The count goes on . . . 60-51

Here we are at the half way mark, the point of no return, so in the middle you feel sick! Does any of this make sense?

60 Do You Realize- The Flaming Lips
Yes, the song makes me want to cry and some people call it a sell out but does that matter?

59 Empty Skies - Kosheen
First time I heard this song was at 2:30 in the morning in a cab; it really blew my mind



58 Poker Face - Lady Gaga
Another song that had to be here someplace

57 P.I.M.P. - 50 Cent
He says, "bitch" at the end catapulting this song from someplace in to 80s to the 50s; the steel drums are also pretty damn cool

56 Rollout (My Business) - Ludacris
props for crazy rhymes!

55 The National Anthem - Radiohead
Sorry folks this is the highest position I was comfortable with the boys from Oxford occupying, let's face it this is no Karma Police of Paranoid Android or even Creep

54 Umbrella - Rehanna
How can you not love this song hella-ella-ella catchy!



53 Evil - Interpol
here's a band that has guys that look like Crispin Glover and Noah Whiley in addition to sounding less like Joy Division than ever before!

52 Chop Suey - System of a Down
Metal always finds it's way back!



51 Music - Madonna
The old lady is represented on this list too in a raunchy, acid state.

Salute to Sam Jackson

You are the man! You are an American original with best sounding swears in the country!



Nobody but nobody can make curse words sound so awesome. This is why I'm giving you a Red, White and True award, you made an art out of foul language, you are an innovator.




Let's face it Mr. Jackson people emulate your cursing ways; they want to be able to make swears sound as delicious as they sound coming from your mouth. People cheer when you say "Motherfucker"!

You are also a very fine actor who was robbed of an Academy Award for you Pulp Fiction job.

ATTENTION!

This is Scott Boras. Scott Boras is a sports agent.

Scott Boras is a Douche

Let's talk, CHOMP!

The Burger can in fact look as American as Old Glory and a good one is much more edible. Supposedly named for the town in New York State which is named after the city in Germany by some late 1800s yokel the burger is just ground beef between a sliced bun. It is widely accepted that it is usually served with lettuce tomato and onions with some mustard and ketchup; it's just a hot sandwich. The burger is now it's own enormous economy worth about $64,ooo,ooo,000 (that's billions, folks).
We have McDonalds, Burger King, Carl's jr., Jack in the Box, Wendy's, Hardy's, In-n'-Out Burger, Sonic and White Castle are just a few of the larger, well known companies that all have a respectable product which millions of people crave and consume on a daily basis.

Man, a burger can look good!

So as I guess the burger found it's self as the United States did after the Civil War and like America it didn't really become a super power until World War II; that's when the first McDonalds opened up in San Bernardino, CA. Now it wasn't until 1948 that the fast food concept hit and laid waste to the traditional method behind burger sales. Luckily the Burger didn't just go fast food on us; it remained a solid item on restaurants all around and pretty much every American cuisine serving place has their own variation of the sandwich. It gave us the privilege to enjoy a burger that was more hearty than the flimsy disk bagged up or tossed on a tray at the local BK lounge. With big burgers popular we not only got such triumphant creations as the Big Mac and the Whopper but we also got the gourmet burger!

Burgers done every which way one wanted, served with jack cheese, zucchini, avocado, dripping with pesto, crowned by bacon, done Hawaiian style, French style, Popeye style, smothered, with mushrooms, coated with blue cheese, pasted with teryaki, piled high with japenos, served on a silver plate with caviar, foie gras and made from Kobe beef, whatever your American heart desires! Whatever those clogged vanes need! You can burgers bigger than your head, bigger than your first born, bigger than the cow!


Listen I'm not here to start any fuss; I just want the burger to be embraced like the deity it is. I don't mean I want a burger made from Zues or Odin or the one god and I'm not going to create a shrine devoted to Hamburgers but in the country religious symbolism is everything you want it to be; it is all part of our narrative and mythology.

You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger -- guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.

Charles Kuralt, journalist

A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic. The nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve. You are what you think you eat.

Tom Robbins

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Mark Twain

Special thanks to Mary's Danish for the album cover made back in the early 90s when irony still meant something.

Mr. Morrison you've gone Too Far

Was your life good enough to make a movie about? Jim Morrison asked a similar question at one point and back in the early 90s Oliver Stone decided in Jim's case the answer was yes. So he's had that going for him along with the music he made with the Doors being used in countless films and TV Shows "Apocalypse Now", "JFK", "Family Ties" even in the trailer for Disney/Pixar picture, "Monsters Inc." which is a kids movie. Side note about that, a guy I knew after seeing that preview revealed that he hoped that (Break on Through) song was in the movie.



Do I like Jim Morrison? No, I never met the man; in fact I believe he died before I was born in a bath tub in Paris or was it a night club in Paris or will we ever know? Do I like The music the Doors made? Yes I do, very much. So why all this then? Well, when I was a teenager I was heavily into the music and even read the biography, "No one Here Get's Out Alive" Part of that interest stayed with me and on rare occasion when I find myself at a karaoke bar it is not unusual to hear belt out "Road House Blues" or "Break On Through". There is a simple reason for this; it's easy to croon and growl through those ditties. Maybe if I ever sing again I'll try "Alabama Song"


Once I even dropped myself to the floor to complete the Jim Morrison effect resulting in a very bruised shoulder that hurt for days. Too much whiskey I suppose was the influence rather than Jim manifesting into my body but I digress.


