Animal Collective – My Girls

Perhaps you’ve seen it, but I can’t stop listening to this. And the video is so weird, but so awesome.

Louis CK is ridiculous. I don’t think hes over done anything I didn’t think was hilarious. Enjoy.

You like elephants? If so, you gotta see this.

I’ve seen this movie twice before, but got it again on netflix today. And it was even better than I remembered. This is one of the most purely enjoyable movies ever, and in so many different ways. The premise is, elephants are not only sacred, but also a part of the family. And Tony Jaa has an elephant. And when somebody steals his elephant he gets really mad and beats the crap out of everyone in his way until he gets him back. Simple enough, right? But there is so much more than just crazy fight scenes and awesome choreography.

The movie opens and teaching Jaa’s character (and us) of the sacred elephants and the Muay Thai fighters trained to protect them in battle. We see the upbringing of him and his young elephant and the storytelling is good, but more amazing are stunning visuals. The landscapes and environments are shown with such beauty. The first ten minutes of this movie are one of my favorite ten minutes of cinematography out there. Plus, I love elephants.

That’s another thing that this film does so well. There are a lot of really fun moments between the people and the elephants, and kids running through the village, and other fun moments to break up the action. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of silly things in the movie. But there are so many smaller moments I love that come up throughout that I don’t care. The boat chase on the river, or the water fight with the kids/elephants, and even the blind boxing are all things that make you smile and show you that this isn’t supposed to be the most serious movie. You’re just supposed to have a blast watching it. All one hour and twenty three minutes.

OTHER THINGS THAT ARE AWESOME ABOUT THE PROTECTOR

- A 4+ minute take of Tony Jaa beating up a whole building.

- This kick.

- This guy throws an elephant.

- The helicopter sequence.

And most all of the Jump kicks/knees Tony Jaa throws at people. This dude is so awesome.

“Ay, Dukie fight like a bitch, yo!”

I’m restarting season 4 of THE WIRE tonight, which means I will probably watch 12 hours of TV by dusk. Who measures by dusk though? I have always had a steadfast love for the show, but I never really realize how great it is until I watch it again.

If you’re not watching THE WIRE you really should be. It is the best character work of anything captured on camera. No exceptions. Plus the kids in season 4 are both genius and hilarious.

I like to eat lots of food.

this is me, sometimes

Lately, the only real thing that goes on in my life is me eating food. I go to work, I watch TV, I jerk it, but really, I just eat. Well, I take that back. I also plan to eat food at later times, and then go to place that have foods. Me hungry.

Last night some friends and I went to a really fun dinner at Akasha in Culver City where I went for the spare rib with parsnip puree and spinach. Mmm Mmm pretty good. And beers, and sides, and bougie bread that I didn’t really even like but ate any way. (The bread was too much show and not enough good-tasting) I would go back, but I’m in no rush. After dinner, we were going to get dessert, but instead decided to go home and watch Jurassic Park. But then we went and got dessert anyway, Donuts. And today I woke up and ate more donuts for breakfast, and then pizza and a salad at work, and a few stray french fries.

And then I ate this today because Teddy and Tiffany made me. It’s a bacon donut. I can’t decide if it was just pretty good, or if it was amazing as a bacon donut sounds. Then again, it was bacon and donut, so if I had to bet it was probably amazing.

PLEASE READ THIS

The Shaq is back everybody. And this time hes texting straight to you. (via twitter) He’s got some great things to say like, “My genius is 1 percent inspiration 99 percent perspiration Shaquille o’neal.”

I think my two favorites right now are, “Last nite i told greg oden , “we r not the same, i am a martian”"   and “Just helped a man push his car, schwww im tired”
Just pearls of wisdom. What will he say next?

(I also love all the shaqula ones. Dude is a genius.)

Today was a new day.

The Thanksgiving weekend food fest is over and it was a really nice weekend. I got to see my sister Kate and hang out with my dad, which is always nice. It was a wonderful time and we ate four way-too-big and delicious meals, but I feel terribly fat. So to change that, this morning I decided I was going back to the gym, and also cleaned out my refrigerator and bought a bunch of healthy foods.

