Random Musings.....

-Apparently 42 is the magical age where I no longer care which celebrity is screwing who. On the other hand, if you want to gossip about which acquaintance/friend is screwing who, I'm all ears. Stories of friends going off of the deep end and inappropriately banging somebody never gets old.

-Trying to talk reason with a teenager is like trying to communicate with a brick wall. Trying to talk reason with a teenaged girl is like trying to communicate with a brick wall...that cries.

-Watching Nova special on the Great Sphinx. A lesser known monument was a giant hole dug in the ground next to it called the Great Sphinx-ter. OK, I don't actually know if that is true, but it SHOULD be.

-It just dawned on me....Life: No one thing is weird, it's ALL weird. Seriously, any human behavior I can think of is really just pure, dysfunctional, fear based hilarity. I guess it's a Darwinistic thing, in that evolution is a process of refinement to better achieve needs, and the end result is a smorgasbord of highly refined, and in a survival context, effective insanity. The human comedy indeed.

Need to get this off of my chest...

OK, I'll say it...The Hangover wasn't as funny as everybody claims it to be. It was mildly amusing at best, and tried too hard to be "quirky". You want "quirky" funny, check out The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona and Dr. Strangelove. Anyways, I don't understand all the kudos it's garnering...which I suppose is an indictment of the current state of cinematic comedy. Amazing what a marketing campaign can achieve. In fact, I'd say these days it's becoming more and more apparent that it's all about marketing and much less so about actual content. Sad, sad, sad...

Other movies that are actually funny (by no means all inclusive and of course there's more):
-Stripes
-Caddyshack
-Animal House
-There's Something About Mary
-Old School
-Sixteen Candles
-The Pink Panther/A Shot in the Dark/The Return of the Pink Panther/The Pink Panther Strikes Again (love Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom)
-Ghostbusters (the first one)
-Blazing Saddles
-Young Frankenstein
-and of course, lots more...


Truth of the matter is a good comedy is far rarer than a good action, drama, romance, or thriller...and should be appreciated when you're lucky enough to experience one.