Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
KORN!!!!!!
We got to the Rave at about 700. We got our $7 dollar beers and took a seat on the floor, near the back but still on the hardwood floor. At 740 everyone stood up at once. so we got ready for some music. The tickets all say 800 for the starting time, so we were ready. Than we waited 30 minutes. yeah, 30. At 830 Chuck Mosley took the stage. No one had heard of this guy before. His solo album isn't even out yet. Bad choice.
He played two songs before everyone started to realize the truth. The guy can't sing. Plus, he was mumbling and fidgeting like he was on something. We started to boo. And we threw up the middle fingers. The band was decent, the lead singer was garbage. They got maybe 5 or 6 songs in, with little breaks in between where Mosley just blabbed about nothing. After they left the stage it was about 920. Suddenly, we were surrounded. The crowd packed in. The floor was full. At 945 the KoRn backdrop came up. At 1000 we were covered in sweat. At 1020, Korn Took the stage.
First song out of the gate was Right Now. There was no intro spoken. They just got up and went right into the show. We were jumping. About half way through the crowd got pushed back about 4 feet. We almost got trampled. The pit had started. It was so crowded, that even if I wanted to get in the pit, it would have been near impossible. Korn followed there opening song with "Chi" and than "Did my time" Oh, man. I was already hoarse from screaming along to the first 3 songs.
Than we got "Thoughtless" and follow that up with "Falling Away from Me". Finally, Jonathan Davis took a break to talk to us. He did the normal "Hello Milwaukee!" and set up the next song. "Coming Undone" One of my favorite Korn songs. Needless to say I was head banging so hard my neck hurts. After the first verse and chorus, suddenly the drummer changed the beat just a bit, and Jonathan Davis began to sing "We Will rock you" by Queen. After a verse and a chorus of that, they finished singing Coming Undone. Davis walked of stage and came back out with his Bagpipes. We got the intro to Shoots and Latters, but sadly not the rest of it.
Then they played "Helmet in the Bush". "Here to Stay", and "Fake" We than got the best part of Metallica's "One" The "Landmines, have taken my...." Part.
"Freak on a Leash" Followed. Another break as Davis got on the Mic again. He told us to put our middle fingers in the air and scream "F- That!" That turned into "Y'all want a single". What a great intro.
"Somebody Someone" ended the show. Or not, We stayed put. Korn returned for an Encore.
That's when we got "Blind" Davis than said "If you don't know this next song, your not a Korn fan. "Got the life". We than got a guitar solo from Fieldy and Munky. That turned into "Another Brick In The Wall" That sold it as the best concert I have ever seen. We got out of there at around 1145. Such a great show. So amazing. I can die happy now.
I still don't have my voice 100% back, and my legs are still sore from standing for so long. And jumping up and down. So worth it though.
He played two songs before everyone started to realize the truth. The guy can't sing. Plus, he was mumbling and fidgeting like he was on something. We started to boo. And we threw up the middle fingers. The band was decent, the lead singer was garbage. They got maybe 5 or 6 songs in, with little breaks in between where Mosley just blabbed about nothing. After they left the stage it was about 920. Suddenly, we were surrounded. The crowd packed in. The floor was full. At 945 the KoRn backdrop came up. At 1000 we were covered in sweat. At 1020, Korn Took the stage.
First song out of the gate was Right Now. There was no intro spoken. They just got up and went right into the show. We were jumping. About half way through the crowd got pushed back about 4 feet. We almost got trampled. The pit had started. It was so crowded, that even if I wanted to get in the pit, it would have been near impossible. Korn followed there opening song with "Chi" and than "Did my time" Oh, man. I was already hoarse from screaming along to the first 3 songs.
Than we got "Thoughtless" and follow that up with "Falling Away from Me". Finally, Jonathan Davis took a break to talk to us. He did the normal "Hello Milwaukee!" and set up the next song. "Coming Undone" One of my favorite Korn songs. Needless to say I was head banging so hard my neck hurts. After the first verse and chorus, suddenly the drummer changed the beat just a bit, and Jonathan Davis began to sing "We Will rock you" by Queen. After a verse and a chorus of that, they finished singing Coming Undone. Davis walked of stage and came back out with his Bagpipes. We got the intro to Shoots and Latters, but sadly not the rest of it.
Then they played "Helmet in the Bush". "Here to Stay", and "Fake" We than got the best part of Metallica's "One" The "Landmines, have taken my...." Part.
"Freak on a Leash" Followed. Another break as Davis got on the Mic again. He told us to put our middle fingers in the air and scream "F- That!" That turned into "Y'all want a single". What a great intro.
"Somebody Someone" ended the show. Or not, We stayed put. Korn returned for an Encore.
That's when we got "Blind" Davis than said "If you don't know this next song, your not a Korn fan. "Got the life". We than got a guitar solo from Fieldy and Munky. That turned into "Another Brick In The Wall" That sold it as the best concert I have ever seen. We got out of there at around 1145. Such a great show. So amazing. I can die happy now.
I still don't have my voice 100% back, and my legs are still sore from standing for so long. And jumping up and down. So worth it though.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The Mummy 3
OH MY DEAR LORD! This movie is shit. I have watched some terrible movies in my life, and while this one is not the worst it was terrible. So many plot holes, such bad acting, terrible terrible terrible.
Lets start of with the fact that there is not one single mummy in this. NOT ONE! Despite this, Brendan Frasier and the rest of the cast keep calling the bad guys mummies. Let me explain. Jet Li and his army are cursed by a witch. They become statues. Jet Li burns up and gets frozen as a statue for 2000+ years. He does NOT have his insides removed, his brain removed, his body wrapped in cloth. He doesn't go through any sort of mummification process at all. So he is moved into a tomb with his Terracotta army. Sound familiar? The first emperor did infact create an army of statues to guard his tomb. They were not people that were cursed. Of course, kids watching will think they are!
