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Name: Kenny n Will
Country: United States
State: Virginia
Metro: Fredericksburg
Gender: Male
Interests: Kenny: 2 hour naps, cleavage, the Savage Brothers
Will: Mike Keaton movies, hot pockets, burritos, eggs benedict, Friends, Matt Broderick films, asking obnoxious questions at work, hating things.
Expertise: We work in customer service/support (read: "answering a telephone") at a business (read: Initech).
Occupation: Customer service/support
Industry: Business
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/30/2006
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| Dilemma: I want to buy some Yankee Candles (I was thinking on the way home they probably have an awesome pumpkin spice one. Also, I know this seems a little minty.) However, I'm uninterested in leaving my home and interacting with people. Should I just chance it and buy some candles online even though I may not end up liking the scent? Even if I like the scent, the best part about buying candles is going to the Yankee candle store and smelling every single kind. I spend hours of my life thinking about this kind of stuff. | | |
| - I apologize for the period of time between posts, but I've been pretty busy entertaining myself. The reason I'm not too busy to post today is because I'm home from work. Actually, I'm home from work for the third day in a row because I injured my back so severely playing slow pitch softball that I can barely walk. On Sunday, after my softball game I had to crawl up the stairs in my house to get to bed. I thought I was getting better, so I got dressed this morning for work (the socks and shoes took a while to get on). I drove about halfway to work and had to turn around because I was in agonizing pain. When I got home, I had to sit in the driveway for about 10 minutes because I couldn't get out of my car. Once again, it was slow pitch softball where we drink beerz during the game. I'm 27 years old, a former high school athlete, and I hurt myself bad enough playing beer league softball that I couldn't make the 45 minute commute for my desk job for 3 consecutive days.
- Also, I'm going to miss the Phillies playoff game that I had tickets for tomorrow and that my dad was going to attend with me.
- The one time I was inspired to write before this, I was going to do a running diary of what I did one Friday night when my roommate was out and I sat here alone drinking gin. I decided against posting it because there was some possible illegal activity involved (who am I kidding, it was certainly illegal) and the rest of it was pretty mundane stuff about me drinking copious amounts of gin and watching Dirty Work at 3 am (which was a great Free Movies On Demand find). Also, there was one part where I considered knocking on my neighbor's door and just asking her to blow me that I'm not so proud of.
- If you have Netflix or Starz, you should check out the first season of Party Down. Hilarious at times and there is something very engaging about Adam Scott as the lead. In addition, the chick who played the lesbian in Mean Girls, in the upset of the century, turned into a stone cold hottie while Lindsay Lohan spiraled into a pit of whore, and she's kinda awesome in this.
- A few movie reviews to piss off the World Fucking Champs (Pizza Teve):
Charlie Willson's War - Your parents probably like this movie.
Ghost Town - Love Ricky Gervais, funny in a cute rom-com kind of way, not an actually hilariously laughing kind of way
Visioneers - If the people who made this movie were trying to deliver some kind of message about how miserable people at midlevel jobs are in white suburbia, they should have just taken a shit in a shoe box and saved everybody some time. If they were just showcasing Zach Galifinakis and his completely weird sense of humor, they kind of hit a home run. If you watch this movie, don't go in trying to understand/care about the message.
Adventureland - I thought this movie was pretty good, though marketing it as "From the director of Superbad" is a mistake. The Twilight chick is a pretty good actress and the dude who repeatedly "sack whacks" the lead is pretty awesome.
- Both Adventureland and Party Down feature Martin Starr, who you know from Knocked Up, but would love if you ever watched Freaks and Geeks.
- In the last 2 days, I've watched half of Season 1 of 24, which aside from being much better than the subsequent seasons I have seen, is also a whos who of That Guys. Like half of the people you see on the show are just guys you've seen play government agents and FBI spooks before.
- When I got home from my miserable attempt at driving to work today, I fell asleep on the couch with HBO on. When I woke up, I was in the midst of a showing of Fred Claus. Vince Vaughn basically plays the same Chicago asshole that he always plays, but what was striking to me was the cast. The producers of this thing must have been shoveling money at people to come in for 3 or 4 days to mail in some scenes. Besides Vaughn and world class That Guy John Michael Higgins, we have Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti, 2 time Oscar nominee Miranda Richardson, Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, Oscar winner (with 2 other nominations) Kathy Bates, and 2 time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey (what happened to his career, oh, that's right, K-PAX), as well as Elizabeth Banks, Ludacris, and the kid from Role Models who is fucking hilarious. That's quite the cast for this piece of shit. They almost had to shoot this whole thing in like 4 weeks. Hey, Kevin, show up and will shoot all your scenes in 2 days for half a mil. What does Ludacris's agent say to him? Yo Luda, they are going to pay you 150k for one day of shooting. The part? You're going to play a disc jockey elf who gets verbally and physically abused by Santa Claus's degenerate big brother. Yeah, I'll tell them you won't do it for less than 250k. | | |
| The folks at Rottentomatoes.com put together a list of the 100 worst movies of all time. Here's the top ten. I've seen #5 and I am strugging to envision anything that could possibly be any worse. In fact, my initial impression was that the folks at rotten tomatoes may have been a little too lenient with #5, probably because of Will Friedle's charming face.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/10/
P.S. Here's a blog entry that I stumbled across that really made me laugh. I should note that while I'm not really familiar with McCaughnohey's work, I appreciate that he's out there doing it, jogging on beaches and playing football without a shirt on, making tons of money and banging sorority girls at the University of Texas. You really can't hate the guy, he's just doing what anybody else in his position would do.
