The Passion

Went to see the Passion of the Christ last night. My favorite part of the movie was when Jesus makes the video tape so the love of his life who has amnesia can try to remember her life. Rob Sneider as St. Thomas was a pisser!!! I think Mel Gibson is really out there when he casts Adam Sandler as Jesus, but who am I to judge? Oh wait, I may have gone into the wrong theatre. Damn!!!

Song of the week

Pantera is no more. Luckily the brothers from Pantera (Vinnie and Dimebag) got together and formed a new band called Damage Plan. One of my favorite songs off their CD is called "Fuck You". Very reminicient of the Pantera classic Fucking Hostile. Overall Damageplan does a very good job, and Dimebag proves he is one of the greatest heavy metal/hard rock guitarists. He plays everything so smooth and crisp, it's amazing. On a few of the songs, he gets the guitar to virtually scream ad moan.

The lead singer of Damage Plan looks and sounds a lot like Phil Anselmo from Pantera. He's got the bald head, tattoos and a nasty scowl permanantly plastered on his face. I think Phil had more range, but the new guys does a respectable job. His vocal styling is particularly effective on the song Breathing New Life. If I screamed like he does on that track, I wouldn't be able to speak for a month.

I would post a quote from the "Fuck You" chorus, but to be honest I can't really understand what he's saying. Check it out anyway and start moshing into something. Your couch, wall, dog, signifigant other, whatever you have around....

Medieval Times

I had posted this the other day and for some reason it never made it through....So here's a repost of the experience at Medieval Times...

Rachel and I went to Medieval Times up in Maryland on Saturday. The show and atmosphere was pretty awesome. The outside is designed to look like castle walls, the inside is nicely decorated with suites of armor, swords and cobblestone walkways and walls.

When you check in you are handed a colored crown. Rachel and I received a black and white crown which meant our section was represented by the knight wearing the same colors. Before the show starts, they have a large waiting area which is kind of like an indoor courtyard. For a fee, you can be knighted by the king. Most of the people getting knighted were celebrating birthdays or anniversaries.

After waiting around about 45 minutes, we were finally able to go in and sit at our table. We handed our ticket to the usher and she pointed us down to the front row! SWEET!!! If we were at a football game we would have been seated around the 30 yard line. Great seats. After sitting for a few minutes we were greeted by our “wench”. She was a cute young Asian girl. Not cute as in being hot, cute in a childlike way. For a small girl, she sure had a set of lungs on her. She pretty much screamed most of the instructions out. She explained that if you wanted Pepsi you should flip your mug handle out towards the arena, if you want iced tea you turned your handle in towards yourself. A few minutes later she came out with a huge tray of pitchers of Pepsi and iced tea. She couldn’t have been more than 4 foot 11, but she was pretty damn strong. I don’t know how she walked up and down the steps and poured drinks without spilling stuff.

The first course was soup. The poor wench had this giant kettle of soup that she had to lug around. I felt so bad watching her lug that thing around. A few minutes later, she came back and served us some garlic bread, followed by half a chicken, spare ribs and a half a roasted potato. The funny part about eating there is that they don’t give you any utensils. So you have to slurp the soup from your bowl, rip at the chicken and ribs with your fingers, and down the potato like a caveman.

A few minutes later the bar wench came by. $24.00 for two mixed drinks in a commemorative hurricane glasses. Yikes. The drinks were tasty and not watered down, but not worth $12 a piece.

The show featured some horse tricks, where the horses did some fancy gallops and stood on their hind legs and things like that. Then the knight came out and did a skills competition of sorts. They suspended these rings from the ceiling and the knights charged at the rings with their lances to see if they could pick up the ring with the lance. It was amazing how fast the horses gallop. It was pretty tough catching the action with my camera. The combination of the low light and the fast action made it a real challenge. I’ll try to post some photos soon. They did a few other skills like this sort of javelin throw on
Horseback. They had a target setup and each knight, one by one would charge at the target and thrown the spear. The black and white knight did well in the skills competition, but his weaknesses would soon be revealed when he battled other knights.