Jim Morrison is the archetype rock star, making it what it is today. Before him there was some bad behavior from Jerry Lee Lewis but Morrison took it to a new level of bad behavior. Doing everything in excess which certain personalities are apt to do especially when the world is available to them. Every douchebag to shimmy into leather pants since has tried to be that man in some way and usually that way is the sex and drugs part. Face it the Rock n' Roll is just a front for most of the tools who prance about on stage singing some sort of unfortunate song. Have I ever got into leather pants you ask? Yes but they never fit so I don't count. I have heard and witnessed guys who start wearing leather pants seem to be taken over by them; they let the pants do the living for them. Did this kill Jim Morrison? No, it was heart problems related to liquor, drugs and fat department. Dennis Leary said it best "Jim Morrison -- I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead."



Here are a few quotes which his brilliance and stupidity:

"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."

"I am the Lizard King, I can do Anything"

"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"Where's your will to be weird?"

"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."

You can decide what stuff he was made of but I'll tell you looking over some of the stuff he was quoted he talked a lot about friends; it seemed important to him or he had his own meaning of the term. Maybe he thought it meant hot dogs, I don't know.
Anyway the Lizrd King was a reckless and hellbent man with his own chaotic agenda that from what I read and figure tore everything around him apart including himself.



Because I want to keep things simple here are my Top Five Doors Songs
1. L.A. Woman
2. Peacefrog/Blue Sunday
3. Road House Blues
4. Break On Through
5. Hello, I love you

Is it wrong that I wish I could sell Doors music through this blog?

Top 50 Scariest Movies

The Boston Globe put this list out recently about the their picks for the top fifty scariest movies of all time. Because you care what I think here's my reactions

#50 Arachnophobia
I can't imagine this is scary but just creepy things in my pants

#49 The Innocents
Didn't see it

#48 Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
I heard this movie sucked eggs and I thought the first one wasn't bad at all

#47 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
I understand the kid fears aspect of this entry but it should be omited

#46 The Wicker Man
Didn't see it

#45 The Blob
I could see this one at #50

#44 Rosemary's Baby
Yes, this movie was chilling

#43 The Brood
I didn't see it

#42 Event Horizon
Black Holes never got me to a theater

#41 Dawn of the Dead (2004
Scary . . . suspenseful is more like it, also a good vain of humor

#40 Eraser Head
So disturbing I'm still wacked out

#39 Amityville Horror
I never saw it

#38 Pet Cemetery
I don't believe it was scary

#37 Open Water
Who cares

#36 Nightmare on Elm Street
Classic 80s horror and a young Johnny Depp!

#35 The Fly (1986)
too gross, maggot babies are nasty

#34 Salem's Lot
When I saw this as a kid it scared me silly

#33 Gates of Hell
Never heard of it

#32 Session 9
Who Knew

#31 In The Mouth of Madness
I can only send kudos to the person who added this movie

#30 Altered States
Never saw it

#29 Mothman Prophesies
"Chappistick"

#28 The Mist
I never saw it

#27 Videodrome
Freaky shit I never saw

#26 Seven
Sort of, I guess

#25 War of the Worlds
NOT!
#24 Saw
The first of the franchise wasn't bad but Cary Elwes sounds like he's taking a dump the whole time

#23 Tale of Two Sisters (Korean
Didn't see it

#22 Silence of the Lambs
Very gripping

#21 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This movie is responsible for everything after it
#20 Hellraiser
Somehow this one missed me

#19 The Changeling
Did not see it

#18 28 Days Later
Zombies on Crack!Great idea

#17 Jesus Camp
If this is on here it opens a whole new can of worms

#16 Jacob's Ladder
More startling than scary, introduced dudes with insanely fast shaking heads

#15 Jaws
Scared everybody

#14 The Exorcist
Another classic

#13 Quartermass and the Pit
Wow! I recall wayching this movie on Creature Double Feature on the TV as a little boy

#12 Cloverfield
Didn't care to see it

#11 The Shining
Kubric is a weirdo

#10 Audition
OH man did this movie scare some sense into me

#9 Halloween
Here it is

#8 Evil Dead II
It's violent and funny and violent and has an awesome soundtrack

#7 Dawn of the Dead (1978)
An innovator

#6 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
I recall all my friends who saw this were scared stiff

#5 Alien
I like Aliens more

#4 The Ring
this was a chilling movie with a great twist

#3 Rec (Spanish)
Didn't see it

#2 Ju-On (Japanese)
didn't see it

#1 The Thing
I was told this movie was intense

Baseball Playoffs part 2

OK so my prediction of a Yankees sweep of the Rockies in the World Series will not come to pass thanks to Houston Street's ineffective outing but that's not a bad thing. We actually get the best of the best in the this years League Championship series; it's like something out of the 80's! The Phillies vs The Dodgers in the NL and the Yankees vs. The Angels in the AL both sound like classic match ups, no Marlins, no Rays, no Rockies, no Diamond Backs no 70s expansions and most interestingly, no Wild Card Team. When was the last time this happened in both leagues? Never!
Don't get me wrong I'm not anti Wild Card or expansion but I like to see these match ups. I suppose we could argue and say tht the Angels have no business being counted as non expansion but they're older than I am and I guess you could fuss about the Dodgers not counting because they moved to California but that just makes you very old ans stuck in the mud. Some people won't be happy until it's Cincinnati battling Pittsburgh for the championship because the American League is inferior and younger full of DHs and those long haired Oakland Athletics.

So where do we stand?

The Yankees are still going to the World Series because they are mighty with the stick and like I said before; their pitching is enough. The Angels will win a couple games but I don't think they can keep up. But who knows, maybe the Yanks can't beat the rally Monkey in the post season.

The National League has a rematch of last year's match up and I think he Phillies will out match the Blue boys with much hitting and quality pitching. Of course the Dodgers were so relaxed verse the Cardinals maybe they'll stay loose and waltz right into the World Series. I hope Pedro Martinez gets his start this go around and faces Manny Ramirez.

So as long as it's not an all Southern California match up it should be a good championship.

Play Ball!