in an effort not to jinx anything.
What appears, on paper anyway, to be my dream job was recently posted. I am usually a very pessimistic person, but I am pretty sure that I have a good chance at it. Two high powered people (including one with bridges and buildings named after him) have made calls on my behalf.
It may turn out to be nothing. I haven't received a phone call about it yet because the process is in the early phase of candidate selection. I have a good feeling about it though. On paper, I'm a perfect fit.
If anything happens with it, you will get e-mails....as this is the kind of job that will be the hometown paper would report in its little accomplishments section and comes with a really good benefits package. We may have to add a new tag to the blog.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Oh my
Friday, August 28, 2009
I have to say....
This pains me greatly...
but I have to apologize to the producers of GI Joe. The movie was a good, no-brainer action film that was not very objectionable. The major flaw is that Duke talks like he is a putz chav who should be hanging out at the mall instead of the field commander of a special operations unit. With that said, the "reboot" of the franchise was great.
To make matters better, the video game for the PS3 is outstanding. They have done something very cool in that they don't just stick to the characters in the movie, but expand it to the toy line. So Duke, Scarlett, Rip Cord, Breaker, Hawk, and Heavy Duty all look like they are from the movie, but you also have a ton of other Joes to pick from like Shipwreck and Gung Ho. They also have a supporting cast that communicates with you. For whatever reason they turned Dial Tone into a woman, but oh well.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
I will never use Facebook to its fullest capabilities
Did some searching today for people I know or used to know, and I've decided that there's an unhealthy amount of people on there that have seen me in some state of nakedidity, too many for my tastes.
Also, I never realized how many very attractive women across this country share my surname. I mean, wow; it's a veritable taco fest.
I appreciate it.
Just wanted to thank you guys for your encouragement. I'm thankfully not an invalid after the accident, but I'm certainly not 100% by far, and I'm also one to let my personal pride & confidence get in the way of a lot, but it's been a helluva year, and I appreciate the emails, replies, shout-outs.
On a different thing, I got my new computer FINALLY connected to internet, so in the weeks to come, I'm going to tinker with some things. I've had banners and backgrounds sitting on my hard drive for months that I'm particularly proud of.
Also, don't be surprised if you guys get an email from me, asking about mailing addresses. I have played around with my DVD drive and I have some surprises that I'd like to send out.
Music from College
I have no idea why I thought of this.
I think that five of the six of us all went to the same undergrad (not sure about Buck, and know that Will didn't). These were obviously very formative years of my life, as I'm sure they were for y'all as well, and as I got to thinking about my half-hour daily commute to school....we were subjected to some really crappy music in the mid-1990s. Sure we had our grunge and the end of old school hip-hop, which was good, but if we happened to turn on the radio we were likely to get a lot of garbage from Electric 99.3. For example:
Barbie Girl - Aqua
Mmm Bop - Hanson
Rhythm is a Dancer - Snap
What is Love - Haddaway
Where Do you Go? - No Mercy
How Bizarre - OMC
I could continue, but you get the point.
So the question, should anyone feel led to pontificate on the tripe songs I just posted.....better or worse than what today's kids have?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
[Wrestling] The Rise & Fall of WCW DVD
Out today! And, if you get it this week at Best Buy, you get "The Rise & Fall of ECW" free!
(Matchlist after the jump.)
Disc 1
Chapters:
1. Jim Crockett Promotions
2. Georgia Championship Wrestling
3. Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
4. Black Saturday
5. The Expansion
6. Crockett Sells to Turner
7. Greatest Talent in the World
8. New Management
9. Bill Watts Era
10. Bill Shaw Hires Eric Bischoff
11. Hulk Hogan Arrives
12. Nitro Debuts
13. nWo
14. Cruiserweights
15. Goldberg
16. WCW Ratings Champ
17. Celebrities
18. Goldberg vs. Hogan
19. Mistakes Begin
20. Vince Russo
21. A Corporate Merger
22. McMahon buys WCW
23. Legacy of WCW
Bonus Features
- Lost in Cleveland
- Bill Watts Defends Himself
- Spam Man
- The Origin of Goldberg
- Bischoff Gives Away RAW Results
Disc 2
$1,000 Challenge Match
Ric Flair vs. Magnum T.A.