About an hour into the show the knights begin jousting. That was really neat. It’s pretty insane how hard they hit one another. The falls off the horses were somewhat controlled, but the impact still looked quite hard. The wood tips at the end of the lance splintered into a thousand pieces when they collided. With a shield or armor. The black and white knight did poorly. He got hit the first pass, but stayed on his horse. The 2nd pass, he wasn’t so lucky. He flew off the back of his horse and quickly scrambled to grab a sword. The other knight turned his horse around and quickly struck the black and white knight on his shield. The 2nd knight then jumped off his horse and charged the dazed black and white knight with a mace. CRASH!!!! CRASH!!! CRASH!!!! The black and white knights shield was bent like a U after the pounding he took.

The the other knight eventually all squared off against one another until only one knight was left. The sword fights were really cool. The swords hit so hard as some points sparks flew. I don’t know how the knights and the horses don’t get hurt more often. A few times when they were fighting on horseback it looked like the horses were going to get clobbered by the swords. Eventually one knight remained and the section he represented went nuts.

It was a fun evening and definitely a unique experience. It’s just unfortunate the black and white knight was such a pansy. I recommend Medieval Times to anyone looking for a filling meal with great entertainment.

End of an Era

A few weeks ago, Don & Mike the nationally syndicated talk show hosts who are based here in Virginia were fined without pay for 2 weeks. During that two weeks they aired the "Best of Don and Mike". When Don and Mike came back, they said they were nearly fired and that their show would have to go undergo major changes to meet Infinity Broadcastings new decency standards. In a nutshell they can't talk about sex, or any other bodily functions on their show. So they have to put on a PG rated sort of show.

Today Clearchannel announced that they are suspending Howard Stern indefinitly because of his broadcast on Tuesday. Clearchannel felt the broadcast was indecent. Where does this all stop? Janet Jackson flashes a boob to promote her new line of lingerie and everyone goes crazy.

Talk radio is one my favorite forms of entertainment. I don't think I could deal with 2 hours of traffic a day if it weren't for Stern, Don & Mike and Ron and Fez. I have a feeling Stern being suspended will be the end of the Howard Stern radio show. I hope I"m wrong, but I just don't see Howard bowing to the sponsors and changing the way he's done his show for the past 20 years. I think he'll either come back, push the envelope and wind up getting fired (which means Clearchannel has to pay him the remainder of his contract), or he'll resign.

The sad part about all of this is that Howard is a multi millionaire. He can afford to retire from radio and work on tv and movie projects. But there are lots of people like producers and writers who depend on the income from being on the show. Does Howards show push the envelope? Sure. Is it really harming anyone? Nope. The show entertains millions of people every day. Since when is entertaining people wrong?

Quite a find!!!

I was cleaning up my desk and I found a disposable camera in one of the drawers. All the exposures were used, but we hadn't gotten the film developed. So I dropped it off at Walmart. A few hours later, I go back to pick them up and the guy behind the counter says, "They'll be no charge for you sir. You're an American hero". I looked at him sort of confused for a minute and he just kept smiling at me. So I turned around and walked out without paying. I get home, open up the pictures and what do I see?

Soooo sleepy

I woke up at around 10:15 on sunday morning. Since then I have a total of about 4 hours sleep over the past 46 hours. I'm hoping I can get out of here by 9:00 so I can go home and try to sleep a few hours. I'm at that dangerous point where I'm scared to fall asleep because if I sleep too much during the day, I will have trouble falling asleep tonight.

Last night seemed so promising. I fell asleep around 11:30 and was sleeping soundly when my cell phone rang at 1:15AM. It was John from the NOC, he was infected with a virus and had already spammed several 100 people as a result. He managed to infect 2 workstations, luckily it never infected the servers. So I've been here since around 4AM running manual scans and updating virus definitions.

I hope I can stay awake long enough to make it home. It's days like this I wish I didn't live 30 miles from the office...

