The Globes

63rd golden globes
I know that this is going to be all over online but I'm writing it as I watch it. I would rather just write down what I think than sit here talking to myself. So her is my summery of the night...

-best supporting actor-
George Clooney -he looked pretty good. He has been around enough where he doesn't feel like he has to thank everyone he knows so it was a good speech with jokes and all.

-best supporting actress-
Rachel Weisz(Constant Gardener)-I haven't seen the movie yet so I don't really have an opinion on this. Her speech was boring.

-best supporting actor in TV movie/series-
presented by Jessica Alba(who looked amazing) and Luke Wilson-a fun pair-
Paul Newman won for Empire Falls-I have not seen this, but I hear it's good. Paul wasn't there.

-best supporting actress in TV movie/series-
Sandra Oh (Gray's Anatomy)-I've only seen the show a few times. It was OK. She kind of seems annoying.

-best actress TV series drama-
Geena Davis (Commander and Chief)-This is my first big boo of the night. I have seen this show a few times and it is awful.

-best actor TV series drama-
Hugh Laurie (House)-I'm glad he won. I like this show and he kicks ass. He had a pretty funny speech. It's funny that in real life he has an English accent and you would never know it from the show. Good job Hugh.

-best mini series or motion picture made for TV-
Empire Falls- 2nd one of the night. Might have to Netflix it when it goes to DVD.

-best actor TV comedy-
Steve Carell (The Office)- Glad for this one. He gave a good speech. He has had a pretty good year with The Office and 40 Year Old Virgin.
Zach Braff and Jason Lee were also nominated and I would have been happy with any of them.

best actress in comedy/musical-
Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)-Yes! I think everyone wanted her to win. I know I'm not alone is saying that she made everyone that watched that movie fall in love with her.

-best actress in a TV comedy-
Out of the 5 nominees 4 of them were from Desperate Housewives and Marry-Louise Parker from Weeds ended up winning. I've never seen the show but it sounds funny. I guess she plays a weed dealing mom.

-best actor in a TV movie or mini series-
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Elvis)-Like a lot of this shit I have never see it. I kind of wanted Bill Nighy (The Girl in the Cafe) to win. I have never seen it but it looks good and Bill was awesome in Love Actually.

-best actress in a TV movie or mini series-
Epatha Merkerson (Lackawanna Blues)--I really didn't care about any of the people that were nominated. The show doesn't look very good.

-best screenplay motion picture-
Brokeback Mountain- Damn good movie and I'm glad it won. When the people went up on stage they had the music from the film playing and just that made me sad. It is such a great tragic movie. I like how one of the writers thanked his typewriter for being a noble machine and keeping him out of the dry embrace of the computer.

-best TV series musical or comedy-
Desperate Housewives-I think they won last year too. It's a good show. I kind of wanted to see My Name is Earl win. That just would have been fun to see Jason Lee win something.

-best foreign language film-
Paradise Now-Have not see it and have nothing to say about it. Promise from China was nominated and that looks pretty cool.

-best original score motion picture-
John Williams (Memoirs of a Geisha)-OK.

-best original song motion picture-
A Love That Will Never Grow Old (Brokeback Mountain)- This is fine but I would have liked to see Mel Brooks win for The Producers song.

Anthony Hopkins got the big Cecil B. Demille award for the night. It was fun seeing a clips from a bunch of his movies from young to old. He is a great actor playing everything from Hitler to Nixon to Hannibal Lector.

-best director motion picture-
Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)- Good job Lee. It is a hell of a lot different from his other movies and he did a damn good job. I really think that it is one of the better movies this year.

-best actor musical/comedy-
Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line)- I think that everyone is happy about this. He took the biopic, which normally sucks, and made it awesome. I like that he thanked John and June for sharing their lives with us. I would have also really liked to see Johnny Depp or Jeff Daniels win. I just saw the Squid and the Whale yesterday and it was amazing.

-best musical/comedy-
Walk the Line-Yep. Thats what I thought. I love it.
I just want to say that they should give musicals and comedies their own category. Its not really fair to lump them together.

-best TV series drama-
Lost-I have only seen a few and didn't really like it. I hear its awesome if you watch it from the beginning...maybe someday I'll find out. I am kind of surprised that Prison Break was nominated. The OC is better than all of them...it should win comedy and drama.

-best actress in a motion picture drama-
Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)-I really want to see this movie. It looks really fun. It looks like she plays a great man who wants to be a woman. I think this is playing at the lagoon now. We should get a crew together and go see it.

-best actor drama-
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)-This is the one award I actually cared about. If Hoffman wouldn't have won I would have been sad. This was an amazing film and it was all because of Hoffman. He can play anything.

-best motion picture drama-
Brokeback Mountain-Could see this one coming and I am glad of it. It is an amazing film. If you haven't seen it you need to.

Over all tonight was pretty good. It's nice to see a lot of good movies nominated. There were really no blockbusters even in the running. It's nice that people are getting sick of that shit and are recognizing the smaller (well I guess because people are recognizing them they aren't really smaller anymore) films. I guess people are just getting better taste...Thank god. I would have liked Capote and The Squid and the Whale to win more, but are least they were nominated.

Sam's best looking award goes to Scarlet Johanson.

PS. I was kind of drunk when I wrote this so if something doesn't make sense don't blame me, blame the So Co.

Dan you add your own opinion to this in italics...

Sebulski: Come Back from Portland

We’re awesome at bowling again. Our lowest game was in the high 140s and our high was 191 (thanks to me). I’m not really sure how we pulled it off, but I’m pretty sure it had something to do with drinking some Sparks beforehand to wake us up. So, I don’t have the exact scores, but here’s a quick summary of what went down:

The team we were playing against is unpredictable. Two of them were so-so, and the other was either extremely good or extremely terrible. He was terrible the first game, and Cigs and I bowled in the 160s, Sam in the 150s. The other guy was doing really well the second game, but I got a 191, Cigs a 181, and Sam a 161, I think. The third game, they fell apart again. I’m not sure what we ended up with, but I was in the 150s, Sam was in the 140s, and Cigs beat me by 6 pins that game, which meant that for the entire night, I beat Cigs by a pin. So, 7 points for us in the league, which will hopefully boost our position a bit.

And, of course, afterwards, we played a little BBH, which I was terrible at. I think Sam won overall, but mostly I was distraught at how impossible it was for me to shoot a stupid deer.

Key moment: Guy on the other team asking us what our team name (Seivy Sebulski) meant. Cigs was all, fucking ha-ha giggly about it for some stupid reason. But I explained to the guy that we named our team after our childhood friend with whom we used to bowl, but he moved out to Portland, and then I had to also explain that Ciggy never got along with him and that’s why he was giggling…but really its because his name is Jayne and he’s a little girl.

Also: Hostel is playing at Willowgate (Wynnsong) at noon on Saturday. This work for you guys?

I'm insensitive + miscellany

This article is attempting to point out that Fat Americans are tending toward a state of complacency when it comes to their weight. It tries to put it in a positive spin: “With about two-thirds of U.S. adults overweight, Americans' attitudes toward overweight people are shifting from rejection toward acceptance, researchers have found.” Acceptance? I think it’s called laziness. I interviewed a few of the "overweight" and they seemed to say something like, “Yeah, sure, I know I’m fat, but now I just don’t give a shit. I mean, I don’t have time to worry about losing weight; I’ve got more eating to do.”

In lieu of my review of Hostel (yet to be written), here’s one written by the Horror Geek over at IGN. It’s pretty positive, which is nice for me because I agree with a lot of what he’s saying.

And, in case anyone cares, Altman is getting the lifetime achievement award during the Oscars.

I'm really hungry

hey everyone is getting married. Macauley Culkin is wedding Meg Griffin/Jackie Burkhart/Mila Kunis. And Jack Black is marrying Tanya Haden. Also Brad confirms that him and Lara Croft are together and pregnant. I think she already has like 50 kids but this will be the first one that is actually hers. I think all the adopted kids will be the real one's slaves.

Grayskull Mountain. Pretty funny...go look at it.

Maybe I'm just behind but I just heard about David Fincher's new movie Zodiac. It sounds pretty damn cool.

Crumbs might be pretty funny. It's the new ABC show staring our favorite wonder boy Fred Savage. I won't be watching it. It is on during the OC. By the way I will always watch the OC, but it really pisses me off how 60% of the good TV is on Thursdays at 8. The OC, the Office and My name is Earl, and maybe Crumbs if that ends up being very good. Goddamn. Anyway someone who doesn't watch the OC (god forgive you) should watch Crumbs and let me know how it is.

god like shell

Boston Legal--
Starts out with a charity where Shatner is the honoree and giving a speech. Almost misses his speech because he was having sex in the coat room with some lady he met at the bar. Shatner "It's funny I just had sex with this woman and she gave me her card and I have no desire to throw it away."

M. J. Fox guest stars as some rich guy dying of cancer. He hits on his lawyer. Overall he does a pretty good job. He is really getting old, but he didn't seem to shaky.

Shatner, about the coat room girl who says she wants to fulfill every fantasy on his list...yes he has a list, "Its like having a one night stand, every night, with the same woman."

Shatner had sex on his desk and forgot to close the blinds on the hallway window. He gets yelled at and says "I'm sorry. From now on, in this office, the blinds go down before anything else does."

At the end--Shatner "Did I tell you I'm are getting married?"
Spader "No" ...long pause... "I would have remembered that."
I really don't think they will end up getting hitched, at least I hope not.

