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Friday, August 31, 2007

I had snoo-snoo

I'm amazed and kind of disappointed that this one didn't get more responses from people. My personal vote goes to Futurama and the Planet of the Amazon women referring to sex as snoo-snoo and allowing Zap Brannigan to utter the title above.

Tonight's question: All time number one black actor and actress?

Yesterday's: I've gotta give it to O-Train

So many possibilities...

I have to take this one again from the great American poet Jimmy Pop who said, "power drill the yippee bog with the dude piston." It's graphic, yet funny, and downright creative.

Break it down: the female genitalia has now become the "yippee bog," the male genitalia is appropriately the "dude piston," and the entire act is that of a "power drill." It's a perfect euphemism.

Also receiving votes:
"pressure-wash the quiver bone in the bitch wrinkle"
"cattle prod the oyster ditch with the lap rocket"

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Yesterday's question stands for another night, because there should really be more posts than there already are. Although the answers we already have are amazing.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

from books to sex

The only right answer was of course "The Dead" it's the last story in Dubliners. Oh well. Screw you guys...I'm going home.

Tonight's Question:
What is the best euphemism for sex?

Monday, August 27, 2007

DQD is Moving to Dublin

Not sure whether I'm feeling intellectual or drunk, but what is the best story in Joyce's Dubliners?

Yesterday's: I'm going with a little three way here today, I'm sure Becca won't mind and I don't think O-Train or Cardamone will either. The real winners tonight, are the Irish, for blessing the world with Guinness. If you're ever anywhere where they serve "Guinness Extra Cold" do it, it's amazing. That said, I have to give a nod to Peroni because it is, after-all, la birra dei campioni. Also, Michelle, I love you for quoting south park, but you should have held onto that quotation because Michelob is a domestic beer.

Nick said...

Guinness. Better taste, great stoutness, black as hell. Watching the cascade of a pint of Guinness gets you all riled up to taste it, and then when your lips actually touch it, it doesn't disappoint in the least.

Plus, add to it that Guinness uses raw meat to add that special little bite, and you have what may be the perfect beer, period.

The only people who don't like Guinness are pussies and girls.

August 26, 2007 10:51 PM

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Becca said...

Screw you, Nick.

1) I'm a girl and I love Guinness.
2) You stole my answer.

Bitch.

August 26, 2007 11:37 PM

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O-Train said...

Guinness.

The original "meal in a can."

True story: I have a buddy in the Marines who once spent 2 days living off nothing but Guinness.

August 27, 2007 8:42 AM

Sunday, August 26, 2007

beer

Best Non-domestic beer?

Yesterdays: Fuck England. I give it to Phoebs with nods to O-Train and Michelle. Nick didn't really answer the question, but he gets a quick mention for pointing out yet another area where Wops prove their superiority over wasps.

Phoebe:
Coffee, coffee, coffee.

I could go into why I personally like it, but no one wants to read that. Plus Ray wouldn't give it to me on that argument alone.

Tea is bullshit and to drink it is un-American. The revolution and birth of our country is epitomized in that little event in Boston a few years ago when pissed off poor people said "FUCK YO TEA YOU RICH MOTHA FUCKAHS" and dumped it all in the hah-bah. If you support tea, you support colonialism and tyranny and bad teeth.

So why should you drink coffee?

Because we all secretly want to be the swank Italiano/a, sipping on the world's finest espresso while zipping through the piazzas on a new Vespa, pointing at hotties, feigning interest in the scenery, and, to the awed tourists along the way, breathing out a calm "ciaoooo."

Tea or coffee?
Nay.
England or Italy?

And the only answer is a World Cup of joe.

O-Train:
Coffee. Black.

Or with whiskey. Or Baileys. Or most any other alcohol.

Michelle:
Coffee... without question. Nothing like a morning poop to start the day right. Coffee makes that possible... or at least speeds up the process. I am a total bitch without coffee and I hate everyone. I consider coffee a cheap version of Prozac without the sexual side effects.

Friday, August 24, 2007

morning beverages

Coffee or tea?

