GM's thread about nothing (29 Viewers)

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Silicon Valley Season 2 Promo. If you haven't seen this show you are missing literally the funniest show on TV.

(NSFW language)

 

[Limp Ditka]

Gary Busey just ordered two Meatball sandwiches

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Gary Busey just ordered two Meatball sandwiches

 

[cosjobs]

I'm bored and going through threads that have a white star, but for which I have no memory of ever posting and don't want that star showing up, and deleting whatever post(s) I had in there. For example, apparently I posted once in November 2012 in the NBA thread.

Is this what people do who don't drink? I gotta tell you, not drinking is way overrated.

You should always leave your pearls of wisdom, even if its in a rotten oyster

 

[Limp Ditka]

Gary Busey just ordered two Meatball sandwiches

Poor guy didn't even get to finish them.

Stupid Bodie

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

One of the worst movies ever.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Utah just blew out his knee again. I still remember watching the first time that happened at Ohio State

 

[bostonfred]

I can't imagine not loving point break. do you also hate the matrix movies?

 

[Aerial Assault]

krista>I would never expect others to stay six nights just because I'm a degenerate. And although there isn't a lot of fine dining downtown, there are many interesting places to eat.

I just looked at flights--most likely would be 4/1-4/5 or 4/3-4/7. Or something like that. Not sure where we'll stay. We don't need fine dining, but we might end up on the Strip just for hotel choices, though. I will book stuff tomorrow; too tipsy now. We tried a new spot tonight where they liked us...i.e., big pours.

cos, you in for early April Vegas?

And did you hear from Aerial Assault, kev?

INLet me know where you're staying. I'm more of a strip hotel kind of guy, but I may need rides since I drink like the common trash downtown.

Haven't thought about where to stay yet, but downtown seems unlikely. It's been about 11 years since I have been there. Up for suggestions/deals. TIA

Unless Aerial Assault's schedule changes, he won't be able to make those dates.

If everyone else decides to stay on the Strip, no problem. I'll come to you. Also, krista, did you know that you can live on the top floors of a Mandarin Oriental in the middle of the Strip? Just saying.

Bumpity.

Oh!! You guys are so nice. Thanks. And . . . Aerial Assault's schedule did change! Trial scheduled to start on a conflicting date was continued. So now I will eagerly follow this thread for updates and plan to attend. Krista, is there a place everyone's staying, or should I just go reread the whole Jim Tan already?

 

[Frostillicus]

Point Break rules.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I can't imagine not loving point break. do you also hate the matrix movies?

Shtick, right?

And, yes, Matrix movies are mediocre at best.

 

[cosjobs]

just finishing work and not wearing pants. The idea of putting pants back on to meet Drifter at a bar just seems like I'd be doing this whole night backwards.

You really should corn with Drifter, regardless of pants.

 

[BobbyLayne]

I'm bored and going through threads that have a white star, but for which I have no memory of ever posting and don't want that star showing up, and deleting whatever post(s) I had in there. For example, apparently I posted once in November 2012 in the NBA thread.

Is this what people do who don't drink? I gotta tell you, not drinking is way overrated.

In an unrelated story, I was considering going back and judging the one category in the timdraft® that didn't finish.

Wasn't it a movie category? Might have even been the movie draft itself? That would be great shtick. M Do it.

You have to do this. No explain no intro just start slow rolling."This was a tough cat to judge all great picks unfortunately one of them has to be a one pointer. I really wrestled with this - felt like years - but this one just didn't do it for me."

K - yeah, it was the movie draft and there's only one category left.

BL - Except knowing me I would take it all seriously. Actually, WTF, I may just do this. Lord knows what the unfinished category is going to turn out to be. "Laughably unrealistic snuff films starring a Fanning sister" or something.

I think it was monologues.

I didn't look that up. If I'm right I might have taken timdrafts too seriously.

 

[Limp Ditka]

I AM AN F.B.I. AGENT

 

[Limp Ditka]

Get. Your hands off me. RIGHT.NOW.

 

[Aerial Assault]

YOU GOTTA GO DOWWWWWWWWN

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

I can't imagine not loving point break. do you also hate the matrix movies?

It's awesome except for every scene with Lori Petty

 

[cosjobs]

I got my stereo all wired up and back to tlife.

Now I'm starting to open up the boxes and boxes and boxes of LPs I've been carting around, unopened for at least 15 years.

First handful:

Pure Prairie League - mint condition, medicore to bad music.

