Chicken guy
This was the best meal all week. 30 minutes in line, but oh so worth it. Grilled chicken perfectly cooked. Nice char on the outside yet tender and moist on the inside. Excellent falafel and a ton of bread. Delicious.
500˚
The people responsible for Rouge in Philly have spawned a smaller burger joint called 500. The burger was perfectly cooked but small and left me hungry for more. The spicy fries were amazing, thin and crispy. Best part of the meal. At 10 and change (with tax) for the combo a little over priced for what you get. I heard people mention going to five guys for the burger and 500 for the fries. I stand behind that statement in a heartbeat.
Operation Movie Junkie
| Friends Requirements: A Clockwork Orange American History X Apocalypse Now Casino Deliverance Full Metal Jacket Platoon Scarface The Good the Bad and the Ugly The Great Escape This is Spinal Tap Unforgiven |
My Requirements: 2001: A Space Odyssey Being John Malkovich The Big Sleep Blazing Saddles The Bridge on the River Kwai Citizen Kane Cool Hand Luke Doctor Zhivago The French Connection It Happened One Night The Man Who Knew Too Much Metropolis Mr. Smith Goes To Washington North by Northwest Raging Bull Rashomon Seven Samurai Strangers on a Train The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Tombstone Trainspotting Vertigo |
I am dusting off the old project, but under different parameters. Instead of being a summer project, I'm going to make it endless. The list above has been update from the past year. Not much changed but there it is.
Clash of the Titans…
Popcorn season is upon us. How do we know this? Because the first ridiculous over the top no plot movie of the summer has been released…aka Clash of the Titans. Unfortunately, and hopefully this is not an omen for the upcoming season, but I was disappointed by it.
How could they go wrong? It’s a revenge flick with Greek gods and a fucking Kraken (which I should add was never ever mentioned in Greek mythology). But they somehow manage to make it completely unexciting. For the 100+ million dollars they spent on this thing it’s remarkable how much of a yawnfest it is.
Throughout the entire file I had no idea who the fuck anyone was. Yes Zeus, Hades, and Perseus are easy to figure out. But everyone else, I couldn’t tell you who they were if my life depended on it, which just added to my sense of detachment because I never saw the characters and just saw Sam Worthington in a tunic.
Ok, so no big deal, character development goes out the window. I can work with this. I’ve seen plenty of movies without character development, I can deal. Granted this is flying into Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever range, but there is still time for a course correction. Maybe? Hopefully? It’s fucking Greek mythology, how can someone fuck that up?
Unfortunately that course correction was a nose dive into boredom. Nothing makes you smile, nothing makes you say wow. You are just going through the motions, like a couple that’s been together for 30 years. You can anticipate the moves, you know what’s coming, you’re just waiting for the end so that you can get on with your life. No spice or surprise. Both parties just roll over semi fulfilled and go to sleep.
I don’t even know if I want to recommend this as a renter. I guess the Kraken, but its short lived and unfulfilling, much like the boring sex from the couple analogy above. The Kraken appears and is then defeated. It doesn’t even get to wreak any havoc. So boo on that. Save your time and money and watch something else.
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Maine
Shitters overflowed. Diverted to Maine to empty our bowels and refuel. No 3g in Maine so boo.
Update: So we landed in Maine for like 60 - 90 minutes. They attempted to pump all the shit out of the shitter, but had trouble because it was all frozen. They were apparently able to get all the liquid out, but the solids was all frozen so it remained.
Theory 1: They never pumped out the human waste in Dublin because US Airways is retarded or that it's more expensive in the EU.
Theory 2: The people riding in coach had some big ass shits going on.