God there is so much good shit on this show I could quote the whole thing. If you don't already you really need to start watching it. Next to the OC it is by far the best show on TV. Tuesday nights at 9 on channel 5.

Spader talking to another lawyer. "You know I have an extreme affection for my own intelligence, and even I know your smarter than me."

Highlight-
Shatner--"As god like as I seem to you and other people I am mortal inside this god like shell, and I am not a one woman man."
"Denny Crane as long as we're together feel free to have sex with anyone you'd like."
"God I love you."

Retain the Right to Ridicule

Comedy Central has denied claims that they pulled a future episode of South Park due to pressure from some religious fanatics. Instead, they pulled it because of the holidays, and then said, “As satirists, we believe that it is our First Amendment right to poke fun at any and all people, groups, organizations and religions and we will continue to defend that right.” I may not be a satirist, but I think I retain that right too.

Where the Wild Things Are still might get made, which is awesome because Spike Jonze is fantastic and the book is fantastic.

And I linked this in the Pandas comments, but I thought I’d post it here too. Uwe Boll being an idiot.

Chenkuye

Well the WB is obviously trying to copy the success of Smallville with its new show Aquaman. I started watching Smallville when it first came out and I really liked it, but then I just kind of stopped and now whenever I randomly see and episode it seems like its gone downhill. Might have to check out at least the pilot of Aquaman and see if its any good.

God Rachel just keeps on getting more and more perfect. I didn't know she was half Italian. There is a short interview with her here.

PS-New episode this week.

PPS-I'm going to marry her

I don't know if you guys know about this or not, but you should go to Kazakhstanis Against Borat. It's pretty damn funny.
"America national sport is called baseballs. It very similar to our sport, shurik, where we take dogs, shoot them in a field, and then have a party." -Borat

And Josh talks about maybe getting Firefly back on TV here.

you shot a cow

Alright, I don't have much time so here is the short bowling rap up. I started off doing pretty damn good. I got a lot of strikes. I think around 10 turkey chances and just one turkey. Dan also had one turkey and Ciggy had two. Ciggy had high game of 180-something. We all ended pretty close for nightly pin total. Next week Craig Christ will be back with us. It will be nice to have teams again. I got kind of drunk and sucked at Big Buck Hunter after. BBH is the 2nd best sport in the world, next to bowling. Dan can add more details to this if he wants but I'm out of time.

PS-- I guess the Joker will be the next villain for Bale, and Adrien Brody wants to play him...I think that would kick ass

the eyes of a ranger are upon you

Everyone needs to read this article. It starts out with "Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits. Chuck Norris frequently donates blood to the Red Cross. Just not his own." It is all about the greatness of Mr. Norris, his cult following and why he is such an icon in todays world.

--Favorite quotes--
-Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
-Wilt Chamberlain claims to have slept with more than 20,000 women in his lifetime. Chuck Norris calls this "a slow Tuesday.
-Chuck Norris does not go hunting because "hunting" implies a chance of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.
-There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

Side note-I took karate lessons from one of Chuck's stunt doubles out in Oregon. He looked exactly like him...it was awesome.

The New NBC drama "Book of Daniel" debuts tonight. Christians are boycotting it for some reason. Its about an "Episcopal priest who has a prescription-drug problem, a gay son and regular conversations with Jesus." Everyone should come over before Hostel and watch it. If you don't think you want to watch it just go look at this picture.

Devil's Due is releasing a new G.I. Joe vs Transformers: The Art of War comic. It looks like it is going to kick ass. I'm pretty excited. Writer Tim Seeley, "Writing these characters has the charm of meeting up with old friends; a pleasure, a privilege, but also a war! … Consider this the end-all, beat down of wars!"

RIP Pervis Loinflash

It is my sad duty to announce that my friend Justin's hampster, Pervis Loinflash, has died. I expect all of you to go to his blog and write your condolences.

Notes

Notes on bowling: We won one game out of three. We now officially suck on Thursdays. Some games in the 160s, some in the 150s, some in the 140s, some worse…specifics are not important here. All I know is that we better start kicking ass in our league.

Notes on playing the bowling arcade game in the bar: Sam kicked our asses. He won both series we played. I was feeling drunk and sucked it up big time. Silver Strike is the new Great Way to Kill Time in the Bar.

Notes on Hostel: k(i)d sez: “Hostel is playing at Willowgate (Wynsong) at 7:30, 9:30, and 11:50. I intend to go to one of these shows.” I, too, intend to go, and would vie for the 9:30 show. Comment if you’re In or Out or have other suggestions that I may acknowledge but probably ignore.

good news all around

Cool article here about Phoenix and Shooter going to Folsom.

About time they get rid of Billy. Jon Stewart is going to host the Oscars this year. They might be worth watching.

Wow even more good news. Futurama might be starting up again.

Go watch the trailer for Pan's Labyrinth. It looks damn cool. Directed by Guillermo del Toro...the guy who gave us Blade II and Hellboy. The rest of you don't matter, but if you are Dan or Ciggy you should really watch it.

I don't mean to gloat, but...

…I had one of the better bowling nights of my life last night. I know what you’re thinking: “Last night was Wednesday, right?” Yes, it was. But Kate and I were sitting around the house, bored, and randomly decided to go bowling. I figured that I had missed Sunday because I was out of town, and I could use the warm up for the big league night tonight. So, this is a summary of how awesome I am:

Out of 7 games, only 1 was below a 160. I had two 160s, a 161, 162, 168, a 176, and then some shitty 130 game. In the third game, I was trying to beat my as of then high score of 162, and had 108 in the eighth frame, no marks. I bowled 4 strikes in a row to finish with a 168, and then continued to bowl 2 more strikes the next game for a total of 6 in a row. I picked up a split, averaged 160, and was overall amazing at bowling. I just need to do that well tonight.

Highlights for Kate: Two doubles, and she didn’t get insanely pissed when I beat her by 60 pins.

Scrubs, how I've missed you...

Because of the weird changeup in TV stations’ schedules, I was able to catch the season premiere of Scrubs last night. It’s been a while since I’ve watched the show, but its always had a place in my heart because of its hilarious absurdity and faux-sincere montage endings that really turn out to be big jokes overall. So, I was pretty excited to watch a full hour of it last night…

And it didn’t disappoint. In recent interviews with Zach Braff, he’s mentioned that they weren’t sure if the show was going to be cancelled or not (why oh why are the stupid TV networks trying to pull all the good shows?), so they decided to amp up the wackiness of the show…Braff’s character getting shoved into a small backpack, cool CG effects to show Turk dropping a birth control pill into his wife's mouth, and on and on…

The bottom line is that the show makes me laugh. I might not be laughing throughout the entire 30 minute episode, but when the jokes work, they really work.

Key moment: The multi-ethnic siamese twin doctors.

my first review of the new year so far

Hey, I have the internet again, which means I'm back at school. A lot has happened during the break, and yet nothing really that interesting happened. Movies were watched, books were read, music was listened to, pins were nocked down, booze was drunk and nights were forgotten. That about sums up the last few weeks of last year, maybe throw a little family and a lot of food in the mix. Enough about last year...what has been going on this year? We are already in our 3rd day of 06 and its going pretty good so far. On the first day of the year I woke up on Ciggy's couch at about 10am extremely dehydrated. I watched Four Brothers, which is a damn good movie,a lot of fun, and you can't go wrong with Marky Mark and Andre 3000. After that we watched the Ali G movie. Now this is pretty good, not as good as the show, but it did have a few amazing parts. Soon after that I found myself on my couch watching Dead Man and then some TV.
Ciggy came over and we went bowling (bitch dan was out of town). 2 lanes + 2 people = 2 hot, sweaty, tired guys. Me and Ciggy were both a little tired already from the 10 hours of drinking the night before so we didn't have a shit load of energy. Bowling was uneventful for the most part. Ciggy bowled a 189 or something like that. My high was around 165. I had like 5 turkey chances, and got 1...Ciggy had 1. We had fun even though we bowled about as bad as the cute little high-school girls next to us.
After bowling Ciggy came back to my place and we watched Three Kings (2 Marky Mark films in one day...kick ass) and Serenity. The next day we woke up about 1ish. After watching Magnum P.I. we went to buy Firefly (the TV show Serenity is based on). First we tried the Target on Lexington...they were out, but I still picked up The Ghost and the Darkness and Payback, both of which were $7.50. Next we tried the new Target by Har Mar. They were also out. So I got a Merle Haggard best of CD. Normal people might have given up at this point, but me and Ciggy are far from normal. So now we are off to Best Buy. Yes they have it, but god forbid that I don't buy something at every store we stop at, so I picked up the new Ryan Adams cd 29.
We got back to my place about 3 o'clock and after much soda and frozen pizzas and cigarettes and cowboy/samuri/sci-fi fun Ciggy left around 1. We have 3 episodes left, which we are going to finish on Thursday(so get ready Dan). Firefly is amazing. I suggest you watch Serenity and if you like it (which I'm sure you will) go watch Firefly.
Wow I just wrote way to much and if you made it this far...good job. The first 2 days of the year were awesome, but now I'm back at school sitting in class for 3 hours and I'm ready for next year...

an update?

So...It's been a while. Sam's been away from the internets for a while (as he's been away from school) and I've been all over the Midwest for the holidays. I'm hoping to jump back into my normal routine and have this thing updated more frequently. TV's been all over the place...reruns have been shown, shows have been cancelled and then not cancelled (e.g., Arrested Development), movies have been watched and not reviewed...pretty much, there's been a general sad state of media watching and blog updating. Perhaps the new years will change things.