Shaft Soundtrack - nice

Saturday NIght Fever soundtrack - I was pretty much anti-disco when working at Evolution Records in Huntsville when this LP came out and was the number one best seller for months. I'd drive to Houston and pick up a few cases of it and about six cases of everything else in the whole store.

Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street- always liked them, never remember buying one of the LPs, since everyone else was always one.

Ramsey Lewis - Routes - no memory, but I think I like him

Styx Crystal Balls - no idea

Hugo and Luigi Chorus with Brass - no idea

 

[bostonfred]

I can't imagine not loving point break. do you also hate the matrix movies?

Shtick, right?

And, yes, Matrix movies are mediocre at best.

Not shtick. I wouldn't even call point break a guilty pleasure. It v was all pleasure, no guilt. And true story, many years ago I took a girl home on a second date, we rented and watched the matrix together for the first time. Totally blew my mind. we fooled around afterwards and then i watched it again while she slept. One of my all time favorites. The movie, not the girl, although she was cool too.

 

[Frostillicus]

Just got a text from GM. He said he's drinking. I was like omg I'm drinking too!

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I don't have enough punches for you pro Point Break **** jugglers.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Just got a text from GM. He said he's drinking. I was like omg I'm drinking too!

I'M DRINKING TOO! WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

 

[Limp Ditka]

This has held up pretty well. Can't wait for the remake where Stringer Bell plays the guy that wears the Obama mask

 

[Frostillicus]

I don't have enough punches for you pro Point Break **** jugglers.

Sorry you hate fun

 

[Frostillicus]

Just got a text from GM. He said he's drinking. I was like omg I'm drinking too!

I'M DRINKING TOO! WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

Omg! This is great!

 

[bostonfred]

I can't imagine not loving point break. do you also hate the matrix movies?

It's awesome except for every scene with Lori Petty

the scene where she changes from swimsuit to jorts was awesome back when I first watched it. It hasn't aged well, and neither has she, but #### it, neither have i.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I don't have enough punches for you pro Point Break **** jugglers.

Sorry you hate fun

I love fun. But I'm also not 14.

 

[Aerial Assault]

I don't have enough punches for you pro Point Break **** jugglers.

I agree with Tanner for some reason. The movie sucks so bad that it isn't really even a fun hate-watch.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Just got a text from GM. He said he's drinking. I was like omg I'm drinking too!

I'M DRINKING TOO! WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

Omg! This is great!

 

[Abraham]

Rad or thrashin' ?

 

[cosjobs]

I don't have enough punches for you pro Point Break **** jugglers.

I agree with Tanner for some reason. The movie sucks so bad that it isn't really even a fun hate-watch.

I like it okay, but I imagine its Jeff Bridges in the lead

 

[bostonfred]

This has held up pretty well. Can't wait for the remake where Stringer Bell plays the guy that wears the Obama mask

I loved that movie where he played the Australian European African American in Asia defending the ocean floor from aliens using giant robots. Great use of his acting talent.

 

[Abraham]

I gave a shout out to tanner on the blog yesterday in the post about blowing snow on Gary's lawn. Thought he might see it.

http://www.bigopenbar.com/dont-blow-snow-on-garys-yard-ya-hear/

 

[bentley]

I can't imagine not loving point break. do you also hate the matrix movies?

Shtick, right?

And, yes, Matrix movies are mediocre at best.

Not shtick. I wouldn't even call point break a guilty pleasure. It v was all pleasure, no guilt. And true story, many years ago I took a girl home on a second date, we rented and watched the matrix together for the first time. Totally blew my mind. we fooled around afterwards and then i watched it again while she slept. One of my all time favorites. The movie, not the girl, although she was cool too.

I saw The Matrix at the theater with a couple buddies for the first time and it blew my mind. Then I took my girlfriend back to see it a couple days later and she was underwhelmed. Should have left her right there but I ended up marrying her instead.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Aside from Point Break being a total goat-f uck of a movie...her is another reason to hate it.

In 1984 Kem Nunn published a novel called Tapping the Source. Tapping the Source would be the first in a loosely defined surf trilogy that Nunn would publish in the creation of his own sub-genre, surf noir. Parts of the history of this novel are notorious for all the wrong reasons. It seems that Hollywood was interested in Tapping the Source and the rights were bought. Over the years this project would change hands numerous times. It would be taken off the shelf and tinkered with only to be put back on the shelf again until the next round of interest. Then one day the deformed and practically altered beyond all recognition Tapping the Sourceproject gained traction and was eventually filmed…as Point Break.