So after we find out that Brendan Frasier and Mario Bello (yeah, not the chick from the first two) are about 50 years old now, yet still look about 30. There annoying english son is now an annoying AMERICAN 20 year old. Yep, he went from a thick english accent to a full on American accent. Even though he was born in england, and raised in england. It gets better.
He meets chinese woman as he is trying to get the Emperor's body out of the tomb who goes Ninja on his ass, and can speak fluid english. It is rather obvious that she is immortal and after about 45 min. you see that her mom is the same chick who cursed Jet Li. They than speak to each other in perfect english. The two woman have been alive for over 2000 years, live in China, and haven't left China ever, yet they can speak a language that has only existed for about 300 years. That's right. For no apparent reason, two chinese chicks just know how to speak english. I'm skipping over the fact that two chinese generals needed a woman that is an egyptologist to speak ancient chinese, than can speak ancient chinese to Jet Li later in the movie. So they can speak it, just can't read it. AND NO ONE IN CHINA CAN READ ANCIENT CHINESE? You need a person who has studied ONLY Egyptian? And she can just suddenly speak Ancient Chinese? GREAT writting.
So Jet Li has power over the elements. Fire, Water, Wind, Wood (earth) and Metal. Not sure on when Metal became its own element. Metal should be included in Earth, and if Jet Li was such a master of Metal how come he didn't build the great wall outta it? HUH? So Jet Li, when he returns to life, Can cast fireballs, make ice missles, and with the power of Heart can grow an awesome mullet....oh wait that's Captain Planet. Same thing. So Captain Planet has to take a diamond to the top of a tower and find the pool of eternal life. He makes it to the top of the tower in the Himilayans, and the Immortal chick starts yelling in some crazy language and suddenly Yetis show up. That's right. Yetis. They have there own language. And some immortal chinese chick commands them. These vicious creatures don't bite, or tear apart their enemies. They throw them. That's right. Giant claws and teeth, and they pick them up and chuck them. The worst part of the movie comes when the Yetis pump there fists in the air and cheer. I half expected them to break open a Mountain Dew and chug it.
After this we get Captain Planet putting the diamond on top of the tower and the path is shown. The pool is about 200 yards up the same mountain. NO ONE THOUGHT TO CHECK THE REST OF THE MOUNTAIN??????? He travels up the mountain and another battle takes place. Than he walks into the pool and is restored. Out of no where he is now able to shape shift. These two chinese chicks both went into the pool to become immortal also, THEY COULDN'T SHAPESHIFT? WHY? WHO KNOWS?
Captain Planet than starts to shapeshift into creatures from "Where the wild things are". I won't give away the ending, because the movie does a good enough job of doing that itself. Let's just say it was crap. Crap! I could say more, but I've already put more time into this movie than the writers did.
Lets start of with the fact that there is not one single mummy in this. NOT ONE! Despite this, Brendan Frasier and the rest of the cast keep calling the bad guys mummies. Let me explain. Jet Li and his army are cursed by a witch. They become statues. Jet Li burns up and gets frozen as a statue for 2000+ years. He does NOT have his insides removed, his brain removed, his body wrapped in cloth. He doesn't go through any sort of mummification process at all. So he is moved into a tomb with his Terracotta army. Sound familiar? The first emperor did infact create an army of statues to guard his tomb. They were not people that were cursed. Of course, kids watching will think they are!
So after we find out that Brendan Frasier and Mario Bello (yeah, not the chick from the first two) are about 50 years old now, yet still look about 30. There annoying english son is now an annoying AMERICAN 20 year old. Yep, he went from a thick english accent to a full on American accent. Even though he was born in england, and raised in england. It gets better.
He meets chinese woman as he is trying to get the Emperor's body out of the tomb who goes Ninja on his ass, and can speak fluid english. It is rather obvious that she is immortal and after about 45 min. you see that her mom is the same chick who cursed Jet Li. They than speak to each other in perfect english. The two woman have been alive for over 2000 years, live in China, and haven't left China ever, yet they can speak a language that has only existed for about 300 years. That's right. For no apparent reason, two chinese chicks just know how to speak english. I'm skipping over the fact that two chinese generals needed a woman that is an egyptologist to speak ancient chinese, than can speak ancient chinese to Jet Li later in the movie. So they can speak it, just can't read it. AND NO ONE IN CHINA CAN READ ANCIENT CHINESE? You need a person who has studied ONLY Egyptian? And she can just suddenly speak Ancient Chinese? GREAT writting.
So Jet Li has power over the elements. Fire, Water, Wind, Wood (earth) and Metal. Not sure on when Metal became its own element. Metal should be included in Earth, and if Jet Li was such a master of Metal how come he didn't build the great wall outta it? HUH? So Jet Li, when he returns to life, Can cast fireballs, make ice missles, and with the power of Heart can grow an awesome mullet....oh wait that's Captain Planet. Same thing. So Captain Planet has to take a diamond to the top of a tower and find the pool of eternal life. He makes it to the top of the tower in the Himilayans, and the Immortal chick starts yelling in some crazy language and suddenly Yetis show up. That's right. Yetis. They have there own language. And some immortal chinese chick commands them. These vicious creatures don't bite, or tear apart their enemies. They throw them. That's right. Giant claws and teeth, and they pick them up and chuck them. The worst part of the movie comes when the Yetis pump there fists in the air and cheer. I half expected them to break open a Mountain Dew and chug it.
After this we get Captain Planet putting the diamond on top of the tower and the path is shown. The pool is about 200 yards up the same mountain. NO ONE THOUGHT TO CHECK THE REST OF THE MOUNTAIN??????? He travels up the mountain and another battle takes place. Than he walks into the pool and is restored. Out of no where he is now able to shape shift. These two chinese chicks both went into the pool to become immortal also, THEY COULDN'T SHAPESHIFT? WHY? WHO KNOWS?
Captain Planet than starts to shapeshift into creatures from "Where the wild things are". I won't give away the ending, because the movie does a good enough job of doing that itself. Let's just say it was crap. Crap! I could say more, but I've already put more time into this movie than the writers did.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
CC Sabathia
So, The water man here told me he held no hard feelings for Sabathia. I do. But mostly because I don't like being lied to.
