Revenge of the Fallen

I have returned from an early morning viewing of, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and as you’d suspect I liked it very much.  Now I feel I might have to preface this with the fact that my fanaticism falls directly between the sort of fan who’d tattoo Transformers insignia’s on his arms and the sort of fan who’d name their children Optimus, Arcee and Starscream. A few parts of the movie I really liked: Bumblebee, ”transformed” from comic relief in part 1 to a semi-ass kicking son of a mother in part 2. Soundwave and “Rampage”: I left that name in quotes because to me the Decepticon spy/Jaguar will always be RAVAGE, (only a few letters difference I know, but still) just the MERE inclusion of this team made me smile. The Matrix: NO! not Keanu, fans of the 1986 movie will remember the premise behind the Autobot Matrix of leadership and how it will ”Light our darkest hour..” yada yada, well this time around it’s included, I will not explain beyond that. The inclusion of Arcee and the constructicons was another bright spot.

Some not so great parts, Skids and Mudflap (voiced by Spongebob himself, Tom Kenny), ::sigh:: somewhere an executive remembered Darius McCrary’s performance as Jazz and asked themselves “How can we duplicate this but make it more racist and more insulting to the viewer? ANSWER: twin autobots complete with gold teeth, the capacity to pop caps in asses, etc; I was waiting for one of them to declare their victory as DY-NO-MITE.   and last but not least, the inclusion of Devastators nards….. you will have to see it to believe it.

busy work

what I’ve learned this past few days…

… having a moderately successful show on basic cable which examines you and your life and how you exploit your children is NEVER a GOOD IDEA. I don’t believe in schadenfreude, but in the case of Kate Gosselin I welcome it! Where the hell do I start?

… the real estate market seems to be doing better, particularly where me and the Mrs. are looking to rent.

… sometimes a good movie can be a great escape (I’ll blog about it in a moment)

…  in the end, patience can be a virtue

we did

… we finally made it down the aisle, or in our case down the sidewalk toward the gazebo.

The reception went better than I had planned. No fights, no loud words. Being legally drunk for 80 percent of the day didn’t hurt matters any. Most of the food didn’t go to waste, more than half of the keg was consumed, and Porky the Slaughtered Pig was delicious.

I’m by NO means an expert on anything let alone married life, but from what I’ve felt so far… it’s not all too different from living together in sin.

on a boat

we made it to the boat despite some last minute scares. We quickly adapted to the cruise lifestyle, lounging around and drinking drinking DRINKING! The ports of call were as I imagined they’d be. Aside from Hemingway’s house and some assorted stops here and there, Key West seems like one big happy hour, by 2 o’clock we were suffering from heat exhaustion so beer was the last thing on our minds.

Cozumel was the second stop on the drunk americas tour. I felt like i was in the middle of George Lopez’s comedy act, I couldn’t help but think of him while we were walking through the plazas “My fren my fren, looka mira, you like belts?” The pressure was on for the vendors because our boat was the first one that had docked at the port in 40 days, the Governor of the region was there and so were the local media. Cozumel was definitely worth while, we took an educational tour/Hiking tour through the Mexican desert in San Gervasio,Cozumel learning about Mayan culture. Apparently honeymooners have been making pilgrimages to Cozumel since Mayan times, according to our guide the site at San Gervasio was the stop all newlyweds made in order to pay respect to the fertility gods.

Our third stop was Belize City in Belize, like Cozumel we made another educational tour. We toured another Mayan site and we really enjoyed ourselves. What we learned (aside from the obvious educational stuff) chubby people shouldn’t hike especially in a tropical climate.

Meanwhile, ON THE BOAT! we ate our weight in steaks,lobster, chicken and deserts.

And back on land I developed an inner ear infection when I got back, not to fun when the room spinning but your sober.

Next Obstacle, finding and moving into a new house

roundup

I can’t think of a catchy title, so that’ll have to do for now. I’m going to be married in less than a week and I won’t be writing on here for the rest of May so I thought I’d do a “Best Of” or all I’ve learned type of list here

I’VE learned

In single life…

… it’s always darkest before the dawn.. sounds horribly cliche but it actually holds alot of water. When we are down and out, want to give up and jump into that volcano we don’t actually see the future possibilities, the future parties, dates, loves, all around good times and bad times (that make us appreciative) ahead.

