King Kamala

The sole highlight of my middle school year was when the cafeteria had Papa John's pizza for about three months in seventh grade. As you can imagine, all of the kids went fuckin' nuts. For some reason then, they switched to Dominoes for the rest of the year and by next Summer, it was back to shitty (by pizza standards, but decent by school lunch standards) Tony's personal pizzas.

I know I've said this another thread but I still like all of the music I liked when I was a kid. Now my taste in music in middle school was shit. Hardly anybody can say they had a good taste of music back in middle school.

Good to see me and my brother aren't the only Dr. Katz fans I know. I still love that show, own the first two seasons on DVD and will probably buy the later sets since I don't remember a real dropoff. I do remember people who weren't really comedians showing up later on though like Jeff Goldblum. Ah, they're coming out with The Complete Series in November. Eh, don't know how I feel about this. I hope they release Seasons 3-6 individually. It'd probably be cheaper too since The Complete Series is $120 and the individual seasons are $15 tops.

Weird Al was my first concert. Still probably one of the borderline Top 10 shows I've ever seen. I'd love to see him again if he came here again and the price was right.

I'd agree when Papa John's first opened here years ago, it was the best chain pizza by far. Now it's barely better if it's better at all than Pizza Hut. Anything's better than Dominoes. That shit is cardboard with cheese and shitty tomato sauce.

A Perfect Circle- 3 Libras Used to love this one in middle school and haven't heard in a good four or five years and decided to give it a spin for no real reason.

Is it just the Portland, ME area or are a bunch of new local pizza places opening up across the nation? Ten years ago, we had one or two good local pizza places but now we have probably close to a dozen. I think there have been five that have opened up in the past two or three years alone. None of the chain pizza places are doing well here, I mentioned all but one of the Pizza Huts closing down, Papa John's closed a bunch of stores too and we've always had one Dominoes and one Uno's and they've never been popular. The kind of restauarant that sticks around for years despite the fact you never see anyone in the parking lot and you ask yourself "What the fuck are they still doing here?" It's that same way up here with Arby's.

Haven't eaten there in at least a year or two but they're starting to die off. I think there's only one Pizza Hut in the Portland area where as ten years ago, there were five or six. And that one Pizza Hut is one of those really lame Pizza Hut Italian Bistros. I'm not a fan but I'd definitely eat there any day over Dominoes and I'd probably put it on par with Papa John's. Not a fan of chain pizza outfits though, even at its best, it's mediocre compared to some of the good brick oven places that have opened up in the past few years.

This obviously won't sniff theaters and I even doubt that it'll get a DVD release. It's that bad and that low budget looking

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Ditto. Plus up here in Portland, we don't get a lot of the good fall movies till winter so there should be plenty to keep me occupied in the coming months.

Feel free to correct to me if I'm wrong, but has there ever been a successful spinoff where the said character only appears on the show it spun off from once or twice solely to set up the spinoff? All the spinoffs that use that method seem kind of lame.

I agree. Simmons really phoned it in this postseason. I've been off the Bill Simmons bandwagon lately, but I thought yesterday's column was the first time all season that he caught the mood and flavor of this year's Red Sox team. The stuff about his daughter felt tacked on, but he was finally able to explain that this year's team wasn't about goofy curses or beating the Yankees. It was the culmination of a talented front office piecing together a team they envisioned fiver years ago when they took over. This sort of thing might not mean anything to a non-Boston fan, but what they put together this year was quite amazing to watch and he was finally able to acknowledge that. For most of the year, he phoned in Red Sox articles regurgitating whatever the typical WEEI caller was saying at the time and playing the easy angles (OMG JD Drew sucks!). I really enjoyed yesterday's article as well. Best Simmons column I've read in a while and the daughter stuff, while forced, wasn't really that big of a part of the article. It just seems like the editors were like "Bill, good stuff, just tack on a sentimental ending and it's gold!"