When the courting began for CC in free agency, the news was all over where he wanted to go. We heard a few things.
When the courting began for CC in free agency, the news was all over where he wanted to go. We heard a few things.
- "I want to go where I will have fun"
- "I would like to go to LA. That's where my family is"
- "I want to hit. So the NL is the place for me"
- "Money is not important"
- "Milwaukee is the most fun I've had in a long time"
So #1 and #5 go together. Now we thought he was coming back. #2- The Dodgers and The Angels thought they were getting him. #3 Now just the Dodgers and The Brewers. #4- Everyone thought he was going to either the Dodgers or The Brewers. So then he went to the Yankees. Let's break it down this way.
- No fun. He had to shave his beard, wear a not so baggy uniform, and will be looked at as a failure if he doesn't win 15 games.
- New york is as far from LA as you can get.
- New York is in the American League. Home to the DH. Sabathia will never hit at Yankee Stadium. He may never have an at bat all year.
- Money WAS important. He took it and ran.
- See #1. Also, he was really good friends with Cameron and Feilder. Neither are going to New York anytime soon. Also, If you do bad CC you will be traded. How does the Washington Nationals sound to you?
I cannot forgive a guy who gives 5 reasons why he doesn't want to go to New York and chooses the one thing NY has that no one else does. Money. Hope you enjoy it you money hungry bitch. You make me sick. What happened to you? You were one of the guys who played the game to win. Played the game because it was what you loved. Why would you take the money and piss on your fans. I hope you fail. So then maybe you get cut and have to come crawling back to us. At reduced pay, of course.
NL Central Roundup
St. Louis Cardinals (4-2)- This won't last. It can't. STL a team to watch again? Can't be.
Pittsburgh Pirates (3-2)- I'm a pirates fan, despite the fact they are in the Brewers division. Why? Because they've never been a challenger before.
Chicago Cubs (3-2)- Typical Cubs. Come back in the 9th.
Milwaukee Brewers (2-3)- Typical Brewers. Lose it in the 9th. COME BACK TREVOR!
Cincinnati Reds (1-3)- This looks about right.
Houston Astros (1-4)- I'm not going to make the old "Houston we have a problem" joke. Whoops.Saturday, April 11, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
April 7th Roundup
Chicago Cubs (1-1)- My favorite Cub Ryan Dempster gave up two runs in 6 innings of work but it was Cotts who let the winning run score.
Pittsburgh Pirates (1-1)- Pitt gets knocked down by a suddenly cohesive Cards.
St. Louis Cardinals (1-1)- STL gets some revenge with all 9 of there runs in the first 5 innings.
Houston Astros (1-1)-Where was this yesterday? Astros take out the Cubs in OT.
Milwaukee Brewers (0-1)- Suppan proved that you can't teach an old has been new tricks. He gives up 3 in a bases clearing triple. Jorge Julio gets jacked, Dave Bush comes in for whatever reason and the San Francisco Giants take home a win.
Cincinnati Reds (0-1)-Did not play.Dearly departed.
A moment of silence for my hopes of a winning season. It was only on this earth for a few short months. Taken, with one bases loaded clearing triple. May god have mercy on Jeff Suppan's soul.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Opening Day-NL Central Division
Chicago Cubs (1-0)- Beat up on the Astros, Soriano nailed his 50th lead off homer.
Pittsburgh Pirates (1-0)- St. Louis' new closer Jason Motte got a warm welcome as Jack Wilson drove home 3 runs on a 2 out, 2 strike, 9th inning double.
Milwaukee Brewers (0-0)- Brewers will play San Fran, weather is a factor.
Houston Astros (0-1)- Someone had to play the cubs first.
St. Louis Carninals (0-1)- Maybe you shouldn't have gotten rid of Isringhausing.
Cincinnati Reds (0-1)- Mets proved to be just a little better in a 2-1 win.How can you not be excited? Only the brewers have yet to play.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Opening Day!
Milwaukee Brewers Vs 
San Francisco GiantsI know this game is not until Thursday but I'm excited. Looks like the starters are this:
Jeff Suppan
Tim LincecumNL Rookie of the Year winner Tim Lincecum brings his glorious hair into the Giants home opener. Suppan brings his overpaid ass. This looks like a great start to the season. Lincecum will be tough. He's young but boy can he pitch. I'll have a better preview by Wednesday.
Brewers
It's time for the start of the regular season of baseball. That really long affair that concludes with a world series. I still think that baseball needs more teams in the playoffs. 8 teams out of 30 is really low. Even the NBA uses 16 teams out of 30. Anyway.
The brewers look good this year. They didn't make any moves in free agency to change the lineup, but they did pick up 3 pitchers and a backup infielder. Braden Looper takes the place of Sheets. In a way. Yovani Gallardo seems like our new CC Sabatia since we didn't pick up another Starting pitcher. Jorge Julio comes in to replace the departed Brian Shouse. I don't know much about Julio but I would venture a guess that we will know him very soon. We lost Erik Gagne (twice) and now we have all time saves leader Trevor Hoffman. I'm excited about Hoffman. He is a legitimate Hall of Famer.
Our rotation looks like this:
Gallardo, Looper, Parra, Suppan, Bush. Gallardo and Parra I think will both be 10 game winners. Bush could do that also, but he wore down so much last year that I don't know. Suppan is overpaid, and not really reliable. Looper is interesting. He had a piss poor year last year on a piss poor team. With our bats he could be a 15 game winner.
Our Bullpen is:
Todd Coffey, Mark DiFelice, Julio, Seth McClug, Mitch Stetter, Dave Riske and Carlos Villanueva
Coffey and DiFelice are two of my faves. I think they both will be below a 3.0 ERA. Seth McClug is wasted on relief work, he should be starting instead of Suppan. Stetter I think will be a Nashville Sound before the all star break. I don't see him as a brewer. Riske is hit or miss. Villanueva will be the fill in closer. A role he is just not good at. Hoffman, please get healthy fast!
