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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Driving School with Suspenders and Uncle BluJoe
Hey,
I have to watch a traffic school video because someone hit my car. It's too complicated to get into on the blog, but I decided to make it a more worthwhile endevor by writing up my thoughts as I'm watching, especially since the tests for these things are REDICULOUSLY easy. Trust me, I've done it before.
"We hope you enjoy the program" Not likely narrator guy...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Holy Shirt! Chapter 1: Pudge's Closet Revealed
Hey,
I love T Shirts. It's almost unhealthy how much I love them. I wear them about 95% of the time. My teenage years were that of the novelty tee, and now even though the luster of everything on a t shirt is beginning to die down, I'm still hooked for life on amassing as many of them as possible. My T Shirt collection is so large, that I have enough to last me until I go home from college every few weekends, never having to touch the washer/dryer in Tampa. To tell you the truth, I'd probably ruin them if I tried, that's just not my thing.
So why should you care about my love of T Shirts? I don't really know. Using the logic of "It's my blog and I'll post what I want to", tonight I'm going to start the massive undertaking of documenting my T Shirt collection for the entire internet to see. What will follow on a semi weekly basis is 10 or so of my T Shirts pictured and described, including thoughts about when I got them and why or why not they are special to me, and links to purchase the shirts when they are still available. Without further ado, let's begin.
Shirt 1: Dead Space
Purchased at: Hot Topic
Thoughts: I figured the best place to start would be the shirt I wore today, a traditional Box Art t shirt from Dead Space. I got this during one of my many raids of the Hot Topic clearance section, which is always a good place to look for these type of shirts. They seem to have shirts for everything, even the stuff that might not be so popular (Dwight from the Office's movie The Rocker or something had shirts there if I remember correctly) I have no real affinity for the game, never beat it, but it's a good shirt to wear to gaming events and such.
Shirt 2: Bret Hart 2010
Purchased at: WWEShop
Thoughts: This is my newest shirt, it went on sale for ten bucks and I had to snatch it up. I'm a wrestling fan (check the sidebar for my all wrestling Twitter) so I have a lot of shirts from both of the current federations. This shirt is an evolution of the old Bret Hart shirt design, although I probably l.like the old one better, because there was a heart in the design. Instead, on this shirt, there are hearts in the skulls eye, and it's a lot harder for the average joe to pick up on what the shirt is supposed to be unless they happen to also read my back. It's a fun design, but I have a lot better shirts to wear at any wrestling events I attend.
Shirt 3: AC/DC For Those About to Rock
Purchased at: Wal-Mart
Thoughts: I remember getting this shirt the beginning of last semester. Like most of my shirts, it was on sale. I have a fondness for AC/DC. All of their songs sound the same, but there are also so many of them that if you get the feeling to listen to one of them, you always have a lot to choose from. Not much else to say here.
Shirt 4: Munchies 420 Cafe
Purchased at: Munchies 420 Cafe (Shirt not available on website)
Thoughts: This is a keeper. I watch Man vs Food from time to time, and one of the episodes detailed Sarasota, which is not too far from my home town of Punta Gorda. From the time I saw the episode a few years ago, I vowed to head to this restaurant and sample their wares. They are known for ridiculously gigantic subs stuffed with everything from Mac N Cheese to Chicken Fingers to Scrambled Eggs. LunaTik and I finally headed out there this summer and it was great stuff. Of course, mom knowing my obsession, she had to buy me the T Shirt, and it's become one of my go to favorites of recent times.
Shirt 5: Left 4 Dead 2 Dark Carnival
Purchased at: Hot Topic (Discontinued)
Thoughts: This shirt is the same story as the Dead Space shirt, although this shirt is long gone from the website. However, unlike Dead Space, I'm a huge fan of the Left 4 Dead games, and this happens to be one of the best campaigns from either installment, so it's a great one to have.
Shirt 6: Edge Rated R Superstar
Purchased at: WWEShop
Thoughts: Another wrestling shirt, this one I got my first year of college in a combo pack with the new at the time Edge DVD. Edge was one of my early favorites in the WWE, and this shirt is a vintage WWE design that I had to have in my collection, and it's much better then any other shirt he's had IMO.
Shirt 7: ECW Experience the Difference
Thoughts: Another crown jewel in my collection, this is one of the earliest shirts made by the best company in wrestling history, ECW. It dates all the way back to 1995. This is one of shirts I bought in an auction from none other then Harry Slash, the local Philadelphia musician who did most of the original music for the company for the length of it's independent run. I rarely even wear this shirt (Mostly because it's probably too small), but I'm proud to own a part of ECW history.
Shirt 8: This is my Shirt
Received as a gift
Thoughts: This is a pretty generic gaming shirt that the mother and the sister found while shopping one day. It's pretty low on my list of shirts, but it's a fine day and done shirt for days when all I'm doing is going to class.
Shirt 9: You've Been Rickroll'd
Thoughts: I'm really glad I picked this shirt up when I did, because this is one of the fastest disappearing shirts I've ever seen on jinx.com . J!NX is a T Shirt website I frequent from time to time, although lately their shirts have been lackluster compared to the glory days of a few years ago. They also have a bad tendency to discontinue awesome shirts, like this one which must have been on the site for under 3 months. I've got a bunch more coming from J!NX, almost all of them gotten just before they were taken off the site.
Shirt 10: Sting
Purchased at: ShopTNA (Discontinued)
Thoughts: This is a shirt from the other, less known, current wrestling promotion. It's an older Sting shirt that I got in a great deal that they run on their website. 5 shirts in a box for 20 bucks. They run it from time to time, and their shipping costs are pretty bad, but its always fun to open that box at the end of the process. It's a pretty cool design, although it's in a weird place where sometimes it looks like I'm wearing just a plain black shirt, which I never would, so it bothers me sometimes.
