T.F.A.N.B.T.N.B.T.N.B.C.N.O.D.

Well T.A.N.B.T.N.O.D. fell apart this year as we were out of town, so that is why this year we are starting up the T.F.A.N.B.T.N.B.T.N.B.C.N.O.D. (The First Annual Night Before The Night Before The Night Before Christmas Night Of Debauchery).

This is going to be a very low-key event this year.

Going to meet at Carlos O'Kellys 6PM on Merle Hay for $0.99 mug draw and $0.99 mug-o-ritas and food of your choice.... if you have time....

Then Old Chicago 6:30...
Then Irina's 7PM
Then Mickey's 7:30PM
Then off to Billy Joe's around 8ish, for a night of fun and singing.

Give a shout if you think you can make it on Thursday the 22nd!

Adventures in trying to play Skyrim

1) 11:30 AM I bought sky to play on Friday
2) 7PM wife wanted to go to dinner had too much wine to play that night
3) 8AM Saturday had to go to Simpson to talk to future Math-letes that might want to come to Simpson
4) 4PM sister's b-day - went to dinner and the bar got home at midnight
5) 12:30 AM fire up the old xbox for the first time in a few months
6) 12:31AM find out my Yamaha receiver is fried
7) 12:32AM slip in Skyrim
8) 12:33AM get told I need to apply updates to play the game
9) 12:37AM receive an "E66" error
10) 12:38AM go to xbox support like the screen says
11) 12:39AM unplug and plug back in, turn on receive "E66"
12) 12:40AM go to xbox support like the screen says
12) 12:41AM unplug, remove hard drive, put back in hard drive, plug in and turn on receive "E66"
13) 12:42AM start going to other web sites
14) 12:43AM find that "E66" means marked for being Modded
15)  12:44AM say, play offline
16)  12:45AM have the machine tell me I can't play without updating
17) 12:38AM rage quit and go to bed.
18) 10:00AM skip church and make wife go alone, go to best buy
19) 10:30AM buy new xbox, Yamaha hdmi receiver, many hdmi cables
20) 11:00AM kook up new receiver and run cable box through it
21) 11:05AM  it is GLORIOUS! the sound the picture
22) 11:30AM stop watching SALT and start hooking up new xbox
23) 12:00PM done configuring and importing gamertag
24) 12:01PM get call to go to lunch with wife and friends after church
25) 12:30PM go to Old Chicago and have lunch and beer
26) 2:00PM maybe too much drink from party night before, lay head down on pillow
27) 6:30PM slip in Skyrim into new black xbox
28) 6:31PM be told I need to download updates to play
29) 6:37PM press start to play
30) 7:30PM wife wants to watch TV, I haven't even made it to the first town, I am exploring ever inch, finding camps, having over 300pounds of gear moving very slowly
31) 7:45PM wife very unhappy, find an inn and save game
32) 10PM fire the game back up, cross bridge head north
33) 10:05PM avoid arrows, find door,  golden claw event started
34) 10:10PM kill 2 fools, steal every thing
35)10:20PM finish exploring first cave room continue on
36) 11:15PM kill spider, get golden claw, fight living dead things, loot urns, explore every inch
37) 11:20PM take dog outside, he really had to pee
38) 11:25PM return to find I am dead
39) 11:30PM start over, find I am spawned way before the spider that I killed first
40) 11:31PM spider kills me in 2 seconds
41) 11:32PM rage quit
42) 11:33PM watch next episode of "Dexter"
43) 12:15AM watch next episode of "Once Upon a Time"
44) 1:00AM go to bed

Things I learned from the movie "50/50"

Went to the movie "50/50" a few weeks back and it was a nice little movie with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen.  Seth Rogen already made an unfunny version of this movie with Adam Sandler called oddly enough "Funny People"

I give the movie a B, and call it not for children under 16.  With that, here is what I learned:

• I learned that at 50/50 if he were Vegas, he would have the best odds.

• I learned that even though you don't drink or smoke and even wait for the crosswalk to say "walk" when you are out jogging, you still might get cancer.

• I learned that you mother might have a hard time coping if you have cancer and you father has Alzheimer's at the same time.

• I learned that you refusing to take your mother's calls during this time, might be a pretty dick move.

• I learned that they tried to make his girlfriend out to be a monster, but I didn't feel she was that mean to him.

• I learned that telling someone they can leave and don't have to be with you, might end up with you getting the opposite of what you wanted.

• I learned that if you get a skinny rescue greyhound and you can see his bones, the only logical name for him is Skeletor.

• I learned that after you get cancer that is the time to start smoking pot.

• I learned that pot won't be yours by prescription, but your buddy's because he has bad night vision, something about the rods in his eyes.

• I learned that telling women you have cancers is a good pick up line that you should get into as quickly as possible in a conversation.

• I learned that is actually wrong and just is creepy.

• I learned if you don't try and pick up chicks because of your cancer, your best friend will.

• I learned that if you are writing a piece on a volcano, bust take a while to get it on the air, that volcano my just erupt.

• I learned that if you seem pathetic enough you brand new shrink might fall for you.

• I learned that your shrink might not like you throwing out her dinner with the rest of the trash from her car as you clean it out.

• I learned what you are going through is probably normal, but that doesn't make it any better.

• I learned if you are an artist and no one comes to your opening to buy anything, that is probably a bad thing.