NWA World Championship Wrestling
June 15, 1985
Sting, Lex Luger & Barry Windham vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (w/ JJ Dillon)
The Main Event
April 3, 1988
United States Championship Match
Dusty Rhodes vs. Barry Windham
Great American Bash
July 10, 1988
NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. Ricky The Dragon Steamboat
Chi-Town Rumble
February 20, 1989
The Rock n Roll Express vs. The Midnight Express
Wrestle War
February 25, 1990
NWA United States Tag Team Championship Match
The Midnight Express vs. The Southern Boys
Great American Bash
July 7, 1990
WCW World Tag Team Championship Match
The Steiner Brothers vs. Sting & Lex Luger
SuperBrawl
May 19, 1991
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Sting vs. Big Van Vader
Great American Bash
July 12, 1992
WCW International World Heavyweight Championship Match
Rick Rude vs. Sting
Spring Stampede
April 17, 1994
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan
Bash at the Beach
July 17, 1994
Disc 3
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. The Giant
Nitro
April 29, 1996
WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match
Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko
Clash of the Champions XXXIII
August 15, 1996
War Games Match
Team WCW- Sting, Lex Luger, Ric Fair & Arn Anderson vs. Team n.W.o.- Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall & a Mystery Partner
Fall Brawl
September 15, 1996
United States Championship Ladder Match
Syxx vs. Eddie Guerrero
Souled Out
January 25, 1997
United States Championship No Disqualification Match
Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko
Uncensored
March 16, 1997
WCW Cruiserweight Championship Title vs. Mask Match
Chris Jericho vs. Juventud Guerrera
SuperBrawl VIII
February 22, 1998
WCW Unified World Tag Team Championship Match
The Steiner Brothers vs. The Outsiders
SuperBrawl VIII
February 22, 1998
Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone vs. Hollywood Hulk Hogan & Dennis Rodman
Bash at the Beach
July 12, 1998
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Goldberg vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Halloween Havoc
October 25, 1998
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Booker T vs. Lance Storm
Nitro
August 7, 2000
And this brings me to the question: Are we ever going to see more of Palumbo's Top 10 WCW Saturday Night Jobbers?
Thursday, August 20, 2009
I was in a car accident.
Check it out ...
You shoulda seen the other guy ... heh ... ahem ...
Just now getting back to where I can use a computer. My neck, back and head still hurt, but whoo, lortab is a motherfucker. Worst thing of it all, I have some really bad memory lapses sometimes. Occasionally, it comes in the form of forgetting where I am in a conversation, but then sometimes it can be as bad as forgetting where my house is & driving around town for a few extra minutes before it comes to me.
Anything further, I can't necessarily comment on because of legal aspects, but suffice to say that I'm alive and kicking, albeit kicking a little slower because the impulse to kick takes a little longer to reach my legs from my brain. Feel free to post get-wells as you see fit ...
Sunday, August 16, 2009
[Wrestling] I'm not even joking ...
Zenith Pro Wrestling had their "Night of Fury" at the Allendale B & G Civic Center tonight. How was it? Beats me, I didn't go. But I went to their website ... and I hear ... 
... this motherfucker called Beau James a pussy! True story, swear to God!!!
I look for this situation to make Mike Levy vs. Mickie Knuckles, and any bout featuring the Ramsey twins, look like Benoit vs. Regal 2000. Will Beau James answer the challenge? Watch ZPW to find out!
[Wrestling] ... and he did it with a broken freakin' neck!
Angle Gone Wild!!
But before you worry about the big PPV, TNA Hard Justice, which features the main event of Angle vs. Sting vs. Matt Morgan for the TNA World title ... Angle released!!
Crazy man on the loose! Crazy man on the loose!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Idle thoughts with a request for input
So I'm at work, right? And I started to get this idea that, see, I've got A LOT of movies, and while I watch them, I get ideas about life, philosophy, how the film hangs together on basic principles of humanity ... you know, stupid critical shit.
Then, I got to thinking that I might want to put these into a website. I considered putting these on this one, but then I thought that this forum is better suited as a miscellaneous storehouse, where our unique collaboration of fiends can get together and exchange thoughts and ideas. So, no, I started thinking the website idea would be better suited for this, a more specific project.
