How the mighty have fallen

I would like to take this moment to tell all of my readers something that is of vital importance. DO NOT ever make derogatory remarks about the Jewish Faith. A quick jab can be laughed off no big deal if it's in jest, however, if you make your jab and then continue to rant about how they own all of Hollywood and then follow that by making a movie that's basically a "snuff" film where they kill Jesus for over an hour people may get the idea that your an anti-semite. As an anti-semite you run the possibility of the Jewish community avoiding to help produce anything that you are affiliated with in essentially ending your career. Look at Mr. Gibson for example, he made "Braveheart" for Chris's sake, now instead of Going to the Oscar's he's making parody films with Jimmy Kimmel (though to Jimmy's credit he's underrated).

Mel does have a movie coming out next year, though that is 3 years now After he directed "Apocalypto". Now I'm going to say that if this movie fails his career may not recover. Though that's no big since he can go back to swimming in his fortune from "The Passion" .

I have to return some video tapes - American Psycho - The best Christian Bale movie of all time.

Look - Their is no way Christian Bale would be where he is now if it hadn’t been for American Psycho. I know, I know he was in Empire of the Sun but it wasn’t until he was in American Psycho that his popularity soared. Oh I guess it could have been Newsies, or Swing Kids (not a bad movie - I watched this is Junior High) or I know it was a Midsummer Nights Dream that did it. I guess it may have been the role of Demetrius that really did it for some of you.
For the rest of us it was American Psycho that made him the person he is today. Leading actor, Blockbuster star, and just the best person to play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. No one could have played that role any better. The books description is exactly what Christian Bale looks like. The book is great and the movie is even better.
Anybody not convinced should A. Read the book or B. Watch the movie.

Oh by the way, you'll have to excuse me. I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at the Four Seasons in 20 minutes.


MM

Podcasts

Wow, yesterday was a big day for podcasts. You had Adam Carolla's inaugural podcast as well as the availabiltiy of my own podcast now available on itunes. That's right folks, if you don't have an hour to sit at your desk and listen to my voice for an hour and a half you can now just download the podcast from itunes. Just do a search for "Modern Jackassery" and it will surprisingly be the only result there.

In regards to the other show now podcasting Adam Carollas's new show is great. Just an intimate kind of show where it's just him talking and discussing how the terrestrial radio business was failing. All in all a very sober and interesting show. This mornings show was him talking to his old "Loveline" cronie Dr. Drew which was pretty interesting. Needless to say that this show has already made it into my routine and am excited for what he does with it.

By the way Alf is a jerk!

Upon watching TV one Wednesday night I came across WGN which was showing re-runs of Alf. Remember the late 80’s TV show about the alien that crash lands in The Tanners garage in all of places Riverside, California. Too bad he didn’t land about 45 miles west in Compton so we didn’t have to be exposed to this crap. Now when I was a kid watching this I thought the show was really funny but now after watching the re-runs I find that Alf is a total jerk. This middle class family takes him in, hides him from the government and that nosey neighbor (who happens to play later in TV life Jerry Seinfeld’s mom on Seinfeld) and what do they get in return from Alf? Nothing! The amount of bullshit they put up with is incredible. This Alf guy which by the way is not his real name but an acronym - Alien Life Form, is a real slob. He eats all the food, makes a mess of their home, tries to eat the family cat and puts the family in even more hardships all to protect this S.O.B. The first episode I saw during this re-run time was about how the Tanners daughter could not go to college because this bastard costs too much in up keep. So what does this jackass do? He starts taking jobs but because he is alien he can’t do them so the mom and dad of the series have to get involved and do the stupid jobs on top of their other shitty jobs they already have. Alf is a complete asshole in the show and how this was ever on for 4 years is beyond me.
So I took it upon my self to do some research about the show and see if maybe the show was so fun to work on and the chemistry was so right or that it was a cheap show to produce….. Something to why NBC served us this refried vomit of a show. Nothing could be found only anger and resentment was had. A half hour show would take 20 – 25 hours to shoot because of always hiding the puppet ALF. Trapdoors were used and the actors would always have to work around the little bastard. On the series finale no celebrating happened because no one enjoyed the show. In fact after the final scene was done the actor who played the dad (Max Wright) walked off the set and drove away. This just shows how bad this thing really was.
A great ending would have been the entire Tanner family curb stomping this little bastard. Now what a finale that would have been.

MM

I should clarify this

I need to explain that IN NO WAY DO I SUPPORT THE ABUSE OF WOMEN. I do however occasionally find myself in circumstances where I understand wanting to abuse someone. So when I am talking about Rihanna I'm saying that if she had given me herpes I would simply want to beat the hell out of her though I obviously wouldn't raise a fist. In this case Chris Brown is clearly in the wrong, people should never react violently no matter what the reason is. That being said I hope I haven't created too wide of a schism with my prison readership.

Finally. The full version of Episode 2

Runnin Rebel Fever

One of the things I really wanted to talk about during my tenure here on modern jackassery was the best College Basketball team of all time.

The 1990 UNLV Running Rebels.

The team that had future NBA stars Larry Johnson, Greg Anthony, and Stacy Augmon playing as professionals in a college game. This team had it all in them, 3 pointers from way out. Sky high dunks that make NBA Jam dunks look like junior ball. Oh and the sheer domination of every opponent they ever faced. The NCAA Tournament made all other teams they faced look like high school teams.

First Round – UNLV 102 – Arkansas – Little Rock 72
Second Round – UNLV 76 – Ohio State 65
Regional Semifinals – UNLV 69 – Ball State 67
Regional Finals – UNLV 131 – Loyola Marymount 101
National Semifinals – UNLV 90 – Georgia Tech 81
Championship Game UNLV 103 – Duke 73

The Championship game is still the largest victory in any championship game in any sport. So it is time to pay tribute to this team that dominated basketball by watching the above video that has highlights all season.

MM