• I learned that it is probably a worse thing if your art is improved with a knife and fire.

• I learned if you have a really bad cancer and the chemo doesn't help, they can do a surgery and tell you everything is fine a few hours later.

• I learned that if you are putting ointments in to your friend's back wound you probably should not use you pinky finger, but the cotton swabs next to you.

• And lastly I learned that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is looking a whole lot like Heath Ledger.

Next up, things I learned in the movie "Real Steel"


Song of the day, give the video a chance, it starts creepy and gets stranger from there.:

Movie Invite for tonight (10/27)

Real Steel it is, not necessarily because it seems like the best movie ever, but it does seem like the best movie out right now.  Joe's pub after work, Merle Hay Mall Theater at 7PM after that.  Shoot a text or drop a message if you think you are coming.

Song of the day, haha a good one I loved hip hop back then:

Things I learned from the movie "Drive"

Went to the movie "Drive" some weeks back.  I really enjoyed it.  A movie about a man that obviously has been there and done that when it comes to the bad things in life, but just can't seem to ever get out of the game even though he seems to be trying to do the right thing.


YAAAAARRRRRR THERE BE SPOILERS DOWN BELOW, SO PROCEED WITH CAUTION. YE HAVE BEEN WARNED, but as you haven't seen this movie yet, you probably never will so read on!

• I learned I think women like men that talk very little. I think Ryan Gosling said 20 words in the first 4 scenes. In the second scene he might not have said one word.

• I learned that even though I am not shocked easily, I found it a little shocking when a woman's head popped off from a shotgun blast.

• Additionally, I learned her head getting popped off was not nearly as shocking as the man with the shotgun getting a towel rod plunged into his jugular so he could bleed to death.

• I learned that I was happy that I did already know the story of the scorpion and the frog.

• I learned that him wearing a scorpion jacket was a little over the top.

• I learned the mixing of '80s sounds and fonts and '10s cars and places was a strange combination.

• I learned that if you get blood on your favorite scorpion jacket, you don't clean it, you just keep wearing it. No one in LA will care.

• I learned that when Ryan Gosling slowly disappeared behind a door, it made me think of Jon Luvitz, and that made me laugh.

• I learned that breaking into you employers office to steal a mask you used in a movie for a stunt so you can kill a guy in the ocean seems like a lot of work that wasn't needed.

• I learned that a 300 with a Hemi will keep up just fine with a Boss Mustang.

• I learned that if you give the next door kid a bullet and tell him to hold onto it, Ryan Gosling will hold onto it for him.

• I learned after hammering the man's hand that gave the kid the bullet he will then contemplate hammering the bullet through the man's forehead.

• I learned that strippers out in California must have really "seen it all" because as they watch their boss get his hand and face hammered they will just sit there like it is another day in the office.

• I learned that if you just pull into a parking garage near the Staples Center as a game is letting out, you can just walk past cops looking for you.

• I learned that some women are surprisingly understanding when you literally stomp a man's head off that was going to kill her. Probably because you just made out with her.

• I learned it is probably a bad idea to do additional business with they guy that broke your hip the last time you did business with him.

• I learned that a tooth pick is vital to the cool vintage look.

• I learned that you get five minutes, anything happened before or after that, not his problem.

• I learned that if you want to impress you neighbor and her kid, take them for a ride down the storm water runoff in LA, then play in the pond at the end.

• I learned that if you recognise Ryan Gosling from a previous job and ask him to be your wheel man again you should shut your mouth or he will kick your teeth down your throat and shut if for you.

• I learned that the interest fee charged by some guys for protection in jail can get out of hand very quickly.

• And lastly I learned that Ron Pearlman couldn't find pussy in a whorehouse.

Next up, things I learned in the movie "50/50"

A text exchange with my friend Jesse

Jesse: Check ur fucking phone!!! We have a ver y important question for u  

Me: fuck. sorry it was downstairs... What's up?
Me: Bob Costas pees sitting down?

Jesse: Who punched me in the face? We don't remember

Me: Hahahahahahahahahaha it was the fake kick to the balls that made you drop your hands. From............  
Me: Roland spenser

Jesse: Yes!!
Jesse: debate solved  
Jesse: We couln't remember
Jesse: That was anit climactic. We thought it was someone else

Me: Sorry. I may have it wrong..... I think mike tyson punched you

Jesse: I like that story better; it makes me more awesome

Me: What name did you want? Slammer? Ho? Davey crocket? Shelf?

Jesse: Oooooooooo hitler. I took a punch from hitler ...and won

Me: Hahaha or Kim jung Il when he was ronery  

Jesse: Soooo ronrey....

FINI

Coming up soon, what I learned from "Drive" and "50/50", and heck anything else that I find amuses myself I guess.

Song of the day:

Movie tonight! "Drive"

Hitting the "OC" that is Old Chicago to those of you not in the know, at Merle Hay Mall after work.  Then heading to "Drive" at the Merle Hay Theater around 7ish.  There are conflicting internets informations on when the start is 7:00 or 7:15.  so it is sometime around there.  If you are coming give a holler and we will look for you.

here is a trailer, I was going to post the long one but the first comment was "Glad I didn't see this before the movie, it gives too much away", so here is a short one (that's what she said)

Seems appropriate enough song of the day "Drive" from Incubus