Yesterday's: I gotta give it to Becca again and to get a guys opinion in there, i'm going to give a pity honorable mention to Cardamone for making me feel bad about just how much sex he wasn't having in high school.

Becca:
I consider myself somewhat of an expert on this subject, since I see half-naked athletes every single day. (Have I mentioned that I love my work?)

Most of you would expect me to say that hockey players are the hottest, but they're not. Among male athletes, swimmers are have the absolute hottest bodies. Chiseled to PERFECTION. Abs, back, arms, ass...it's all beautiful.

The hottest female athletes are volleyball players. They're tall and have great legs and killer asses.

The best thing about swimmers and volleyball players being the hottest is that they usually don't have the egos that the athletes from the bigger sports have.

(Sidenote: The football team we were playing against last night had a defensive lineman that was 5'11" and 340 lbs. No joke.)

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Chef, how do you make a girl like you more than any other guy?

What sport, in general, has the hottest athletes? Feel free to comment on on men's and women's sports if you have different answers.

Yesterdays: Oh that's easy. You just gotta find the clitoris. Becca wins.

Becca:
Chef!

Even though he got lame at the end and wanted to have sex with children, he always gave good advice up to that point. Also...

I love his chocolate salted balls.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

M-Kay

Here's a fun one:

Who is the best adult on South Park?

Yesterday's: Fuck you guys for being awesome and making this really hard for me. I guess it's not your fault so much as Tim Burton's. Can I just declare him the winner? Due to my own personal biases I'm going to go with O-Train, runner-ups to Nicole and Nick because they were all good.

O-Train:
As much as I love Edward Scissorhands, it'll be my honorable mention today.

Big Fish is a magical story based around a father-son conflict and wrapped in a world that straddles fantasy and reality. If you've read the book, you'll realize just how far beyond Tim Burton took this movie, as Daniel Wallace's novel only brushed many aspects of the film. There's times in the movie where you can see Burton letting his imagination run wild. Visually it can be stunning as it tells the story of a man trying to come to grips with the stories his father told him and trying to determine what's real and what's not. The ending is fantastic, and almost every girl was crying in the theater when the lights went up.

Also receiving votes:
-- Beetlejuice ("Nice fuckin' model!")
-- Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Nicole:
Hands down, Edward Scissorhands. (Yes, the pun was intended.) Burton both directed and cowrote this beautiful, haunting film. I always like movies which ask you to suspend your disbelief, and in doing so you totally believe what they are telling you. (I am a Vonnegut fan, after all). Such is the case with this movie. Johnny Depp is awesome as the title character, the cinematography is interesting, flawless, and beautiful (think: Winona Ryder twirling in the snow), and the story itself has a heart, complete with themes of alienation, infatuation, acceptance, and love.

Nick:
I instantly change my vote, however, because Mars Attacks is his best, while Big Fish is a close second.

Jack Nicholson as the president and his wife, a crazy Glenn Close. Rod Steiger as the crazy general. Michael J. Fox as weirder Stephanopolous. Pierce Brosnan, Annette Bening, Martin Short, Natalie Portman (looking very tasty to my then 15 year old self...I didn't realize then that her tits would never ever grow, which has always disappointed me about her) Jim Fucking Brown, the greatest football player ever, as a badass ex-boxer. Jack Black as a man named Billy Glenn and of course, topping it all, Tom Jones singing It's Not Unusual.

Absurd movie, with crazy bloodthirsty martians. My favorite part comes when the martians are holding up the device that translates their language into English. As the device says 'Don't run, we are your friends," the martian holding said device is toasting some poor soul.

The absurdity of the solution (playing Slim Whitman records that explode the martians' heads) is so brilliant, I won't even take away points for putting that ugly, unfunny hag Sarah Jessica Parker in the movie.

(I can't believe I co-signed Big Fish before I remembered this...I knew I was forgetting something brilliant that I absolutely loved.)

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

I'm feeling kinda simple tonight:

Best Tim Burton movie?