Also: I don't know where the comments went. Last I looked, they weren't there. Strange. Sam's the one that set us up with haloscan, so I'll leave that to him to look into. Other than that, expect some capsule reviews of various things within the next few days.

I'm Late, I'm Late, I know...

I realize that Sam hates this excuse, but I have been rather busy at work, and was unable to even get access to the internet; hence, I haven’t posted on Sunday’s bowling. But since it was such an awesome night (for two of us), I’m still going to write about it.

One thing needs to be mentioned before I give the scores. Sam was already drunk when Cigs and I got there. I believe that this is why he didn’t have a great night until later into the evening. Also, it was hilarious to watch him go through the process of not being drunk enough to not be horribly upset right away to later in the night where he didn’t give a fuck if he threw the ball in the gutter. Coincidentally, it’s when he stopped caring (and took a shot of SoCo and lime) that he started bowling well again. Weird.

So, how did we do? Pretty fucking awesome. Overall, I beat Cigs by 2 pins with totals of 1605 and 1603. I had four games over 170, topping out at 190. Cigs had only four games under 160 and topped out at 203. We were neck to neck most games, resulting in insane tension and trash talking throughout the night. I had two turkeys, Cigs had one, and we had a few team turkeys. Like I said before, Sam started out a little shaky (although he did win the first game). He had a few rough games, then started bowling like he normally does after drinking a bit more.

Highlight: I threw my ball backward again and Sam hit the floor crying with laughter harder than my ball did.

the paper...

So, I was supposed to do a write up on bowling last night. And I will. At least half of a write up. I forgot the piece of paper that has all of our scores on it, so I can't say much. But, I will say this: We won 2 out of 3 games. Ciggy had a 224 in the second game. In the second game, we all started our first frame with a 4-5 split. We all kicked ass the first game, but, as we already know, I don't remember the exact scores. The only other thing worth saying is that we have finally bumped ourselves out of ninth place into sixth. With these two wins, hopefully we can make it into the top 5. Better update next time...

half gallon of proof

I don't have time for much so here is what you get. I went and saw King Kong today. I really liked it. It was awesome/intense/romantic/epic/funny and just an overall good time. I now support bestiality (I think that was Peter's goal). I hope all the christians protest the movie because you shouldn't be in a romantic relationship with a monkey. Monkeys can't be christians and the bible says to be equally yoked...I hope thats their argument.
Anyway...
Can't wait to see the gay cowboy movie this weekend. Anyone want to go? We could get a crew together.

SPLIT!!!11!

I sucked at bowling again. And while I did get the high score for the night with a 178, it took me four games to even get a strike, and I was the only one who didn’t get a turkey. Sam and Cigs didn’t bowl too hot either. Cigs did finish off with a 171 for his high game, and Sam had something around 150. There were many horrible games, but we ended the night well, dashing up to the lanes like children, screaming the setup we thought we would leave. It never really worked out, because I kept screaming, “STRIKE!” and “SPARE!” but mostly got a “SPLIT!”

Also: I’m not one to link to my friend’s blog, but if you’re looking for something hilarious to read, head on over to my buddy’s blog: Justin from One Trick Pony. Seriously. Also, if you want to watch something funny, watch his videos.

3 out of 3 isn’t bad, is it?

So, yes, we won all three games last night. And yes, we had a very solid first game. But, I’m still not satisfied with it. Why? Because I sucked. Well, not the first game. The first game, I had the low score for the game with a 157. Sam had a 189 and Cigs, the high of the night, 196. The second game, Ciggy and I decided that bowling was stupid, so we bowled a 122 and a 118, respectively. Sam, kept on with his whole, I’m-going-to-bowl-in-the-one-eighties-thing and bowled a 180. The third game, none of us bowled well. Sam still finished with a 146, but I had a 139, and Cigs had a 123.

And although some of those scores look rather stark, our averages were all right. I had a 138 average; Cigs, 147; and Sam with the insane 172 average for the night.

Highlights: In the first game, Sam started bowling strikes, and well, we really didn’t feel like stopping. He bowled four in a row, Cigs bowled a turkey, and I had scattered strikes throughout the game. In the end, Sam and Cigs had a total of 5 strikes each, and I had a total of 6 strikes. They still beat me because they linked theirs. Bastards.

sane man

Oops, no posts lately. I am at the end of the semester and have been busy as shit, I don't know what Dans excuse will be. I haven't watched any TV worth talking about yet this week so there really hasn't been much to my life. I did watch the first session of the Ali G show. Its amazing. I'm going to buy the 2nd session today...maybe I'll post about it in the near future.

My hero is coming back...kind of...hes still dead, but there is going to be some new Bill HIcks shit released. A show from 89 called "sane man". Im looking forward to it. Read about it and Hicks here.

"We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn't matter to me. What matters is that if you believe in the sanctity of life then you believe it for life of all ages. That's what I hate about this child-worship syndrome going on. "Save the children! They're killing children! How many children were at Waco? They're killing children!" What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they're off your fucking love-list? Fuck your children, if that's the way you think then fuck you too. You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up." -Bill Hicks

Lanes made of gold

Yesterday, we found out we were loyal enough customers to bowl on the new, synthetic lanes. This means many things: 1) no more greasy, inconsistent lanes where your ball hooks one moment and then doesn’t in another, 2) the ball hooks more, making it more difficult to pick up the ten pin, and 3) consistency, which, in theory, means higher scores overall. It took a bit getting used to them, but I really think it’ll pay off in the end.

As for the night, we did fairly well. We all had decent games and there were some awesome games in there as well. Sam finished with the high for the night at a 205. My high game was a 190. Cigs’ was a 166. Sam had a record 8 turkey opportunities for the night, but only managed to convert 1. This might sound like he really sucks because he had 8 chances, but only got one; but, 7 doubles and 1 turkey is pretty goddamn impressive. I had 5 opportunities and 2 turkeys.

Other highlights: Sam was 3 for 3 on the 6-10 pin split conversion. I picked up a 7-5 pin split. Cigs somehow managed to launch the 8 pin into the 10 pin spot and left it standing. I almost threw the ball backward again.

Wild West

Top 5 Western films--
1-Tombstone
2-Magnificent Seven
3-An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
4-Dead Man
5-The Searchers

Runner up--
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid--About Northfield Minnesota, filmed in my hometown in OR. My dad is in it as a lumberjack--kick ass.

Honorable Mention-
Shane-
Bill Hicks "I’m so sick of arming the world and then sending troops over to destroy the fucking arms, you know what I mean? We keep arming these little countries then we go and blow the shit out of ‘em. We’re like the bullies of the world, you know. We’re like Jack Palance in the movie Shane…Throwing the pistol at the sheep herder’s feet: “Pick it up.” “I don’t wanna pick it up mister, you’ll shoot me.” “Pick up the gun". “Mister, I don’t want no trouble huh. I just came down town here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don’t even know what gingham is, but she goes through about 10 rolls a week of that stuff. I ain’t looking for no trouble mister.” “Pick up the gun.” Boom, boom. “You all saw him. He had a gun.”

A Miscellany of Information

Birthday update: The plans for going out on Saturday have now been firmed up. Location = Town Hall. Time = party o’clock = 9:30ish or whenever you feel the urge to party.

Neil Gaiman: Sam and I are heading to the Neil Gaiman reading/signing Saturday morning at dream haven books. If you want more info, go to dream haven’s site.

Also: If you're planning on murding someone, make sure you have a MySpace account. A) It will make you more famous. B) The media will be fascinated by the absurd connections they can make between teenagers, blogs, and murders. C) The police can trace your steps leading up to the murder by reading the posts you made a few days earlier.

Two out of Three

The team that we, Sebulski, were bowling against last night had two no shows, so we were left with playing one of their bowlers while the other two’s scores were just added as their averages. Doesn’t seem like that much competition, and it doesn’t seem like that would motivate us to do well…but it did…well, some of us. Sam had an off night, and so, for the sake of my life (he threatened my life last night) and for the sake of Sam, I won’t post his scores. It didn’t seem to matter that much though, because we took the first and last games anyway.

The first game, I thought I had the win until around the eighth frame when Cigs pulled ahead and finished with a 170 and I, a 150-something. We finished off our first team turkey. Second game, Cigs still did quite well and I bombed and got an unmemorable score. The third game was by far our best. I finished with a 182 and Cigs finished in the high 160s (?). The best part of the game was the string of strikes that was actually started by Sam.

Fifth frame, he decided to say Fuck You to the rest of the night and bowl a strike. Cigs then did the same. Then I did. Then Sam did. Then Cigs did. Then I did. It was insane. 6 strikes in a row. Sam missed the seventh, but then Cigs nailed his, which left him with the only individual turkey of the night and a total of three team turkeys. We finished strong, both Sam and I getting an 8-spare, strike in the tenth frame. Hell yes.

Other Highlights: The guy next to us bowled an amazing split conversion. It was a 7, 10, 4, 8 setup. He rocketed his ball between the 7 and 4, sent the 4 soaring into the 8, which crashed into the 10. Anyone who has no idea what I’m talking about and can’t appreciate the beauty of this amazing throw: go fuck yourself.

T5RWINHANTM

Instead of doing a full fledged post (because I have a meeting in 5 minutes), I will follow in the footsteps of Sam and give you my Top 5 Reasons Why I Now Hate America's Next Top Model:

1. Jayla’s gone
2. Kim’s gone
3. Nik isn’t gone
4. Bre isn’t gone
5. No one was making out/getting drunk/being a total bitch

That's really all that's worth knowing about the episode last night. Now it's not really worth watching.

birthday. party. saturday.

