I thoroughly enjoyed the Carl Kassel “Any Given Sunday” speech, Nora.  He needs to be in more sports movies. But while listening to WWDTM! today, they mentioned scotch whiskey in a can. In a world where Four Loko is banned, by the way. This, coupled with the fact that Jersey Shore has just eclipsed Arrested Development in episode count, and that Joe Buck (toward whom I\’ve made my hatred clear (I should take it easy though on him, though)) gets to call the one of the biggest Bears games in history, makes me irate at America. Yeah, that America.
So in this lull weekend between Joe Buck’s idiocy and Superbowl/Black & Yellow/My 20th Birthday, is the NHL All-Star Game. I wouldn’t usually be terribly interested, but the new format this year is a player-captain Fantasy Draft. Â The system allows (likely, due to the trash talk) the 4 Hawks to go up against each other. And, fan voting is minimal, which really makes the MLB ASG pretty (rhymes with witty).
Everyday at school I have to wade through some Packers crap in Milwaukee but this week has been especially obnoxious. Â Between bad jokes from professors and this Listecki nonsense ; thank god for Carl Kassall. Â Go Bears.
Here is more of the little things that didn’t deserve their own post but are worth a looky loo. Most of this is from PopCandy, if you didn’t know already.
Vampire Weekend and The Black Keys figure out how has their songs in more commercials this year on The Colbert Report.
I forget who I was just talking about all the characters on How I Met Your Mother having other things to do when the show finally wraps up, except for Ted. Turns out that Josh Radnor will do fine as long as there are movies that seem to be the same character he plays in HIMYM; check him out in this trailer.
I was trying to find some interweb evidence about this, and after some very minimal amount of research, I couldn’t find anything. So I remember watching the trailer for “The Fighter” and thinking that Amy Adams, for being a big ol’ movie star, did not look as appealing in the short shot of her in her underwear. Then I remember later watching the movie, seeing the same shot and think “is she wearing different underwear, because that doesn’t look as awkward?” After rewatching the trailer, I realized that somewhere in the making of this movie, someone had to have said “This is a great movie, except we should definitely add an unnecessary sex scene in it.” Then after putting in the movie, someone else probably said “I don’t know how we can sell this movie without putting a snippet of that sex scene -that doesn’t even belong in the movie to begin with- in the trailer. Lets pay an exorbitant amount of money to cgi a tv-acceptable level of underwear on Amy Adams.” I am not a perv, I just find it funny the lengths that are made to make movies sell better and also be acceptable for an American audience. Also funny, in the research looking for other people who noticed this, I found: cgi-ing off the clothes of Jessica Alba in Machete.
