here. We share the same sentiments. I will provide you with Casey Affleck’s (who’s becoming one of my favorite actors) monologue- which I found brilliant.

Cheese, if you ever disrespect her again like that, I’m gonna pull your fuckin’ card, okay? So you’re saying you didn’t do it, fine. We’ll take your money, and we’ll be on our way. When it turns out you’re lying, I’m gonna spend every nickel of that money to fuck you up. I’m gonna bribe cops to go after you, I’m gonna pay guys to go after your weak fuckin’ crew, and I’m gonna tell all the guys I know that you’re a C.I. and a rat, and I know a lot of people. And after that, you’re gonna wish you listened to me, ’cause your shitty pool hall crime syndicate headquarters is gonna get raided, and your doped-up bitches are gonna get sent back to Laos, and this fuckin’ retard right here is gonna be testifying against you for a reduced sentence, while you’re gettin’ cornholed in your cell by a gang of crackers. ‘Cause from what I’ve heard, the guys that get sent up Concord for killing kids, life’s a motherfucker.

After the flick, I flipped on my television to my enjoyment to see the Jazz score 77 points in the first half, all while taking a 23 point lead against the arch-rival Denver Nuggets. My boys ended up laying a 27 point beat down on the Nugs, while silencing all doubters. The Jazz sealed their best back-to-back games of the season, and have all but put a lock on the NW Division. If this keeps up I see them sealing the #3 spot in the playoffs with at least a 1st round home court advantage.

Next came the ultimate debauchery. After the game (and waiting for my friends for an hour and a half at the Huka) we met up Lumpy’s for ultimate drunken tomfoolery. Followed by an epic trip to Dee’s. The night can all be summed up by this one photo.

It was this idiocy that led to a couple asking if we were “foreigners”. LO mother fucking L.

Sunday: Slept until noon (thanks daylight savings), Nap and hungover homework. Fuck.

All together another solid weekend that only contributes to the good luck streak that I have been having lately. Please crown me the king of the weekend warriors.

I’m fucking Matt Damon/Ben Affleck

If you can’t laugh at this, you suck at life. Funny thing is, I usually hate Sarah Silverman, but this was everything that the Stewart/Colbert/Conan cameos were supposed to be. You have to love the celebrity appearances, especially the dude from Jane’s Addiction who just pops out of nowhere.

Matt Damon

Ben Affleck.

LOL

My Oscar Predictions.

Much like The Grammy’s, once a year I lay on the couch in sheer anticipation (minus all of the tired memoirs, dedications and irrelevant awards), tuning into the Academy Awards. Thank God I have a meeting to go to while they are airing so that I can TIVO the actual show and then fast forward through all of the drudgery. However every once in a while you get some magic (like Scorcese last year, or Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting) that makes up for everything.

 

Writing – Original Screenplay

• Juno
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Michael Clayton
• Ratatouille
• The Savages

Prediction: Juno. Diablo Cody’s dialog was hillarious, but a lot of it had to do with Ellen Page’s performance. I loved Juno though.

Documentary – Feature

• No End in Sight
• Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
• Sicko
• Taxi to the Dark Side
• War/Dance:

Prediction: Sicko

Animated Feature Film

• Persepolis
• Ratatouille
• Surf’s Up

Prediction: Persepolis. Although you can never can count out Ratatouille.

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Cate Blanchett/I’m Not There
• Ruby Dee/American Gangster
• Saoirse Ronan/Atonement
• Amy Ryan/Gone Baby Gone
• Tild Swinton/Michael Clayton
  

Prediction: Cate Blanchett. Her as Bob Dylan was unbelievable.

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Casey Affleck/Assassination of Jesse James:
• Javier Bardem/No Country for Old Men:
• Philip Seymour Hoffman/Charlie Wilson’s War
• Hal Holbrook/Into the Wild
• Tom Wilkinson/Michael Clayton

Prediction: Javier Bardem/No Country for Old Men. One of the best performances I have seen in a long time. Bardem played the most menacing villian in recent history.  However, Phillip Seymour Hoffman was fantastic in Charlie Wilson’s War.  Not many people have the ability to play the characters that he does.

Actress in a Leading Role

• Cate Blanchett/Elizabeth:
• Julie Christie/Away From Her
• Marion Cotillard/ La Vie En Rose
• Laura Linney/The Savages
• Ellen Page/Juno

Prediction: Marion Cotillard.

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• George Clooney/Michael Clayton
• Daniel Day-Lewis/There Will be Blood
• Johnny Depp/Sweeney Todd
• Tommy Lee Jones/In the Valley of Elah
• Viggo Mortensen/Eastern Promises

Prediction: Daniel Day-Lewis/There Will be Blood. Daniel Day Lewis is the best actor working in Hollywood today.  It’s a shame he is so selective (3 films in 10 years ) about the films he is in. Although I think that Johnny Depp has a slight chance to upset. Also, it’s a travesty that Brad Pitt wasn’t even nominated for The Assassination of Jesse James.

Directing

• Julian Schnabel/The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Jason Reitman/Juno
• Tony Gilroy/Michael Clayton
• The Coen Brothers/No Country For Old Men
• Paul Thomas Anderson/There Will Be Blood

Prediction: The Coen Brothers/No Country For Old Men

Best Picture

• Atonement
• Juno
• Michael Clayton
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will be Blood

Prediction: No Country for Old Men. This was the best movie I saw all year. Though There Will Be Blood has a chanc, along with Michael Clayton. God help me if Atonement wins.

 

* I am anticipating the reflections and dedications to Heath Ledger. It really is a tragedy that he passed so soon.

Major League 4: The Steroids Era.

While on my way to class this morning I habitually turned on the Dan Patrick show to get my daily overdose of sports news, gossip and headlines. The main topic for today was of course – Roger Clemens on Capitol Hill. Mr. Patrick made a comment about making a sequel to the Major League movie trilogy. This is my attempt to create an All-Star cast while finishing what Mr. Patrick started. This movie of course has Oscar written all over it.

Bud Selig – Harrison Ford

Bryan Mcnamee – Steve Buscemi

Kirk Radomski – Paul Giamatti

Roger Clemens – Alec Baldwin

Barry Bonds – Michael Clarke Duncan

Lenny Dykstra – Mark Walberg

Jose Canseco – Michael Madsen

Alex Rodriguez – Keanu Reeves

Mark Mcgwire – Mickey Rourke

Eric Gagne – Phillip Seymour Hoffman (lose 30 lbs when in LA, gain it back when in Texas/Boston)

Sammy Sosa – Wesley Snipes (yes I know he was in the original)

Mo Vaughn- Anthony Anderson

Rafael Palmeiro – George Clooney

Andy Pettite – Adam Sandler (circa Longest Yard bulkiness)

Miguel Tejada – Francisco Gattorno

Chuck Knoblauch – Matt Damon

Gary Sheffield – Jamie Foxx

John Rocker – Clive Owen

Wally Joyner – Bruce Willis

Albert Pujols – The Rock

Gary Mathews Jr. – Will Smith

Rick Ankiel – Christian Bale

Juan Gonzalez – Josh Brolin

“Damn you fucked up like you’re favorite movie scene”

I’m a movie geek. Here’s a few of my favorite monologues.