Wednesday, March 25, 2009

SKIPPIO AFRICANUS

first and foremost, the title has nothing to do with the playlist except the fact that 1. toto "africa" is first and 2. it's from the famous historical battle of hannibal, popularized by the best movie of all time, gladiator.

that being said, this is a compilation of all my favorite songs that have now been remade by either electronic superstars (in my mind) or indie artists. once you hear the beginning of each remake, it makes you crave the original, if you're like me.

so i hope these are enjoyed. oh and ps. i removed my explicit post because, you know, it was explicit. and i'm not anonymous anymore - deal with it :)

enjoy!



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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Major Music Moments in Movies

Due to the overwhelming amount of inappropriateness on this blog, I thought I'd share a list I've been marinating over for the past few months... movies that stick out in my mind as having great music moments, or moments in movies that just make me love a song that much more, or that have actually introduced me to new music. Most are some of my favorite movies (I've excluded Disney on the basis of unfair advantage). Ch-ch-check it out (or don't)!

...hopefully they're not all completely obscure or completely obvious. In no order...

“True Faith” by New Order from American Psycho
-it's the 80s, at a night club and they're doing coke in the bathroom. classic

“Last Goodbye” by Jeff Buckley in Vanilla Sky
-cruise & cruz meet. he gets a new face - yadayadayada, jeff's in a movie. jackpot

“Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys in Vanilla Sky
-completely changes the way the song sounds, seeing as how it's played either during or soon after a sex/murder scene

“Dry the Rain” by the Beta Band in High Fidelity
- "I will now sell five copies of "The Three EPs" by The Beta Band."

“In The Waiting Line” by Zero 7 in Garden State
-drugs, teenagers, zach braff in slow mo

“Now We Are Free” by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard in Gladiator
-the best finale to a movie. ever.

“Confusion” by New Order (Pump Panel Reconstruction mix) in Blade
-vampires raving in russia with blood coming out of the sprinklers

“Born Slippy” by Underworld in Trainspotting
-ewan mcgregor running. a lot.

“Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division in Donnie Darko
-omg donnie lost his v-card.

“Anything” by Anyone in Blow
-duh.

“Fake French” by Le Tigre in Prime
-this is a wild card - uma thurman's 30 and dating a 22 year old.
they're both hot and they dance like hot people dance. the end.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

House'd



Act 1

Setting: Halloween @ Sports/Only Bar in Farmville VA


"OMG you dressed as House, I love that show... you even kind of looks like him"

(thought to myself: no Tink I was going for Patch Adams but at least you got my profession right, and seriously you are a senior in college and you dressed like TINKERBELL!? )


aloud: "Haha everyone tells me that, so why not right?


Through-out the night Tink and I continued to run into each other and as intoxication sets in I even offer up a celebrity photo op which she jumps on. Unfortunately the said photo was subsequently removed from Facebook and had to be recreated. That night last call was announced everyone returns to their designated residences and back to lives as themselves.

Act 2
Setting: Longwood University Library


Although, not the most highly visited places of my collegiate career, but because I had a senior paper to write and 5 seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm to rent before I graduated I managed to swing by the library a little more frequently. Who else was always working the library check out line 9 times out of 10 than Tink. Way to go Tink you went from never-never land and never growing up to working a job in which the average age is 76. Either way I am not sure if I ever acknowledged this girl while at the library and I am confident this matters not. As far as I am concerned being intoxicated at levels I am used to being at is akin to having an alter ego, and thus friendships made while under the influence do not necessarily transfer over to reality.

Act 3
Setting: Sports/Only Bar in Farmville VA/ Thursday night hang out


As soon as I turned of eligible age to consume alcoholic beverages in the Common Wealth of Virginia, I spent every Thursday night at the same bar, with the same people, drinking the same 4 dollars pitchers (not 4 dollar bottles). On this particular Thursday my alter ego was informed by my roommates that they would be heading home, to which I declined a ride knowing full well that it would work out… when does it not? It wasn’t long after their departure that I was hollered at under the assumption my name was still, “House”.

“Yes? Oh Hey Tink, whats up” etc. “All my roommates left and I am about to catch a ride back with Kristin (at the time dating my roommate), you trying to roll”


It was that easy, my apparent celebrity status had wooed this innocent librarian-in-training back to my apartment hand in hand with myself. She rode back in a car that under every circumstance should have had people ready to wet their pants with laughter as soon as they had their own doors shut and locked behind them. Yet everyone locked it up got me back.

