I am so good-looking

  It seems like I'm always apologizing for the lack of updates.  This time I have a lot of things I've been meaning to talk about but not enough time to sit down here and do it.  The 1 o'clock hour when I have to leave for work sneaks up fast.

  Last night I was finally allowed to be on my own.  No more technically unnecessary training.  So of course, I got the worst truck- just a big mess.  But I handled it.

Co-worker: What are you doing, Kevin?

Me: It's called 'trial by fire'.

Co-worker: No, they wouldn't fire you.

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  I have to make a correction to a comment I made when I was discussing television in a previous entry.  I said that no new show I watched made it to a second season.  However, I forgot about Prison Break.  I think I forgot about it because I caught up with it during a mid-season marathon and didn't take the normal road of summer anticipation.  All I remember of last year at this time was eagerly waiting for Threshold and Reunion and both of those shows were axed way too quickly.  It still stings!

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  Time to issue some big GET WELL SOONS.  First to Lisa, my most consistent comment giver, who recently underwent a lobotomy.  Hugs and love!  It sounds like you're doing well but we want you to be back at 100% soon.

  Second, to my favorite wrestler ever, Kurt Angle, who was recently granted an early release from WWE.  The guy is so tough that he was trying to wrestle with a lot of nagging injuries (such as a groin tear!).  It finally caught up with him as he is now addicted to painkillers and getting a divorce.  I sincerely hope Kurt can get his life back in order and get back into championship form.  We do not need another high profile wrestler on the deceased list.  Especially one of the best ever.

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  Last Saturday my brother and I went to see Beerfest.  Another lowbrow comedy that scores.  I particularly enjoyed the satire.  Like Snakes, the movie is funnier if you are in on the joke that it's only a movie.  Beerfest acknowledges the cliches it presents and revels in them.  Either I'm being too nice lately or I'm only seeing things I know I will like, but Beerfest is another Grade A.

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This Week's Top Ten

1. Fidelity- Regina Spektor

2. Le Disko- Shiny Toy Guns

3. Love Me or Hate Me- Lady Sovereign

4. LDN- Lily Allen

5. Penny on the Traintracks- Ben Kweller

6. Long Distance Call- Phoenix

7. Stalking You on Myspace- John B

8. In The Morning- Razorlight

9. Is It Any Wonder?- Keane

10. Better- Regina Spektor

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Today I weigh 204 lbs.  Only 4 away from my original goal in only 3 months!  That would be 40 dropped.

What To Watch

IFILM Player  <---  Video for Fidelity by Regina Spektor.  Too bad everytime I like a singer, Tricia tells me about their coke habit.  LOL 

--I just finished my first full week back at work.  The unloading job is super easy and I am really looking forward to being good at my job again.  My boss told me last night that the guy training me has said only good things and they are both psyched to get me out on my own and show my relatively unexperienced co-workers how things are done.  He used the word 'psyched' three times.  The only downside is that I'm still in the cold temperatures so my carpal tunnel syndrome is flaring up again.

YouTube - BOOM!   <----  Brock Lesnar superplexes The Big Show and the ring breaks.

-- Today it's really cold.  Last Monday was the season premiere of Prison Break.  The NFL is half way done with the pre-season.  All this means that the summer is all but officially over.  Time to seriously think about what we are going to be watching on TV this fall.  

Monday- Definites:  Prison Break, Monday Night Football, WWE Monday Night Raw   Maybes: NBC's new shows Heroes and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.  (After last season's debacle of every new show I tried being canceled, I am very wary of trying anything new)

Tuesday- Definite: Veronica Mars Maybe: Knights of Prosperity

Wednesday- Definites: Jericho, LOST, Kidnapped Maybe: The Nine

Thursday- Survivor, My Name is Earl, The Office, CSI, Grey's Anatomy

Friday- WWE Friday Night Smackdown

Saturday- NOTHING

Sunday- The Amazing Race, The Simpsons, Sunday Night Football, Desperate Housewives

YouTube - Cat on a fan   <--- an old classic

This Week's Top Ten

Here's what I've been listening to this week:

1. Fidelity- Regina Spektor

2. Love Me or Hate Me- Lady Sovereign

3. LDN- Lily Allen

4. Better- Regina Spektor

5. Le Disko- Shiny Toy Guns

6. Smile- Lily Allen

7. Stay- Small Sins

8. Well Thought Out Twinkles- Silversun Pickups

9. In the Morning- Razorlight

10. Breaking the Ice- Mojave 3

The VCH Reviews SNAKES ON A PLANE

 

  The following entry may contain *SPOILERS*

 *sigh of relief*  I am happy to report that Snakes on a Plane delivers.  As they like to say on Big Brother this season, "it is what it is."  SoaP is a fun, critic-proof popcorn movie.  It is a campy, action-horror romp.  I, of course, can't judge it by awards potential or any other mainstream industry standard.  I can only judge it by how much I was smiling while watching it.  And that was a lot.  I haven't smiled that much in a theater since Freddy fought Jason.

