Just so that no one else asks, this is basically how I broke my face last weekend:
Imagine me in the Ric Flair role. I had my stitches taken out Thursday and beyond a black eye, I feel okay.
Parade Magazine did a front-page article on this asshole today and in it he compared life to Winnie the Pooh and said that we have a choice to either be a fun-loving Tigger or a bitter slouch like Eyore. Hey: fuck you, dying guy. Dingbats with their head in the clouds like THE DYING PROFESSOR and this other asshole would like us to believe that those of us who suffer are only doing so because we made a choice and that all we need to do is turn that frown upside down and everything will be just dandy! Thanks guys, I just wish I had known sooner that a lifetime of depression, anxiety and fear could have been prevented with the help of choosing a good attitude! Say, do you have any advice for homosexuals while you're at it?
I think I've been more fun and outgoing than I've ever been in my life within the past year, but I've also become more and more nihilistic. I fear that I'm going to become a character in a Bret Easton Ellis novel. This is bad.
South Park has been pretty good this season so far, and now you can watch every episode for free on their official website. I know a lot of people who may have dismissed the show for it's raunchy, unrefined first couple of seasons (they pretty much sucked), but it has evolved into perhaps the sharpest and funniest pop-culture satire on TV. While it may be the case that some episodes aren't as good the second time around, it's worth checking out the site if you've missed out on the past few seasons.
I'm in the middle of watching Alejandro Jodorowsky's Fando y Lis and so far it's excellent. I think I might even like it better than El Topo.
The Upright Citizens Bridgade's ASSSSCAT DVD is good, albeit underwhelming. I was hoping for a feature longer than two hours, but my hopes may have been set too high. The idea of releasing a live improv performance as a DVD might be a paradoxical problem since both concepts seem to be in direct opposition to each other; a live performance is not meant to exist in a vacuum just as a recorded work ought to appear polished and maintain some semblance of timelessness. As a huge fan of UCB, I can't see myself watching this DVD over and over again unless I'm showing it to friends. The "toiler scissors" joke might make it worth the price alone, though.
I few weeks ago I went to a sneak preview of the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I was very pleasantly surprised. There is something about Jason Segel's face that I can't stand, but he really pulled off his role in the film and his role as a writer. Last year's Knocked-Up was a pretty big let-down for me, and Superbad was just a tad over-hyped for my taste, so I'm glad I was able to enjoy this film before any of the buzz hit. The way the male and female characters handled the situations they were in was very realistic and funny, I thought.