Our lineup is just the same as last year:
Jeff Kendall, Ryan Braun, JJ Hardy, Corey Hart, Prince Feilder, Bill Hall, Ricky Weeks, Mike Cameron. With back up from Casey McGahee, Craig Counsell, Mike Rivera, and Brad Nelson.
Kendall is reliable and should be the leadoff man instead of Weeks. Braun, Hardy, Hart and Feilder are all stars. Hall is average, Cameron is gonna whiff. A lot. Weeks needs to be dealt. NOW. McGahee is an unknown, he looked good in Spring Training but I don't know. Counsell and Rivera are good change of pace kinda guys. Nelson I think could press weeks for a starting spot.
All together I think we have a 90 win club. I don't know if that is enough to make the playoffs though. I'm excited. I think I'm gonna keep track of the Brewers this year on this blog. Enjoy!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Episode One
I'm not a fanboy. I'm gonna start this off with that. I have never seen ANY Star Wars movies. Not one. I have seen enough parody of Star Wars to know certain things. I know who some people are, I know who someone becomes. Little things like that.
So I decided to finally watch all 6 Star Wars movies in order of Episode number. My buddy Seth informed me this was the best thing to do if your just getting into the whole Star Wars thing. I put in Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace. What a pile of crap. This could just be the worst movie I have ever watched.
Let me start off with the main reason most people don't like this. Jar Jar. I hated him, too. First, he's a very racist portrayal of a black guy. Very dumb talking, very racist 60s terms slipped into his everyday talk. In fact, his whole race is terrible. The head guy (i forget his name cause I was slipping in and out of a coma) does the very annoying blubbering with his mouth. Jar Jar gets hit with things, gets caught in things, ect. He is comic relief, and I use the term lightly. He was a Sunday morning cartoon comic relief. What self respecting action movie that is intended for teens and adults has a fart in it? Not one. It wasn't until later that I realized this movie is PG. PG! I got duped into watching a really bad kids movie. Not an intelligent kids movie like the Incredibles, but a power rangers type kids movie. I thought that Star Wars was a respectable action movie. Even Indiana Jones doesn't do things like this.
Next, mostly because everything that needed to be said about that jackass has been said, let me tackle the CG. It was bad. Really bad. Like film school movie bad. It seemed like they blew the whole budget on the fantastic back grounds and forgot about every thing else. Characters looked unreal, lighting was off, the ship was terrible. It was just bad. For a movie that was made to the tune of 120 million dollars, it looked like it was made using a discount 30 dollar software.
I'll go ahead and say it. For a movie called Star Wars, only one battle took place in space. That was a very annoying attack by Anakin and three actors who must have been Lucas' friends because they were terrible. Let's state the obvious. "Who's that coming out of the wing?"
"It's not one of our guys"
Uhh.
Speaking of stating the obvious, Yoda "There are always two, master and apprentice."
Sam Jackson "I wonder who was killed? Master of apprentice."
THAT LINE ISN'T NEEDED!!!!! The dialogue was terrible. So bad. Really unnatural lines, really dumb lines. This movie was made for 4 year olds. Nothing intellectual anywhere.
Speaking of racist. The viceroy and his lover, or what ever that guy was with him, spoke with really cheesy Asian accents. Why???? Did they come form Kung-Pow Planet? Why would aliens talk like Jamaicans and Asians? How hard is it to have someone talk with an alien accent? Farscape, Stargate, Fifth Element, all these made new accents. George Lucas isn't even trying. The big fight scene in the movie was between robots and a race that everyone wanted to see die. It was boring. Killing Liam Neesian was predictable, you killed the only good bad guy in the movie and we didn't even get to see it! He gets cut in half and then his very computerized body tumbles down a shaft.
The only thing that was remotely good about this movie was Sam Jackson, Liam, Natalie Portman, and dare I say it, Ewan McGregor. How did that happen. Everything else was terrible. The next movies have better be good.
So I decided to finally watch all 6 Star Wars movies in order of Episode number. My buddy Seth informed me this was the best thing to do if your just getting into the whole Star Wars thing. I put in Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace. What a pile of crap. This could just be the worst movie I have ever watched.
Let me start off with the main reason most people don't like this. Jar Jar. I hated him, too. First, he's a very racist portrayal of a black guy. Very dumb talking, very racist 60s terms slipped into his everyday talk. In fact, his whole race is terrible. The head guy (i forget his name cause I was slipping in and out of a coma) does the very annoying blubbering with his mouth. Jar Jar gets hit with things, gets caught in things, ect. He is comic relief, and I use the term lightly. He was a Sunday morning cartoon comic relief. What self respecting action movie that is intended for teens and adults has a fart in it? Not one. It wasn't until later that I realized this movie is PG. PG! I got duped into watching a really bad kids movie. Not an intelligent kids movie like the Incredibles, but a power rangers type kids movie. I thought that Star Wars was a respectable action movie. Even Indiana Jones doesn't do things like this.
Next, mostly because everything that needed to be said about that jackass has been said, let me tackle the CG. It was bad. Really bad. Like film school movie bad. It seemed like they blew the whole budget on the fantastic back grounds and forgot about every thing else. Characters looked unreal, lighting was off, the ship was terrible. It was just bad. For a movie that was made to the tune of 120 million dollars, it looked like it was made using a discount 30 dollar software.
I'll go ahead and say it. For a movie called Star Wars, only one battle took place in space. That was a very annoying attack by Anakin and three actors who must have been Lucas' friends because they were terrible. Let's state the obvious. "Who's that coming out of the wing?"
"It's not one of our guys"
Uhh.
Speaking of stating the obvious, Yoda "There are always two, master and apprentice."
Sam Jackson "I wonder who was killed? Master of apprentice."
