Say what you will, but both Perry and Depp are really good/fun guitar players. Kill off Bieber all you want, but leave the "real" musicians the fuck alone.
The best part is the harbour seals, and Sigourney. We saw it at the Drive-In. An old-school Drive-In in Grand Bend called the Starlight that comes equipped with the EXACT same metal playground climbers built in 1966, and you talk about "they don't make 'em like they used to" hooooooly shit. A ten-foot tall jungle-gym perfect for an airborne battle royale. I'm talking a giant dangerous merry-go-round that can hold two dozen shoeless screaming kids as their short-ass lives flash before their eyes. See-saws made purely of machined steel that rocket the shrieking children eight feet into the sky. To quote my daughter: "I WANNA GET DOWN I WANNA GET DOWN I WANNA GET DOWN" typical sheltered millennial. It's amazing no ones ends up in traction there but it's fun none the less. Plastic climbers? Pfffft. Those things are for pussies that don't have death wishes.
I'm on a trip in a place that takes 12 hours for me to get to, so my dad and I stop at my aunt's place to break up the drive. My uncle is this strange, silly man who's a total hermit and kind of a hacker and also has spent his retirement selling antiques online. He kept referring to his internet friends, and I wondered aloud if we ever unknowingly crossed paths online. He said it was unlikely because he was almost solely talking about this off-shoot of the Amazon sellers' message boards that's just a bunch of odd 60+ people who sell things online. He started telling me all about them, and at the beginning I assumed it couldn't possibly be interesting. But, MAN, 60+ online antiques sellers message board drama is NUTS. I thought this place had characters, but it pales in comparison. My favorite story was one disgruntled member faked her own death, and then returned to the board a while later posing as her secret lesbian lover. They doubted it at first, but she managed to be so convincing that they eventually accepted it and it took them months to catch on it was the same nutty person. A lot of them are all old lonely people who have no one left, so there's this strange dynamic where they're often the only ones who care about each other. My uncle and aunt are happily married, so he's the anomaly, and even though he's a cranky hermit he seems to only show compassion for these strangers. There's some random lady in the middle of nowhere Nebraska that routinely sends him green tomato jam and he thinks she's in love with him. My aunt doesn't seem to feel too threatened for some reason. The Internet is a weird, wonderful place.
I swear that movie comes up here 10,000% more than in my day to day life. It is awesome yet it never comes up in cheesey action classics discussions or list. It came out just outside of that late 80s cheesey action boom. I've not seen a bunch of the bigger ones, Red Dawn, Roadhouse, the one where Patrick Swayze surfs with neo. Demolition Man is the shit.
One of my favorite parts is rat burger eatin' sewer folk led by a scenery-devouring god of a Denis Leary performance.
Bite your tongue. Download 'Get Your Wings,' 'Toys in the Attic,' and 'Rocks.' Three great albums. While you are younger than me, and therefore probably are used to the 'Pump' era and subsequent Aerosmith, which was subpar, make no mistake, 70's Aerosmith was totally awesome. Sobriety has not been their friend.
Don't they get credit for introducing Alicia Silverstone to horny teenagers? (Wonder Years, not withstanding)
So much this. All anyone could say in the late 80's/early 90's was how much better their music was compared to what they put out earlier in their career and how it was because they were clean and sober. Bullshit. Their early stuff was awesome and has stood the test of time....40+ years. That dreck they put out while they were sober is/was largely forgettable, canned, formulated and embarrassingly bland for a band of their ability.
I hate the national news. There was a story last night on NBC Nightly News about a fire just outside of Boulder. Miguel whatever his last name is was reporting and just screwed everything up. He first said Colorado is facing an epic drought. We are not. Snowpacks were about 150% above average, if anything we have a surplus. Then he couldn't be bothered to pronounce the town name right, it wasn't even close. It seemed like he got there, kind of made some things up that sounded dramatic and went with that. I think we've talked about that on here before, the national news never gets the news right.
Eight years ago, my kids gave me Aerosmith's greatest hits volume 2, which is made up of songs after Rocks to the present. It has never been opened. My copies of their first album through Rocks are worn out. As bad as Aerosmith clean and sober crap is, they were arguably a better Rolling Stones than the Stones were in the 1970's.
Welp, an effort to get a reprimand against The Boss (not by me) has backfired SPECTACULARLY and resulted in a counter complaint lodged against a really good friend of mine for "insubordination and office bullying". Fuck it. Time to start playing Pokemon at work.
As a grown up type person I can't wrap my head around this whole Pokemon shit. I see my friends walking in circles with cell phones in hand. I just don't get it. TheChive says people are using it to fuck. Huh? Then there's the girl that found a dead body. Say wha? Someone please explain why it has become a phenomenon..
Speaking of which....Guess what happened? Again. 'Pokémon GO' players robbed in Parkville Police advise people to take precautions before playing http://www.wbaltv.com/news/pokmon-go-players-robbed-in-parkville/40471596