Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Top 10 Places You Lost Your Keys

Ned

#10 - In the Dog

#9 - In the Gutter



#8 - By the Dead Hooker


#7 - With Drunk Charlie Sheen






#4 - In Jay-Z's Truck (and it's locked so you goin' need a warrant for that.)












Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Top 5 Things to Do With a Bag of Poisonous Snakes



Ned


#5 - Get Even




Everybody has been wronged, but a bag of snakes makes you right.  Go prove your point!




#4 - Rob a Bank



Walk into a bank with a Cobra Commander face mask on and your bag of snakes.  Walk up to the counter and tell them to unload the bills or you unload the snakes. What security guard is going to ask you to "Drop the Bag."




#3 - Cut in Line




Why buy a fast pass when a bag of snakes gets you to front faster than fast.




#2 - Ball Pit






I hate snakes.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Top 5 Worse Things to Hoard

Ned

#5 - Dolls



I don't care what your reasoning about how much plastic molded into the shape of humans may be worth, because at the end of the day it is freaking creepy.  And I would to say that if you are a man that collects little pieces of perfect prepubescent female plastic than you should be on some sort of list of people not allowed to associated with children.

#4 - Cars



You are not going to put that thing back together, and your cousin is not going to ever get time to help you. Last week a local band of gypsies took up residence in a bus you forgot was even there.  They were run off by Simon the Killer Opossum that lives across the way in a broke down 1997 Ford Taurus. He was in turn stabbed to death by Bonnie the Prostitute who took time out of her busy schedule of spreading vernal disease to the local homeless population to go on a five day violent PCP trip.

Please get that crap out of your yard. It is driving down my property values. You stupid redneck.

#3 - Feces



It's true that Howard Hughes collected his urine in jars, but he was a great and visionary American.  You are an idiot that rents a trailer from your uncle.

#2 - Food



When the Zombies overrun the world and its militaries, your stash of expired cold cuts from the Piggly-Wiggly will not slow them down.

#1 - Pets


If your pets have become a substitute for human interaction then you are fucking lazy.  And that laziness is why they run your house and shit all over the floor.  Take a shower, call animal control, and give up on using this as a solution to your husband leaving you.  He's not coming back, and no man will ever date you with that much pussy in your life.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Top 5 Worst National Flags

Ned

5. Bosnia & Herzegovina



I know they had a civil war and what not, but you would think that would encourage a people to develop little bit of national pride in overcoming internal strife.  Instead the good people of Bosnia & Herzegovina elected to use random shapes haphazardly thrown at a wall.  It looks like they took an cropped out this image from the actual flag.

4. Guam



I know that the US owns Guam as a territory but still you would think they would put a little more effort into a flag.  And if you are going to make a flag with a random boat and tree, then make it the whole flag and not some small after thought stuck in the flat center of the flag.  Next time Guam, take out the iron on patch and stick with the blue with red outline.

3. Central African Republic


I don't think this country actually exist.  It is as if the rest of world gave up on exploring the center of Africa and decided instead to make it easier for everyone by inventing an easy to remember name and quickly slapped together a quickly forgettable flag to legitimize it.

2. Mozambique



Book...Hoe...AK-47...why use symbols when you can be plain about it?

Mozambique to all international investors, "We don't need, no will we accept, your good will or money.  Furthermore if you do decide to visit our glorious nation, we will shot your ass dead."



1. Belize



Is this a flag or a Polo ad?  I know this, if I wanted to conquer a country, I would start with the one with two easy going shirtless guys of questionable sexuality staring in different directions sitting front and center on the national flag.







Monday, April 16, 2012

Top 5 Westerns

Ned


Honorable Mention to ShaneLonesome Dove, & Tombstone.  I would have given Shane more but only like this movie because I get to debate if Shane is dead at the end of it or not. Lonesome Dove would have been #2 on this list but it's a TV mini-series and not a true movie.  Finally Tombstone would have gotten a higher rating but only like the scenes that Val Kilmer is in.


#5 - The Searchers




There are a fewer John Ford and John Wayne movies that come to mind when putting together a top western list, but I keep coming back to the Searches.  It has all the trappings of a big John Ford movie and it is John Wayne at his best John Wayne.

#4 - The Wild Bunch



If you haven't seen the Wild Bunch then you need to fire up the Netflix at work an get it done.  This is the movie that began ultra-violence in movies.  Its as if they said, "Enough of the talking, let's just make a movie that is one long gunfight."


#3 - Unforgiven



It's just good.  The pacing is perfect.  The fact there is no real good or bad guys.  It addresses the idea of how a hit man was hired and how killing is a dirty ass business.  The Duck of Death is awesome.  It gives the unnamed rider of the Spaghetti Western a sunset to ride off into. Every story line is entertaining, no scene is wasted, and no extra frame of film was used.


