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and I owe it all to you

Patrick Swayze died Monday evening, succumbing to a long battle with cancer at the age of 57. This gives me an opportunity to go into detail about one of my favorite Swayze movies: Road House. Road House is a great movie. I enjoy Road House without irony or shame. While the fashions depicted therein might [...]

it's a big ol' land with countless dreams

Nine-Eleven, Nine-Eleven, Nine-Eleven I heard perhaps the worst song I’ve heard in years – worse even than Gwen Stefani’s “Wind It Up” – while grocery shopping on Sunday: Aaron Tippin’s “Where The Stars and Stripes and Eagles Fly.” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTKmjhJ1__o] This song wasn’t written in a Los Angeles studio by cynical shysters looking to cash in [...]

and then this dangle got all up in my rotisserie

The Power of Positive Thinking I dropped my camera on a kitchen floor on Friday night, taking it out to show to Lisa F. It slid a short distance, popping the battery compartment open and sending the battery flying. I reassembled it and turned it back on: worked fine! Still snapped pictures and everything. Only [...]

in every lovely summer's day

LiveJournal blogger The Ferrett has had a couple posts of late on the Oscars “In Memoriam” Montage featured at every Academy Awards ceremony. Actors who died in the previous year get a few seconds on screen, depicted in iconic roles, while grandiose strings swell in the background. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ByLMsKl48] Ferrett asks an interesting question, “If so-and-so [...]

NFL theme song

Against my better judgment, I joined another fantasy football league this season. I dropped out of Dave L’s, having lost embarrassingly two years in a row and having no desire to continue supporting better teams’ records. But Ray needed another player to round out his league. I wonder if perhaps we have too many teams [...]

don't get me wrong

Games People Play I hadn’t seen Melissa and John in too long, so they obliged me for a drink at Drink, where Aaron served us a variety of historical cocktails. Mine were all whiskey-based; Melissa and John’s were primarily gin-oriented, if I’m not mistaken. We talked about Chicago and reminisced on the virtues of Boston. [...]

living the good life

Papers, Please Neither of the last two times that I’ve been in a liquor store have I been carded. The law, as explained in the little plastic inserts over the “Take A Penny / Leave A Penny” trays, says that anyone under thirty could get carded. So I either look thirty, or look enough over [...]

and I've been putting out the fire with gasoline

Inglourious Basterds: I’m posting this on Labor Day in the hopes that no one sees it. Quentin Tarantino has always approached films with the geeky enthusiasm of a comic book collector, rather than the affected aloofness of a film student. The movies he makes reflect that: a smorgasbord of styles, an epic assault on the [...]

and when you said I scared you, well I guess you scared me too

The final three. THE PROM Fun. Angel comes to a painful but logical realization – that it’s unfair to tie a beautiful young girl down to a moping immortal. So he breaks up with her (at an inconvenient time, but is there ever a good one?). Buffy spends an appropriate amount of time heartbroken, then [...]

you'll never know what it means, but you'll know how it feels

Hey fans: My next entry in Overthinking It’s Cargo Cult series reviews Streets of Fire, Walter Hill’s campy 1983 rock musical starring Diane Lane, Rick Moranis and Willem Dafoe. I post YouTube clips in the article containing every good song in the movie, so you’ll want to check it out. People who’ve been asking when [...]

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