Things are getting back to normal. My ceiling is fixed, I have a new dryer and I'm rediscovering some things I used to love about my past.
When I say "rediscovery," I mainly mean simply getting back into the flow of things in simple ways, things that made me happy in college, things that made me happy at work, things that made me happy in life.
One of those things, in essence, is simple entertainment.
I like cartoons, I like movies, I like music. Those things never went away, but there's a very roundabout type of thinking that led me to this realization.
It's about 2:20 in the morning on Friday and I'm just getting back from the midnight showing of Semi-Pro, the new Will Ferrell movie centering around something, as a wrestling fan, I surprising know quite a bit about, the old American Basketball Association (ABA).
I saw Charlie Bartlett on Wednesday night. Found it enjoyable. Found Semi-Pro enjoyable as well and even for my own jealous reasons, found myself thinking "yeah, I know who these teams actually were and the history behind them."
Sadly, the Flint Tropics never actually existed and there are some factual inaccuracies in the movie but if I'm going to stress on those, then I'm really not getting to the enjoyable factor that I'm speaking of.
In short, the movie was funny. More than Ricky Bobby and Blades of Glory, but less than Anchorman, so I'm sure with a WF movie, you really know what to expect.
Which brings me to another random point. I've had this fascination with Cambodia recently. I really know nothing about it, other than a girl in my second grade class (Linda was her name) who was Cambodian. Well, "The Killing Fields" was on about a week ago and of course, with the internet, we can immediately get that instant gratification regarding something we know nothing about.
I knew about the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot (to a lesser extent), but combine "The Killing Fields" with my dabbling in Guitar Hero III, which features the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia," and some boredom this afternoon wah lah!
Amazingly enough, I found a performance from the 2007 MTV VMA's where the Foo Fighters covered "Holiday in Cambodia" with Serj from System of A Down in one of the better cover versions of the song I'd ever heard. Serj obviously had some influence from the song ... his vocalizations were great compared to the originial.
Well, that led to me buying the "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death," album from the DK on iTunes. I actually had the CD back in eighth grade, when DK's presence made a slight comeback in the form of t-shirts and punk rock at white-bred Poquoson Middle School. I remember I bought it from my friend Mike for like five bucks. Oddly enough, I never bought that Tone Loc CD from Albert he actually wrote something in my 8th grade yearbook about it.
Anyway, getting back to my point I beat GT3 on medium today, but found myself always playing "Holiday in Cambodia" before I actually get along to the song. The sound of the song isn't one that's going to win fans that didn't know the band prior, but at least it's punk not this Fall Out Boy shit we're dealing with that's being pumped into our brains by MTV and VCast commercials like a bad dose of H.
Gotta like how I've tied two random points into one seminal thought. Yeah baby!
So after I decide to spend some loot on DK's old album, I then re-sort my iTunes and then realize none of my full albums are listed as playlists. This could be problematic if I ever decide to actually get an iPod. With 4,500 songs, it would make sense, right?
Well, as I did that, I got to Fighting Gravity. If you haven't heard of them, they never quite made it big, despite having a huge Virginia following and are basically referred to as one of the greatest party bands on the East Coast. They're from Richmond and started out as "Boy O Boy," a ska-funk-rock band that had some blistering horns.
Well, I have a live double album on my computer, as well as Shish-Ska-Bob, their first album but there's just one song that brings me really back to high school and early college.
It's a slow melodic tone called "Home," off the album No Stopping, No Standing. I've often thought about writing a movie about my life I've got a lot of documented journal entries and actually got started on writing a book in college, but that's on a zip disk back home in Virginia. But this song is the one that I would want to have in the "driving montage" as you pass landmarks think the opening sequence to The Sopranos, only put it in Southeastern Virginia, passing things like Busch Gardens, Patrick Henry Mall, The Super K on Route 17 in Yorktown, the guy Rodney that waves at everyone on Cary's Chapel Road and of course, anything resembling a truck in Poquoson.
So I'm on a heavy dose of Brother Ali, Atmosphere, Dead Kennedys and Fighting Gravity along with a revival of 2 Skinnee J's listening, because they too, are coming back for a short five-date tour with the old crew. I'm stoked about that one as well.