Getting Medieval

Here's some photos from our trip to Medieval Times on Saturday. The lighting was kind of difficult, kind of dark and smokey, but I got a few keepers!

http://www.pbase.com/squilky/medieval_times

Worst Album Covers

I found a list of the Worst Album Covers during my lunch break. Here is one of my favorites...

It's just downright creepy!!!

M&R Southpark Style

Inspired by Niel's South Park character, here's Rachel and me if we lived in Southpark.

Super Millionaire

I've always been a huge game show fan. The Game Show Network is one of my favorite channels. When I was a kid, I loved watching Win Lose or Draw, Password, Family Feud, Sale of the Century and numerous other game shows when I was on summer vacation and Christmas break. So when I heard Super Millionaire was coming back, I was pretty excited. But when I heard it was just for a week, I was disapointed.

Tonight was the first installment of SM, and man was it great. Occasionally I've watched the new Millionaire hosted by that woman from the View. It's ok, but she isn't as personable, and doesn't bring out the character in the contestants like Regis does. Regis makes the show so much more interesting. Tonights SM was amazing, better than I remembered. They added two new lifelines, one called 3 Wisemen which was a panel of three people who are trivia type experts and double dip which lets the contestant guess twice at the correct answer. So basically it's a new spin on the 50/50 lifeline. The other neat thing is that you can win up to 10 million dollars. You get to use your first three lifelines on the $1000-$100,000 questions then when you hit the big bucks in excess of $250,000 you can use any of the three lifelines you have left, plus the two new ones. The first contestant on new millionaire won $500,000.

I'm hoping that SM pulls down huge ratings and ABC brings it back on a more regular basis. I think ABC sort of ran the show ragged by putting it on 5 times a week. I would be happy if they ran it once or twice a week. We'll have to see what happens...

The Passion of the Christ

This Mel Gibson movie is causing lots of controversy. Jews say that the movie will set Christian-Jewish relations back 100 years, due to the portrayal of the Jews betraying Jesus in the movie. Noone seems to be able to figure out if the Pope approves of the movie, or if he disapproves. Some say the crucifixion scene is too graphic and drags on for too long. The clips I've seen do look pretty brutal. At one point they show Jesus with the crown of thorns on, bleeding and with one of his eyes swollen shut. Mel Gibson faults Hollywood for trying to stop his movie from coming out. He pointed out that most of the large movie companies are owned and run by Jews. I believe Mel used $30 million of his own money to make the movie. Mel has said that he believes his own wife will go to hell because she's not Catholic.

I've heard that the carrying of the cross, whipping, crown of thorns, nailing to the cross etc takes up about 45 minutes of the movie. It will probably be tough sitting through that much straight brutality. I have a trouble when I see someone in a movie being taken advantage of, beaten, tortured etc, so I would imagine if it really does last that long, it will be tough to handle.


I respect Mel Gibson for feeling so passionately about getting this movie out there. Anytime religion comes into play their will always be controversy. You can give 100 people the same Bible passages and they would come up with 100 different interpretations. One things for sure, the movie will do huge business. Releasing the movie on Ash Wednesday will certainly draw more attention to it. Catholics, well priests anyway have been painted in a pretty poor light lately. I hope Mel interpretation isn't too over the top and fanatical. During his interview with Diane Sawyer, it seemed like he is a bit fanatical.

Whats the deal with Aqua Man?

Riddle me this...

What does Aquaman eat? Does he eat the same fish that she swims among? Does he render them helpless with his super powers and then eat them? Does he eat seaweed? Or does he come on land and eat regular food like chicken and potatoes?

Boobs Baaaad, Molestation OK

Ok, so Janet Jackson showing her breast during the half time show at the Super Bowl was a huge outrage to hundreds of thousands of people. Andrea 2000 of Outcast coming out of a tee-pee, wearing a headband with feathers in it on the Grammy's is offensive to Native Americans. A plastic and rubber dog says French Canadians smell funny and Conan Obrien has to make a public apology on his show. Michael Jackson is accused of molesting a young cancer victim. This is all front page stuff. Rather trivial stuff in the grand scheme of things. Thousands of Cathoic priests molesting children, hmm maybe that should be the focus of people anger and outrage. Janet Jacksons boob, Triumph the Insult comic dog and Outkast get peoples knickers in a bunch, but more people are willing to accept the molestation. Craziness!!!!