In lieu of my birthday (last Sunday) and because of its horrible proximity to Thanksgiving and people being out of town, we’re having a thing/party/get together somewhere on Saturday. So, I formally invite anyone and everyone and extend to you the right to invite others. Even if you hate my birthday, you can use it as an excuse to hang out with other people who also hate my birthday. The location is TBD. The begins at approximately party O’clock. Updates soon.

I'm gonna give you to the count of 10, to get your lying, yellow, no-good keister off my property, before...

Heres a try at a 2nd list...what do you think?

Top 5 holiday movies
1-Love Actually
2-Home Alone
3-A Christmas Story
4-The Nightmare Before Christmas
5-Bad Santa

Runner ups--
Edward Scissorhands
A Muppet Christmas Carol
Home Alone 2-Lost in New York
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Mag. P.I.

I didn't watch it because I don't like fat people but it turns out that Matt Hoover won on the Biggest Loser. He won $250,000 and lost 157 pounds. If you ask me he could still afford to lose another 50 or so. The more important question is "who cares?" People want to see good looking people on TV...STOP THIS SHOW.

If you are a dumb ass and haven't started watching Boston Legal yet you better soon. Tom Selleck is going to be guest staring on an episode. Wow, Spader, Shatner and Selleck...thats sssexy.

And I'm sure we all have missed our weekly diet of Paris and Nicole. Well fear not the Simple Life is on E! now...thank god.

1st Top 5

Ok last night me and Eric were sitting down making top 5 lists, and I thought "Hey we should start doing this on the site." So I am. We are now making Top 5 lists. Feel free to make suggestions for future lists and to bitch about what I think is great. So here we go on a desert island top five...
Film actors you would like to spend the day with
1-Johnny Depp
2-Christopher Walken
3-Bill Murray
4-Bill Shatner
5-Steve Zahn

Tuesdays the new Thursday

So we don't have league because of Thanksgiving so we went bowling last night. Things weren't so good...looks like we can only bowl on Thursdays and Sundays. Sam(I) was pretty average. The high game was a 168, which I got twice. I ended up with an average of 156. Dan and Ciggy would kick my ass if I told their scores. Me and Dan both bowled turkeys. Ciggy picked up a nice 5/7 split. Other than that we bowled pretty damn bad. We drank Amberboch instead of MGD so that was nice.

Highlight-
Me and Ciggy walk in and Dan is talking to this guy who wants to give him his bowling ball. Turns out the guy bowled like shit and blamed it on the ball so he was talking to his ball saying "I'm going to flip this coin and if it's heads you can come home with me, but if its tails we say our good byes and you stay here." Well it landed tails, so he was giving his ball to Dan. Turns out it didn't really fit Dan or Cigs, but it fit me perfectly. So I now have 2 bowling balls. This one is nice because its a 16 pounder and has the finger grips. I think its going to be my strike ball and old Sammy Hall with be my spare ball.
--If anyone has an extra bowling ball bag that they want to give me that would be grand.

2 200s, 5 turkeys, 1 misfire, & 1 nipple

Ah Sunday bowling. Again, a night of ten games is hard to keep straight, and so I’ll focus on some highlights. First and foremost, Ciggy bowled the high game of the night with a 229. He had an impressive six strikes in a row in the first six frames and then almost finished with another turkey in the end, but was shy one strike. I unexpectedly beat my all-time high score of 201 with a 205. I thought I was getting a 180-something until I realized that I bowled a turkey in the ninth to tenth frames. Sam had a high in the upper 160’s, I think. We had many close games.

Other highlights: Ciggy had three turkeys and I had two. At some point in the night I forgot how to hold a bowling ball and threw it backwards. I don’t think the other’s will let me live that down.

And this is for the O.C. fans out there. Or, at least, Mischa Barton fans…

I'm getting a new friend...

Nikki Reed is joining the cast of the OC. I don't know what part she is going to play but IGN thinks that "she might best fit in with the new group of kids from Newport Union, given her somewhat gritty indie rep." I think that this would be ok as long as she doesn't try to go after Seth...he's Summers. She's only on for 4 episodes so she might die or somthing like that.

For more sexy news David Bowie might be in the new Christopher Nolan film "The Prestige". I hope he does it...there isn't enough Bowie in my life. Hey when does he get a bio film. People would like that, more than a hobbit playing Iggy Pop at least. Does he have to die first?

306

I have been a little behind on my OC reviews. I haven't been able to download 305 yet so I'm just going to look at 306 right now and then I'll come back to it. It starts out with Marisa having this really weird dream about trey and all that shit. It was kind of weird. It's the only the 2nd time they have done something like this(slow motion/crazy dream vision). The other time was in 301 when they were doing a flash back to what happened with Trey after Marisa shot him. Anyway after the dream she calls Ryan who was sleeping and told her to back to bed and they would talk about it later. Marisa being kind of emotional just wanted to here that Ryan was there for her...this sets up Johnny being the "guy who understands me".
It is Ryan's first day back at Harbor and he can't get in trouble. Taylor is still a huge bitch and she is throwing a senior lock-in and the whole class has to go. Thats the only way she can make friends according to her mom anyway. "Locking in a bunch of kids so you don't have to spend another Saturday night alone...Taylor un-tuck your shirt your ass is so not made for low-riders."...nice mom.
Marisa and Johnny talk a bunch and open up to each other and flirt and have eye sex and try to pretend nothing is happening because they both already have significant others. Marisa ditches out on dinner at the Cohen's for Johnny. Summer sees what is going down and tries to stop it. Goes to the surfing party and sees the major flirting between Johnny and Marisa and calls Ryan to come break it up. Everything is weird...asshole surfer guy Volchek (sp.) sleeps with Johnny's girl...Ryan is there for him. Johnny goes after Volchek and would have got his ass kicked so Ryan comes and hits him...good old days. Because of this Summer and Ryan miss the lock-in. Taylor is making a fool of herself because everyone hates her...rightly so. She has a huge heart so he steps up and takes the attention away from bitch. She doesn't have any friends and Seth is alone so they end up hanging out. Now Taylor likes Seth and all that stuff.
Sandy isn't going to sell the Newport group he is now going to run it with his young apprentice Matt.
Kirsten is helping Julie and Charlotte throw a benefit thing. Julie and Charlotte and going to pull a scam and just split the profits.
Over all this was a really good episode. I can say that even more now that I have seen 307 and know how 306 is just setting up the best episode of the session. I really like that Ryan and Johnny have formed this kind of brother hood...it will help create more drama with the whole "we're friends but I like you girl" type thing. Kirsten is being used right now, but she is having a good time which is awesome, and she's still off the good stuff. Seth and Summer are always awesome...it will be interesting to see where is Taylor thing goes. I know Seth would never go for it, but Taylor is a scheming bitch...I'll have my review of 307 up soon.

Highlights...
-Chino Boy punching someone again.
-Taylor's awesomely mean mom
-Summer telling Ryan that Marisa is with Johnny. Seth "Ryan try not to punch Summer."
-Sandy about corporate America "I loath it all: the greed, republicans, navy suits."

Sebulski: a play

We started out rather strong in last night’s league bowling. I don’t know if it was the great O.C. episode, the bitchy, fat, lonely, white trash cunt screaming at us to take our street shoes off before descending the forbidden two steps that lead to the bowling lanes, or the fact that while said cunt was screaming at us, I sat in a puddle of water, but we were pretty worked up at the beginning, or, at least, I was.

The first game, I bowled a 150-something and Sam bowled a 140-something. Ciggy ended up lower than that, but it didn’t matter, because we won the match. The second game, I bowled a 168, Sam bowled a 150-something, and, again, Ciggy ended up much lower than that. Although we lost this game, it was pretty damn close. I tied one of their guys in handicap scores, Sam tied another, and then Cigs fell 10 pins shy.

The third game almost isn’t worth mentioning. Ciggy took off to go see the Harry Potter flick at midnight, so we set him up for blind bowling. He marked every frame that game (a three spare), which, I must admit, is pretty easy to do when the computer’s just filling it in for you. Without Ciggy there to do horribly, Sam and I amped it up a bit and bowled some of the worst games ever. Awesome.

Key moment:
Bitchy league woman [screaming]: “Don’t be so fucking stupid: take off your street shoes before going down there.”
Me: “Oh, well we’re here twice a week and it’s never been a problem.”
[We mumble hateful things together]
BLW: “Just don’t be so fucking dumb, Jesus.”
Ciggy: “Are you bowling here, right here [points at our table], right now?”
BLW: “Yes, we are.”
Ciggy: “Oh, because it looks like you’re a lane over and your game is finished.”
BLW: “It’s always the fucking men.”
Ciggy: “Yup, we’re all assholes.”
[A moment passes and then over the speakers we hear…]
Speakers: “Please do not wear your wet street shoes down by the lane.”
Us: “Jesus, they told on us.”
Me: “Why the fuck is my ass so wet?”
[Looks at chair; chair is wet; looks at ass; ass is wet.]
Me: “Damn.”
[End Scene]

America's Next Boring Episode

America’s Next Top Model was rather boring. They advertized it up as the models going to London and crazy stuff happening, but nothing really did. The first part of the show they hyped up Kim’s gossiping about the other models until it blew up in the limo ride to the airport. It was rather anticlimactic, and nothing really happened other than Bre, Nik, and Jayla ripping on Kim, Nicole defending her, and Kim crying. She did attempt to apologize and write a note to Nik, but Bre and Nik (being the bitches they are) didn’t believe her. Before that, they took their “passport photos,” which really turned into a test about always being aware of how good you look. They reiterated that lesson when they got to London and “paparazzi” started shooting photos of them, but it wasn’t really paparazzi, and it was a test. Big surprise there.

