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monkeyFLASHmonkeyBACK… To All The Songs I’ve Had Crushes To Before

Posted on October 22, 2011 by sgottahurt

It’s been awhile since I’ve felt this way… Le sigh…

Life is incredible when there’s music. Songs can take you back to summers past, moments lost. They can also take you back to former crushes, loves lost. Here’s a collection of tunes through the years that still remind me of certain people.

I could go into specifics, or share stories, but I’m behind on blogging, so the music will have to speak for itself:

Janet Jackson’s When I Think Of You

Boy Meets Girl’s Waiting For a Star to Fall

Vertical Horizon’s Everything You Want

Lifehouse’s Hanging by a Moment

Wow… either my drinking has erased everything since the year 2000 (and possibly in between these), or I’ve gotten away from theme song crushes.

If I think of more, I’ll post them in the comments.

Not that you care.

Not that anybody cared…

Le sigh, again…

Happy Find… Ideas Assemble!

Posted on October 17, 2011 by sgottahurt

The Avengers aren’t hitting the big screen until next summer, so here’s the trailer for the small screen version now:

Aside from that, there’s a newer online dating site called HowAboutWe that could be interesting… if I online dated.

But my other big to-do is about the Lytro, a functional light field camera, which means you can take a picture without worrying about focusing – you can change the focus later:

Punch Drunken Recollection… Honey Badger Don’t Care!

Posted on October 15, 2011 by sgottahurt

On my recent trip to New York to watch the Yankees get rained out before beating the Detroit Tigers the next day, we stopped in DuBois, Pennsylvania for the night. We were so over-tired and wired from the drive, we decided we needed to get some drinks to relax us enough to get some sleep.

Anybooze, we stopped at Eastside Sports Bar…

They were playing Reel Big Fish's "Beer" so it felt like a safe place to be... at least the beer was cheap.

…and purchased as many beers as we could on site, as well as plenty to go.

What does that have to do with anything? Well, it was on this night that I saw this video for the first time:

And now the badass honey badger has gone mainstream:

Oh, and for the record… a fight broke out within fifteen minutes of us being at that bar, and like the honey badger, I didn’t give a shit.

In Defense Of… Today’s Youth (Even Including Hipsters)

Posted on October 13, 2011 by sgottahurt

Let’s face it… as a collective whole, Generation X is a collective hole. All we did was whine and dine on every technological change that made our pitiful existences that much easier to have more time to, well, whine more.

Our gut instincts tell us to poo-poo on this next gaggle of young adults, but like the babies of the family, they’ve seen what the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers and us have wrought, and they are ready to make the best of a bad situation.

To my Gen X’ers, nostalgia was just a fashion statement or a manifestation of our unwillingness to grow up. To this next group, I think they see value.

For example, typewriters are as pointless as ~~pretty much any technology modern cellphones have replaced~~ spindles these days, but lest we forget them, today’s youth will find a way to reintroduce them:

Music tastes have changed through the decades, and rising musicians like Michigan-born Mayer Hawthorne, are working hard to keep styles such as Motown still alive:

And then there’s this movement:

Kids these days...

I’m 99% sure this next generation is are all right.

Coinkydink Or Coinkydonk? Movie Preview Circle Jerk

Posted on October 11, 2011 by sgottahurt

I just wish I could find the inspiration for this post online. Believe it or not, I saw a trailer on TV for Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar that ripped off the Inception sound. (I recorded it off TV – unfortunately it’s not as clear as I hoped. Click here to hear.) If you don’t know the infamous BRMMMM, click here.

It’s already been ripped off in this past summer’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon and next summer’s The Avengers:

This has happened once before with the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre using the flash bulb sound from the original trailer, and then it popped up everywhere (I just can’t remember where, for the life of me):

Previews are so terrible today, a woman is suing the advertisers of Ryan Gosling’s Drive for being misleading. I was under the impression it was a cool, 80’s throwback movie based upon its neon logo, until I saw this TV spot:

Unbeatable? Unstoppable? Unkillable?

I started thinking he could be some supernatural driver out of the 50’s! (The lawsuit states the woman thought it was going to be like The Fast and the Furious… my version is better.)

And how about this preview for James McTeigue’s follow-up to V for Vendetta…The RaVen (the capital V is in the preview just to remind you):

Anyone else think the inspector is the murderer?

A Handful Of… Non-Halloween Halloween Songs

Posted on October 10, 2011 by sgottahurt

Halloween is quickly approaching. So there’s no time like the present to plan out the perfect holiday mix that feels less Halloweenie and more Halloweenus.

Here are A Handful Of Non-Halloween Halloween Songs:

Tegan and Sara – Walking with a Ghost

Skillet – Monster

Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London

The Cranberries – Zombie

Bloc Party – Hunting for Witches

Vampire Weekend – Holiday (anything by them would do…)

(SIDENOTE: The Toadies almost made it with Possum Kingdom because the infamous they say it’s about vampires, but based on the title alone, it seems to be about possums. Possums can be scary, though…)

Musical Musings… What The Eff Is This Sh–?

Posted on October 9, 2011 by sgottahurt

The real answer is Cat Daddy by The Rej3ctz (featuring Chris Brown).

The right answer is a pop culture shirt-hawking, leetspeak-laden, wheelchair-dancing hullabaloo:

It’s sort of mesmerizing… in a bitch I go to work sort of way…

In My Brain While Awake… This Kid’s A Nightmare!

Posted on October 6, 2011 by sgottahurt

Yeah, this one has nothing to do with a dream (thankfully, you might be thinking). It’s just that the kid in this commercial is such a fucking spastic terror, I may have nightmares: