Holy Crap! Has It Really Been A Year?

Ugh, I suck. I started this blog about a year ago with the intent of posting daily updates of my life and my mental well-being but in typical me fashion, I dropped the ball.

Well screw that! I’m back and I’m going to pick up that ball, blow off the dust, and then kick the shit out of it. I hope I don’t pull a muscle that will render me and the ball useless again.

So much has happened in the last year that I don’t really feel like recapping. I’m just going to pick things up today like we never left. It’s like the show LOST, nothing makes sense so you have to watch every episode to try to piece it all together.

Actually, in all honesty, I never watched the show LOST so I can’t really speak to it.

So here is my wrap up of last year in 4 sentences or less.

Married one year. New job. New office. New challenges.

Blog to you soon.

Coldplay has some Minty Freshness

I am in the midst of losing my mind.  It’s July and work is terribly slow for me.  Not that I’m complaining about all the downtime, but I feel like a useless piece of shit as I sit in my office patrolling YouTube for the next quick fix.  I mean, I do have things that I could do (like write a proposal) but none are pressing and I am a notoriously bad procrastinater – so why change now?

The band that I manage, The Mint, is doing quite well as of recently and that’s keeping me busy on in my off-hours. It is exciting to think that maybe someday, managing a band could be my full time gig that pays the bills.  Like Ari says in ENTOURAGE, “always control your client’s expectations.”  Well somebody needs to maintain mine. 

For those that don’t know yet, The Mint just got a 2nd placement on MTV’s THE REAL WORLD: HOLLYWOOD - this time it is on their final episode.  Now most bands would have a massive hard-on (excuse my analogy) if their music was placed on a national show … and for the most part, we had one when we discovered that MTV was placing a song on an episode back in May.  But since then, much has happened … including an invitation to play on the Vans Warped Tour in Philly and a whole bunch of show offers.  We have even been approached by the entertainment lawyers that rep Live and Fuel, and they want to meet with us to talk about them repping us.

This second placement on MTV, albeit exciting, has raised our expectations and the most difficult thing is to try to keep it in check.  The goal is to get through these exciting times and most importantly — ride the wave and hopefully capitalize on it with new connections and hopefully new doors opening for the band.

We just entered ourselves into a contest that could lead to us potentially opening up for Coldplay.  Send good thoughts our way!

Speaking of COLDPLAY.

I bought their new CD Viva La Vida off of iTunes yesterday … and I love it!  You can tell that they spent a good bit of time thinking about each song as it is refreshingly unique and very daring.  It has such a great sound that is very Coldplay.  My favorite song so far is “Lost.”  It has such haunting melodies and the opening with the drums is powerful.  Go get it and then get The Mint!

Gay Superhero

I found this video funny.  Enjoy!

“27 Dresses,” “We Are Marshall,” and “The Happening”

THE HAPPENING

When I was in San Francisco waiting for Kristen to get out of her conference, I ventured into the city and decided to watch a movie at one of their very large multiplex theater.  I honestly was expecting to pay an arm and a leg for tickets cause everything else in the city required collateral but I was surprised that this was the best deal that I had all week.  If you went before noon on any day the admission price for an adult dropped from $10.50 to $6 – a bargain if you have the time.

Anyways, I love going to the movies by myself and in the mornings as this usually guarantees me that I will have plenty of room to sprawl out and I don’t have to talk to anybody.  I love to just concentrate on the movie in my own relaxing way.

So on this particular day, I decided to watch M. Night Shyamalan’s newest movie “The Happening” starring Marky Mark.  I had a whole row to myself; the seats were the very comfortable loveseat type with the ability to recline; it had WiFi so I busted out my laptop during the previews to check email – it was perfect … up until the movie started.

Here are my condensed thoughts on the movie – I was disappointed.  The only thing good about this movie that was cool was that I recognized some of the Philadelphia scenes and Three Mile Island made a cameo but other than that … it sucked.  The plot sucked, the acting sucked, the movie sucked.  I wanted my money back.

It seemed to me that this movie was Shyamalan’s way of expressing his concern over the state of the environment.  We were supposed to be scared of the plants and trees in this movie?  Screw that!

I give this movie a C- and only because the characters were on their way to Harrisburg.

WE ARE MARSHALL

We decided to watch this DVD last Sunday.  I am not a big fan of movies that revolve around some sort of tragedy such as a plane crash because I really don’t want to know or even simulate what it must be like during those last seconds or minutes before impending doom. 

So needless to say I was a little anxious prior to the movie.

Fortunately for me, they spend very little time on the actual crash and more time on the community and school during the event and it’s aftermath.  It’s a very good sports movie that has it’s highs and lows.  I even choked up a bit during a scene where the student body, who was petitioning the board to keep the football program at Marshall, began chanting “we are Marshall.”  It was a moving scene.

The only drawback that I found a little annoying  Matthew McConaughey at the very beginning of the movie – and I guess it wasn’t so much him as it was his character, but I got over it.  It’s no “Rudy” or “Field of Dreams,” but it’s good.

I give it a B+.

27 DRESSES

I’ll get to the short of this.  It’s a cute chick flick with a plot that only a girl or gay wedding planner can really appreciate.  The only thing that made this movie half bearable was that Katherine Heigl is attractive, other than that, I felt gay for watching it.

The plot is simple, girl is always the brides maid and never the bride.  The one thing that bothered me was that Katherine’s character spends tons of money on other people’s weddings and she is an assistant to some CEO in NYC … how much fricken money can she possibly make???  The movie also reconfirmed the fact that Ed Burns can’t act.

I give this movie a C+.

 

Journey Has Been Replaced!

I’ve been kind of bad on the blogging this week but I will be back soon.  In the mean time, enjoy this YouTube video that my brother has on his Facebook.  I love cheesy 80’s music video and this one is great!  I think I have found the song that will replace Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin” on my ring back tone on my cell.

It’s Rick Astley and the sad thing is that I know every word to this song and can emulate his dance moves pretty well.  I am lame.