THAT LINE ISN'T NEEDED!!!!! The dialogue was terrible. So bad. Really unnatural lines, really dumb lines. This movie was made for 4 year olds. Nothing intellectual anywhere.
Speaking of racist. The viceroy and his lover, or what ever that guy was with him, spoke with really cheesy Asian accents. Why???? Did they come form Kung-Pow Planet? Why would aliens talk like Jamaicans and Asians? How hard is it to have someone talk with an alien accent? Farscape, Stargate, Fifth Element, all these made new accents. George Lucas isn't even trying. The big fight scene in the movie was between robots and a race that everyone wanted to see die. It was boring. Killing Liam Neesian was predictable, you killed the only good bad guy in the movie and we didn't even get to see it! He gets cut in half and then his very computerized body tumbles down a shaft.
The only thing that was remotely good about this movie was Sam Jackson, Liam, Natalie Portman, and dare I say it, Ewan McGregor. How did that happen. Everything else was terrible. The next movies have better be good.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
MLB 09: The Show
I recently started playing MLB 09: The show. I love this game. It's a lot of fun. I went through about 5 years in franchise. Three years with the Brewers, One with the Pirates, and one with the Nationals (wanted a challenge). The Nats I took to the playoffs and lost in the first round. The Pirates I didn't finish. The Brewers my first year I took them to the NL championship game and lost. The second year I took em to the World Series and lost to the Yankees (bias game) and the last year I was out in the first round again. For whatever reason I am the Chicago Cubs of MLB 09 players. I can't win the big one. But I'll keep trying, even if it takes me 100 years.
So I decided to take a break from the GM side of things and partake in a little mode known as Road to the Show. In this mode you take one guy that you create, and either get drafted or chose your own team to play for, and you try and make the roster. Now, You start out as the worst player on the team. I found this a little odd. No matter what difficulty you set it to, you always start out sucking. My first go around with this was as a third basemen. I'm terrible at pitching in real life but I'm not to bad at hitting. This was a disaster. You only get three or four shots a game to do anything. Since you have such low attributes your not going to hit it outta the park, so you have to manufacture some runs. I'm not the best hitter in the game because even on Rookie it's hard to hit a slider. So every time you strike out you lose 10 points. Every time you make it on base you get 5 points. Every time you hit the ball but get caught out you gain 0 points. You can see where this is going. I couldn't get any points. Now points go to training sessions. But you need 40 points to even get into a session. So now, I cannot get any points to get better because I'm so terrible. Really strange that it is almost impossible to succeed at this. After spring training is over you get offered a contract (or not). My contract had me as a AA bench player. Now I'm not even starting. So now I get maybe one at bat every other game. You can see what the end result will be.
I gave up on the notion of that. I restarted and began to play as a Starting Pitcher, thus guaranteeing me at least 5-6 starts in Spring Training. My first game I walked away with 70 points. More than I did in the 30 games I tried as a starting 3B. I really like the pitching mechanic in this game. But again, you start out with only 3 pitches (of your choosing) but you gain points for strikeouts, and for little challenges the game throws your way. 10 points for "getting ahead in the count" 10 points for "getting a ground ball out". I tend to only do about 3 or 4 innings before I am pulled. Not for lack of productivity, but because it's Spring Training. I ended my spring training at 2-2, with 26 innings pitched, a 3.23 era, 26 hits, 3 home runs (two that aramis Ramirez got off of me), and 15 strikeouts. I was happy. I had the 4th best ERA on the team. Contract offer comes......30K for a bullpen job in AA. What? I did good! I did better than good! Still only a AA contract? So I excepted it, because you don't have much of a choice. Boy did I make the wrong choice. The Huntsville Stars (brewers real life AA team) is atrocious. I ended my first bullpen game with 2 innings pitched and 6 runs scored. Yeah. That's bad. But not my fault. A double play ball was dropped by the second basemen to put two guys on. A grounder to SS sails past because instead of crap hopping over to wrangle in the ball this guy suicide dives after it. Now the bases are loaded and I'm pissed. I take the count to 3-2. The next pitch is low and outside. The batter makes contact with it, ball sails to shallow right field. And my RF watches it drop. He doesn't even try to run toward it. He coulda got it. A run scoring double. The rest of the game went this way. 2 runs in the 8th and 4 runs in the 9th. My stats look like I'm the worst player in history when I just play for the worst team in history.
I'm going to keep trying, as I've never walked away from a game just because it's hard, but my shining optimism at the chance to live the life of an MLBer is a little less shiny. But the game goes on.
So I decided to take a break from the GM side of things and partake in a little mode known as Road to the Show. In this mode you take one guy that you create, and either get drafted or chose your own team to play for, and you try and make the roster. Now, You start out as the worst player on the team. I found this a little odd. No matter what difficulty you set it to, you always start out sucking. My first go around with this was as a third basemen. I'm terrible at pitching in real life but I'm not to bad at hitting. This was a disaster. You only get three or four shots a game to do anything. Since you have such low attributes your not going to hit it outta the park, so you have to manufacture some runs. I'm not the best hitter in the game because even on Rookie it's hard to hit a slider. So every time you strike out you lose 10 points. Every time you make it on base you get 5 points. Every time you hit the ball but get caught out you gain 0 points. You can see where this is going. I couldn't get any points. Now points go to training sessions. But you need 40 points to even get into a session. So now, I cannot get any points to get better because I'm so terrible. Really strange that it is almost impossible to succeed at this. After spring training is over you get offered a contract (or not). My contract had me as a AA bench player. Now I'm not even starting. So now I get maybe one at bat every other game. You can see what the end result will be.
