This Week: we suspect the worst of Doug’s absence, rank Thanksgiving among the holidays, how Dan’s raising the neighborhood bully, John’s confusing TSA stance, and how TV releases would be handled on a deserted island.
Reading, Watching, Hearing…
John: Guster’s Easy Wonderful. (and Dan, here’s a link to that TGUK song.)
Dan: Time magazine. (he’s not even trying any more.)
“…they sit side by side in their catinas, talk of senoritas, and drink warm beer.”
Gabe, on the other hand, played in the sand and water. Caution: this video’s duration inches close to “only a grandparent could love” length. Which is appropriate, as we took a camcorder around one day to send some video back to my parents. Fun trip, which says a lot from someone who usually hates things like water and sun…
Happy long-weekend to all of you. Wishing you safe travels and good times over the holiday.
That’s right – a week of travel and lounging allowed me to knock out quite a few movies. Here they are, in descending order of chestylikeability…
Damn United (imdb)
Didn’t work as a great sports movie for me until the “and this is what happened” text-epilogue before the credits, which gave the story better context. Not knowing any of the story or real-life characters, I had a hard time distinguishing when the heavy satire switch was turned on. I’m sure English soccer fans wouldn’t have that problem. Regardless, well-acted and a nice blueprint about how to tell an intriguing sports story without the corny “Rudy” melodrama.
more after jump…
This Week: why electronics and beaches don’t mix, horny dolphins, Doug’s new iPhone, Dan’s hope to be HGTV’s next star, podcasts vs. radio, and about 47 minutes talking about cable TV companies.
Reading, Watching, Hearing…
Doug: Chuck Klosterman’s Eating the Dinosaur
John: a ton of vacation movies and Louie.
Dan: Iron Man 2
Get Him to the Greek (imdb)
You know what I think would be funny? Have a movie about a music label rep who acts nothing like a music label rep, because he doesn’t go to any concerts or events and seems to never leave the house and his intimate-less relationship there. Wait… it gets funnier. Cause then we’ll add a drug-obsessed rock star, who’s abuse problems seem to stem from empty relationships with vapid women, a hateful father and oblivious mother. Wait – even funnier! – put them together and have them on a road trip to get to a concert, but we’ll throw in lots of obstacles like… well, like drugs and alcohol. Actually, those are the only obstacles. But it’ll give us an opportunity to show lots of vomiting onscreen… which is hilarious the first six times. So let’s do it eight times, at least. And finally, after all these laughs, we’ll finish on a sentimental note with one of the most weird, painfully-unfunny threesome scenes ever put to film (and I’ve watched a LOT of bad porn, you know), and we’ll wrap a big bow on things with our two characters becoming close friends, even though not a single intelligent viewer would find the slightest of sympathetic or redemptive trait in any… well, character or plot development that they’ve sat through for the last 90 minutes. Yeah. That would be funny.