Now, the issue is, I have this running account through Angelfire, which comes with its own website name included. (It was originally going to be a clothing & apparel store, but things didn't quite go as planned ...) I've run through the following names, to find that they're already taken or just didn't cut it:
Cinema Obsessed
Cinema Addiction (actually, "Cinemaddition," but my pick would be too close)
Movie Addiction
Movie Addicted (again, the actual site name is "moviesaddicted," which is a porn hub!)
Movie Obsessed (which would have been fine, had the movie "Obsessed" not come out ... ugh)
DVD Addict
The ultimate plan is that this would house most of my movie/DVD related gripes, lists, thoughts, reviews, projects, etc. It would kinda like a blog, kinda like a website in its immersive quality.
Of course, this is also a project that could go tits-up in a minute if it gets too laborious. Plus, it wouldn't take away from SGM, as I still have hopes to get back on track with audio mixtape files, new banners and images, and so forth.
So ... namewise. You guys have any ideas?
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
I'm a word dork.
And part of being a word dork means that I have peculiar thoughts and observations when it comes to issues of conversational syntax. Here are two examples:
1) Reese Witherspoon is flogging her one-trick pony, "Legally Blonde," for as much money as she can. There were the two movies, and recently the Broadway musical. But there's a direct-to-cable - USA, I believe - film on the horizon called "Legally Blondes." Last time I checked, adverbs cannot modify nouns, and the "blondes" in "Legally Blondes" - two twin dumbasses - are definitely nouns. The movie gets a pass because "blonde," singular, can act as an adjective. But there's no way that "blondes" can be anything but the noun that it is. And the only way for this movie title to be remotely correct is if it were titled, "The two girls are legally blondes," and then legally can modify "are." So, fuck you, Reese Witherspoon, for contributing to the downfall of modern English language.
2) I've been noticing this next error in a number of usually reputable news outlets. Filing this under "what a difference an article makes," which film would you rather see: "GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra," or "GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra?" The former is an upcoming summer blockbuster, based on the fondly remembered toy/cartoon/comic line of our youth. The latter sounds like a CGI-enhanced film the likes of which you can only catch on late night cable genre stations.
(I know these're small things, but these things do matter, because if left unchecked we end up with Fergie being a "Dutchess" (sic) and the "Syfy" (sic) channel.)
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen review
The short form: 1 count
Jesus. What a heap of dung.
Let's get this out of the way, right off the bat: Megan Fox, as pretty as the media would try to have you think that she is, can't act; rather, she acts like Fergie sings. That is, so horribly that you'd rather fist yourself after Mexican food diarrhea then rub the sleep out of your eyes. There are several scenes where she and Shia Lebouf (who I'm also pretty skeptical about), after having faced almost certain peril at the hands of the Decepticons, stop cold to question their love for each other. I don't know what I'd do if I had skyscraping fucking robots chasing after me with the sole purpose of dissecting my brain, but I'd bet you that the last thing I'd do is have a fight with my girlfriend about where our relationship is going.
Also, one major complaint is that, in an effort to make the robots look all super-cool and toy shelf friendly and so NOT like those cheesy toys of the 80s, the special effects folks failed to make the robots look any different from each other, save for a few exceptions that I'll mention later. Plus, their voices are all interchangable, so they all sound damn near alike; The Fallen sounds like Megatron, sounds like Starscream, sounds like ... et cetera. But that's the Decepticons; all the Autobots sound like Optimus, save for some varying vocal inflections.
Then there's the "black" Autobots. The filmmakers decided that the film could appeal to a wider audience if they included some "colorful" characters. So Mudflap and his brother whose name I don't even think was mentioned are buck-toothed, big eared, gold toothed (and the gold ... is in his grill!! HAW!), jive talking pimped out rides that can't keep from clowning on each other, even during the serious scenes. Dey so coo'! I was expecting at any point that they'd grab a nearby tree, roll it up in a billboard, and puff-puff-pass. Any scene they were in had me questioning, "other Autobots had to lose their lives, but these fuckers live on to fight another day?" Transformer God is a cruel, vengeful god indeed.
One thing that I also found very disconcerting was that this movie moved fast. Everything was fast: The dialogue, the fighting, the drama, even a character going from the kitchen to the living room was handled as if the director was yelling, "Okay, we only have 15 min of film for the next hour of footage ... and, ACTION!"
Skip this one, and head straight to the animated film. Much better, with almost the same story.