Things to consider: I'll allow any major degree of involvement by Burton (Directed, Produced or written) but not like "uncredited animation department for TRON." If you say the 2001 Planet of the Apes remake, I might never speak to you again.

Yesterday's answer: I'm sorry, the only correct answer was "yes, yes it is" or something to that effect. Kudos to you two for seeing an awesome movie, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone else by posting your responses.

Monday, August 20, 2007

In the words of Jon Goldberg

Will Superbad be our generation's Citizen Kane?

Yesterday's: Every ounce of my being is telling me to say Greenday's "FOD" and declare myself the winner (if for no other reason than the line "I'm taking pride in telling you to fuck off and die" and that's definitely not the only reason). So that's what I'm going to do, but I'll give an honorable mention to O-Train.

O-Train:

Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"

Dylan, ever the artful storyteller, sings a song in the first person about a man who is just plain fed up with his woman's bullshit. It was once described as, "the last word in a long, embittered argument, a paper-thin consolation sung with spite."

The song begins with him saying that he'll be gone by morning, and there's no use wondering why if she doesn't know by now because "it'll never do somehow."

He describes a miserable relationship in lines like:
"But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say,
To try and make me change my mind and stay,
We never did too much talkin' anyway,
But don't think twice, it's all right."

He also shows the woman is shown to be a bitch in lines like,
"I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin', walkin' down the road,
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told,
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul."

The song ends with some of the most perfect lyrics:
"So long, honey, babe,
Where I'm bound, I can't tell.
Goodbye's too good a word, babe,
So I'll just say fare thee well.
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind,
You coulda done better but I don't mind,
You just kinda wasted my precious time"

The man is reconciling the relationship that he deems a "waste of time" by picking up and leaving before morning. Troughout the fingerpicking, Dylan maintains the same volume and tone. What's perfect about this song is that he doesn't need to scream and yell about it as his words are genuine in describing his feelings in an almost chilling way.

This song has also been covered several times. My favorite is by Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness, whose gravelly voice seems to add a little more misery than Dylan.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

One more in the music category

Specially requested, let's get away from misinterpreted and go straight to just a flat out fuck you song. What is the all time number one fuck-off tune? I've already got my vote.

Yesterday's: I've gotta give it to Nick. I can't think of another song as consistently misinterpreted as betterman

Nick:
Pearl Jam - Better Man
It's funny, because Ed sings this in a manner that sounds tender and loving, and people treat it as if it's some kind of loving song, like 'can't find a better man' means 'you couldn't find a better guy.'

But just look at the lyrics
'waiting, watching the clock
it's 4 o'clock, it's got to stop
tell him, take no more
she practices her speech
as he opens the door, she rolls over
pretends to sleep as he looks her over.'

Then the second verse
'talking, to herself there's no one else
who needs to know, she tells herself'

'she love him
she don't want to leave this way
she needs him
that's why she'll be back again'

This is a women who's been horrendously scarred by an abusive relationship. She's basically blaming himself for the beatings she's taken at this man's hands, but she doesn't know what she can do, because she doesn't think she can find a 'better man.' The nature of domestic violence is such that the woman often blames herself and can't bring herself to leave. This song is about that. It's a heartbreaking song, yet it may have been Pearl Jam's second biggest radio song other than Last Kiss.


Two days ago: O-Train
"Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" -- Bloodhound Gang

While this song is end-on-end sexual innuendos, it's clear that Jimmy Pop truly has deep down feelings for someone special, and the song is really just his way of conveying his intentions. He just finds a creative way of saying so:

"Vulcanize the whoopee stick in the ham wallet,
Cattle prod the oyster ditch with the lap rocket,
Batter dip the cranny ax in the gut locker,
Retrofit the pudding hatch (ooh la la) with the boink swatter."

He goes on to say that he "doesn't want to beat around the bush" and continues after the chorus with:

"Marinate the nether rod in the squish mitten,
Power drill the yippee bog with the dude piston,
Pressure wash the quiver bone in the bitch wrinkle,
Cannonball the fiddle cove (ooh la la)with the pork steeple."

