Check out the blog while my DJ revolves it...?

So I was in the car the other day listening to 90's music, because that's what I do, when Ice, Ice, Baby came on. I immediately started rapping along with Mr. ice (or Van Winkle to his friends) when the chorus comes up and I realized something interesting. I throughly believe that Vanilla Ice wanted to be caught for sampling David Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure"! If you listen to the words he say "...check out the hook while my DJ revolves it." After he says this the sample of the song starts. How in the WORLD did it take ANY time for someone to catch this!? He is telling people to listen to the hook, obviously the best part of the song and it's something he didn't even create!

Best Sports Movie...?

Goodness it's been a while. Not much has been going on. I am doing some PR work with a few dental offices in the area and I am getting back into the interning thing with The Regular Guys on Rock 100.5 but other than that its all pretty quiet.

I was waiting for my girlfriend to get out of her boot camp class today and as I waited, I started watching Field of Dreams on my iPhone via Netflix. It occurred to me as I was watching it that I absolutely love this movie.

First and foremost it is about the best sport in the world: baseball. Let's not argue this because it will go nowhere. There are some of you that will tell me that football is better and you are entitled to your opinion; however wrong it may be. I think there are far too many people on a football team. There are like 5 people just on the line for goodness sake. If you took one of those players off on both sides I don't think the game would change much. Now, in baseball, take the center fielder out. The left and the right fielder have that much more space to make up. Short stop as well; if you take him out then the double play would almost be non existent. So please, let's not argue this.

Secondly, it has a nice mix of comedy and drama with a dash of mystery. FoD is a movie you can watch over and over and it is always fun. Another good movie is The Natural but it can drag at times. FoD is usually always moving forward. (The best sports SCENE however does belong to The Natural when Roy smashes the lights with Wonderboy).

Thirdly, the actors play the game like it used to be played and that is not easy to do. The swings, the pitching, even the fielding has changed so much over the years and it can't be easy to emulate.

All in all Field of Dreams is a great story about a guy that shouldn't own a farm but is glad that he does when Shoeless Joe Jackson starts telling him to build things.

Don't Wanna Get My Herz Mess Up

I know you've seen this; we all have. You're walking down the street or perhaps grabbing an Orange Julius at your local mall and you walk passed a person with their cell phone directly in front of their mouth. They are yelling into the phone and are then surprised when they can't hear the response from the person on the other end...why is that?

The only thing I can come up with is the person doesn't want to get their hair messed up or maybe doesn't want to smudge their make up. There are 2 flaws with this theory; the first one being I have seen men behaving in this way and the second...who shoves their phone into their ear in such a way that it has any chance of messing with your hair/makeup? I truly am baffled by this behavior and I want to punch everyone I see that behaves in such a way.

Does anyone else have theories??

Facebook Events

I don't know how many of you pay attention to the new Facebook features but there is one that actually makes me more aware of how uncool I am (to some at least). I am not sure what the feature is called but essentially it shows you what events your friends are going to or ones they have created. Now, say you are minding your own business, maybe playing some Mafia Wars or Family Feud, and you look up at the top right of your window. You see that Soandso has created Event X! You click on the event and you see that pretty much all of your friends are going...except you. Why are you not going? Because you never got an invite (or an evite in this situation I suppose). In the earlier days of Facebook it didn't matter if your friends had an event and you weren't invited. Chances are you were already doing something on the night it occurred so you didn't have a chance to get pissy but NOW, now you KNOW when this even will occur. It is a terrible situation and I think it is one more piece in Mark Zuckerberg's evil plan to make everyone hate each other.
Picture this, say you are dating or at least talking to some girl. You really like her and you think things are going well. So you're on Facebook one evening and you see this friend event notification pop up on your screen. You click it to see who is going and low and behold your pseudo girlfriend is going. Now, you never got an invite so you're a little hurt because the person organizing it is a friend of yours. So you wait for the girl to invite you as a date. This never happens. Instead you spend the night playing Call of Duty with a bunch of 13 year olds that are up WAY past their bedtime and then you watch Saturday Night Live. The next day you get on Facebook to check your notifications and you see someone has posted pictures from the event. You check out the pictures and there it is. A collection of pictures of your pseudo girlfriend making out with some other guy...or girl. I may be creating a slippery slope here but you can't deny that this is a very real possibility.

Snowlacaust 2011!

Well, as predicted, the Snowpocalypse of the year is upon us in Atlanta. As always, I thought the impending doom of Snowmageddon was all phooey but they proved me wrong...dead wrong. Ok, maybe not DEAD wrong but it's definitely worse than I thought it was going to be. Roads are covered in 1-4 inches of ice, the temperatures are supposed to get just high enough to melt some of the ice cover but then drop drastically in the evening to ice it all up again. People are stranded on I-85 and nobody is wanting to venture out. It is a crazy time in Georgia. THat's all I really have to say for now.

Mental Illness

Have you heard these commercials on the radio about how your friends would react if they told you they have a mental illness? There are at least 2 different ones. The first one I heard has a large group of people saying they were the friends that would help you do X and then another group, slightly smaller, saying they were the friends that would help you do Y and the group gets smaller and smaller until its one person saying they are the friend that would help you if you discovered you had a mental illness. The second commercial has a narrator asking would it would sound like if your friend told you they had a mental illness: the resulting sound is just silence. These commercials bug me. First of all, any "friend" that wouldn't help their friend who has a mental illness is not a friend at all. Now that the Sesame Street response is out of the way we can get down to it. Say someone has been living with bipolar disorder and has just never been clinically diagnosed. The chances of you not noticing their off kilter personality are slim. The fact that they would have been living with this condition without medication would almost guarantee it. So this makes this commercial useless in that sense. Now, lets say somehow you were able to keep your condition under wraps and you are just now making it known that your ill and it truly is a shock to all your friends, the commercial gets down to ONE person saying they are the friend that would help you. ONE PERSON! Are human beings really that terrible? Do these people really believe that out of the dozens of people that the commercial started with only ONE person would be willing to help a friend in need? These commercials are RIDICULOUS!

By the way, I have just been diagnosed with Multiple Personalities Disorder...turns out those friends I was always telling you about, were not real. Don't know why I thought that a giant pink rabbit and a leprechaun could actually be real. Silly me.

2 In One Day!?

Ok so I just posted a few hours ago but then, after checking another blog I follow, I checked my profile views. I am just under 200 views! What the H people!? Please comment! Haha! I want to have a back and forth with someone!!!

Mexican Food

I was driving home the other day and I started contemplating Mexican food as I passed "The Bell". Essentially, in it's simplest form, all Mexican food is the same and they are all sandwiches. Take the taco: corn shell, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, beef, cheese. What does that sound like? Hamburger: bun, lettuce, tomato, mayonaise, beef, cheese. It works for all the mainstays: burrito, chalupa, enchilada, etc. There are even Tortas or Mexican sandwiches which feature the same ingredients as other Mexican food. Am I saying there is anything wrong with it? No. Am I saying they are all the same thing? Not really. You would consider a ham sandwich and a turkey sandwich the same would you? Or a hamburger and a meatball sub? They are all sandwiches though. To further argue my point I present the Dictionary.com definition:

sand·wich

[sand-wich, san-]

–noun

1.

two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.

2.

open sandwich.

3. something resembling or suggesting a sandwich

The taco, while not being between two pieces of bread, can be considered a type of open face sandwich, a wrap ,or something resembling a sandwich.

That all being said, I do like me some Mexican food.