… ..it doesn’t matter how toys you collect… it truly doesn’t matter because I ended up buying alot of them back on ebay, but in retrospect you have to remember that possessions don’t last forever

…a life together..

…. pick your battles… doing an extra menial task sounds annoying but if it saves me from getting beheaded? so be it, it actually sounds like I’m complaining too much there, I actually don’t mind doing those so called menial tasks, when everything is put into perspective, I do those things because I love her….

LISTENING is KEY!!! … there are a few things that you’re allowed to forget, at the risk of getting in trouble I won’t mention any right now, but you really do want to keep open ears!! this fact goes hand in hand with another good basic fact, Silence is Golden! sometimes we have to shut up in order to hear what other people are saying, all the more important when the other peson is the love of your life.

…..if I think of more I’ll add through comments

I’ve noticed

lately it seems if I’m not posting an update, I’m posting about someones death.  well I’m too old to be emo but I can’t help it, the comedians and actors that I’ve grown up with are passing away, a sad part of life. This past week Dom DeLuise died, for me I guess I will remember him for being Burt Reynolds Cannonball Run sidekick as well as spots in Blazing Saddles and the infamous Pizza the Hutt in Mel Brook’s “Spaceballs”. RIP Mr De Luise

what I’ve learned this week 5/8

first and foremost,  … don’t trust complete strangers with sensitive things, especially two weeks before an important event (love you hun)

…sometimes not winning at trivia gets trumped by having a good time

…sometimes you have to listen to the CDC and get your honeymoon plans screwed up

…and sometimes, not yelling back at a teenager with an emotional problem makes you a better person.. and makes them look like the child they are

What I’ve learned this week 5/1

much like all other weeks, this weeks was slow… although it WILL be picking up in 3 weeks

…… trivia can once again be fun!!

…… morons who are sore losers can ruin the biggest of victories with the sourest of  grapes

…… giving up is sometimes not a good option

…… Bea Arthur was an excellent comedianne

Thursdays used to be special!

Recently I’ve found some TV offerings dismal

aside from my usual NBC favorites, I recently started watching CBS’ much hyped “Harpers Island”, it’s some horror schlock that CBS had green lit and felt comfortable enough to pair it with CSI as it’s lead in. For the uninitiated, Harper’s island is a fictional island in the pacific northwest, on said island a nasty murder took place in 2001 or 2002. In the shadow of these dastardly murders, each episode is chock full of assorted cast members taking turns playing ‘hide the sausage’ or ‘Hey I have a vagina and I want to use it’, All in all the show comes off as half soft core porn half B-Movie.

What IS worth a watch is NBC’s new Thursday night offering “Southland”, from the producers of “ER” and “Third Watch”, Southland is set in Los Angeles, has a large and impressive cast (too large of a cast actually). Southland much like Third Watch takes you into the cops lives, shows you how they’re normal people or how they’re freaks. I’m surprised at how much it has surpassed Third Watch, (as much as I love Third Watch , it sucked because it was 2 shows in one, they should’ve taken a page from vet producer Dick Wolf and kept NYPD and FDNY seperate on the show) but I digress. And unlike Harpers, Southland actually has some direction with the story lines and better production over all.

*As I write this CBS has moved Harpers to Saturday Night where its SURE to find viewers!……. sad enough, I’ll probably still watch

What I’ve learned this week (late edition)

well, it’s late cause I had to take a day off for muh birthday

gardening can be fun

a movie date birthday can be really fun

sometimes you have to let go and trust other people in that they’ll deliver on what they promise

I guess all in all I didn’t learn all that much this week, and that’s still allowed

Rest In Peace Dorothy

I caught a quick mention on Yahoo of Bea Arthur passing away, she was most famous for portraying Maude, Archie Bunker’s polar opposite. But I will always remember her as Dorothy Zbornak, one of the funniest characters ever on NBC’s 80s sitcom The Golden Girls http://omg.yahoo.com/news/golden-girls-star-bea-arthur-dies-at-86/21766?nc.