Shirt 11: Normal People Scare Me
Received as a gift
Thoughts: This is one of those dime a dozen department store novelty tees, and yet I really like this one. It's a great shirt to wear to a mall or crowded area where there are those people who hand out flyers and such. This shirt makes you not get so many flyers, which is better for both involved honestly. You could probably find this shirt in any Wal-Mart or Target if you're lucky.
That's it for this time, hope you enjoyed and want to come back for more when I dig out another fistful of shirts and bring them onto the web.
-Pudge
Monday, September 06, 2010
Piranha and Machete: A Weekend at the Grindhouse
Hey,
Happy Labor Day weekend everybody! I'm sure you're having a much better weekend then I am, having my laptop break on me and then getting into an car accident that did nothing but confine me to my new living arrangements for the forseeable future. It would also help if I had a job right now that didn't involve computers so I could actually accomplish something. But enough of my whining, my pain is the internet's pleasure as this lull gives me plenty of time to type on the Droid and write about the movies I saw before my weekend went to shit.
I had recently purchased a very cheap Fandango movie ticket and was planning on using it for the Machete midnight showings seeing as the ticket wasn't counted as a pass (I checked!) Alas, there were no good theaters that combined Fandango ticketing with Machete midnight madness, so I was stuck with a ticket that was set to expire. These circumstances led to my arrival at an afternoon showing of Piranha 3-D where I was joined by an old black couple and a small group of teenages hanging around in the back. Weird crowd for this flick.
The movie is helmed by a couple of familiar names, including Jerry "Sliders is my curse" O'Connel playing a pornographer, Rob "Why did I leave the Daily Show" Cordrey as his assistant and Christopher "Doc Brown" Lloyd as, what else, a crazy fish scientist. There are also quite a few of the unknown horrible actors you get with this type of film, including a little girl who says boobs about 25 times (IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SHE IS LITTLE) and a heavy set black man whose character was litterally a hard nosed cop who is too old for this shit. Like he actually says that. In a movie released in 2010. Without a hint of irony. Amazing.
I knew going into this movie that it was going to be rediculous. Several people had described it to me as borderline porn, and for squemish people or perhaps people that don't view porn on a regular basis, this might have held true. There were plenty of naughty bits to behold, as well as plenty of those bits being ripped apart by hungry fish. I didn't really mind, it felt right in a killer fish movie helmed by Roger Corman. These movies aren't for everyone, but for an MST3K junkie like myself it was quite a ride. If you too can find pleasure in fish tearing apart characters that you actually want to die after spending five minutes of screen time with them, this might be a good film to go see, especially since half the cheesy effects will only be good if seen in 3D on the big screen. Unless you happen to be an idiot who decides to spend his life savings on a 3D television in order to see a 3D rendition of Jerry O'Connel's dick in the comfort of your own home. Yea, that's worth the money for sure.
Anyway, my midnight trip cancelled, I rebounded quite nicely the next night with a 12:35 Friday night showing of Machete. And I didn't even have to get out of my car, because I saw this in a DRIVE IN.
Yup, I saw an old school explotation flick in a drive in. Something I never thought I would get to do, and one more reason why Tampa is just so kickass. I later heard that it is regularly filled with gangs and shit, but the ticket price there is only 6 bucks, so that might be an even tradeoff. I definately plan on going here more often after The Great Laptop/Car Crash 010 is all taken care of.
Onto the film, I have to say that this movie was amazing. I can't bring myself to hate any part of it, and I really hope it does good in the long haul after opening in 3rd over the weekend. I really wanna see sequels to it. Danny Trejo, fresh off his near cameo in Predators, plays Machete, the wrong mexican to fuck with. This movie is as old school as action movies get. Machete gets double crossed by bad guys, and then systematically dispatches every last one of them in glorious over the top fashion. His enemies include Robert De Niro as a redneck politician, Jeff Fahey as his assistant, and the big baddie at the end is Steven Seagal playing a mexican drug lord. Which means the entire movie is filled with him trying so hard to pull off an accent that it hurts. It's quite wonderful to behold. Me being a Seagal fanboy, it was just nice to see him back on the screen again, considering it's almost been 10 full years since he's been in a big screen film. He obviously even had some creative control with the way his final scene is handeled, which made me laugh quite a bit. Lindsay Lohan also shows up in a role that has her naked more then not, which is nice for those few who still care about that sort of thing and bought last month's Maxim.
I can't impart on you how amazing the experience was, sitting back and watching all the rediculous beheadings and stabbings, cracking up with LunaTik over a parade of Low Riders bouncing down the street led by Machete holding his giant knife up. It's a film I would reccomend to anyone I know with a sense of humor.
The big question however, is which huge rediculous action movie from the last 30 days was a better time at the movies? Does Stallone and crew do better then a lone man with a machete? In the end, even being able to pose this question is a great thing. I have a good feeling about this decade in movies if these are the kind of action movies we can expect in the future. They are both magnificant at what they do, but I'd have to give the slight edge to Stallone. Only because that movie was such a monumentous occasion and a dream film, while Machete was a great throwback movie but nothing as epic as having Stallone and Arnold on screen chatting with each other. Still though, I hope both movies become franchises, and I also hope that the success of both allows Seagal and Trejo to show up in a future Expendables film, along with Van Damne perhaps. A boy can dream can't he?
Final Virdict: Go see both of these movies if you are a fan of insanity.
Machete don't text
-Pudge