Jared found Maximum Overdrive to be "very enjoyable"? Now does everyone understand why he takes the brunt of the violence in the strip?
Still, I gotta give him props on that rap. Most of mine went more like:
My name is Tom
and I'm here to say
I can get funky
almost every day!
See what I'm talkin' about? Ahhh, you kids don't know nuthin'! Why, I my day, we didn't rap about killing your Mom or smoking blunts! We rapped about sneakers and people who talk too much!
Word!
Yo my name is Jared and I can't rap
every time I try it just sounds like crap
some would say I'm doin' it right
but if I were bread I'd sure be white!
Word!
Peace Outside Y'all
Okay, I must apologize for that. I just read Tom's blog and decided to give the 8-Mile fans a little turd to put in their pockets and enjoy. Again, I'm sorry.
Last night my buddy Eric came over and we watched the wonderful meshing of Stephen King, Emilio Estevez, and AC/DC that is Maximum Overdrive. Angry Trucks!? Very enjoyable. Not good, but very enjoyable.
I have never met the guys from Troy's Bucket, or really even communicated with them, but I saw them around town the other day. Where? Well, that's the big mystery isn't it? SHICK Shick shick AHH Ahh ahh.
On a different note, Video Update raised their prices! Now the 2 for 99 cents deal has been altered to 2 for $1.49! Don't they understand my financial situation and my lusty desire to watch cheap movies! The deal has been altered and I'm praying like Lando that they don't alter it any further.
Of course, movie rentals are free at the library. Oh well.
Here's part two of the Star Wars storyline I'm working with this week. I know some of you might be thinking that I've overlooked this weeks other high-profile DVD release, but don't worry. I've got a Lord of the Rings joke waiting in the wings for Friday.
Of course, right now I'm in the 9th circle of Hell because I couldn't run out and get my grubby little mitts on either movie yesterday. This all stems back to the holiday sanctions I mentioned in an earlier blog that prevent me from spending my money all willy-nilly.
Yeah, don't think it doesn't tear me up to see a gaggle of grinning jokers on the No Pants Tuesday cam portal page holding up their copies for the world to see.
They're taunting me. I hate them.
I got a couple of e-mails asking me why I didn't make some jokes about 8-Mile on Monday. Believe me, I would have liked to, but every treatment I came up with resulted in one of the characters rapping at some point. The fact of the matter is, I've got no flow. I could write a rap to save my life. So I just decided to forgo the usual helping of embarrassment and stick to something appropriately geeky.
It was really never a contest. If you're putting up Star Wars against 8-Mile, it's kind of obvious who's going to garner the lion's share of the attention. I'm just one of "that" generation.
Less is more for Wednesday. I spent too much time coloring the strip. I'm done with looking at it.