Imagine if cooky scientoligists had a molestation scandal going on! People would be outraged, calling for banning the "religion" from being practiced, protests outside of bookstores calling for L. Ron Hubbard books to be burned. How can anyone take the Pope seriously anymore when he talks about the evils of pre-marital sex, birth control and pornography. Watching porn is a sin, but covering up priests molestation alligations is ok. A woman asking her sex partner to wear a condom because she doesnt want an STD is wrong, but taking advantage of young boys is ok. A family being responsible by using birth control so they don't have 30 children is a terrible thing to do, but asking grown men and women to obstain from sex and live a life of poverty is ok. Hmmm hardly seems right.

Welcome to the Jankees

Hmmm wonder how Greg Maddux would look in Yankees pinstripes :-)

Little Groom

Ok, I'm embarred a bit to admit I watched this Fox "special". I didn't see the first 15 minutes or so. I tuned in just as he was handing out flowers to the girls he wanted to keep on the show.

There are a few things I observed about little people

1) It's very difficult to tell their ages just by looking at them. One of the girls had a real old face and she was only 21. One of them had a real young face and was 36.

2) They suck at golf

3) They are terrible dancers

4) Even though they are in their 20's and 30's, every time I saw them kiss I felt like it was little kids making out.

5) They are very touchy feely. A lot of arms around one another, lots of hugs and grabbing.

6) I was strangly attracted to two of them.

7) I cracked up when one of the little people jumped on the bed because she was excited.

8) I'm looking forward to the conclusion next week!!!!

Lost in Translation

I've been hearing all this hype about Lost in Translation. Nominated for Golden Globes, Oscars, critically aclaimed.
So I decided to add it to my rental queue on Netflix. It came in the other day, so we popped it in the DVD player and gave it a watch. Apparantly I lost something in the translation as well. I was very disapointed by the movie. THere wasn't a real strong story there. They seemed to just take random thoughts and ideas and threw them all together. I like Bill Murray a lot, but I couldn't take him seriously as a serious actor. I found it funny that his name was Bob in the movie since What About Bob is one of my favorite BIll Murray movies.

There were a few things that bothered me about the movie.

1) That Bill Murrays character had sex with the loung singer
2) That Bill Murrays character did not have sex with Charlotte
3) That more time wasn't used for dialog between Bob and Charlotte. I felt their dialogues were the best parts of the movie.
4) That we didn't see more of Charlotte, if you know what I mean.
5) That Bob didn't lip the girls stockings.

Definitive Proof

Ok someone at work e-mailed this to me, so I had to post this. I can now say without doubt it's a piercing. I've used arrows to illustrate where the bars connect. Watching it live and without zoom, it looked like a pastie that covered her nipple. Thanks to digital enhancement, we can see that it is indeed a piercing. Man she's all kinds of freaky.

A Break

I've been having troubles coming up with new and exciting stuff to post on my blog, so I may take a few weeks off to collect some thoughts and new ideas. I also want to start working on designing a photo website. There never seems to be enough hours in a day to get all I want to accomplished, so I need to take a break someplace. So if you don't see any new postings on here, don't worry, I'm just taking a break.

Super Boob

This is the clearest picture I've seen of the boob flash. It looks like she has a chinese throwing star through her nipple. That can't be comfortable. I wonder how many times they practiced that rip off the patch move.

I would much have preferred if Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, or a young, hot, naked Hillary Duff did that move during half time.

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Oh and focussing back to what's important, I think Mike Vrabel was robbed. No way Tom Brady earned that MVP of the Super Bowl title. Mike Vrabel had 2 big sacks and scored a touchdown despite being a defensive player (outside linebacker). Tom Brady is just a pretty boy that will look good in commercials. Bah!!!!