The Will Ferrells Crash!

Amazing Race 7 brings out the funny in people. The team of brothers Brian and Greg bring their humor to the show. I chose them to win this race, but it looks as if they may have run out of laughs.

Update: And they escape again in a thrilling footrace against this year’s J-Vic team! Yes!

The Incredibles on DVD

In reference to the last post, I have watched the Incredibles almost every day since I got it last week except for when my nephew took it home. I bought a new one to replace it. I love this movie.

Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell voiced Violet in the Incredibles. She’s awesome. Get the DVD. Watch the second disc’s Sarah Vowell short. It rocks. She rocks. Catch more of her here.

Dub

In the mid-90s, I fell in love with dub music. It stemmed from my fascination with instrumental music. I guess it came from trying to play surf music on my guitar. Listening to The Ventures lead me to listening to Friends of Dean Martinez. Then it was onto Thievery Corporation. Loved them when I bought their first album on a whim because of the cover. The opening song is a dub like tune. Listening to it made me get into it. I don’t have a lot of dub albums, but I can’t get enough of it. I don’t know why. It probably has to do with the reverb drenched sound, the beats and the bass.

Amazing Race 7: There should be a rule against that

Today, my predictions have gone to pot. It’s just like the NCAA tournament. My brackets have been blown apart. First, those I chose to be last won the latest round, the team I had picked second has been eliminated, and Rob and Amber are making me hate them.

I think that there shouldn’t be scheming and playing in the Amazing Race. The first couple of times was cute but the latest (quitting a roadblock because it was too hard) was sucky. It’s a terrible ploy. This is a race and it should be won by the soles of your feet not by your brains. This is why the eating roadblocks where they eat more than ever should be thought over.

Movie Review: Be Cool

While I went in expecting a terrible movie, I was pleasantly surprised by this comedy. It wasn’t as bad as the reviews made out to be and it wasn’t as bad as the lack of audience for it has been.

Be Cool was a meta movie. It knew that it was only a movie and played itself out as one. In fact the story line was explicitly told in the first scene. If you kept this in mind the movie was fun. I like that it was meta. It had Swingers. It had Pulp Fiction. It had weaved a wonderful story. I liked it.

3 of 5 stars.

TV Shows on DVD

TV shows on DVD. I bought the first tv show that came out on DVD, The X-Files, season 1. It was expensive compared to how much they cost nowadays, $129.00. And I have bought through season 6. Other TV shows I am amassing are Red Dwarf, Northern Exposure, The Simpsons and Futurama. I am really waiting for these shows to come out on DVD, Undeclared and News Radio. And once I get that News Radio disc, I’ll start up News Radio Quote Month again.