My roommates were gone for the weekend and, though I’m glad they are back, I did enjoy having the place to myself for a bit. It was nice walking around in only a sweatshirt and underwear for a few days. And I even got to watch some TV while sitting on the toilet in the bathroom with the door open. A rare opportunity, and man was it sweet. And since I wasn’t too busy, I cleaned the apartment all up and reorganized my bedroom. And, The best part about today was that I didn’t have to go into work, so I could schedule a whole day to finally getting writing done and bang out some new ideas.

Today was a great turning point for me, I think. A significant day where I decided important things about the way I was going to live my life. The cleaning, the gym, the healthy food, and the all around outlook that things were going to be different for old Ryan Rosenberg in the near future.

At the end of the day, lets look at my accomplishments towards this new way of life…

- I didn’t shower until 2 pm, and watched tv from the bathroom with the door open. Lazy.

- Didn’t even start working or look at my writing. Lazy.

- Watched Micheal Clayton, Knocked Up, Anchorman, and 2 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Useless.

- Bought a bunch of healthy food. (This one actually is an accomplishment.)

- Didn’t eat that healthy food, but instead ordered a pizza when Teddy got home. An all meat pizza.

Basically, everything chance I get, I prove to be the biggest loser of all time. And man does it feel good.

Errybody get your vote on.

We all matter on election day.

So, historical day. Nov 4th. All that stuff. Everybody has heard all of this for the past 6 months anyway, but here is my obligatory election day post.

I voted at the Jew school right down the street. Everyone was really nice, and the lady checking people in was eating a sugar donut and counting weird things. I was the 7th person of the day to bring my own pen, the girl before me was the 13th left handed person of the day, and this lady was the 1st person I’d ever seen not finish a sugar twisty donut. I guess all the counting made her forget how good they are.

So I got to my booth, for some reason they sent me to the handicapped one. It was really hard to use because I’m tall and the booth is made for an averaged sized wheelchair person, 2ft. Well more like zero feet I guess. But that is of little importance here. Everyone’s vote counts the same.

So anyway, I’m towering over this booth and punching in my votes; Obama, Build Trains, Kill Babies, Ruin Kids With Gay Marriage, etc. And even though I’m doing it right, I’m really worried, and pretty confident, that all of my votes are like being counted for the wrong thing. How do I know that the holes provided are lined up right, or that the ink pen is marking well enough. Or maybe that my ballot is like irregular and just voting Sarah Palin for everything. Which would be fine if this were either a beauty contest or a dumbest piece of shit alive competition, but it’s not. Dis dat ‘lection foo.

It’s really kind of unnerving. Of all the things I do in life, this is really the only thing that matters. It’s not that I’m a super serious political voice but I don’t really do anything that has consequence or that effects anything. I’m basically a worthless pile of clothes and fat that sits on the couch all day. My DVR selections for example, don’t really weigh in compared to the decisions made today.

All in all though, It went well, my vote is cast, and it really did feel pretty good. Something powerful in knowing that everyone counts exactly the same on this day, and that my say is just as important as anyone’s. So take that Dad!

So I’m just saying VOTE. OR. DIE. Haha Just kidding, DIE.

Who’s hotter than Madonna in a pointed bra??

Apparently I’m really good at online poker. I just started today and I’m just killing, taking everybody’s money. It’s almost like I put in the Konami code and didn’t know it.

I’m thinking about going career, but I don’t know. It’s like taking candy from a baby, something I have no problem with because, honestly, babies can’t remember shit. But here, I feel like it’s closer to taking the life savings of gambling addicts who can’t really say no. And I don’t want to do that. It’s just not a very nice thing to do. If I didn’t have much of something, and couldn’t help but to offer it up, I wouldn’t want somebody to just take it all. But really, I don’t have money either.

While writing this, I’ve made 50 bucks so I’m gonna keep going. I’ve Always wanted to be a baller.

Another Gem From The Daily Show

I try not to get mad at stupid politics and stuff, but I just couldn’t help it on this one. I really don’t understand how these people can be so idiotic. I guess they just don’t care.

This is a video from The Daily Show that talks about “real america”.

And Jon Stewart is still the man. That Pfotenhauer thing gets me every time.