The photo shoot consisted of them getting naked and cramming into a phone booth with one another. Sounds great, but this even ended up being rather lame. None of the photo shoots have been as cool as last seasons (e.g., them dressing up as the seven deadly sins and modeling in a grave, posing with animals, etc.) In the end, it came down to Jayla and Lisa. Jayla’s normally pretty awesome at the photos etc., but has been sucking it up lately. Lisa’s normally awesome at everything, but she’s just an obnoxious alcoholic bitch. Lisa got kicked off. And while I was sad that Lisa got kicked off (she’s normally the only entertaining one on the show), I’d rather have it be her than Jayla. Seriously, though, kick off Nik.

Key moment: While everyone was tearing Kim apart, Lisa sat next to her eating chips like she was watching a show.

Mad Cow

Boston Legal was good. It would have been really hard for it to beat last week. Spader starts sleep walking...almost kills himself, he has night terrors. He's want shantner to sleep with him to keep him safe.
Shatner says that he's homophobic and tells spader to "be a man and get a girl." Spader wants to pay his assistant to sleep with him...She does.
A plastic surgeon got caught injecting his own ass fat into his patents lips
Shatner might have Alzheimer's but he tells everyone its mad cows disease.
He gets tested...has minor Alzheimer's or could actual have mad cow, I guess they have a lot of the same symptoms.

Highlight--
Shatner "I tried that night terror thing on 6 different women and none of them took the bate"

Sunday Bowling

A slightly late bowling review: Once you’ve bowled nine games, they all start to blur together. That is, of course, unless you have one game where everyone kicked ass. In this particular game, I finished with a 162. And that was the low. Ciggy had an amazing 193 but couldn’t compete with Sam’s 204. Sam, by the way, hadn’t bowled a 200 game since his all-time best score of 200 a few months ago, and now he’s bowled three games over 200 in the past week.

We all had high averages as well. Sam averaged a 160, Ciggy averaged in the 150s, and I averaged in the 140s. We really just need to pull these scores over into league night so we can start moving up in the rankings.

Other notable things: Sam bowled two turkeys, and I bowled one turkey. Our regular bar tender will be back next week. Thank god.

Gay Man

There is a good Neil Gaiman interview on Mr. Palahniuk's site. Neil is also going to be doing a signing on Dec. 3rd. I will be there.

This is kind of old news but just in case you didn't know Arrested Development is going to get the can. I hear that ABC and some other people are wanting to pick it up once FOX gets ride of it...lets hope so.

I am dedicating this week to JC and our undying love for him. No Im not talking about Jim Croce it's Johnny Cash time. I know we all like him (if you don't you can get off this site now) but it might have been a while since we have spent a good amount of time really listening to him. Let's all take a little time out of our week to re-listen to our old favorites before we go see the movie this weekend.

I also got the new Neil Diamond disc Yesterday. Its called 12 song and its pretty damn good...all 14 song...

Just call us Sam Sebulski

Bowling: So, we won all three games last night … but, neither Ciggy nor I can take credit for it. Sam held our team afloat. We were playing against a team with averages lower than ours, so we thought, hell, no problem. Then one guy starts bowling strikes, and I start to worry a bit. But not Sam. Calm, collected, he steps up and bowls four strikes in a row. Our competition may have had a 200 game, but Sam decided he was sick of 200 being his high score and bowled a 202. A 202 was high for the women’s league that plays before us, so he got a free drink. I, on the other hand, bowled a 131, which was the low for the women’s league, so I got a free drink.

The second game was crap.

After one crap game, Sam was already sick of having a 202 as his best score ever. So, he bowled a 214. Unless Cigs or I can pull something like that, we might rename the team Sam Sebulski.

Notable Mention: Ciggy rolled a game in the high 150’s; I believe a 157.

Other News: Sam can’t make it to Stephen Lynch next Friday (he already bought tickets to another show). So anyone who enjoys the Lynch, has an extra $30 lying around, and doesn’t have plans for next Friday (the 18th), let me know.

Tyra: don't play games with my heart

Top Model was such a tease last night. At the end of the episode, Jayla and Nicole were the last two, both of whom I like. Tyra tells them that both of them are packing their bags. Damn. I’m pissed. Both of them getting kicked off? One less week of Top Model this season? The world has spun off of its orbit? Then she says, “…because we’re all going to London next week.” So no one got kicked off. But that’s just not nice. Toying with my heart like that.

So, this episode they had a competition to land a guest role on UPN’s Veronica Mars. Kim was the only one to talk about acting and why she was qualified, so she won. Lisa started crying…probably because she wasn’t drunk at the moment. No one else was interesting, so Kim won.

The photo shoot was with the Wild Boyz, which turned out to be hilarious. They were supposed to look upset and sexy at the same time while the Boyz did something horrible to them (wear their underwear, dresses, etc.). Bre did well only because she was actually pissed off at them. Nicole sucked it up because she was laughing while Steve-O tried to convert Kim of her lesbianism behind her. Steve-O kept flashing the camera. Kim took another awesome picture and clinched a spot in the top two. Then after the photo shoot, Nicole was getting along with Steve-O, so Lisa came in wearing a diaper and pissed herself. Awesome. She's a bitch.

I watched a bit of Veronica Mars to see Kim in her guest role. Damn does that show suck. Bad acting, horrible city name (Neptune, CA), and the plotline just seems absurd. It wasn’t even worth watching for Kim’s short moment.

'Tis Thursday

Slow day--I was busy and didn't get to see Top Model lastnight...Hope dan will talk about it later

I only have 2 things to say

1-Castlevania is going to be a movie. I hope it's cool...I'm sure it will be.

2-Idaho blows- The god of internet comedy is back with more asshole humor.

We MUST bowl well tonight, the OC gods will be with us...

He's no has been

Boston Legal was amazing last night.
First a guys wife wants a divorce after being married for 23 years because he cheated on her...with a cow. The guys defense was that the cow reminded him of her. At the end he promised to call it off with his farm friends and move to the city so he would be free of temptation.
Spader had a case where they we accusing a clown of not being funny. It turns out Spader is scared of clowns and wets himself where their around.
Shatner was a god this episode. First he was order to defend a poor guy who had raped and killed a 13 year old girl...can't do it "he's poor i hate the poor, they cant pay. Can't i have a hooker i could do a hooker" Judge makes Shatner defend him or he will put him in jail. Shatner tries to plead guilty against the killers will, judge gets pissed off at him so Bill said to the judge "your a douche bag judge, i don't do well with douche bags"
In the back room the poor criminal told Shatner her had done the girl a favor by killing her quick because he had just given her AIDS. Shatner then proceeds to pull out a gun and shoot the guy in the leg twice. "It was an accident."
Shatner gets off with a self defense plea.
Shatner ending with the line "its fun being me. Is it fun being you? What else is there?"

Highlights...see Shatner quotes above...

Stop zooming in

Bones is actually decent now. I know, it’s shocking: a show with Angel and the lesser known Deschanel playing with dead bodies is all right, but it is. They’ve started playing up the minor characters: annoying woman who runs absurd technology is having second thoughts about her job, it’s revealed that the geeky chemical guy is really part of some wealthy elite family but would rather work in the lab than have that life, and the kid is, well, still that weird socially inept kid.

A note about said absurd technology: dear god there is no way that anyone in any show can take a security camera and zoom in retaining the picture quality. They use it in every crime show and it’s usually the key point in finding the killer. But it’s stupid. It wouldn’t work. It's all pixilated, and then BAM, it's a crystal clear picture. You all know what I'm talking about. And you also know that it's insane. Also, this show goes above and beyond that, somehow taking images of the bones and restructuring them in a hologram to see what they would look like with skin. Lame.

House was pretty great. Although the commercials hyped it up to be an episode in which House has to deal with his parents (and I enjoy the episodes that play up on his character beyond his asshole qualities), they gave that plot about five minutes. The rest of the plot was typical House: kid comes down with weird symptoms, mysteries are unlocked, House is always right, etc. But even though House was right, they were too late and the kid died. Crazy. They actually let someone die on this show.

Key moment:
House to boss: “If you help me get out of this dinner [with my parents], I’ll tell you who started the rumor that you were a transsexual.”
Boss: “That rumor doesn’t exist.”
House: “It will if you don’t get me out of this dinner.”

after this...i'm dead...

Quick bowling review: We all sucked again. By all, I mean Sam and me. Ciggy actually hit above his average over the three games. Sam and I had highs of 134’s or 135’s or something and lows of unspeakable nature. Ciggy rolled a high of 165, a game in the 140s, and a game in the 150s. Despite the fact that the guys next to us barely had higher averages, they bowled out of their asses and pulled some 170 and 180 games. Good for them. Really.

Much beer was consumed.

