Working Late

Working Late covering the other guys shift at my day job always gets me pissed off cause I have to deal with clients.  And I don't even have to directly deal with clients, but I have to jump through 50 different hoops for each frigging invoice I deal with.

Keep in mind they've already received the product.  I had to knock down their price cause they forgot to use their discount code.  Then, I swear to god, I had to PDF the invoice to one person in the company, mail a hard copy to their A/P, attach a purchase order, walk their dog, feed their cat, deliver them a pizza, go f**k myself & e-mail the rep when it was all done.  We aren't even in the dog/cat/pizza/effing industry.

- Angry Army

Double Snakes

Yesterday I caught two snakes in one hole.  Check it out!

Trailers

Before Super 8 on tuesday, I saw a couple of trailers.  One was for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which looks absolutely awesome.  It looks to be a killer preview to Planet of the Apes, I am sooooooo pumped for that movie.

I also saw the trailer for transformers 3, which looked good.  But so did the trailer for transformers 2, and that movie was shit.  I imaging Michael Bay has put even more goofing around bits into transformers 3 and it's going to suck just like 2, only worse cause there's no Megan Fox to drool over.

And lastly, today on the internet I saw the trailer for Moneyball.  I've read the book, I loved the book and this trailer looked damn good.  Can't wait to see it either.

Super 8

I went & saw Super 8 today.  Relax, no spoilers here.  Elle Fanning, the younger sister of Dakota Fanning gives an effing awesome performance in this movie.  She HAS to be nominated for Oscar for this crap.

Also, I don't know what it is about Kyle Chandler but he looks like he belongs in period pieces.  I couldn't place him from King Kong until I checked the Internet Movie Database, but man, he totally fits in as the deputy sheriff in this film.  100% perfect casting.  I have never seen Friday Night lights but I can't picture this guy in modern day at all.

I loved this film.

I Shot Some Baby Canadian Geese Yesterday

Return of the Snakes

In the summer the snakes always say hi to me on my way to work. I named this one Jose.

Laughgasm

I was at work earlier today, and I heard one of my co-workers talking to the woman in HR.  Our HR woman was laughing so hard she was basically having a Laughgasm (a laugh-orgasm).  Now, I sit near the co-worker she was talking to - and I thought to myself - 'he's not that funny' and it turns out I was right.  The co-worker comes back to his desk and says "I just told HR about what you said to T-Bone earlier".  In order for you to understand what I said to T-Bone you need a little backstory:

I went away this weekend to Niagara Falls to see Al Pacino.  While I was away, I had some friends look after my pug.  Little did any of us realize that their two year old son would grow so attached to my little girl, that he would be crying for her as they dropped her off, and at least once a day ever since.  Earlier today, T-Bone was giving me a bit of flack for wrecking her 2 year old boy, and I said "Hey, I taught him a valuable lesson: bitches leave".

Alright, so the payoff probably wasn't as good as it should have been...I gotta admit I just wanted to work "Laughgasm" into a post.

- Rusty

Kirk Hammet & Joe Satriani album?

I just read an interview over at blabbermouth (below) about Kirk Hammett (Metallica) getting lessons from Joe Satriani and how Satch would spend extra time with Kirk cause he liked his style. Which got me thinking: how cool would a Satch/Hammett solo album be? Let‘s hope they get it together in some of Metallica‘s down time and record an album. How bout it boys?

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=159153

Magnum P.I. Movie?

Today at work I brought up the fact that the Duke of Hazzard & the A-Team were recently brought to the big screen - how long before there's a Magnum P.I. movie?

We started talking about our ideal cast, and we felt Rampage could pull off TC, just as he did B.A. in the A-Team, which naturally lead us to Bradley Cooper for Magnum. Since this discussion, I've come up with several other ideas for Magnum: Vince Vaughn, or Edward Burns if he put on a couple pounds, Chris Pine or Chris Hemsworth would work ten years from now, I would go with Christian Bale if I didn't think he's a total dick, my number two is Jason O'Mara (from Life on Mars), cause Gerard Butler has to be the guy tailor made to reprise this role. He's gotta be your #1 pick to play Magnum if it were made tomorrow.

To fill out the rest of the cast: Rick is a tough one. I could see Scott Caan doing it because of his height (or maybe that's just cause he's on Hawaii 5-0). Since we're somewhat on the Entourage cast: Jeremy Piven would probably make a good Rick, or even a good Higgins. But I would probably stick Piven to Rick and have Paul Giamatti or maybe Philip Seymour Hoffman as Higgins. And definitely Daniel Dae Kim (aka Jin from Lost) would be a shoe in for Ice Pick.

That is the dream team as I see it: Butler, Rampage, Piven, Giamatti & Kim. Work your magic Hollywood. Pay me in a trip to Hawaii for a couple weeks to watch the filming. You are welcome.

- Rusty

Pacino

Saw "An Evening with Al Pacino" at Niagara Fallsview casino on Friday. It was a pretty awesome time. Al was pretty much as you'd expect Al to be: charismatic, funny, loud. He rambled a bit but I didn't mind. The interviewer kinda sucked he kept saying "what do you want to talk about"? Great question interview guy, especially since you did this the night before. Al did give us some pearls of wisdom (to paraphrase):

You have to surround yourself with good people, you make four or five bad movies it could kill your career. You have to have people you can rely on to help you make good choices. But more than that, in life - no matter what you do - you could be an artist, painter, office worker, but you have to surround yourself with good people to do good work.

He had a fantastic story about Scent of a Woman, about where he got WooHaa from. He also talked about the fact that Francis Ford Coppola was only 30 when he directed The Godfather. Al recalled turning down the role of Lenny Bruce in "Lenny", and when he decided he wanted to do it he went back to get it but Dustin Hoffman already had it. I totally have to check that movie out.

-Rusty

The Return of the 12 String

Oh Jesus about 4 days ago I got my Ovation 12-string back from "The Pigeon Man" and GOOD GOD how I missed it. I tuned the whole thing down a half step so the singing is a bit better and I can't wait to record with this puppy again. We've got about three songs that need to hit the board soon, but I'm not going to get into any song titles here cause that would ruin the surprise.

All Quiet on the Rusty Front

Things have been kinda quiet here and over at 23Morrow for a bit cause I've been busy & wrapped up in superstition. I assure you all is well on all fronts and the band is making leaps & bounds forward. No, we haven't come up with a real name yet, but we've been writing. Stu & I just finished composing a masterpiece called Menage a Quatre on the weekend. I hope to take some much needed time off work soon to record that, Bouncing Summertime Boobs as well as Kourtney & Kim Take New York cause the world needs to hear this shit! Yeah baby.

I'm going to branch Tessa out onto her own blog cause she deserves it - and I hope to do that soon. As well, I intend to bring you pictures of her friends & possibly enemies! I'm just kidding, she doesn't have enemies but I sure as hell do! Yeah baby again!

Vote for Jose Bautista on the All-Star ballots over on mlb.com if you have not already. If you don't vote for Jose you are obviously:
1. not a Canadian
2. not a baseball fan
3. a Red Sox, or Yankees fan
4. or a traitor

So get to it! Vote JOSE!

- RUSTY