Friday afternoon, I have the afternoon off, and The Girlfriend is in Vegas. Time for cold beers and some lunch at the local bar. 10 minutes until half price beers...
I'm gonna need a serious, hardcore meal in my tummy before I even think about drinking. I worked out hard this morning and then ate a can of tuna with an iced coffee. Two beers would probably do me in. I think I'll be Irish tonight! I whipped up some random food last week that had all the same ingredients as Shepherd's pie, but in a different combination. It wasn't half bad but looked like a dog upchucked on my plate.
Nope. For instance, I'm having stew right now, and a Guinness. Just goes well together on a rainy day.
I know this is like 10 pages late. But what. the. fuck? How was this not a caption contest? Also, what. the. fuck?
I noticed this last night and took a screencap, because it's odd. I doubt that happens very often haha.
I don't usually get that specific, but yes, I will take into account the heaviness and flavor of the beer. I wouldn't, for example, drink a Guiness while eating a salad. And if I were having something like steak or ribs, I would probably go for something with a bit of body to it. I've been to restaurants that had suggested pairings for beer and food.
As much as I love what they do and how they poke fun at mormons but musical theater is fucking LAME. I saw RENT on Broadway because my cousins wife* at the time was in it and a girl I was hooking up with made me listen to Avenue Q once. Aside from some passing laughter in the latter the shit was terrible and only something theater majors and gays enjoy. Ill probably listen to it since it is Matt and Trey and the reviews have been good but Im hoping they do a nonmusical adaptation of it for the film. * She recently won a Tony for being one of the leads in West Side Story.
Rent is overrated drivel for squeegee kids to sing along to. I've seen my fair share of Broadway plays and that was easily the one I liked the least. It seemed like all the audience members that looked like they steal their clothes from Goodwill bins were so fucking into it. My reaction during the play was either "Oh, please." or "Is it over soon?". According to any fan of it, if you make fun of it you're a obviously a fascist hatemonger. Fuck ya'll. It's a play about losers that act like losers, gay or straight. It's CRAP.
I hope that these two are not your entire basis for forming the opinion that musical theater is lame. Those two are kinda lame. I'm not gay, have only seen two musicals on Broadway, I'm an uncultured redneck from Georgia, and my favorite music is by Rush - and even I know that musical theatre is not lame. Also, unrelated:
God bless hooker's titties. I only post this here because you can only rep slavish devotion to a pair of titties so much.
That's like saying all music sucks because you heard a Donnie and Marie song once. Get real. I saw Yul Brynner in The King and I, live. It was fucking amazing.
This is how I am, though I'm more a stickler on time of day and temperature. I'm typically an amber or brown ale fan, but I just can't drink it steadily mid-day outside during the summer months here, so I end up drinking trash beer instead. Same goes with liquor. I've recently started drinking Sweet Tea Vodka because it's a better daytime drink than whiskey, which if consumed for hours in the sun & 103 degree temps would likely result in an atomic titty twister on my stomach.
Ive seen the run of the mill "classics" back in high school, Lil Abner, Grease, West Side Story, etc. As a little kid I used to really like Little Shop of Horrors but mostly because of the Rick Moranis film. Honestly the singing just gets insanely repetitive sounding and the show tune sound is literally something only gays and cat women like.
And when I was in school I (was forced to) read all the "classic" science fiction novels; and they all sucked. It was the non-curriculum stuff that was fucking amazing, and made it my favourite genre of books. Just sayin.
My favourite of all is Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods. It blends all the Grim fairy tales into one humourously dark branching thread plot, they all get what they want, then it ends and they live happily ever after. Then the second act begins, and the characters start getting slaughtered unpredictably. The songs are entertaining and funny, just like the characters and the second act is a shock to younger kids that see it (sometimes they only show the first act for younger audiences). This is the one play aside from MacBeth and Rock & Roll that I will always see if it comes to my area. When I took my wife to see it for the first time, it instantly became her favourite play of all time.