Gary Floyd

-How's it going folks? Not a whole lot going on around here (as usual). Last night though, I couldn't sleep, because there were these obnoxious kids outside at 2:30 in the morning playing with their super soakers and generally making such a racket, I could hear them through my ear plugs. Christ I hate College Freshmen. -Last night's "South Park" was a major improvement over the previous two episodes. The "Altered States" reference was a great touch (to Family Guy: Quit Refrencing Lucas/Spielberg movies and 80's Pulp Culture, and start referencing obscure cult movies. Then I might watch you again) and the ending made great use of the theme from "The Omen". Also, it pretty much shows viewers once again how dispicable Cartman is. -Watched "Wolf Creek" and "Event Horizon" last night. Both get 8/10 from me. I'm not getting any more DVD's until "Cemetary Man" hits DVD this June. -Finally, I'm going to start a countdown to who I think are the most pretentious bands of all time, as well as the most pretentious albums. Anybody have any suggestions? That's all. The countdown starts tomorrow.

-Last night I watched The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, and I loved it. It's a great piece of early giallo style horror cinema, and it was Dario Argento's directorial review. -Listened to the reissue to Chapterhouses album Whirlpool, and it's pretty good. The bonus tracks (all ep songs) are a mixed bag (some are great, some not so great) but the album tracks are great. Good to see a reissue of this, as it's a bit of a lost classic in the shoegazer era. -It seems like a guy from Fox News has stepped in as Bush's new advisor. If you ask me, I'm suprised it took this long for a guy from Fox News to officially work for Bush, but it's happened. I will say this: He's probably the envy of a lot of the folks that work at Fox news. -I enjoy the Colbert report, but I must admit: I think that sometimes, he overplays the character a bit. It's not that hard to mock/satirize dudes like Hannity, but he sometimes overdoes his character, making it a little annoying. -And now, as I promised last night, here's my list of underrated/underappreciated comedy movies National Lampoon's European Vacation-Not as good as the first Vacation movie, or Christmas Vacation, but infanately better than Vegas Vacation. There are some lame moments (the dreadful 80's fashions come to mind), but there are some great moments, such as Eric Idle's appearances, and Clark forgetting to turn off the camcorder when he's having sex with his wife (and said video making it on the French Porn market). Pootie Tang-This, along with Undercover Brother, are far superior to the overrated Austin Powers movies (though I do love the second Powers movie the most). Everything about this movie is hysterical, from the Villains (Jennifer Coolidge as an over the top hooker, David Cross as a Pootie Tang Impersonator) to the soundtrack ("I Wanna Be Your Man" by Zapp and Roger in particular, is a great highlight), to the appearences from other comics (Todd Berry comes to mind) to Pooties daddy, to the guy who always repeats what others are saying, to Dirty D ("They made me shower!"), to Pooties way with the ladies, to Bob Costas, to Pooties dialogue in general, to the absurd fight scenes-just about everything in this movie is hilarious. Kung Pow-I'm only mentioning this because I don't know anyone that loves this movie. How can anybody hate a movie with Gopher Chucks and a villain named Bettie? Plus: "That's alotta nuts!" Shaolin Soccer-Not as good as Kung Fu Hustle, but close enough. Have I ever mentioned that Stephen Chou is fucking awesome? Canadian Bacon-The last movie John Candy starred in, and the only movie Michael Moore has done that I can honestly enjoy. The highlights: John and the boys forgetting the words to Born in the U.S.A. and Oklahoma, and the scene at the camp fire were we realize that the black guy is always the first guy to die in movies. Joes Apartment -Singing cockroaches (one voiced by Dave Chappel), making fun of scenester kids, a man named Walter Shit, syncronized swimming in a toilet, Robert Vaughn, and Don Ho. I have always loved this movie, but nobody else seems to. Beavis and Butthead Do America-The peyote trip itself is a highlight of 90's comedy in itself. Also: "The guys who's trailer off they were wacking" may be one of the funniest things ever said. Dirty Work-Norm McDonald was always underrated in my eyes, and this movie proves it. Moments such as "Men in Black-Having Sex with Other men" are good, but the dead hookers in a car joke is a thing of comic genius. Street Trash-Essentially a horror comedy, but oh well. Here's a movie with a liquor that causes the body to melt into monet like colors, or causes it to explode. Also has: rape, necrophillia, a cop who pukes on people, bad dialogue, fart jokes, and most memorably of all: A game of Hot Potato with a severed penis. Very Bad Things-The wanna be Quentin Tarentino moments suck, but the rest of this movie is great. Jokes about chopping up hookers, Daniel Stern going insane, Christian Slater being an evil asshole, and a wonderfully dark ending. The Cable Guy-Jim Carey as a psychotic stalker. When this came out, critics (and audiences) hated it, or didn't understand it. I think this sucker a a great piece of dark comedy. Also, to this day, I sometimes say "Oh Billy!" Cabin Boy-I don't care what anybody says: this movie is awesome. Chris Elliot, a cameo from David Letterman, and great dialogue ("These Pipe Are Clean!").