Jimmy's dedication to finding new and alternative ways to describe a single act clearly show how smitten he is, and how his heart yearns for her affection.

Honorable Mention:
Dave Chappelle (as R. Kelly) -- "Piss On You"

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Out of town again

For lack of a better question and because I am once again out of town for the weekend, let's go with the opposite question...What is the best song that sounds like a touching love song, everything about it, the music, the vocals, the flow, but is in fact a giant fuck you?

I'll take care of winners for this and the last one when I get back to NY again tomorrow, I promise.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Nobody's a Tiramisu fan?

I can't believe nobody said tiramisu. Really? Surprising. A few quick matters of business: Martina, I actually do enjoy Modern Art quite a bit, just not Pollack and I'm glad you agree about him. Cardamone, fuck you and the Pats. O-Train, fuck the Yankees, but may Phil Rizzuto rest in peace. Michelle, cheese fries totally would have won if the question was drunk foods, or at least come in second behind pizza.

Today's question:

What is the all-time best unexpected love song? A song that you would never pick as a love song until one day for some reason you listened to the lyrics and went, "Oh my god, this is a love song?"

Yesterday's: O-Train and Nicole both made my mouth water, I've gotta give it to the two of them with a remarkably self-indulgent nod to Matty.

O-Train:
Bourbon Shrimp Flambe.

I've been making this recipe for years. The main ingredients are 1 lb shrimp, heavy cream, bourbon, butter and tomato paste. After cooking the shrimp in the butter, you add the bourbon and set it on fire. Any 100+ proof bourbon makes this lots of fun. Remove the shrimp, then reduce the cream and tomato paste until it's a really thick sauce. Add shrimp, lemon juice, and chives, and serve over wild rice or jasmine rice. Works even better if you drink bourbon while cooking this.

Nicole:
And to answer today's question: I once had this butterscotch brandy french toast at brunch that was orgasmic. I think it was at the fireplace in Brookline. It was amazing. Lick-your-sticky-fingers good. It doesn't matter what I write anyway, it's not like you're gonna pick it - you snob! ;)

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

On a much MUCH lighter note...Beerios!

As I sit here enjoying a delicious dinner of Yuengling Chicken (for those of you not from the north east, it's kind of like Guinness Beef stew, except way lazier and less involved), I can't help but ask you all:

What is the best alcohol imbued dish known to man?

Yesterday's: Wow, you guys got really serious on me. I expected some offensive answers, but like funny offensive...shit. Alrite, here's my logic for this one. Nicole, there's already a long list of things that I'll probably go to hell for, I'm not adding calling Jesus overrated to that list, so you're right out. Cardamone, although you're right, way too serious for me right now. Martina, correct me if I'm wrong, but The Mona Lisa was in the Louvre before Dan Brown wrote that Novel right? People have thought he's a genius for a long time and there are so many more overrated artists you could have gone with (see Jackson Pollack, possibly the most overrated hack since the invention of paint, I'd take a cave drawing any day to his "look at me look at me I'm dripping paint, i have no control over my medium" approach. If you have no control over your medium, it just means you're a shitty artist. Fuck him. He gets my vote.) Which leaves two runners-up and a new champion. Runner-ups to O-Train and (surprisingly because she picked a wop) Becca. Matty is today's champ, though.

Matty:
Susan B. Anthony. Women aren't smart enough to vote or run for president. That crazy floozy started all this nonsense about equal rights for men and women when we all know that women have a brain 1/3 the size of a man's. It's science. Because of Susan B Anthony we have those stupid crappy silver dollars which are way less convenient than a bill and men have to worry about things like "sexual harassment." It's really inconvenient and makes the work place much less fun. Good thing that glass ceiling is holding up well.

O-Train:
Sacagawea.

I not 100% sure what she's famous for, but she didn't deserve a gold coin.

Becca:
Christopher Columbus. Dumbass didn't even find the right continent. Asshat.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Continuing intellectualism

Who is the most overrated historical figure?

Things to consider: No one is off limits.

