Guess what finally got approved by the FAA? (You know, the Federal Aviation Administration – which is not to be confused with the DOE, RAE, MI, SO, LAA, or TI.) Anywhoosh, if your curiosity is piqued, take a peek at the peak of human innovation:
Hrm... I always thought it would use magnets, not wings.
It’s a flying car (source)! Or a small plane that’s car-ish. But whatever… we’re that much closer to text messaging accidents causing roof damage!
So what could be better than a flying car, you might ask? Auto-origami!
If you can believe it, some of my friends (whether sober or in this case, drunk) really want their to be a movie version of Perfect Strangers.
No, the one with two strangers.
We started discussing casting, and this was the resounding consensus:
Ben Stiller as Cousin Larry Appleton and Adrian Brody as Balki Bartokomous
They don’t look too excited, though, and the way Hollywood operates, they might prefer to skew for a younger cast. Our suggestion:
Michael Cera and Shia LaBeouf are getting big heads about this project.
I can admit I wasn’t too keen on a movie version of the T.G.I.F. classic (?) before this discussion or this post. But after some photo editing, either version might catch my interest and $15 (because I’m sure it will be in 3-D).
He used that card to pick out his shirt color at Sears.
With all the brouhaha about the World Cup (and the brew-ha-ha’s over funny beer cups), I started thinking… hey, the band Yellowcard must have gotten their band name from yellow cards. Since I got the soccer-referenced band name out-of-the-way, let’s move onto some others:
FOOTBALL
Not this kind of nickel back...
Nickelback is a Canadian band named after a position in an American sport. They claim their name is in reference to change band member Mike Kroeger would return to customers while working at Starbucks, but that’s suspect. Under this pretense, the band could have been named Sixcentsback or Buck-O-Nine. I’m sticking to the football ties.
Helmet could fall under football… or baseball… or hockey… or bicycling… but I tend to believe their moniker derives from Vikings… if Vikings were condoms.
HOCKEY
When you only got 100 years to live, you don't need to see crap like this.
You wouldn’t think a guy with a high-pitched falsetto would be a hockey fan, but John Ondrasik must be enough of when to name his band himself, Five for Fighting. I was going to let this be a standalone entry, until I came across a mention of The Zambonis. “Who they hell are they?” I said to myself. “I won’t include them if I never heard any of their music.” Turns out, I did. Hockey Monkey was the theme song to a short-lived show I enjoyed (and forgot to include on this list) called The Loop:
BASEBALL
Alfred Hitchcock meets Christopher Lloyd and Tony Danza in "Birds in the Outfield"
Are you ready for the battle of the one hit (baseball pun!) wonders?
One of my all-time favorite songs from the 80’s has to be Your Love by The Outfield, my primary entry for the All-American Rejects Sport. On the other hand, Fastball’sThe Way has to be one of the most annoying songs from the 90’s (mostly courtesy of overplay… but still).
BASKETBALL
Bill Berry traveled from the Chicago Bulls to the Washington Wizards, but he's only one guy.
This sport was the toughest one. I was hard half-court pressed to think of a single entry here. And suddenly there were two (courtesy of my boss/friend Paul):
Waxing nostalgic is always a risky endeavor, but sometimes, it’s worth the heartache. Case in point – here’s the one that got away, my great white buffalo… my childhood dream of becoming a director, molded in flimsy plastic and recorded on audio cassettes’ magnetic tape…
Fisher Price’s PXL 2000
It’s quite honestly the only Christmas wish list item that I can recall the pining over, like a forgotten summer crush.
There’s one CD cover I can think of that captures that similar sense of adolescent longing, now long lost.
Like a Polaroid from my mind...
Otherwise there’s this video of Whitney, filmed in Pixelvision, courtesy of the PXL 2000:
Man, I feel bummed out… save me President Taft (for no particular reason)!
I would never call myself a fan of any specific genre because, hey – if it’s good, it’s good. If it’s catchy, it’s catchy. If it’s kitschy, it’s kitschy. This handful of soundtrack “rap” songs remain in my noggin to this very day… mostly filed under the kitschy label.
Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh – Spirit from Ghostbusters 2
Partners in Kryme – Turtle Power from – what else? – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
MC Hammer – Addams Groove from The Addams Family
Amanda Ingber (?) – Top That! from Teen Witch
This one isn’t really a rap song, but it still gets stuck in my head…
Shampoo – Trouble from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie
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