Tales From The Dark Side

Friday, March 28, 2008

Sucking D*** For Gas?

If you got that email from "Jay Leno" that tries to argue that the country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, you have gotta read this.

A Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman says 43-year-old Kelli Still appeared at the home of an acquaintance near University Drive and Ellsworth Road. Deputies claim Still intended to barter oral sex for gas money. Instead, Still is accused of using a pair of scissors to stab Michael Hamilton several times.

Holy fucking shit. Back in the 1990s, we laughed about Bob Saget sucking dick for coke. Now it's some fortysomething giving brain to fill up the tank. Maybe things were better under Bill Clinton.

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Friday, October 26, 2007

The Five Worst Songs of 2007

In a uniquely bad year for music, it is once again time for a chronically jaded man like myself to reflect on the low points, those moments in time when mankind fails to disprove my theory that evolution will never fully eliminate retardation from the common people, or from the celebrities they idolize. Here now are the 5 worst songs of the year. So far.

5. "I Want to Be Your Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. Do you know how to tell if a song is Canadian? If you can understand every word in the lyrics. Also, if you want to vomit from the lack of original thought. (See also the Barenaked Ladies.)

4. "Umbrella" by Rihanna. Coletrain, Miss Daisy, and I withstood this song while drinking in a bar in St. Louis. Miss Daisy leaned over and told me he was almost ashamed to admit he liked the Mandy Moore version of this song better. Honestly, there's no reason to be ashamed. Mandy Moore is a hot human being; Rihanna is a FemBot. Before each show, her (its?) designers must reprogram her with robotic dance moves and monotone synthesized vocal pitches. They do this for the thrill of lulling insecure middle-aged women into dancing and grinding. So, these programmers are not much different from Coletrain, I suppose.

3. "Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White T's. While eating dinner at a restaurant with my family last month, this song came on the radio, and I remarked, "This is the worst song of 2007." A brilliant musician, by the name of Sagat, showed his deep prescience of future events when he penned the following lines over a decade ago. Nothing I could say could better explain the state of music today:

"Question: Why is it that every time I turn on the radio, I hear the same five songs, fifteen times a day, for three months? C'mon man, funk dat!"

Yes, Sagat, funk dat. Funk dat, indeed.

2. "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie. Shortly after "Hey There Delilah" played at the aforementioned restaurant, this song came on, and I remarked, "No, this is the worst song of 2007." My thoughts on this song are most eloquently expressed in an earlier post.

1. "I Want to Be Your Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. Shortly after "Big Girls Don't Cry" played at the same exact restaurant on the same exact night, this song came on, and I was forced to admit that I hadn't adequately thought out what the worst songs of 2007 are. It was then that I decided to write this post.

When I hear Avril Lavigne sing, my blood cells self-hemolyze in their own version of ritual suicide. My eyes turn jaundiced. My nostrils explode with pus. My ears leak antifreeze. My mouth spits up dark green bilious vomit. My vocal cords convulse at the horror that others of their kind are being publicly tortured. My internal organs shrivel with the hope that my heart will forget to perfuse them. My anus leaks milkly mucus like the time I ate too much Olestra. My penis effuses with a funeral march of immotile sperm, as if the spermatids themselves had penises that are now castrated.

Avril, you do not want to be my girlfriend. I will fill your mouth with cement and sew it shut.

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

"Highlander: The Source" Took A Dump In My Brain



Umm, I'm getting paid in cash, right?


I feel like I found out Angelina Jolie is really a dude. Quite possibly the worst sequel ever made, beating out the imfamous Highlander: The Quickening. There is a three minute sequence where all you see is random pictures of Adrian Paul and Peter Wingfield, set shittily to a bad cover band butchering Queen's "Princes of the Universe." The only silver lining to this KFC Famous Bowl of a movie is that I watched it in the useless hours of between 8-10am on Sunday morning, and I felt the need to go to church afterward to repent of my blasphemy.

Literally twenty minutes in, I am all like, "I really don't have to watch this all the way through. I can pop in a DVD of the TV Highlander (3rd Season) back when Adrian Paul and Panzer actually gave a shit." Yes, Coletrain was willing to stop watching a Highlander movie premiere. If you know ANYTHING about me, that one concept should speak volumes to how incredibly bad this movie is. Someone got a pre-release version in Prague earlier in the year, and said it was absolute hell. You can see where the producers made last minute voice edits, added scenes, and just tried to make this movie only a steaming vs. a smoking pile of pigshit.

Here is the basic plot, because I wouldn't wish this film on anyone. Like Highlander 2, Highlander 5 (FIVE!!!) totally guts the whole premise of the movie. Here is the premise of the Highlander Universe in four basic steps.

  1. Immortals are humans who cannot die (or have children) unless you cut off their head.
  2. They cannot fight on holy ground.
  3. When they kill each other, they gain the victims supernatural energy and memories, which accumulate until there are two left. The winner of the last duel gets it all, which is the prize. And they become mortal and can have kids.
  4. Because of the point above, and these guys follow the "Rules" like a religion - they pretty much don't mind killing each other. And they live by the code, "There Can Be Only One."

Pretty crazy stuff, I know, but it is modern fantasy - and they fight with fucking swords. It's a guilty pleasure.

Here is how Highlander 5 fucks all that up. First, the main character forget about the prize, or they think that the Prize and the Source are one in the same. And they are skeptical it exists. Personally, I don't see how a guy who has lived for over 300 years and fucking glows when he kills people can be a skeptic. Next, you don't have to kill anyone to get the Source/Prize, you just have to be at the right place at the right time. So, the whole sword fighting - killing your best friends because of Rule #4 - all that goes out the fucking window. Oh, and Immortals aren't immortal anymore when they get close to the Source - so now the movie is about some fuckups who don't like fighting and some crazy albino BDSM guy chasing them. By the way, Duncan gets the prize, even though Methos and other unnamed immortals are still alive. So the whole, "There Can Be Only One" thing was bullshit. Fuck me with a shoehorn.




Thanks for the work! Can you drop me off at Rodz after the wrap tonight?

Highlander: The Source sucks balls. In the words of Duncan MacLeod in his last line, "I'm through with this."

UPDATE: Here is a less profanity laced, yet equally scaithing review.

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Friday, June 01, 2007

MissDaisy in ATL Remix





Some of you might remember what happened last year. Mostly gyros, ligers (oh my), Thundercats (are loose!), and enough alcohol to denature what's left of my hardwood floors.

This year I am probably going to be subjected to more MissDaisy one liners like these.

  • Dude, you have a body by Miller
  • Walking the dog? Did you have a Michael Vick moment?
  • Wow, I think your theme song is "Make it Rain"

Of course, my revenge will be that I currently have the tolerance of a kung fu master getting kicked in the ballast. The booze will be swift, and hopefully going only one way.





Chances are good that my promise to MissDaisy's family that he will get home in one piece may be slightly exaggerated. As Nati and MadAngler can attest... a drunken weekend with me and my crew will turn you into into your favorite 1980s-1980s character. Nati turns into chair throwing Roddy Piper, MadAngler turns into Dr. Nick Riviera, and MissDaisy turns into Mrs. Betty Slocombe.

And I became HE-MAN... The most powerful man in the UNIVERSE! Seriously... keep me away from swords when I am drunk.

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