adding your own soundtrack
January 3, 2007
On the topic of being “that guy” I want to know what goes on in the head of “that guy” that goes to the movie theater and, after seeing the obligatory “commercial/preview/message/movie-within-a-movie” about not talking, whispering, singing, texting, or using your cellphone to play the latest calculator-version of Tetris, decides that he needs to be the one that “damn’s the man” by speaking or laughing or yelling some elementary insult at the lifeless movie screen….
And it’s always the same “guy” that was in the high school cafeteria making fart noises with his armpits and building little tee-pee huts with his mashed potatoes and pretzel sticks. The guy that was always the “rebel” in his world and felt like he needed to defy the rules that were laid down to protect us from such lameness, is THAT SAME GUY who plays his white-rapper-hip-hop-music-ringtone as loud as he can when the “please silence your cellphone” ad comes across the screen.
So, please, “that guy,” just watch the movie and pop your collar like a good little upper-middle-class boy.
offroad vehicles
January 2, 2007
I find it very funny that all of those commercials about the Jeep Grand Cherokee or the big SUV suburban or the HUMMER all have stunt drivers driving around the mountains, taking on mountainous hills and valleys, traversing rocky paths with really tight turns, when 90% of the people that own those kinds of vehicles are cruising the tricky terrain of strip-malls and Starbucks.
The only rocky paths they come across are little insignificant honda civics with a local alternative radio station bumper sticker on the back, and the really tight turns they have to deal with are the ones where they are trying to fit their CITY-SIZED SUV in a NORMAL SIZED parking spot…and what usually happens is that they end up taking up part of the spot next to them because, by george, they just don’t have time to fiddle with things like that…they gotta get their Hollister kids into the mall to pick out their next identity.
Professional drivers on a closed course. Do not try this at home.