Act 4
Setting: My apartment room (no chance we did anything but B-line in there avoiding anymore human contact)

Up until now I was under the impression that Tink attended church regularly and was working the library job as a means to get her nose in as many books as possible. To those of you who spend your life judging a book by its cover, ignorance might be bliss, but it is certainly not dirty librarian sex. I put on a movie to which I don’t remember nor is it pertinent to the story other than to illustrate that I am about as proficient at initiating a random hook up as I am at running marathons.


Anyway, we are watching the movie and I used some lame ass line to get things on there way, and we were off. I think it took all of 5 minutes to relieve Tink of all the clothing she had worn over to which I remarked that I had in my mind she was some innocent girl with gold stars next to all her required Sunday school memory verses. I had the cynical Dr. House image to uphold, she certainly was not sticking to her innocent one. Either way, she took this as a challenge got my clothes off, a condom on, and intercourse initiated quicker than it took me to type this sentence.

I wasn’t aware that somewhere over in the DVD section at the library I frequented so often while rattling off seasons on Curb that there was porn, but apparently Tink knew where to find it, and wasn’t afraid to take quotes from such stars as Jenna Hayes and Katrina Banks. And to my further astonishment she wasn’t calling me House anymore, she was throwing out my name in-between fowl suggestions she certainly would not be regurgitating to her priest on Sunday.

Now, I need to point out a unique problem/gift, depending on how you look at it, that I have. I don’t really get whiskey dick. It always works, the degree of how well it works while intoxicated varies but none the less a semi-solid 4 is better than a flimsy 2, right? It’s not like you drive a Ferrari, you have made due with a Honda all your life. While not preventing intercourse one thing that is out of the question while this drunk is any sort of orgasm. Tink, who held up four fingers upon me asking her what her count was, did not find this news amusing and decided if any of the multiple ways we had banged that night wasn’t going do it, then she was going to have to rip off this obnoxious cum receptacle and begin felating the shit out of my dick. What a girl finds attractive about a latex/ lube tasting BJ is far beyond my grasp, but I am never one to argue with such thing and let her fight the facts. She lost, and in a way I guess I did too, as par for the course no such orgasm was had.


Time to cling to the edge of the bed and go to sleep.

Act 5
Setting: Reality


I woke up knowing full well Tink would still be there. After 30 minutes of making noise moving around my room I gave up on the subtle wake up approach. On my way out of my room I shook Tink’s Foot to let her know she needed to catch a ride now or she’d be walking the mile back to Campus.

Prologue:

Within the next few days Tink was dating a guy I knew who lived in the apartment building next to mine. Not that I wanted to date this girl, but it was readily apparent to myself and anyone who knew of this incident (car passengers and subsequently any person who ran in my regular circle) that her new boy was a large elevator ride down for her little dancing with the stars episode. And although I managed to never run into these two as a couple I did run into Tink a week later while sharing a beer with my girlfriend and crew on campus at the twice a year concert/ beer garden. Luckily, that awkwardness was soon shattered by my girlfriend falling over the plastic fence barrier designed to keep out all those not of age to enjoy in a beer.

Friday, January 9, 2009

The Rock Bottomed Charge

After much deliberation and little to no anticipation I present the beginning of the end of making our lives public. This is what I charge myself and the rest of you to consider while taking on this endeavor:

Set humility aside. The lifeblood of this project/ experiment/ necessity is honesty. We know who each other are and discuss most of our lives in person. Press beyond the comfortable and I truly believe that not only will we laugh harder at each other, and that our friendships will grow, we might even weed out some truly weird people (warning: I am aware I have creep like tendencies but I know all the passwords to this blog and will block your ass.)

Strive to judge. Judge each other but more importantly judge the masses. People are funny, they look funny, and do stupid things. Combine that and our usual forum for banter and camaraderie, they are drunk and this adds a whole other dimension to judgment and subsequent humor. But judge more than people. Judge their establishments, their method of transportation and if you feel so inclined their place of worship.

Post wisely. Quality not quantity is the ticket to success. and there is fucking spell check, use it.

That being said I want to direct your attention to the poll on the right toolbar of this page. This will be updated Feb 1st I wish you luck and encourage postings of any such encounters... they make for some vile reading.