Time to write about something I know again. You know what that means...this is going to be a random thoughts column.
Hasn't been the best week for me romantically...my girlfriend and I broke up (gut punch), my high school girlfriend/first love got engaged (pimp slap), and my second love/college girlfriend told me that she had fallen in love again (another gut punch). I am very much in need of some meaningless sex to wash all of that off of me.
I have been going to all of the crappy, low-rent comedies that the movie studios dump in February so that you don't have to. In the course of two weeks, I saw The Big Bounce, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, 50 First Dates, Barbershop 2, Eurotrip, and Welcome to Mooseport. Part of the reason I went to all of these movies (other than my low-brow tastes) is that I was hoping that I could come up with a column to trash them. Unfortunately, none of these films raised my ire enough to trash them. They all were funny enough, watchable enough, sweet enough. If I had to recommend one? I'd probably go with 50 First Dates (which is surprisingly sweet, if you can stomach the first ten minutes) or Eurotrip (which is funnier than the trailers indicate, if you can forgive the BROAD stereotypes).
The Colorado recruiting scandal is one of the most overblown media stories in years. The rape charges are serious and horrific, but sadly, these things happen on every campus. What I find so ridiculous,
2-18-04 - Columns Revisited
2-3-04 - 2003 Movie Awards (Updated)
1-29-04 - 2003 Movie Spectacular (Updated)
1-28-04 - A Year Remembered
1-27-04 - Chien's Guest Column
1-25-04 - Bed Buddy Thoughts
Archives
1) "Temporary" - The Tah-Dahs
2) "Action" - Razorlight
3) "Wonderwall"- Ryan Adams
4) "Bar Room Hero" - The Dropkick Murphys
5) "Rubber Band Man" - T.I.
6) "Eve of Destruction"- Bishop Allen
7) "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
8) "Assassinator 13" - Chikinki
9) "The Lonely"- British Sea Power
10) "Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
Rod Paige is an idiot.
Review of my NBA preview (1,2)
What I got right:
1) The order at the top of the West...somehow I nailed that one (so far).
2) The decline of the Boston Celtics
3) The rise to playoff contention of the Miami Heat (got that one after the Odom signing)
What everyone got wrong:
1) The strength of the Phoenix Suns and the Orlando Magic
2) The weakness of the Milwaukee Bucks and the Utah Jazz
3) That Memphis and Denver were at least a year awat from playoff contention
What I got wrong on my own:
1) I anticipated the rise of the Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards...um, mulligan
2) I underestimated the Indiana Pacers (to my credit, I thought Isiah was still going to be the coach)
3) I thought Philadelphia would be a real contender in the East.
On Sunday I was looking back at my weekend and feeling kind of guilty about how tame it was...then I compared it to Jeff's, and realized that tame is highly underrated.
I haven't been to class much in the last week and a half...is this the beginning of the end? I'm not sure what I'm rooting for...
If anyone is interested in reading a great book, try A Million Little Pieces. It is a fascinating, thrilling, depressing, sweet, hard-htting, romantic, exhilarating pageturner of a confessional memoir. Author James Frey's true story of addiction and his slow recovery is possibly the best book I have ever read. I know I am prone to hyperbole, but this time I am serious. Buy it, check it out, or borrow it from me.