   Samuel L. Jackson plays Flynn, a typical Jackson bad-ass role.  He is a federal agent escorting a witness for the prosecution to LA to testify against an Asian mob boss.  The kid has witnessed a murder and is a target, but how he was found by both the mob and Jackson, what police corruption has to do with anything, and how the bad guys knew which plane was not the decoy is all inconsequential in a film called Snakes on a Plane.  The whys and hows are tossed within the first 10 minutes and soon enough we're at the airport meeting all the characters who may or may not become snake food.

  They include a germophobic rap star and his posse, an annoying business woman and her dog, Mary-Kate.  Of course, the movie delivers on the all-important cliches as well.  You've got the guy who is afraid to fly, the obnoxious man who hates everyone around him, and not one, but two flight attendants who are about to retire.  And, as is customary, the people who have sex are the first to be dispatched.

  Things escalate quickly from humorous to exciting to utterly preposterous, but none of it is ever boring or bad.  I can't recommend it or not recommend it because it's the type of movie where you either like it or you don't and you know which it is before you would ever need to hear someone else's opinion.  I can only say that I absolutely loved it.  Snakes on a Plane gets an A+ 

 

*The only thing I was disappointed with was the obvious edit to include the now world-famous Jackson line heard at the beginning of this song.  I thought it would come after he kills one or when the snakes really screw something up in the plane's instruments.  Instead, he says it right before they put the landing plan into action.  That would work just fine except that his anger didn't really fit the mood of the scene.  I guess I was just expecting too much from that line.  LOL

Also, it would have been a cool nod to Deep Blue Sea if Flynn had died in the middle of his "Let's keep it together" speech, but, funny as that would have been, you can't have the second half of the movie Jackson-free if you don't have Tom Jane to take you home.

It's a wicked world that we live in

   Doesn't this song about black market trafficking make you want to buy shampoo?  I would love to meet the ad execs who slipped this one past both their bosses and clients. 

Shampoo bigwig:  Gee, there's a lot of cussing in this song!

Pitch guy: Don't worry about the lyrics, we won't use them.  Don't you hear the WOO WOO?

Shampoo bigwig: Oh yeah, I like that.  Sounds like a train!  WEEEE!

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    Happy Snakes on a Plane day!    I'm almost positive that my brother was serious about going to the midnight showing last night so I will be going by myself this afternoon.  I will let you know how it is.  I am anticipating the best movie of the summer and it had better deliver!

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   I am not the first and certainly won't be the last blogger to sing the praises of Youtube.com, but damn if I haven't watched this clip 25 times already.  It's a hilarious tribute to our nation's first president.  Enjoy.

YouTube - george washington

 

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I don't have a picture, but I have now lost 30 pounds and it is starting to show in my waistline.  I can shove my whole hand down my pants now.  Not that I would or anything...

Man at Work

  Well, today is the day.  For the first time since Dec. 5, 2005 I am going to work.  I'm not 100% but maybe I never will be.  The good news is that I lucked out and got back to where I belong in that place.  Driving a forklift and letting the machines do the work.  That's more my style.  No threat of crippling injuries.

My new schedule is Monday- Thursday 2pm-12am.  I am finally going to have weekends off.  Football.  Family functions.  Football.  I am pleased.

This Week's Top Ten:

1. LDN- Lily Allen

2. Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)- Cobra Starship

3. Love Me or Hate Me- Lady Sovereign

4. Fidelity- Regina Spektor

5. Smile- Lily Allen

6. Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano- New York Dolls

7. In the Morning- Razorlight

8. Breaking the Ice- Mojave 3

9. Le Disko- Shiny Toy Guns

10. Alive With the Glory of Love- Say Anything

 

TWO days left until SNAKES ON A PLANE.

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