Yesterdays: So wait, Mike Tyson referencing Alexander is an argument in favor of Alexander? Alex may have nibbled on a few different men's ears, but at least he never bit one clean off. Since there can be only one greatest emperor, I've gotta give the win to the Tiger Woods of DQD...Congrats Nick.

Nick:
I'm gonna go with Caesar. Napolean was a French Midget, so that really just makes him a caricature, despite his obvious skill in war. Meanwhile, it's not so much that Alexander was gay that's an issue, but the fact that eventually, Colin Farrell was deemed the best choice to play him in a movie. Farrell hasn't done a movie of relevance since he did Tigerland...maybe Minority Report.

Caesar has a couple obvious things going for him. He's Italian, which ups his badass quotient quite a bit. The Roman empire was a hugely influential empire, and I think we see a little more of that today. I mean shit, even Latin still has relevance, just look at all of its roots in our language.

Shakespeare also felt a need to take time out from writing about pussy Englishmen to write an account of Caesar's fall.

Plus, Caesar took about forty stab wounds to be killed. The man was gangsta, and he went out as such.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Something different

Tonight I think we'll turn our eye toward history.

Who was the biggest badass: Napoleon, Julius Caesar, or Alexander the Great?

Yesterday's winners: I should have made yesterday's question a top 5. My 5 would have been (in no particular order) Secret Window, Stand by Me (the first R-rated movie I ever saw, plus it has Jack Bauer in it), Shawshank Redemption, The Shining and Green Mile. As things stand though, I've gotta call it a tie between O-Train and Nick. Both movies had unbelievable casts, ecxcellent writing and both nick and adam make strong cases.

O-Train
As with Nick, there are two choices for me. Since Stand By Me was already chosen, it's my Honorable Mention, giving the trophy to The Shawshank Redemption.

The Shawshank Redemption was based on King's short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." Every time it's on TNT, no matter how far along the movie is, I have to stop and watch.

Andy Dufresne, a good guy who gets tagged for a double murder he didn't commit, is sent to Shawshank Prison where he's outcast, beaten, and raped. Only after some time does he make friends, take a chance by doing the taxes for the Captain of the guards, and changes start to happen around him.

Two of the most outstanding scenes are when Andy convinces the guard to get beer for the crew while tarring the roof, and when Andy plays the opera through the PA system throughout the prison yard. The roof scene, in particular, shows us Andy's true character, when Haywood asks, "You want a cold one, Andy?" and he replies, "No thanks. I gave up drinking."

We feel for Andy Dufresne, as the nice guy who is paying for another man's crime. When vindication appears in the form of a young inmate named Tommy, it's quickly stripped away by Warden Samuel Norton. Andy has had enough. After 20 years, he makes his escape. And again, the viewer feels for him. And the entire story is told through the eyes of another inmate, who happens to be the only inmate that will actually admit to his crime.

As with Stand By Me, the writing is outstanding with more than a few memorable lines:

-- "Get busy living, or get busy dying."
-- "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
-- "Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side."

But perhaps the best narrative of that movie is when Red says, "I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend." I think everyone has felt that way about someone in their lives.

The movie ends just as it should, giving hope to the hopeless, and showing the triumph of the human spirit.


Nick
There are really only two choices for me, but I'll only say one, to try and even things out for the plebes and such.

I'm gonna go with Stand By Me. Four friends, all of whom are damaged in some manner, at the age of 12 go searching for the body of a young boy killed by a train. They tell stories, support each other (Especially Chris and Gordie) and they even reference my cousin (Annette Funicello).

River Phoenix was phenomenal as Chris Chambers, a kid whose Dad is a loser, his brother is a loser and he thinks that's where it inevitably ends for him. Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell were all fantastic as the other three boys, while Kiefer Sutherland and John Cusack were awesome in supporting roles.

There are a few lines especially that I just think are absolutely perfect.

Ace: 'You gonna kill us all LaChance?'

Gordie: 'No Ace, Just you.'

And then the final line of the thing, because it's so goddamned pitch perfect.