And now…I kill myself…

Zorgon vs. Nyarlathotep

This morning a representative of the Church of Scientology was on the Today Show. The interview started out rather uninteresting: talking about the key points of Scientology, where you can get information, blah, blah, blah. Then it got interesting. Katie asks him, “But didn’t L. Ron Hubbard say that Zorgon came from a planet 10,000 years ago and planted humans on Earth?” The guy responds, “That is not based on fact at all.” Wow, I think, he’s totally denying the validity of his religion. Then I realize that he’s saying they’ve stripped any of the mythology/crazy musings of Hubbard out of the new Scientology texts. He keeps saying that they have information that is very easy to access: shell out some money and you can buy some books. Even their webpage doesn’t tell you anything. It’s just a stupid scheme to get cash. Anyone could have figured that out just by looking at the guy’s smug expression and his nice suit, though. But, the Church of Scientology has a great method for money: take a science-fiction text, say it’s religion, then, in a few years, pull out any reference to the weird mythology and start charging people cash. So, I say to myself, time to start my own religion: the Church of Cthulhu.

I’m going to start a religion based off of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. Starting out, we’ll worship the Creeping Crawling Nyarlathotep and possibly the creatures the Cult of Dagon worships (who could, by the way, kick Zorgon’s ass). In about twenty years, I’ll pull away from the strange mythology and just retain the key theme’s of Lovecraft: dreaming, knowledge, etc. I’ll write new books and posit them to be the Scriptures of the Church of Cthulhu. I’ll make lots of money and some young Hollywood star will make humiliate me on national television (I’m thinking that Haley Joel Osment will have a comeback and join in my cause; Dakota Fanning is too closely linked to Tom Cruise after War of the Worlds). The best part would be that sleeping would be a form of worship. If you can travel to the dreamscape and, eventually, make it into the Ether, you would be a holy person among mortals.

So who’s with me in my Holy Journey to Innsmouth? Dagon is my new Passion of the Christ. Let us follow the ways of Nephren-Ka.

Thursday is back

It's back. Finally the OC will return to us. Baseball is over and the universe is in order again. Now we will have dinner drink wine and beer and bowl like kings.

Your favorite fat man you love to hate is back. Katrina: The Wrath of Bush is the new Michael Moore. It is coming out next year sometime. I'm sure it will be typical Moore. He's not going to have anything to talk about once W is out of office.

America's Next Top Model was just a recap last night. It was still fun. Good to get caught up if you hadn't been watching from the beginning. Found out Jayla has a really sarcastic sense of humor which makes her seem like kind of bitch, which makes me want he even more, I would marry her.

Got the blues

Boston Legal was good as usual. It was one of the more serious episodes I have seen. Two parents teamed up to get rid of halloween, but for different reasons. One group was Christians and they didn't like witches the other group was witches and they didn't like the negative stereotype. The judge told them to not take themselves so seriously and halloween was about candy and fun.
Spader is suing the US over a solders death in Iraq--everyone is against him including Shatner. He had some good arguments and it was pretty right on, but he lost...
Shatner and spader were fighting because of the war case, Shatner was being a little bitch. At the end they both made up and dressed in their matching flamingo costumes
Spader "You look good in pink"
Shatner "Fine but I'm not going to sleep with you"
It was still a good episode but I hope the lighten up a little next week.

Highlight--
Shatner about the war "all you need to know is put me in charge I'll win the damn thing." while dressed as a flamingo and smoking a cigar


Steven Seagal has a blues CD coming out. If I don't by it will he kick my ass, and if so how will he to it...the karate chop, the neck break or just the punch to the face?

Peter Jackson is releasing a collectors edition of the Frighteners. It should be fun. Lots of good extras. Its coming this month. Dead Alive Next?

This is a great article about Christian Slater. He fell off Paris Hilton's roof. I didn't know he bit a guys stomach. A man after my own heart. We should pary with him sometime...

Prison Break: just call me the warden

Last night’s episode of Prison Break felt like just a catalyst for the rest of the show. Nothing terribly interesting happened. They expounded on a few stories, but nothing that furthered them in the pursuit of breaking out. Lincoln’s son eluded the secret service and caught up with Veronica, who has been in hiding with the guy with whom she’s working on Lincoln’s case. They revealed some information as to why the Vice President’s brother was murdered (money, of course). Redneck tried to hit on a new prisoner and Michael stopped him from doing so. The doctor found out some information on Michael. John (the mobster) lost his power in the prison circle.

So, it was just problem after problem and no progress, which, I must admit, is going to make things more tense in the long run. I have no idea how they’re going to get around these things that are stopping them. But without the thrill of some small victory (besides LJ, Lincoln’s son, escaping), I just felt negative the entire hour.

Key moment: prison guard brings woman into where Michael et al. are working to bang her and makes her call him the warden.

94% recall...I've tested myself

This weekend was good for movies. I'm going to give you the super short reviews.

Saw 2-Was OK. Not as good as the first. The thing that made the first one good is that it was so disturbing and a good twist at the end. The second one lacked both. It was pretty boring and only made me squirm once or twice and the twist sucked. I am glad I saw it because I would not have trusted any one else's opinion.
Saw 2 gets a 13 proof 5 dollar bottle of wine (kind of shitty but I've had worse)

Highlight-Bat with nails in it meet the back of dudes head.

Capote was awesome. Some of the best acting I've seen in quite a while. Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of the most underrated actors. Catherine Keener was also great as was Chris Cooper. It is about Truman Capote and the process of writing In Cold Blood. This was a movie where the story was vary typical but I still found myself being moved (which isn't easy).
Capote gets 120 proof. Probably in the form of some kind of vodka tonic because that is what he drank most of the time.

Highlight- Capote being a huge asshole all the time.

The Weather Man was pretty good. At some points I found my self wishing I was somewhere else, but it was worth waiting out those moments for some fantastic scenes. It was really funny film and the majority of the humor was pretty dry which is hard to pull off for some people, but Nick Cage did well. It had a really weird feeling, it felt like a major studio was trying to make some really character driven indy movie. Sometimes it felt forced, but most of the time it was good.
The Weather Man gets 60 proof. Really any kind of alcohol it just needs to have a ton product placement.

Highlight-The constant reference to his daughters "camel toe"

Just incase anybody thinks that movies are going downhill there is an end in sight. It was been recently brought to my attention that the man himself Sylvester Stallone is making 2 new moves. One being Rambo IV and the other being simple titled Rocky Balboa. They are both slated to come out next year. Prepare to get your ass kicked.

Dans back

Bowling Sunday went pretty good. We had a lot of close games and all our averages were pretty high. Dan wants to bowl good again for some reason. He must be sick of the 120's. So Princess Dandy polled a 192 out of his ass and got the only turkey of the night...here's a shot for you. If the three of us can bowl as good as we were on Sunday on Thursday we will kick ass, and I'm sure we will. How could we not its the return of the OC.

A big win for Sebulski

Well, Seivy Sebuskli has done something it has never done before: beat our competition across all three games, both by scratch scores and handicap scores. This will most definitely pull us out of last place and put us in ninth. We’re staging a comeback, a glorious, unlikely comeback.

I can’t take too much credit for the wins. I managed a 130, a 145, and finished with a 120. But, all things considered, that’s better than I’ve been playing lately. Sam was the big winner (again). In the first game, I was still beating him in the 5th frame. Suddenly, out of nowhere, he lands five strikes in a row, boosting his score to a 180. Ciggy, thinking he’s got the game in the bag, falls behind Sam by three pins, ending with a 177. Sam won himself a shot of Wild Turkey whiskey from the team next to us. Sam continues to get drunk. For the second game, Sam dropped to a 150, and, again, thinking he’s got this game, Ciggy fails to beat Sam by two pins: a 148. Third game, we were all over the place. Sam got a 142 and Cigs got a 134.

The guys next to us were awesome. They drank a lot and they sucked even more, which allowed us to pull off our wins. They tried to get us drunk by buying a shot for whoever got a turkey, but Sam was the only one to do that.

Key moment: one of the guys in the league bowled a 278 in the third game. Un-fucking-believable.

America's Next Top Elf/Lesbian/Alcoholic

America’s Next Top Model is getting closer and closer to the finish line as only six girls are still “in the running to become America’s next top model.” I’m surprised to see who’s left. Well, not surprised about everyone. I’m shocked that Nik is still in it. As Sam said, “She’s not a good model at all and looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.” It’s true. I’m also shocked that Kim (the androgynous lesbian) is still on the show. I like Kim, don’t get me wrong … she has potential to look great, but every so often, she just looks like a little awkward teenage boy. I thought she was getting kicked off on the first episode. God do I suck at predicting this stuff.

So what’s going on in the show, you ask? Well, the tension between Lisa and Coryn (Minneapolis’ own, I’m afraid to say) ended when Coryn got kicked off last week. There’s still a lot of tension between Jayla (who’s awesome) and Nik (see paragraph above) because Jayla “stole” one of Nik’s lines when they were shooting a fake TV commercial. Unfortunately, this week’s episode didn’t really expound on that, but I expect it all to go down in the next few.

Other things that happened: The girls dressed up like pin-up girls. I don’t know who the writers/producers of this show are, but that’s just brilliant. Jayla was the only one to actually wear something sexy when they were asked to come up with their idea of sexy in three minutes. Kim’s friend Kyle got kicked off last night. Why her? Why her and not Nik? One of the judges is a moron. And finally, Lisa's an alcoholic.

Key moment: When the judges asked Kim how she’s working on becoming more feminine, she responded, “I don’t know, dating boys?”

Predictions: Jayla, Kim, and Lisa will be the final three.

I can get behind that

Boston Legal was good as usual tonight. It was a little bit more serious than it normally is. I can’t believe they fired the old lady just because she killed that guy…dumb. It’s awesome Shatner and Spader being accused of sexual harassment. Many funny situations.