I gave up on the notion of that. I restarted and began to play as a Starting Pitcher, thus guaranteeing me at least 5-6 starts in Spring Training. My first game I walked away with 70 points. More than I did in the 30 games I tried as a starting 3B. I really like the pitching mechanic in this game. But again, you start out with only 3 pitches (of your choosing) but you gain points for strikeouts, and for little challenges the game throws your way. 10 points for "getting ahead in the count" 10 points for "getting a ground ball out". I tend to only do about 3 or 4 innings before I am pulled. Not for lack of productivity, but because it's Spring Training. I ended my spring training at 2-2, with 26 innings pitched, a 3.23 era, 26 hits, 3 home runs (two that aramis Ramirez got off of me), and 15 strikeouts. I was happy. I had the 4th best ERA on the team. Contract offer comes......30K for a bullpen job in AA. What? I did good! I did better than good! Still only a AA contract? So I excepted it, because you don't have much of a choice. Boy did I make the wrong choice. The Huntsville Stars (brewers real life AA team) is atrocious. I ended my first bullpen game with 2 innings pitched and 6 runs scored. Yeah. That's bad. But not my fault. A double play ball was dropped by the second basemen to put two guys on. A grounder to SS sails past because instead of crap hopping over to wrangle in the ball this guy suicide dives after it. Now the bases are loaded and I'm pissed. I take the count to 3-2. The next pitch is low and outside. The batter makes contact with it, ball sails to shallow right field. And my RF watches it drop. He doesn't even try to run toward it. He coulda got it. A run scoring double. The rest of the game went this way. 2 runs in the 8th and 4 runs in the 9th. My stats look like I'm the worst player in history when I just play for the worst team in history.
I'm going to keep trying, as I've never walked away from a game just because it's hard, but my shining optimism at the chance to live the life of an MLBer is a little less shiny. But the game goes on.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Artist
So I may have mentioned that I was an amateur writer. Here is a little something something to start you off.
Artist
Air flutters my cloths.
I’m looking down at greatness.
My creation. My masterpiece.
The concern I felt has vanished.
The canvas spread before me is almost complete.
A cityscape, densely populated.
A few of the faces look up to the heavens,
screaming to god, getting no answer.
Others are huddled together, feeling loved.
All this as the bodies burn.
Near by a building crumbles.
They scatter.
Flames leap from there bodies.
I stand on the rooftop of my building.
A high skyscraper of a building.
My accomplishment below me.
I can hear their screams.
The sounds merge together to form a symphony of carnage.
The soundtrack of my movie.
The ground beneath me trembles.
I may just join my masterpiece.
It brings a smile to my face.
I wish they could see what I see.
It’s breathtaking.
Artist
Air flutters my cloths.
I’m looking down at greatness.
My creation. My masterpiece.
The concern I felt has vanished.
The canvas spread before me is almost complete.
A cityscape, densely populated.
A few of the faces look up to the heavens,
screaming to god, getting no answer.
Others are huddled together, feeling loved.
All this as the bodies burn.
Near by a building crumbles.
They scatter.
Flames leap from there bodies.
I stand on the rooftop of my building.
A high skyscraper of a building.
My accomplishment below me.
I can hear their screams.
The sounds merge together to form a symphony of carnage.
The soundtrack of my movie.
The ground beneath me trembles.
I may just join my masterpiece.
It brings a smile to my face.
I wish they could see what I see.
It’s breathtaking.
Watchmen
I love movies. I have a huge gallery of movies at my home. About 850. Burned DVDs and regular DVDs. VHS tapes, I love me some movies. I also like to go to the theatre, when I don't get jackets torn off of me that is. I always have problems with theatres though. Mainly the talking. When I went with the girlfriend to go see Watchmen we didn't have many people in the theatre but the ones we did have talked. It takes away from the movie a little. Well, maybe a little more than a little. Another thing that took away from my experience was the Internet. Now, I am a comic book fan. A dork, a geek, whatever you want to call me, that's fine. I read comic books. Right now I'm reading "The walking dead" I am an X-Men fan. Mostly a Marvel fan but I do really like the Green Lantern. Anyways. I read Watchmen a long time ago and had forgotten most of what happens. So much to my dismay, I read some press about the Watchmen movie. In it, it gave away the death of one character and an event that would be in the movie. A rape scene.
This may sound cruel but with how much emphasis was put on this one scene in the article I thought it was going to be very showing and very brutal. What I watched was rather light. To say I was disappointed that nothing happened is not to say I wanted to see something happen. I just didn't understand the build up of something that by today's standards would be kid friendly. Now the movie I watched the next day "last house on the left" that was brutal. That was much more real. The type of scene that makes you uncomfortable to watch. I found myself laughing at the Watchmen scene. Not because of what the Comedian was going to do, but because it was presented in a rather campy style. With the two trading blows to the superhero "thunk" noise.
I rather liked Watchmen. I would put it in my top 10 comic book movies. But I would put The Dark Knight, Sin City, 300, and the first 2 X-Men ahead of it. And the third X-men a spot below it. I thought the ending was perfect. Something we haven't seen before. A smart ending that didn't have the hero walking off into the sunset, or riding a bat bike away with campy dialogue over it. Still one of my top movies but was it necessary to say "the world needs him, he needs to be the bad guy now?" Not really.
I thought the casting was perfect for Watchmen. It was a handful of unknowns. No one would watch this movie with Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst in it. I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan from his role on Weeds. He played a perfect role. I loved Rorschach. There was plenty of twists in this. I felt the little ending thing felt tacked on even though it was in the book. Coulda done without it. I thought the final showdown of the movie was spectacular.
My only problems with the movie stem from some campy bits and dialogue, and the music. Let's start with the music. I loved every song, but they didn't feel right for the movie. I would have rather they made original music for the picture. Just instrumentals. That would have been better in my opinion. There was some campy little scene's like Nite Owl and Silk Specter playing with his gadgets. Not the love scene, the actual metal gadgets. While it was funny, it was not really needed all that much. The terms "costumed heroes" and "masked avengers" took me outta it a little. These are such old timey (i know the film is set in the 70's) terms. Make it "someones picking off heroes" or "someones picking off members of the Watchmen." Silk's line about being a "masked avenger" didn't really work because SHE DOESN'T WEAR A MASK!