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Oh, I'm On Fire

This week's episode was actually pretty good. Oh, and there was an awesome reference to the movie "Altered States"

She still doesn't acknowledge my existence, which is disappointing.

Aphex Twin's I Care Because You Do, Ambient Works 85-92, Ambient Works II, Analogue Bubblebath III, and the Analord series are great. Also, try the Orb, some Portishead, some Mick Harris solo projects (Scorn, Lull), Pink Floyd's Echoes and Obscured by Clouds, Brian Eno's ambient work, Cabaret Voltaire's 90's techno albums, and Tangerine Dream. Great homework music there.

Wolf Creek Unrated Edition Event Horizon 2 disc special edition

She still loves Henley and Gabriel, so not everything she likes is good, though I don't have a problem with her love of Peter Gabriel.

You're mom has fucking awesome taste in music.

My mom actually likes Interpol and Radiohead. She doesn't like Zeppelin though, which causes her to lose points. She also doesn't like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, which helps her gain points.

I just cracked up when I saw that Hogan Hotline Thing. Great picture.

Today's entry brought to you Zapp and Roger. Don't leave home without it! -Anyways, I'm sure that a lot of people here bought the new Tool album that came out today. It did come out today, didn't it? Just wondering. Anywho, personally, I'm not too interested. Sure, I would have been interested in this back when I was a teenager, but when I turned 21, I finally grew a bit tired of Tool. I don't know wy, but I just did. I'll still have to hear it blaring from speakers in my college, but I will admit, I'd rather hear Tool than that Keisha Cole song "Love". I have to hear that song every fucking day, and I'm sick of it. At least I have Current 93's new album to look forward to later this month. You Tool fans think that five years is a long wait? Try waiting 10 years since David Tibet and co. have released an album of new material. -I actually enjoyed Raw last night. Not every part of it, but I thought it was good. Highlight of the show was the worked shoot from Joey Styles. Check it out here. Also good was the Kane vs. Conway match, simply for the fact that they made this whole "May 19th" angle a litte enjoyable, or at least for five minutes. Oh, and I still love the Spirit Squad.

Kevin Spacey yelling out wrong is going to become a YTMND fad in the future. You just know it. Hell, it might even become the next "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

1 - RV Sony Pictures Releasing $16,400,000 $16,400,000 1 3639 2 - United 93 N/A $11,605,000 $11,605,000 1 1795 3 - Stick It Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $11,255,000 $11,255,000 1 2038 4 1 Silent Hill TriStar Pictures $9,300,000 $34,231,000 2 2932 5 2 Scary Movie 4 The Weinstein Company , Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Dimension Films $7,808,000 $78,171,000 3 3418 6 3 The Sentinel 20th Century Fox Distribution $7,600,000 $25,541,000 2 2851 7 4 Ice Age: The Meltdown 20th Century Fox $7,050,000 $177,708,000 5 3122 8 - Akeelah and the Bee Lions Gate Releasing $6,250,000 $6,250,000 1 2195 9 5 The Wild Walt Disney Pictures $4,719,000 $28,430,000 3 2605 10 6 The Benchwarmers Sony Pictures Releasing $4,400,000 $52,782,000 4 2695 11 10 Friends With Money Sony Pictures Classics $2,173,000 $8,177,000 4 1010 12 8 Inside Man Universal Pictures Distribution $2,051,000 $84,435,000 6 1294

I have to admit: I actually enjoyed Raw tonight. First time I enjoyed Raw in a long time. Granted, I didn't like everything, but I thought it was a suprisingly good show.

That was awesome. Joey, you just made this the best Raw in ages all thanks to one segment. You think Vince's ego would allow that?

Well, goodbye Joey. Guess this means the return of (sigh) Jim Ross.

So, did Lawler just turn heel?

Welcome to the WWE Joey. Vince just loves to humiliate Raw announcers, doesn't he? Probably masturbates to it.

Welcome to the WWE. We love to piss you off see you smile.

I have a feeling Joey will be leaving soon. Thank God we don't have Coach so far.

Wow, a Burger King commercial that I didn't think was funny. I thought that was impossible at this point. (No, I'm not being sarcastic).