#2 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid



Instead of the lone rider, this is one of the true buddy westerns, and yet there is the interplay of a mutual love interest.  This movie is smart and ends like an opera.

#1 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly



Why hasn't anyone else made a western like this?  It is a movie that stands on its own as if delivered into the collective subconscious of humanity and not actually made by humans.  The best way to describe this movie for those that have had that portion of their subconscious removed is that it is a bar fight between three men that spills over into the street, the church next door, the prison camp across town, a battle over a bridge, and  finally a gunfight in a graveyard.  Why don't they make westerns like this...they can't.



Kendall


I like Westerns, but I don't typically love them.  I also don't typically like movies shot before... say... 1980, and I hate black and white, so this isn't a slam dunk category for me.  That being said, I'm your huckleberry.

#5 - The Quick and the Dead
It's a freaking gunfighting tournament.  Great stuff.

#4 - Seven Samurai
Okay, not really a Western by name, but in every other way it is.  Awesome, awesome movie.

#3 - Cemetary Without Crosses
The perfect Spaghetti/Paella Western.  Love the bounty hunter angle, and I'm a sucker for the anti-hero.

#2 - 3:10 to Yuma
It gets panned, but I really like it.  I love Christian Bale in this sort of role.

#1 - Tombstone
One of my top-ten favorite movies ever.  Ned's wrong -- this movie is great even in the parts without Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday (though he is clearly the best character.)

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Gotta See These...

These are not lists, but you definitely need to see them.





Saturday, April 7, 2012

Top 5 Favorite Television Show of All Time


Ned

#5 - West Wing
It was good, funny, and quick. You had to be on your game and ready with the rewind to get the references, jokes, and drama.



#4 - Star Trek Next Generation
When nothing else is on, I watch this show. That may not seem like a high compliment, but I know that I have watched every episode of this show at least three times, and I keep on watching. I like to play the game what is wrong with the technology of the 24th century, who hasn't Riker slept with on the ship, and how much more annoy could Tori make this scene.



#3 - 30 Rock
It's not my fault that I have a thing for Tina Fey. She went to school at UVA, which adds something for me as sad as that is, and Alex Baldwin is amazing in every scene, every show, every time. Oh yeah, and other people are funny on the show too.



#2 - Top Gear (BBC)
It's a buddy movie, social commentary, and car show. They blow stuff up, and race, and have a guy in a helmet, and they constantly cause it other pain, and they don't really care. Its just plain better.




#1 - Saturday Night Live
Is it always a good show? No. Is it always going to be funny? No. Does it always have the possibility? Yes. I like that SNL fails, but even when it does it is better than every other show out there. It's live, it's different every week, and yet it's formula remains the same.





Kendall

#5 - Dexter
I'm a big fan of the anti-hero protagonist, and you don't get much more anti-hero than a freaking serial killer.  Dexter makes you care about this murderer and empathize with his killings.  That is supreme storytelling, if you ask me.  Also, I think Michael C. Hall is A+ perfect casting.  The only reason Dex isn't listed higher than 5 on my list is because of lackluster season 3 and anything involving Rita, who I found to be completely annoying.




#4 - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Ned ranks SNL #1 on his list because it has the chance to be funny, but I rank Sunny on my top 5 because it is ALWAYS funny.  I guess that's the difference between the two of us -- he likes to roll the dice on a show that lasts an hour and a half, while I like to reliably pack twice the funny into a 30-minute tour de force.  Is there a better character than Charlie Kelly on television right now?




#3 - Eastbound and Down
If Dexter is the ultimate anti-hero, then Kenny Powers is a close second.  This show is like a quote-generating machine.  Listen up you beautiful bitch, 'cause I'm about to fuck you up with some truth.







#2 - Survivor
I tend to love all things Machiavellian.  Survivor is a glossy, glassy network game show, but it has managed to find ways to evolve and advance itself into deeper, darker corners of backstabbing and alliance-forging.  12 years and 24 seasons deep, and I haven't missed a single episode.





#1a - The Sopranos
Spot-on casting, incredible storytelling, impossible to top.  This show paved the way for the revolution of the cable-style hour-long drama, leading directly to the rise of such great shows as Deadwood, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Dexter, Six Feet Under, etc., etc., etc.  It's a long list, and it's the reason we are now experiencing a Golden Age of television.  The Sopranos should really be everyone's favorite show.








#1b - The Walking Dead
I never thought I'd be able to enjoy a show more than I've enjoyed The Sopranos, but The Walking Dead is a real contender.  It combines everything I love about Machiavellian storytelling with the emotional drama of The Sopranos.  Plus, zombies.  It's a spicy enchilada, this show.