Alls well that ends well and Nunn’s book finally made it to the screen. Yay! Except the project had been in the pipeline for so long and had been changed so much that Nunn’s work was never credited as the inspiration for the film and Nunn apparently wasn’t paid anything. Hell the movie only has the faintest trace of the book. There is some speculation that a law suit was filed and some sort of deal was reached. I can’t say this for certain because there just isn’t a lot of on the record information in general about the Tapping the Source toPoint Break debacle.

To this day most don’t realize that the book inspired the movie. It’s common place for reviews of one to reference the other and vice versa. I’ve seen a number of reviews ofTapping the Source that say something to the effect of “pretty good but too much like Point Break”.

This is sad really because Tapping the Source is one hell of a novel and Nunn is a great writer. Nunn isn’t the most prolific fella in the world with only 5 novels to his name after all these years but every few years one pops us. For me, often times, the best books sit at the intersection of great writing, great characters and a great story. Tapping the Source is right there in that sweet spot.

 

[Frostillicus]

I did think the Matrix movies were pretty terrible.

 

[bentley]

I am also drinking!

 

[Frostillicus]

Surfing is dumb. Sharks eat surfers. And both my kids have had that drilled into their brains, which seems pretty relevant since we live in Minnesota.

 

[Frostillicus]

I am also drinking!

It's like a party!

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I gave a shout out to tanner on the blog yesterday in the post about blowing snow on Gary's lawn. Thought he might see it.

http://www.bigopenbar.com/dont-blow-snow-on-garys-yard-ya-hear/

Just saw it

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

"Happy Idiot" by TVOTR just came on Spotify. Probably going to play some FOB for the kids. I think I've got a ₪ ø lll ·o. song on somewhere down the list too.

TVOTR is one of my favorite bands. Seeing them for the first time next month. Can't wait.

An old HS buddy of mine just posted on FB that they are playing in his town.

Jackson Freaking Wyoming. wtf

 

[Limp Ditka]

You never see Bohdi dead, which sets up nicely for a sequel. I wonder if Swayze would be interested

 

[Frostillicus]

You never see Bohdi dead, which sets up nicely for a sequel. I wonder if Swayze would be interested

They're doing a remake, I believe.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

BTW: If you pud manglers haven't listened to TV on the Radio's most recent album "Seeds" you're missing some brilliance.

 

[bostonfred]

Point break was such a ground breaking movie that is become clichéd from people cloying it so much. Awesome bank robbery scene at the beginning? like the town, batman tdk, and a million others. character study of the bad guys before you find out they're bad guys? A Hollywood staple these days. Guy who goes undercover in a subculture and begins to like it, then apps it and becomes best bros with the guy he had to take down? Everything from goodfellas to the departed, or those race car movies, and countless others follow that formula.

It's the Shakespeare of the buddy cop genre.

 

[Mr.Pack]

I've got 20 gallons of homebrewed beer (+/- a few bottles "tasted" to "make sure they're not infected") in my house and in various forms of fermentation/carbonating. I've done this in the last month. I'm brewing another 5 gallons Saturday.

Let's be friends

I choo-choo-choose you.

Gianmarco's thread, where people proclaim to have never watched a Simpsons episode, has me stabby.

I haven't watched one in this decade

I have never ever seen a full episode. Bits and pieces, sure, but never a full episode.

 

[bentley]

Also channeling Abe here. Watching Pompeii instead of American Hustle simply because it has a runtime 30 minutes shorter. Why does everyone speak with an an English accent in these bad "historical" movies?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Point break was such a ground breaking movie that is become clichéd from people cloying it so much. Awesome bank robbery scene at the beginning? like the town, batman tdk, and a million others. character study of the bad guys before you find out they're bad guys? A Hollywood staple these days. Guy who goes undercover in a subculture and begins to like it, then apps it and becomes best bros with the guy he had to take down? Everything from goodfellas to the departed, or those race car movies, and countless others follow that formula.

It's the Shakespeare of the buddy cop genre.

Your face is a warchild.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Also channeling Abe here. Watching Pompeii instead of American Hustle simply because it has a runtime 30 minutes shorter. Why does everyone speak with an an English accent in these bad "historical" movies?

Shakespeare

 

[bentley]

I think this big mountain in the background of a all the wide shots may be up to something.