'I never had any friends like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?'

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Regarding Nick's Continued Dominance

Nick has been tearing it up lately, as a result everybody has a homework assignment for this week: find one or two of your friends and get them to start posting. Not to take anything away from Nick because his answers have just been that good lately, but some fresh blood never hurts either.

Ok that said: What is the best movie based on a piece of writing by Stephen King (because God knows there's been enough of them)?

Yesterdays: Really, nobody went for Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby for yesterday's question? He's a tie for first for me along with Umeed "Rai" Merchant from Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet (That one I wouldn't necessarily have expected to see anyone come up with but Carraway I thought I'd see). Anyway, I give it to Nick (because the narrative style in that book is unbelievable) and Nicole (for basically the same reason). Honorable mention to Martina for Holden.

Nick:
I love the four-way narrative (Maureen, Martin, JJ and Jess) of Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down. It captures the desperation they feel when they meet and also allows you to have different views of the events of the book all while getting them froma first-person perspective.


Nicole:
I'd say for contemporary literature it's Dave Eggers' "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," if not for his title alone, then for his brazen, hilarious look at his own slice of life characterized against the setting of the early 90s. I guess that's technically a memoir.. So my fictional entry would have to be Charlie from Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." Perhaps the Holden Caulfield of our generation (as he has been referred), Charlie is the awkward, introspective kid in us all. And what better narrator, than the character who utters (or in this case writes) the words "It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book."

Friday, August 10, 2007

So hard to pick just one

I'm feeling intellectual again today, Who is the all-time best First person narrator in the history of literature?

Things to consider: I'm not looking for an author who writes really well when writing a first person narrator, I want the character. The narrator of the story itself. (This is way more intellectual than when I asked you all which Shakespeare character you wanted to bang.)

Yesterdays: The Cardamone strikes again (That's right, he's been that good lately that he's earned the right to have the definite article attached to his name). I'm going to go ahead and throw in my own votes for, in no particular order, my top 5 (some of them have already been mentioned) High Fidelity, The Princess Bride, Almost Famous, Better Off Dead, and Finding Nemo.

Nick:
I'm gonna go with Almost Famous. (Cameron Crowe is like the king of movies that work for this, however...Say Anything would be a damn good answer too)

It's got an incredible love story, in which neither guy really gets the girl. The music is awesome, it has incredibly poignant moments.

First time I saw it, it was with a friend from home and some of her new friends like the first two weeks of my freshman year. We get out, and I was damn near choked up I loved it so much. Meanwhile, one of the other guys who was with us just said, 'that wasn't that good, just another movie about a dork.'

I mean, the fact that he's a guy, and I'm not into that, kind of precludes me from further canceling him off the list of people I'd ever want to spend time with. But if I watched that movie with a girl I was interested in (instead of with JayBruzz or Joe), and she reacted like that...it is probably the least attractive thing a girl could do.

How could anyone with a heart dislike that movie?


(On a side note and completely unrelated, has anyone seen the commercial where this evil cunt tells her guy he has to get rid of his record collection, and he in turn converts it all to MP3 form. Some bitch tells me something like that, I'm hitting her with a stack of like 20 records when she gets back, draggin her out the house and throwing all of her possessions out with her. I can't think of a more insulting notion)

I have seen it Nick, and I couldn't agree with you more.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Somewhere betweeen Sappy and Schwarchenegger

What is the All-time best movie to watch with a member of the opposite sex that your interested in/significant other?

Things to consider: 1. It should be appealing to both parties. 2. I don't care if you got some during Terminator 3, it's still not going to win. 3. I don't care how much he said he liked Sweet Home Alabama...he didn't. When he stuck his face in the popcorn, he wasn't hungry, he was hoping he'd suffocate.

Yesterdays: You had me at Beta Band

Nick:
I guess this is one of those times my musical taste kinda doesn't work for me, because if I love a song, I can listen to it anytime, anywhere (thus my awesome party selections when I get ahold of the stereo)

I'm gonna go with some softer stuff in this case, a little less aggressive than I often like it. Some uplifting, some depressing.