I really don't get how they got him to do that. I would say it's the money and the opportunity to give more exposure to his solo career but I don't think any more people are going to New Cars shows than his solo shows. I thought it'd be a temporary thing too but apparently they're coming out with an album next spring. I don't see why Ric Ocasek doesn't stop this, it's just embarrassing everybody involved. That said, if they came again, I'd probably buy a ticket

I feel kind of bad for Todd Rundgren. The man is a musical genius but now he's relegated to the state fair circuit with the New Cars. The New Cars are sort of embarrassing to everyone involved but I can't trash them too much since I did buy tickets to see them. They cancelled said show though due to embarrassingly low ticket sales.

I'm a fan of Hall and Oates and wanted to go see their concert in December at the Orpheum in Boston but then I found out the cheapest tickets were $40. The highest were $125. Come on, it's 2007, who's openly going to pay $125 to see Hall and Oates? I could have seen them for $40 up close two summers ago with Todd Rundgren opening. Don't know why the hell I didn't go to that one... And back on topic..."We Are The World" is indeed a truly terrible song but the sentamentalist in me keeps me from calling a charity song one of the songs I hate the most. So my assesment of it is "Shitty song that had its heart in the right place." I'm a much bigger fan of "Do They Know Its Christmas?". Hell, I even like "Tears Are Not Enough" better.

I'll be sure to pick it up this weekend. Anything else that's good?

Bernie Mac has a habit of being the best part of crappy movies. I'd put him 2nd on the all time list of "Actors Who Have Been The Best Part of Bad Movies The Most Times" behind Christopher Walken. Though weirdly enough, when Mac gets a starring role, the movie isn't very good.

I was watching Trading Places for the first time today and it inspired me from starting this thread. I think the thing that holds it back from being an undisputed comedy classic is the entire scene on the train. It just seemed like a big excuse for the actors to put on silly costumes and speak with accents. And Jim Belushi completely aping his older brother's schtick (pun intended) is really annoying in this one. Though I guess the whole the villain getting sodomized by an animal schtick was probably a lot more novel back then.

I've been listening to The Zombies Greatest Hits a lot lately and was wondering if any of their albums are worth picking up or were they just a singles band?

I used to think Oates was black when I was like 6. And hey I just checked his wikipedia article to see what he is (half Italian, half Spanish-Moorish) and found out that he recorded a solo album a couple years back and did a duet with Paris Hilton on it. Wonder how he got her on there.

Was on NBC.com a week or two back. I guess I'm in the tiny minority that is incredibly indifferent to MacGruber. It is starting to wear on me a bit though.

There's a surprising amount of decent barbecue places here in Maine and if I was forced at gunpoint to pick a favorite kind of food, it'd probably be barbecue. My favorite place would be Beale Street Barbecue, damn good stuff. For Italian, my favorite is a local chain (I think there are 4 of 'em now), Espo's Trattoria. Good food. Huge portions Full Belly Deli is my favorite place for sandwiches. Great Jewish deli. But Amato's Italian Sandwich shop (Another local chain- think they're expanding in Massachusetts and Vermont now) is a close 2nd. So many good burger places. The one I frequent the most is Andy's Grill, a little hole in the wall place down the street. Great burgers and fresh cut fries. Harmon's probably has the best burgers but it's always packed and their burgers are small. Herb's Gully and Granny's Burritos in downtown Portland are tops for burritos. I can't pick which one is my favorite. Both are awesome but kind of hippie-ish. For pizza, I like The Portland House of Pizza. It seems like pretty much any restauarant here named *insert name of town* House of Pizza is awesome. Love the eggplant pizza. For fast food, I like Popeye's but there's only one in the entire state and it's a good 45-50 minute drive. I guess my favorites would be Wendy's and Taco Bell but I'll pretty much eat any of that garbage.

You know what vanhalen? Fuck you. Fuck you with handcuffs on and crazy glue on your lips. Fuck you and your long ass posts that singlehandedly ruined this thread. And "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" doesn't suck!

I was the captain of almost every one of my early morning elementary school intramural teams for some reason. Didn't matter what sport it was or the fact that I'm incredibly uncoordinated and suck at every legit sport, I was the captain of so many teams. Floor hockey, volleyball, basketball, I was the captain every season. All I remember is in basketball I was known for my rebounding and playing dirty. I remember in 5th grade, my basketball team was 2-6 but one of those wins came over the team that eventually won the championship. How we pulled that off, I don't know.