I'm not sure why certain cities get the cold shoulder. Why is Cleveland
the object of so much scorn from stand-up comedians? I hear it's a wonderful
city. But apparently, Canadians really hate Toronto,
so much so that a movie has been made about it. According to an article
on cnn.com, "The dislike of Canada's
biggest city, Toronto, in the rest
of the country runs so deep that a filmmaker has made a documentary about
it." The filmmaker and co-director Albert Nerenberg said in an interview,
"There is something different (about hating Toronto).
People are more passionate about it ... People have a grudging respect for New
York outside of the city, and have a grudging respect
for London. But people outside of Toronto
don't have that for Toronto, they
really don't." Joey Keithley, of the Vancouver
punk band D.O.A., says in the film, "People in Toronto
are soulless, one-eyed corporate zombies." That's funny, someone over the
weekend told me the exact same thing about Dallas,
Texas.
Let's imagine you are the star of a movie and your character is running from
the cops. If they caught up to you, how would you want your character to react?
Beat them with your bare hands? Mow them down with a hail of bullets? Kung Fu
their asses? How about squirting them with breast milk? Sound strange? Well,
sometimes truth really is stranger than
fiction. According to an
article on the londonpaper.com, "An 18 year old woman is due in court today
after being accused of spraying a policeman with breast milk." The
incident allegedly occurred after she was apprehended for stealing a pair of
shoes. As the cops (or Bobbies, as they're called in England) restrained her, she pulled out her right
breast and squirted them with her mother's milk. Take that, pigs!
It's sad when the fantasy world of
cinema and the real world of... uh... reality collide. People become attached
to the characters that actors play in the movies and, a lot of times, associate
that character with the actor. I know I do. But when the real personality of
the actor rears its ugly head, a la Tom Cruise, it can be a jarring experience.
What, they're not as cool as I thought? They're actually... gulp... Say it
ain't so?! According to an article
on msnbc.com, "John Travolta doesn't suffer from lack of ego. The
"Wild Hogs" star recently boasted that he was as big a star as Elvis Presley
and Marilyn Monroe - but didn't suffer the same fate as them because of his
values and religion." Vinnie Barbarino was quoted as saying, "I have
fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis, but part of the reason I
didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs." Uh, you mean the
belief that aliens inhabit our bodies and that we will eventually be shuttled
in a space ship back to our home planet deep in outer space? Sounds logical to
me.
For you music fans, the new Nine
Inch Nails album Year Zero is out.
And it rocks! Go listen to it then buy it . Trent Reznor never ceases to amaze me. He's a friggin' rock machine! Really. This
particular album is very beat-driven, unlike the last album With Teeth, which was very rock driven.
But this seems like a very natural progression from the last record. I read a
few months ago that Trent was inspired by the sound landscape (not the rapping)
of old Public Enemy records, and I can definitely hear that influence in songs
like "The Great Destroyer" and "Me, I'm Not." The way the
bass and snare sounds are layered under sounds of static and explosions are
definitely right out of Public Enemy's playbook. But Trent incorporates those beats into a Nine Inch
Nails song structure. Very cool stuff. Oh... you came to read about the news.
Sorry. Let's move on...
Any sports fan that has ever had
an issue with a referee has finally gotten their payback. According to an article
on cnn.com, "The veteran NBA referee [Joey Crawford] was suspended
indefinitely by Commissioner David Stern for his conduct toward Tim Duncan, who
contends the official challenged him to a fight during a game in Dallas." Crawford, veteran NBA ref who has
been causing fans grief for 29 seasons, allegedly was upset with Tim Duncan,
who he believed was laughing at him during a game between the San Antonio Spurs
and the Dallas Mavericks. Tim Duncan claimed he was laughing at his teammate,
who had just received a foul call from Crawford. But Crawford was pissed anyway
and gave a couple of technicals to Duncan, which meant an automatic ejection. Duncan wasn't so pleased with that. According to
my main man Duncan, "He looked at me and said, 'Do you want to
fight? Do you want to fight?' If he wants to fight, we can fight. I don't have
any problem with him, but we can do it if he wants to. I have no reason why in
the middle of a game he would yell at me, 'Do you want to fight?'"
Commissioner Stern was not so pleased that Crawford ejected one of the most
popular players in the NBA for giggling and stated, "Although Joey is
consistently rated as one of our top referees, he must be held accountable for
his actions on the floor." That's right, bitch. Game over!
And finally, our thoughts and prayers go out to the students at Virginia Tech. When these students were supposed to be having the time of their lives, they unfortunately experienced one of the worst tragedies in United States history. Please pray for the victims of 4/16/2007. Peace.
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