1. The Beta Band - Dry the Rain - 'I will now sell five copies...' Fucking great song, lifts you up at the end.

2. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows - Beautiful song. Brian Wilson is the man.

3. The Beatles - For No One - may be the best heartbreak song ever written

4. Pearl Jam - Given to Fly - "a wave came crashin like a fist to the jaw/ delivered him wings, 'Hey look at me now'/Arms wide open with the sea as his floor/ Oh, power, oh ohhhh/ He's.. flying.....whole "

5. Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down - Because I like thinking about whores once I'm done with work.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

High Fidelity the Musical is like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

insofar as I simply refuse to believe that it ever happened.

Today's question: All time top 5 songs to listen to alone on your couch after a long day at work?

Yesterday's: Bonus points to Matty for an amazing High Fidelity reference but a minor deduction for using the word esoteric which is itself an awesome example of an esoteric word, points deducted from Nicole for bringing up the musical (because apparently we're now on a point system for DQD, who knew?). I've gotta give it to Becca because she covered everything in her answer. It was actually a complete answer. Well done. Honorable Mention to O-Train who would have tied Becca had he not started his post "Fuck Sudoku" because I happen to enjoy it after I finish the crossword.

Becca:
Each has its own merits and faults. I love Sudoku, but I hate when people say, "I don't like Sudoku...I'm no good at math." No math involved, genius.
As for crossword puzzles, a lot depends on your range and depth of knowledge. I may not know the name of any politician, but I can give you seven different synonyms for "odor."
All in all, I'm going to go for crosswords, because I feel way smarter when I finish one.

O-Train:
Fuck Sudoku. Crosswords are great at expanding your vocabulary and stimulating thought. Plus, crossword puzzles got me through several shitty classes at BU, like Chinese history and archaeology.

Well, crossword puzzles and Baileys in my coffee...

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

time killers

Sudoku or the Crossword Puzzle?

Yesterday's winner: Nick, you're the guy, slow and steady or fast and furious, you always win, it's just the poor poor girl you're with who's the big, unsatisfied loser. I had three responses today, you're all winners in my book.

Nick said...

I've tried slow and steady...I've tried fast and furious.

I lose either way.

So fuck the race.

August 6, 2007 10:23 PM

O-Train said...

I can't compete with Cardamone, but slow and steady is a crock of shit.

August 7, 2007 12:15 PM

Michelle said...

While my initial choice would be a "move it or lose it" approach, I also believe that patience is key and with time good things will happen. However, my cynical side (the side that usually prevails) says that it doesn't matter which approach you take to win, because in reality, we're all a bunch of losers.

August 7, 2007 3:56 PM

Monday, August 6, 2007

When did everyone hop on the "fuck Team America Bandwagon?"

Really, nobody went for "America: Fuck Yea"?

Does slow and steady really win the race? Or is that just a crock-o'-shit that our parents feed us to keep us from knocking over lamps and having to go to the hospital for stitches?


Yesterday's: Was it ever even a question for this one? O-train with an honorable mention to Tati for the Dickies' theme song to "Killer Klowns from Outer Space"

O-Train
The Godfather Waltz. Nino Rota's classic score is chilling while evoking an old-world charm. The first few notes are instantly recognizable, and brilliance is in its simplicity as it gradually builds from the dark, slow, almost murky origins, slowly bringing other instruments into the score as it builds up steam. The song is simply a classic.

Honorable Mention:
-- The John Williams "Exacta": Star Wars and Indiana Jones -- Both classic, readily recognizable tunes
-- "Gonna Fly Now" -- Rocky Theme -- The great motivator of all movie theme songs.

-- "Top Gun Anthem" -- Just because I can...


Tati:
killer klowns.
it's danger boy's theme song.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Dove' la vittoria?

Two things dude: First off, the best national anthem is Fratelli d'Italia. Secondly, Celine Dion was not in Titanic, she just did the theme song, Kate Winslet (a brit) was in the movie and if I remember right she was the one who let go of Leo (although that part I'm not as sure of).