Anyways. I overall really loved this movie. I'd give it a 7 1/2 out of 10. Also I would like to know the person who drew the short straw and had to animate Dr. Manhattan's swinging johnson. That must have been a fun job.
This may sound cruel but with how much emphasis was put on this one scene in the article I thought it was going to be very showing and very brutal. What I watched was rather light. To say I was disappointed that nothing happened is not to say I wanted to see something happen. I just didn't understand the build up of something that by today's standards would be kid friendly. Now the movie I watched the next day "last house on the left" that was brutal. That was much more real. The type of scene that makes you uncomfortable to watch. I found myself laughing at the Watchmen scene. Not because of what the Comedian was going to do, but because it was presented in a rather campy style. With the two trading blows to the superhero "thunk" noise.
I rather liked Watchmen. I would put it in my top 10 comic book movies. But I would put The Dark Knight, Sin City, 300, and the first 2 X-Men ahead of it. And the third X-men a spot below it. I thought the ending was perfect. Something we haven't seen before. A smart ending that didn't have the hero walking off into the sunset, or riding a bat bike away with campy dialogue over it. Still one of my top movies but was it necessary to say "the world needs him, he needs to be the bad guy now?" Not really.
I thought the casting was perfect for Watchmen. It was a handful of unknowns. No one would watch this movie with Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst in it. I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan from his role on Weeds. He played a perfect role. I loved Rorschach. There was plenty of twists in this. I felt the little ending thing felt tacked on even though it was in the book. Coulda done without it. I thought the final showdown of the movie was spectacular.
My only problems with the movie stem from some campy bits and dialogue, and the music. Let's start with the music. I loved every song, but they didn't feel right for the movie. I would have rather they made original music for the picture. Just instrumentals. That would have been better in my opinion. There was some campy little scene's like Nite Owl and Silk Specter playing with his gadgets. Not the love scene, the actual metal gadgets. While it was funny, it was not really needed all that much. The terms "costumed heroes" and "masked avengers" took me outta it a little. These are such old timey (i know the film is set in the 70's) terms. Make it "someones picking off heroes" or "someones picking off members of the Watchmen." Silk's line about being a "masked avenger" didn't really work because SHE DOESN'T WEAR A MASK!
Anyways. I overall really loved this movie. I'd give it a 7 1/2 out of 10. Also I would like to know the person who drew the short straw and had to animate Dr. Manhattan's swinging johnson. That must have been a fun job.
Movies are violent
Second post. Could not pass up the chance to tell the tale of two weeks ago. Me and the girlfriend went to see the movie "Watchmen" I'll get to that in another post. The next day we decided to press our luck with going back to watch another movie "Last house on the left". We had filled up on Reese's pieces and popcorn the day before thus ruining our diet so we decided to just get a soda. Now, My girlfriend Cathy likes to remind me daily that I am rather picky about the food I eat. I am to an extent. I know what I like and I don't like to try to many new things. Food is something you can be picky about. Most people are. Now Cathy is picky about soda. As in she only drinks one kind. Mountain Dew. Or MTN Dew. Whatever the hell they are calling it now. She doesn't drink any dark soda. She doesn't even like much light soda. She will choke down a 7up if it is all that is available or drink a sprite if the occasion calls for it, but Mountain Dew is the only thing she really likes. Add to that the fact that she hates having ice in her drink. Not for any other reason than, and I quote, "they charge us the same for less soda if you get ice. If I don't get ice I get more soda for the same price."
That is my life folks. Wouldn't have it any other way. So we head into the movie. Behind us is an old couple. Not sure if this is really the movie to go to for your 40th anniversary. In front of us sits an Asian couple. In my experience those people who start off conversations with "I'm not racist but...." typically are about to say something racist. I'm not saying that they are Asian to imply some sort of racist comment, I'm just trying to paint a picture. About have way through a very decent movie these two start to talk. Not the raspy voiced whispers normally present in a movie theatre. I'm talking like pool hall conversation talking. I lean forward and say "Stop talking." They do. They are now my marionette. Five minutes later, it starts again. This time I give a very polite "Shut up!" Again the strings are pulled shut. The climax of the picture. A very good ending, but one that was accompanied by the jaw jacking of the couple yet again. This time I tell them to shut the F*** up. Not the smartest thing on my part, I know. But I was pissed.
As the credits roll, this guy stands up and starts glaring at me. At least I think he was it was dark. I give him the ol' "what are you doing" hand gesture. He explains to me in nice sophisticated words that I was going to get my ass beat. Now were having fun. He and his girlfriend, wife, sister whatever she was starts in on the fun to. You don't know fun until you get threatened in another language. That's what it digresses to. These two walk out of the theatre and we can still hear them in the hallway.
After a little bit me and the girlfriend leave the theatre also. She bombs away to the bathroom and I stand in the lobby. My gaze drifts over to my left. Standing about eight feet away from me is the now illuminated Asian male who has just informed me of his desire to fight me. or "take it outside" as it was. As I get a look at this guy I do the only thing I can. I laugh. Now, I am 6 foot 1, 200 lbs. Not a small guy by any stretch. This guy is maybe 5'5", maybe 120 lbs. Plus he has a very masculine ponytail that trails down to his belt line. This guy stares into my eyes and snaps. He starts jaw jacking again about taking it outside. As outside is maybe 20 feet away it seems that he could just fight me here. Also, he is 8 feet away from me. If your going to threaten someone, and really plan on carrying through with it, you tend to get up in someones face. As it would take a step latter for this guy to get in my face I understand the cowardice.