http://blogofhilarity.com/2009/09/24/matthew-mcconaughey-cant-stand-up
Also, I made a quick mention of this on my facebook page, but I'm so happy that somebody finally made a song called "Party in the U.S.A." The fact that Miley Cyrus sings it is icing on the cake. If I were still in college, I would immediately plan an American themed party and jam "Party in the U.S.A." all night long, maybe interspersed with other American songs like "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" and "American Girl." I would have had a sick American Flag headband and shouted "PARTY IN THE USA" about 300 times. The idea for "Party in the USA" should have been developed by John Hancock immediately after he signed the Declaration of Independence. In fact, I'm sure those dudes knocked back a couple-a-cold ones after they created the United States. They simply didn't extend their behavior to its logical conclusion, which would have been to declare that there's a "Party in the U.S.A." The fact that we as a country have had to wait over 200 years for this song is a travesty. So far this song is my favorite thing to come out of the Obama administration and it gives me hope that some day we'll be able to come up with an equitable solution for the health care debate. | | |
| watchmen review:
that's false. the young girl had some slammim mams | | |
| - I haven't written in a long time as I've been pretty busy with bachelor parties and weddings, so I'm going to come at you with a bunch of movie thoughts on things I've seen since the last post. I apologize in advance to the Wet Tuna who has informed me that "he doesn't fucking care" what I think about movies.
City of God - This is an excellent movie. I watched this on a Sunday night and it was almost hard for me to sleep (almost) thinking about the scene where the kid who delivers food is forced to shoot one of his friends. The violence in this film is not cartoonish at all, it's almost too real. Also, the Wet Tuna would never watch this because it has subtitles.
Atonement - I was a little hesitant to watch this, I'm not big on movies about British aristocrats that are set in the past. (Read: due to reading Jane Eyre in the 11th grade, I've completely steered myself away from period pieces) 15 minutes into this, I wasn't sure that it was going to grab me. But then, my God, it did. As in with Milk over Slumdog this year, I actually ended up thinking this was better than No Country for Old Men (certainly in the minority). I just thought this was an absolutely great movie. About 45 minutes in, I was amazed at how well the music/score fit the movie. This is not something I usually notice unless its Star Wars or Jurassic Park, so I went to imdb and, sure enough, this one the Oscar for best score. I've always wondered how the fuck they figure stuff like that out, but the score on this was good enough for me to notice. In addition, it's a real treat to see the words "Sweet wet cunt" in typeface.
Funny People - I don't want to echo every review of this movie that says this movie should have ended 45 minutes earlier, so I don't think I'll write much about it at all. This was funny, but not as funny as the other Apatow joints. Sandler is pretty good in it.
Watchmen - No one should watch this movie without seeing the book first. I think that they did a commendable job of trying to take this story to the big screen, but the source material was probably a little unwieldy to try to fit into a timeframe that a studio would be happy with. The movie certainly looks cool, and I like that in a couple of scenes, they are shooting the actors through a window (Who watches the Watchmen), but this could never match the achievement that the book was. Also, I thought a lot of the actors sucked, mostly the chick who played the second Silk Spectre.
Foot Fist Way - Danny McBride plays just about the same character he plays in Eastbound and Down with a similar result. Hilarious at times, downright stupid at times, nothing really tying a plot of any type together. This movie, like Napolean Dynamite and Anchorman, is probably better to talk about than it is to actually watch. I did particularly love the line "Goddamn, Julio, you're a handsome boy."
I Love You, Man - Another bromance, not nearly on the level of Superbad, and frankly, probably not as funny as Funny People. This movie marked the return of the Bro-Zone movie of the week, which has faded away for the summer. I had a few IPAs (4) and then a few other beerz during this movie so I wasn't paying a ton of attention to it, but thought that it was pretty funny. I re-watched it today and decided that aside from a few choice places, this movie wasn't really that funny at all. Paul Rudd, who I have a serious man crush on, is for the most part a neutered bitch in this movie. His awesomeness was significantly under utilized. Jason Segel, another apple of my eye, has some funny moments but nothing really great from his character. I did love a couple of the Andy Samberg and JK Simmons moments.
I'm going to try to get back this week for another post that doesn't involve me giving opinions about things I have no basis as an expert in. Actually, just about everything on this blog is me giving uninformed opinions, so that last statement was probably a lie. | | |
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