What is the all time best original theme song for a movie? It doesn't necessarily have to be a "theme" song provided it's original and you can make a good argument.

Yesterday's winner: I'm feeling very literal today. I've got to give it to Michelle as far as shit that comes from Canada.

Michelle:
The geese.... they shit all over the place

Friday, August 3, 2007

BLAME CANADA

The song blame Canada was in fact nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and was performed at the academy awards by none other than Robin Williams. They lost to Phil fucking Collins' 'You'll be in my Heart' from Tarzan, then promptly turned around and ripped Phil Collins a new asshole in the third episode of Season 4, just three weeks later in Timmy's very first episode (Collins is shown repeatedly waving his academy award statue around while professing his own musical genius) Oh and in case you didn't guess it already, South Park was the big winner today. But more on that later.

First, today's question: What is the worst thing to ever come out of Canada?

Yesterday's Winner: Matty. Like I said, I've gotta give it to Southpark (Matty, Martina, Michelle) with a definite nod to Cardamone's Jack Ass response. I feel like the Fugitive TV series and Movie were too far apart to really say that the TV show spawned the movie, it was more a case of revisiting and I make a distinction there that I probably should have made more clearly in the question, but oh well. By that rationale you could include The Saint with Val Kilmer, or Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise in this category and I just don't think I'm ready to do that. Same thing for including Wayne's World, All of a sudden A Night at the Roxbury is elligible for consideration and I'm just not OK with that either. Plus South Park just kinda kicks the crap out of everything else...I'm sorry. I can't help myself. That movie movie has warped my fragile little mind.

Matty:

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Saddam and Satan and they plan world domination. Terrance and Phillip in trouble for making kids swear. War with Canada. Vive la resistance. The songs are amazing, the characters are brilliant, the plot is genius. What more can you ask for? It's an amazing movie and an groundbreaking show that makes me proud to have graduated from the same high school as Matt and Trey. Ray, when choosing the best answer to today's question, ask yourself, "What would Brian Boitano do?"

drunken buffoon posing as a poet

You know what I love about that line Nick, the fact that the actor who uttered it would later portray Truman Capote, who probably could have made the list for famous alkies as well.

I just saw Simpsons tonight, enjoyed it a great deal, but for tonight I want to know, what was the all-time best movie to come from a TV show?

Things to consider: Answers should be based first on the quality of the movie, then the quality of the TV show and not vice versa.

Yesterday's: Here's my reasoning. A solid argument from O-Train for the Mint Julep, but there's something very Gatsby about that drink, and I love all things Gatsby. Plus, I don't feel like it's common enough to really be all that pretentious. Martini was the most popular answer with Good arguments all around, but I've gotta give it to Nicole with an honorable mention to Nick for really embodying the spirit of the question and offering the most pretentious answer (that always gets bonus points from me).

Nicole:
The most pretentious drink I can think of is Courvoisier on the rocks or Cristal. Nothing says "nouveau riche rapper" or "white frat boy trying to be black" more than these drinks. (Interesting fact: Truman Capote was a huge Cristal fan, also a big fag, and wrote about it in "Answered Prayers." And Napoleon is said to have loooved the Courvoisier. But I digress.)

After that it's a tie between a gimlet (four parts gin and one part lime juice) and a sidecar (equal parts brandy, Cointreau, and lemon juice.) These drinks, however, have more of an "old money, smoking cigars while wearing loafers and counting your $100s" effect.


Nick:
Jack and coke

Because then your trying to be like me, and frankly, you just can't pull it off.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

I love scotch

Let's stick with the drinking category:

What is the most pretentious drink a person can order at the bar?

Yesterday's: If you posted, you're a winner (except for Matty). Here's my (lit heavy) list:

F. Scott Fitzgerald - This man is part of the reason why "we're going to drink like it's prohibition" is a viable phrase.

E. A. Poe - duh

Jim Morrison - Mr Mojo Risin...also duh

Van Gogh - A fan of the Green Fairy

Stephen Crane