When I say "rediscovery," I mainly mean simply getting back into the flow of things in simple ways, things that made me happy in college, things that made me happy at work, things that made me happy in life.
One of those things, in essence, is simple entertainment.
I like cartoons, I like movies, I like music. Those things never went away, but there's a very roundabout type of thinking that led me to this realization.
It's about 2:20 in the morning on Friday and I'm just getting back from the midnight showing of Semi-Pro, the new Will Ferrell movie centering around something, as a wrestling fan, I surprising know quite a bit about, the old American Basketball Association (ABA).
I saw Charlie Bartlett on Wednesday night. Found it enjoyable. Found Semi-Pro enjoyable as well and even for my own jealous reasons, found myself thinking "yeah, I know who these teams actually were and the history behind them."
Sadly, the Flint Tropics never actually existed and there are some factual inaccuracies in the movie but if I'm going to stress on those, then I'm really not getting to the enjoyable factor that I'm speaking of.
In short, the movie was funny. More than Ricky Bobby and Blades of Glory, but less than Anchorman, so I'm sure with a WF movie, you really know what to expect.
Which brings me to another random point. I've had this fascination with Cambodia recently. I really know nothing about it, other than a girl in my second grade class (Linda was her name) who was Cambodian. Well, "The Killing Fields" was on about a week ago and of course, with the internet, we can immediately get that instant gratification regarding something we know nothing about.
I knew about the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot (to a lesser extent), but combine "The Killing Fields" with my dabbling in Guitar Hero III, which features the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia," and some boredom this afternoon wah lah!
Amazingly enough, I found a performance from the 2007 MTV VMA's where the Foo Fighters covered "Holiday in Cambodia" with Serj from System of A Down in one of the better cover versions of the song I'd ever heard. Serj obviously had some influence from the song ... his vocalizations were great compared to the originial.
Well, that led to me buying the "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death," album from the DK on iTunes. I actually had the CD back in eighth grade, when DK's presence made a slight comeback in the form of t-shirts and punk rock at white-bred Poquoson Middle School. I remember I bought it from my friend Mike for like five bucks. Oddly enough, I never bought that Tone Loc CD from Albert he actually wrote something in my 8th grade yearbook about it.
Anyway, getting back to my point I beat GT3 on medium today, but found myself always playing "Holiday in Cambodia" before I actually get along to the song. The sound of the song isn't one that's going to win fans that didn't know the band prior, but at least it's punk not this Fall Out Boy shit we're dealing with that's being pumped into our brains by MTV and VCast commercials like a bad dose of H.
Gotta like how I've tied two random points into one seminal thought. Yeah baby!
So after I decide to spend some loot on DK's old album, I then re-sort my iTunes and then realize none of my full albums are listed as playlists. This could be problematic if I ever decide to actually get an iPod. With 4,500 songs, it would make sense, right?
Well, as I did that, I got to Fighting Gravity. If you haven't heard of them, they never quite made it big, despite having a huge Virginia following and are basically referred to as one of the greatest party bands on the East Coast. They're from Richmond and started out as "Boy O Boy," a ska-funk-rock band that had some blistering horns.
Well, I have a live double album on my computer, as well as Shish-Ska-Bob, their first album but there's just one song that brings me really back to high school and early college.
It's a slow melodic tone called "Home," off the album No Stopping, No Standing. I've often thought about writing a movie about my life I've got a lot of documented journal entries and actually got started on writing a book in college, but that's on a zip disk back home in Virginia. But this song is the one that I would want to have in the "driving montage" as you pass landmarks think the opening sequence to The Sopranos, only put it in Southeastern Virginia, passing things like Busch Gardens, Patrick Henry Mall, The Super K on Route 17 in Yorktown, the guy Rodney that waves at everyone on Cary's Chapel Road and of course, anything resembling a truck in Poquoson.
So I'm on a heavy dose of Brother Ali, Atmosphere, Dead Kennedys and Fighting Gravity along with a revival of 2 Skinnee J's listening, because they too, are coming back for a short five-date tour with the old crew. I'm stoked about that one as well.