Random Thoughts
1.) Thor is awesome. I saw Thor on Tuesday with Stefanie and Noah, and let me tell you what, that movie is really good. It’s the perfect three star movie. Keeps you entertained, keeps things rolling, has good characters and a good story, has Stringer Bell as a big ass gate keeper cloaked in gold with yellow eyes.
And let me tell you something else. Thor is the first movie that I’ve ever seen in a theater where when the main guy character came into a scene shirtless, the ENTIRE theater gasped. The girls gasped and were like: DAMN! The guys gasped and were like: DAMN! Dude is just that jacked. I’m not sure if his arms were CGI’d or HGHed or what, but if that crap is for real, hats off to you Chris Hemsworth. Go see the movie if you get a chance, it’s the perfect way to kick off the summer movie season.By the way, they are re-making Red Dawn and you know who plays the Swayze role? Hemsworth. Awesome.
2.) Can we talk about these prom proposals for just one second? What in the world has gotten into high school kids these days. We had dinner with my aunt, uncle and cousin the other week, and my cousin, who is a senior in high school, was telling us these RIDICULOUS ways that guys were asking girls to prom. I’m talking about computer programs spouting off poems, I’m talking about roses in the bedroom, I’m talking about post-it notes on walls. What the hell? Then yesterday I see some kid put poster boards on his school’s outside wall spelling out “will you go to prom with me?” To be dicks, the administration suspended the kid from prom (what a swift kick in the nuts, eh?), but the real story is…calm down guys. Prom is kinda lame. You eat shitty food and then you dance. Whoopti-doo.
3.) The other night my dad and brother and me were watching the Heat play the Celtics when Big Neil uttered a phrase I never thought I’d hear. We were watching the Philly Union game (more on that later), but switching back and forth between that and the Heat/Celtics game, and at one point I said, “We need to get Lebron to play soccer.” To which Big Neil said, “Lebron’s not that athletic.” (Insert record screeching noise).
Now, Lebron would suck at soccer, that much is given. But to go as far as to say that he’s not that athletic? Look, hate the guy all you want, but he is incredibly athletic. He may suck at life, but he doesn’t suck at athleticism.
Big Neil also said something about how he could beat Lebron James in a foot race, claiming that he is faster than Lebron James, and you know what? I don’t totally (emphasis on “totally”) doubt him. The reason? If (when) Lebron did get ahead of my dad, you know that Big Neil would take out his knees or something. Beat Lebron in a race and end his career in one fell swoop? Just another day at the office.
4.) Speaking of the Union game, it was pretty fun to watch, as they scored late to tie the Galaxy. But man oh man are MLS players bad. The play is just so painfully bad to watch at times, but overall, they are trying their best and I guess that’s all you can ask for. It is kinda bogus that the Galaxy and Red Bulls have 12 million dollar salaries and everyone else has like 2-3 million salary caps. It’s especially bad when you consider that MLS sets the salary caps for each team. It’s not like the Red Bulls and Galaxy owners just WANT to spend more, it’s that MLS lets them and then denies everyone else that opportunity. Great business model.
5.) Just watched episode one of Twin Peaks yesterday and I think Stefanie summed it up best when she turned to me about 3/4ths of the way through and said, “I feel like I’m in another world.” Exactly.
That show is unlike anything I’ve ever seen on TV before. I would say that it was ahead of its time, since it came out in 1990, but I’m not really sure if it even has a time to be ahead of. And if it debuted today, critics would still say, “It’s ahead of it’s time.”
It is just incredibly entertaining, making you feel all sorts of emotions (humor, sadness, scared, icky, odd), when most shows only go for one. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. We watched for two hours and it felt like 20 minutes. The time just flew by and that is definitely a world that you want to get lost in…maybe not to visit, but definitely to observe as an outsider through a TV set.
Until next time…
So, it seems as though the Major League Soccer has become the grazing pasture when former international stars are put out to stud, so to speak. Earlier today, Thierry Henry signed a contract with MLS’s New York Red Bulls after being cut from Barcelona for scoring a meager 4 goals last year.