The guy walks outside and starts pacing back and forth. I continue laughing. Other people are now laughing at this sight. It's pretty funny when you think about it. A little guy with no intention of fighting me has now taken to pacing outside waiting for me. What is this obsession with going outside? Oh, that's right. Easier to run away. I forgot. The girlfriend returns from the restroom and asks me if that's the guy. We start to head for the door when the Asian guys lady friend comes back inside. She and my girl start to argue with each other about the reason for the original argument. Silly huh? Now, the movie theatre has those doors that you can only go out of you can't go into. I put my hand on this door but kept Angry dude in my sight. His lady is saying there is not going to be a fight. The dude looks like he isn't getting the message. I turn to look at the girlfriend and this coward sees his opportunity. He grabs my jacket and attempts to pull me outside. I say attempts because a 5'5" guy is not going to pull a 200 lbs white guy anywhere. I don't move an inch. My jacket does. He tears it off my shoulder, ruining a perfectly good hoodie. I turn to look back at this guy cause now I'm mad. I'm looking at nothing but daylight and a cloud of smoke where this guy once was. I turn back to the front door and see nothing but a cloud of smoke where the girl once was. I turn back and these two are high stepping it back to there van. In a matter of seconds they are a full 50 feet away. NFL running backs would love to have this kind of speed.
So I lose a jacket that I really like and this guy looses his self respect as he wets himself. Fun time at the movies. The thing that really mad me mad was the lack of support I got from the 40 people who witnessed this whole thing. No one asked if I was ok (most likely because no one believed that this guy could hurt me in the first place) no one called the cops when this guy was threatening me, the manager didn't even get the license place because he stopped to talk to another customer. Where have all the helpful people gone? Apparently they don't watch movies at Marcus Cinema. So, let's all go to the movies to grab ourselves some assault.
I did enjoy the movie by the way. Last house on the Left was a very decent movie. One I would suggest you go see. Or go and watch at home so you don't get into it with some angry Asians.
That is my life folks. Wouldn't have it any other way. So we head into the movie. Behind us is an old couple. Not sure if this is really the movie to go to for your 40th anniversary. In front of us sits an Asian couple. In my experience those people who start off conversations with "I'm not racist but...." typically are about to say something racist. I'm not saying that they are Asian to imply some sort of racist comment, I'm just trying to paint a picture. About have way through a very decent movie these two start to talk. Not the raspy voiced whispers normally present in a movie theatre. I'm talking like pool hall conversation talking. I lean forward and say "Stop talking." They do. They are now my marionette. Five minutes later, it starts again. This time I give a very polite "Shut up!" Again the strings are pulled shut. The climax of the picture. A very good ending, but one that was accompanied by the jaw jacking of the couple yet again. This time I tell them to shut the F*** up. Not the smartest thing on my part, I know. But I was pissed.
As the credits roll, this guy stands up and starts glaring at me. At least I think he was it was dark. I give him the ol' "what are you doing" hand gesture. He explains to me in nice sophisticated words that I was going to get my ass beat. Now were having fun. He and his girlfriend, wife, sister whatever she was starts in on the fun to. You don't know fun until you get threatened in another language. That's what it digresses to. These two walk out of the theatre and we can still hear them in the hallway.
After a little bit me and the girlfriend leave the theatre also. She bombs away to the bathroom and I stand in the lobby. My gaze drifts over to my left. Standing about eight feet away from me is the now illuminated Asian male who has just informed me of his desire to fight me. or "take it outside" as it was. As I get a look at this guy I do the only thing I can. I laugh. Now, I am 6 foot 1, 200 lbs. Not a small guy by any stretch. This guy is maybe 5'5", maybe 120 lbs. Plus he has a very masculine ponytail that trails down to his belt line. This guy stares into my eyes and snaps. He starts jaw jacking again about taking it outside. As outside is maybe 20 feet away it seems that he could just fight me here. Also, he is 8 feet away from me. If your going to threaten someone, and really plan on carrying through with it, you tend to get up in someones face. As it would take a step latter for this guy to get in my face I understand the cowardice.
The guy walks outside and starts pacing back and forth. I continue laughing. Other people are now laughing at this sight. It's pretty funny when you think about it. A little guy with no intention of fighting me has now taken to pacing outside waiting for me. What is this obsession with going outside? Oh, that's right. Easier to run away. I forgot. The girlfriend returns from the restroom and asks me if that's the guy. We start to head for the door when the Asian guys lady friend comes back inside. She and my girl start to argue with each other about the reason for the original argument. Silly huh? Now, the movie theatre has those doors that you can only go out of you can't go into. I put my hand on this door but kept Angry dude in my sight. His lady is saying there is not going to be a fight. The dude looks like he isn't getting the message. I turn to look at the girlfriend and this coward sees his opportunity. He grabs my jacket and attempts to pull me outside. I say attempts because a 5'5" guy is not going to pull a 200 lbs white guy anywhere. I don't move an inch. My jacket does. He tears it off my shoulder, ruining a perfectly good hoodie. I turn to look back at this guy cause now I'm mad. I'm looking at nothing but daylight and a cloud of smoke where this guy once was. I turn back to the front door and see nothing but a cloud of smoke where the girl once was. I turn back and these two are high stepping it back to there van. In a matter of seconds they are a full 50 feet away. NFL running backs would love to have this kind of speed.
So I lose a jacket that I really like and this guy looses his self respect as he wets himself. Fun time at the movies. The thing that really mad me mad was the lack of support I got from the 40 people who witnessed this whole thing. No one asked if I was ok (most likely because no one believed that this guy could hurt me in the first place) no one called the cops when this guy was threatening me, the manager didn't even get the license place because he stopped to talk to another customer. Where have all the helpful people gone? Apparently they don't watch movies at Marcus Cinema. So, let's all go to the movies to grab ourselves some assault.
I did enjoy the movie by the way. Last house on the Left was a very decent movie. One I would suggest you go see. Or go and watch at home so you don't get into it with some angry Asians.
Monday, March 30, 2009
A little about me
I am a nobody. That's what makes the internet fun. Someone with out a voice before now has a voice. Even if all they do is use it to complain about everything. My blog will be much the same. But I have the grace to admit it. I will try to post a new blog daily, if possible. My topics will be whatever is going on that day. I hope you check back regularly. Let's begin. My name is Troy Boesen. I am 24 from appleton, WI. I am a security guard. Boring huh? Well, welcome to my world. No really, Welcome to my world!
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