Just met this group of musicians on MySpace and I’m really diggin’ Bridget’s sound. If you get a chance, check out her page. “Kitchen Man” is both colorful and slyly profane and I love it.

http://www.myspace.com/bridgetthebiggirlsblues 

 

 

 

Why is it every friend request I get on MySpace is from some 19 year old girl with ponytails and tube socks pulled up to her knee caps? Her other friends are guys with names like Cash Money and Big Mike. Her general interests are working out and peroxide. She hates rude people and has watched The Notebook “like…a million times”. Am I that transparent? How do these women know that they are exactly my type??? EHarmony? Pshaw. My future bride is on MySpace! Maybe Cash Money will be my best man.

Seriously, though…what the hell? 

 

My friend Stacy and I went to see the movie “Click” yesterday and I think we were both pleasantly surprised. Not that we thought it was going to be a horrible film, mind you. If we had thought that, we never would have plunked down the money to see it. But from watching the previews, one gets the impression that it could have easily been a one-joke film. Roger Ebert gave the movie one and a half stars, and normally I agree with Ebert on most of his critiques, but he was way off on this one. His criticism was that this was supposed to be a comedy and it wasn’t really funny. From watching the previews – Sandler using the remote to pause his arrogant boss and slap him around a little, using the remote to cause a well-endowed woman to run in slow motion — you have to think the movie will be an all-out comedy. Maybe the studio was afraid of telling us that this wasn’t meant strictly for laughs like Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison. Maybe they thought that their core audience would stay away from the theaters this weekend. I don’t know. All I know is that the film turned out to be both amusing and very touching, and it’ll even bring a tear to your eye.

I saw “Spanglish”, which was a mediocre film and “Punch Drunk Love”, which was a magnificent film and both showed that Adam Sandler has good acting chops and can pull off a dramatic role. ”Click” shows that side even more. I think Sandler may be in an odd position right now. He’s in his mid-thirties, I think, and is outgrowing the slapstick silliness of Gilmore and the Waterboy, but doesn’t seem quite ready or confident that an audience will accept him as a dramatic actor. I think his next role is a drama about 9/11 with Don Cheadle. You can’t go wrong acting with Don Cheadle. Sooner or later, though, Sandler is probably going to have to make a choice — fade away or continue to reinvent himself and hope that the crowd follows. He may never become a Tom Hanks, but those of us who have been Sandler fans for this long and love that underlying angst and slight unpredictability don’t really want him to.

 

So, I spent about half an hour this evening stealthily following this old dude around the grocery store, watching him as he shoved one item after another into the pockets of his wrinkled linen pants. At one point, he pulled a little ziploc bag out of his one pants pocket, filled it with red seedless grapes. then pulled up his shirt and shoved the bag into his other pocket. He picked up a nectarine and commenced to gnaw on it as he searched around for the next item he wished to pilfer. His pockets were absolutely bulging but were well hidden by his long shirt. The store was sparsely populated, and no one seemed to pay the old guy any mind, even though he sauntered through the aisles with neither a cart nor basket. Was it wrong for him to be stealing? Sure. Was I going to rat him out? Heck no. Seems to me, with the way our social security is dissolving, I’ll be stuffing fruit into my knickers in thirty or forty years too. 

I always find that kind of stuff entertaining…and sad.

Why can’t I get this Gnarls Barkley song out of my head? I listened to it about 50 times yesterday. Does that mean I’m craaazzzzzaaaayyy?!? Possibleeeeee eeee  eeeeee!