Highlights-
Spader going off in the middle of a nice restaurant about the terrors of farmed salmon.
Shatner in reference to his sexual comment being “the straw that broke the camels back” says “I haven’t had sex with a camel since I was in the army and as far as I know the camel didn’t complain”

If your not watching this show yet get on it.

I cought the end of My Name is Earl. It was a good last 10 minutes. He was trying to make a gay guy that he used to make fun of feel good about himself. Seems like it is going to be a solid show.

Highlights-
Earl “Why don’t you just go to one of those queer bars…oh I’m sorry homosexual American bars.”

Last night was the first night that I really watched Americas Next Top Model this session. It’s pretty good. My favorite is Jayla she’s is super cute. I like Kyle to, but her shoulders are kind of broad. Lisa is a bitch…well they are all bitches, except Jayla. That’s even a hot name…if I have a daughter I’m going to name her Jayla. I can’t believe Nik is still on. She’s not a good model at all and looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. They should have given her the boot. Anyway the show is worth watching for Jayla.

304

I never got around to doing my review of The OC 304, and to get you guys back in the mood before it comes back on Nov 3 here it is.

Marissa has her first day at Newport Union (Orange counties answer to public education). It does have a big parking lot and a good breeze so its not all bad. Yet life isn’t so easy for her there. Big surprise everyone already knows about her shooting Trey in the back. She runs into the bully bitches (who you can recognize by the black T-shirt and blue jeans, the mark of a true bad ass) and is saved by bazaro Summer (Casey), who is going out with bazaro Ryan (Johnny), who is friends with bazaro Seth (Denis)…weird. It’s basically the low-class versions of the crew, but not nearly as cool. Casey is pretty cute and Johnny seems nice. Denis is just annoying so far, he’s basically what Seth would be if he was 14, outgoing, poor, and not as sexy. She ends up ditching Ryan for them a few times. She tells him she is going to stay home and study and then ends up going to the Newport Union dance (which is unthemed by the way) with the bazaro kids. Believe it or not Ryan gets defensive and mad. He ends up going to the dance to see her, but she is happy so he leaves with Seth (who showed up to stop him, I’ll get to that later). Marisa ends up back at the pool house and they have their own little “dance”, no really they just danced…this time.
Ryan has a tooter (who taught Stallone’s kids). He doesn’t really do too much this episode. He just basically deals with Marisa and her public school friends. I would guess in the next few weeks he will be punching someone, it’s been to long. He is kind of turning into a romantic pussy, he needs to remember his criminal Chino roots.
Sandy and Kirsten are doing well for the most part. It’s so nice to have her home. Kirsten is starting to learn how to cook, which makes us all a little nervous. She really lets the rest of her dad go by selling off the Newport Group. It’s pretty hard on her, but she ends up selling it in the end anyway, which also means that Julie doesn’t have a job. I am really going to miss the office. A lot of big stuff went on there, like Julie getting a job there and remodeling it, starting the magazine, working with Carter, and dealing with Caleb everyday (Fuck I miss him too).
Charlotte is still a huge bitch. She is trying to get the Cohen’s money by suckering Kirsten into her schemes. God I hate her.
Julie still has no money and is getting kicked out of Caleb’s house. She doesn’t know what she is going to do, and I don’t either. Right now she is living in a motel, poor girl…she can crash at my place.
And my loves Seth and Summer are better than ever. I think they do better as a couple when they have a common enemy to fight, like Dean Hess and Bitch Taylor. Taylor pretends to be Summers friend and then tells her that the Dean is going to suspend Seth unless he finds out who was Seth’s sick kick in the whole hut kidnapping thing. So Summer turns herself in…guess what he wasn’t going to suspend Seth. So that means that Summer can’t be social chair and the position goes to Taylor…Fucking Bitch. Summer worked really hard to keep Marisa’s spirit alive. So Summer confronts Taylor and declares war, kick her ass Summer. Seth and Ryan have a good old-fashioned talk in the pool house…good stuff. Seth and Summer go to the dance, that Summer organized and that skank/slut/whore Taylor takes credit for. Summer did set up the best dance ever, it was the ocean in the gym…damn cool. Seth runs off to save Ryan from doing something dumb at the public school dance, and Summer gets the upper end in the war. She sees Taylor and Hess going at it in the back room…oh fuck yeah now who’s in trouble bitch.

Highlights—
-Really good ending scene doing the OC thing where they go over all the characters
-It’s one of my favorite Summer episodes…I want to have her babies
-Kirsten going to take a shower and saying to Sandy “You don’t look to clean yourself.”
-Seth saying to Ryan “Man you home school kids are pathetic.”

More monday TV

I was going to review Prison Break but Dan got to it so here's whats left

I caught a little bit of Las Vegas during the Prison Break commercials and it seemed good. Danny’s girl tried to con him out of a bunch of money, but him being the stud he is caught her. It ended with Ed quitting his job at the casino. I’m sure he’ll be back, if the show got rid of Ed it would be a huge mistake. Oh yeah there was also hot chicks and gambling.

Nick Cage was on Letterman and he has a creepy 70’s rapist mustache. He does have a new baby and he said he named it Kalel...thats pretty damn cool. I want to go see the Weather Man

In other news Rosa Parks wont stand up, again...

I win

Sam had the high game of 185. He also won 6 out of 8 games and picked up a 7/9 split. Ciggy won one game and C. Christ also won a game. Drunken assholes next to us were annoying as hell (I think they were cheering for us). We had a lot of close games. Good competition over all. I hope we can bowl as good on Thursday, we just have to drink our 4 pitchers beforehand...thats what it takes for dan to remember how to bowl.

Prison Break is back

Baseball is finally in the last few games of the season, and Fox has widened its lineup for this week. This means, yes, I got to watch me some TV last night. Prison Break is back. And while I wasn’t sure how long they could keep up this plot, I was informed via a “behind the scenes” on Sunday night that the writers have already written out episodes through the second season. So, is that good?

Yes … yes it is. I was strangely excited to see another episode. The tension is still there. Everything that could go wrong still does, and yet somehow it looks as if the plan to break out is going to happen. Who has to die to get there? Hard to say. They’ve already started killing off characters. Lincoln’s ex-wife and her husband, for example, were shot by the Men in Black Suits who Wear Sunglasses All the Time in an attempt to get Lincoln to call off the investigation into his set up. His son is now a fugitive, as they have planted his fingerprints on the murder weapon. His ex-girlfriend/lawyer were almost blown up. Lots of action ensues. So, as I mull it over, attempting to figure out “Who’s next?,” I’ll just have to wait. It could be anybody.

Key moment: the bastard Captain killing the nice old man’s cat and, in retaliation, he uses one of the Captain’s cigarettes to start a fire in a key location.

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

Sure, I picked up the book because it had a blurb by Thomas Pynchon on the back and the cover art was sleek and sexy, but The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders is one of the best, funniest novellas I’ve read in a long time. Coming in at a whopping 130 small pages, filled with illustrations, it’s a quick, poignant story about the absurdity of borders, national policy, power, and justice.

Outer Horner is a vast, proud land, and within that land lies the region of Inner Horner. Inner Horner is so small that only one member of its nation can fit inside of its border at a time, while the rest of the nation waits in the Short Term Residency Zone. Then Inner Horner, for geological reasons, shrinks, forcing an Inner Hornerite to inadvertently invade Outer Horner.

Enter Phil, an angry, power-driven figure who decides that he ought to tax the Inner Hornerites to stay in their land because they cannot fit into their own. The story escalates as Phil gains followers, and soon the Inner Hornerites are a poverty-stricken, oppressed people with no options.

Everything about the book is funny: from the hilarious dialogue, the ease with which people follow Phil and his seemingly logical sense of events to the “people” themselves (it really is hard to tell if they’re robots, insects, or just incomprehensible creatures). It’s a direct bash of the structure of nations, how certain policies are abused, and the way in which the policies are created. At one point, Phil tells the president about a new policy that he has supposedly instigated. To find out if he had (he is rather old and forgetful), he and the advisors poll the people (five of them) to see if they’re in support of this new policy. When it turns out that they are, they decide that, of course, he did impose this policy a long time ago and people love it.

For anyone who likes humor and/or a good satire, I cannot help but to unequivocally recommend this book. The only reason I don’t give this a perfect 200 proof is because it costs $9, and it only took me 3 or 4 hours to read.

So, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil: 180 proof.

Mirrormask

Being a long-time fan of Neil Gaiman’s writing and Dave McKean’s artwork, I’ve been anticipating Mirrormask for the past few years. And yesterday, finally, I saw it. It’s a difficult movie to review. For one, the acting is terrible, the first twenty minutes that don’t involve McKean’s amazing special effects are rather drab and remind me of something you’d catch on BBC late at night, and the soundtrack just has a bit too much saxophone (and by that I mean a lot of saxophone). Yet, I loved it.

The basic story is rather typical. A girl (Helena) falls asleep and has a fantastic dream that may or may not affect real life, but she’s determined to follow it through to the end in the hope that it will, somehow, change her real life. Many life lessons ensue. Sounds lame, but it’s not. The series of events that Helena encounters is so bizarre, so original, you keep asking yourself, “How did they come up with that?” And while you can predict the general flow of events, you can never prepare yourself for a sequence involving giant bird type things carrying Helena and guide Valentine through a jungle-gym structure while being chased by evil shadow blobs. Nor can you really picture what it’s like to see your world being crumbled up like a piece of paper.

The visuals are the most impressive I’ve seen in any movie ever. Stylistic, dark, and just goddamn cool, they’re worth the $8 alone. Hopefully, this movie will put McKean on the map a bit more, so he can get larger budgets, hire some real actors, and pay someone to make a decent soundtrack, and then he can fill it with the world that, I’m sure, only resides in his head.

Mirrormask: 120 proof

I still hate baseball

Because of baseball there is still a lot less good TV on, so here's a review of last night....

What a waist of an hour. Surface is one of the worst shows I have seen in a while. It is like a really bad sci-fi movie, but not cool at all. The characters are awful, the only reason I watch is to see them die, which wouldn't even be that cool because they don't like to put time or effort into any of their special effects. Don't waste your time with this show. If you want to see shitty sci-fi/horror go get Infested or Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!
Surface gets a 3.2


At least Las Vegas is still a good show. It maybe that I just love the town, but I have always enjoyed this show. Ed Deline (James Caan) kicks ass, a very cool old mobster. Danny McCoy is also pretty damn cool. It also helps that there is a plethora of fine ladies. Last night Ed did mob stuff, Mike took a girl out in Ed's car and the bitch stole it, Sam's brother came into town, and people gambled. Over all it was fun. I don't think this session is as good as last, but still worth checking out.
I give Las Vegas a nice dry Syrah, so a good 13%

A time to roll

Ok quick bowling recap. Last Thursday Dan had the high game of 174 and we all had between a 130 and 140ish average. Not to good, but we were bowling against one of the most amazing old guys ever. If I can get my throw to look half as good I'll be happy.
Sunday practice was fun. Ciggy had the high of 184. We had a lot of close games. Team Dan/Sam beat team Cigs/C. Christ by 5 pins and the next game C/C.C beat D/S by 4 pins. Oh and then Dan got drunk and forgot how to bowl.

Interesting facts--
1-Dan bowled the turkey
2-If your cool you have a 28 in the 2nd
3-C. Christ has a temper and doesn't really even taste that good
4-weird ugly guy and little hot chick are siblings
5-we are now friends with weird ugly guy
6-I am a leaf on the wind

woman prez?

I only caught a little bit of TV last night-

I just saw the last 10 minutes of Commander In Chief. I won't go into all the political shit. If you want that go here. It looks like it is trying to be a West Wing for moms. It really seemed to play up the relationship with her daughter and make the issue of what school she went to as important as running the country. It goes through all that "oh my god, a woman president". Who cares? We all know it would never really happen. I can't even give Commander and Chief a rating...well I guess its like if you were to get really wasted one night and in the morning you piss in a glass and drink it. Whatever proof that is that's the score it gets.

My goal of even turning on the was Boston Legal. Last night was awesome. Spader and Shatner are always amazing. The highlight is when Shatner takes Spader fishing in British Columbia and Shatner gets mad because hes not catching anything so he grabs a shotgun and shoots the head off a fish. The funny old lady killed the little old crazy man that she was kind of dating. She was scared that he might kill again. She tried to turn him to god and that didn't work so she beat him with a skillet and put him in the freezer. I still love this show. There were some slow spots and for that I will only give Boston Legal a shot of 80 proof soco, and for the weak parts I have to withhold the lime.

This one's for all the cabbage

Well as many of you know last year me and Dan lived together in the good old 3A. We would drink every night and watch movies and play video games…Hot Shots Golf 3 for the most part. Well that era has ended and Dan is now sober more than not (much to his disappointment I’m sure). But fear not I am still keeping the dream alive, but we must let some of the past go and I care about our friends Phillip, Jamie, and Hamm to much to say good-bye. You may wonder where this is going, and I’m not so sure myself…Oh yeah. Yesterday I was in the new huge Target and I saw Hot Shots Golf Fore! for $19.99. I thought “hey, what the hell, why not”. It was a bit weird playing it by myself and sober, one of those problems was son taken care of. The game is good, some of the same courses and a lot of new ones, new cool characters, and mini-golf, which is a shit-load of fun. I have only played it alone so I will have to test out the “party factor” tonight (come if you want—10ish).
-Hey Dan this is our new rating system---

Hot Shots Golf Fore! = 80 proof

Insert Clever Title

So goddamn busy. Hence, the lack of posts. Also, I’m getting sick. Anyway, baseball is ruining my weekly TV watching, so I’ll try to get some movie reviews up as I watch them. However, SSX On Tour is coming out today, so I imagine I’ll just be playing that all week.

Categorize this post as a post for the sake of posting.

gutter sluts

Yeah bowling was not to good last night. Ciggy got the high game of 164...twice. Craig Christ won a few and so did Dan...Sam didn't really feel like it, can't win every night. We are trying get get all the shit out of us on Sunday so we can roll good when it counts(Thursdays). Craig didn't spill any beer this time, we're proud of him.

To much drama

Ign just came out with a list of the top 25 dramas of all-time. I don't really know if i agree with a lot of the list. I am glad both Godfathers are on it, but I really don't know about The Graduate at the #13 spot. Good movie but the 13th best drama of all-time...

Well at least the won't have to update the list. Hollywood Quits.

room in this inn...

Got a few new cds yesterday---

The new Ryan Adams & the Cardinals album Jacksonville City Nights was the first on the list. Now I have always been a fan of Ryan even when he was a whiney little bitch or tried to be rock and roll so I knew I would like this cd for sure. Earlier this year he released the 2 disc set Cold Roses, which was one of his best to date, and I think that Jacksonville is quite a bit better. Even if you are not a fan you should just ignore who it is and listen to it, because its damn good music.

I also got the new Atmosphere cd You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having. I haven’t listened to this one whole lot but it seems pretty good so far. I don’t think its going to be as good as Seven’s Travels or Lucy Ford but that would be hard to do. I think it is going to grow on me a bunch. If my opinion on it greatly changes I will let you know.

The immortal Stephen Lynch just released The Craig Machine. This is a great buy. I laugh every time I listen to it and I’m sure you will to. The only things wrong with it is that it is live in New York so the sound is kind of weak in some spots. The other thing that sucks is that I have already heard about half the songs in the set, that’s ok though 12 bucks is a small price from 8 or so new Lynch songs.

The Holy Team

It’s been a crazy past few days, hence the lack of posting. I dropped $200 some on my car the other day, fixing liquids and stuff I didn’t understand. Then yesterday, on my way to my company dinner, I ran over a speed bump a little too quickly, and my muffler dropped to the ground. It’s rigged up with a wire coat hanger right now, but I don’t think that’ll last too long. Damn old cheap bastard cars. Damn them to hell.

But bowling, that’s what’s important. Sunday night was officially declared Ciggy’s night. Three top games for the evening: 183, 187, and 190, all in a row. He landed two turkeys and picked up two splits. I really think it was a testament to his holy Jesus powers, and teamed up with his brother, Craig Christ, the Holy Team kicked Team Sam&Dan’s ass.

Key moment: The second game, none of us hit lower than a 150, and at least half were in the 170s (Sam and Cigs), I hit in the 160s, and Craig Christ in the 150s.

Also: missed all of TV last night because I was eating awesome food and drinking beer on the company’s tab.

Coming soon: my review of We ♥ Katamari.

Watch this show, this I command

This Saturday morning I caught the new G.I. Joe cartoon Sigma 6. I am really critical about these types of shows so I didn’t think I was going to like it. At first the animation kind of bothered me but I just had to get used to it not looking like it was made in the 80’s. I really like all the characters they had and they seemed to be true and accurate for the most part. The only thing that I picked up on was that when Snake-Eyes was fighting Storm Shadow, Storm Shadow refers to Snake-Eyes as his brother, which we all know is not true at all. They used to be best friends and they trained together but they do not share any of the same blood. You might say Storm Shadow was just using it was a figure of speech, which I think would be ok except for the fact that there are a lot of young viewers that are not as well informed as us and they might be deceived. I think that the voices were good for the most part. Cobra Commander’s voice was pretty weak, but the Bareness sounded just like she used to. The most exciting part was when Zartan and the Dreadnaughts showed up, and Zartan was in his old costume with the brown hood, fucking awesome. I plan on watching this show every week, and I would just like to take a moment to thank it for making me excited about G.I. Joes again. I’ve missed you guys…

Butch Walker

This weekend I went to Butch Walker concert in the Ascot room. I really didn't know what to expect because Butch writes typical, generic, shity pop music (that I love with all my heart). It was the Hotel Cafe tour with consisted of Butch Walker, Jim Bianco, Imogen Heap and Gary Jules. Jim Bianco was extremely enjoyable. He is kind of Tom Waits like mixed with a little M. Ward. I would recommend listening to some of it. I think a lot of people were there for Imogen Heap, who was not that good. She was trying way to hard to be Bjork, with all the voice fluctuations, atmospheric music with electronic drumbeats. Like Micah said "its kind of hard to like someone when the first thing you think of when you see/hear them is some dirty bag lady sitting in a park feeding the birds and singing really loudly to herself."
Butch blew me away. He sang a few new songs which were pure pop gold. The highlight was breaking into Kanye's "Gold Digger" in the middle of "Maybe its just Me" and the wrapping it up with a huge course singing Bowie's "Young American". The Prince covers were pretty damn cool as well. I would have been able to see better if there wasn't a 300 pound "white hat" football player getting into it like Ciggy gets into dumb blonds.
You can hear any of there music here.