After seeing the first half of the Colts-Bills game last night with a few co-workers (great seats, total yawner of a game), we adjourned to Casa de Leister to watch Napoleon Dynamite. I saw it once in the theater and wasn't as impressed as a lot of people, but I decided to give it another chance since everyone in the freakin' world continues to spout quotes from the movie on a daily basis. As it turns out, I did think it was funnier this time, in part because it was nice to hear the quotes in their original context instead of coming from somebody at the office. It's just a silly and random movie, and I still feel like it tries a little too hard. The parts with his family are a lot funnier to me than most of the school scenes. But it's also a lot more enjoyable when you're watching it with somebody who's giggling uncontrollably through most of the movie. It's hard not to laugh too.
MLS: Another game, another 3-0 win for DC United. Even missing a lot of their offensive starters and playing in scorching humid DC heat, they rolled over expansion club Chivas USA. Santino Quaranta continued his recent string of impressive games, and Dema Kovalenko, Jamil Walker, and rookie defender Bobby Boswell extended their point streaks as DC stretched their unbeaten streak to 6 with their 4th straight win. I almost felt bad for Chivas at some points, but then I remembered when their owner, Jorge Vergara, was talking before the season about how Chivas (the sister club of a Mexican League team) would come in and own MLS right away. My favorite part of the game? Hanging in front of the Screaming Eagles supporter section was a banner that read: "Us-4 cups. You-3 wins."Music: Although I've been listening mostly to Coldplay since Friday night's concert, I also downloaded the remastered version of AC/DC's classic album Back in Black, mainly because after so much mellow Brit music, I was feeling the need to rock very loudly. I am happy to report that I still remember how to play the opening riff to "Hell's Bells" after a 15-year break. If there was an emoticon for the devil horns, I would totally throw them now.
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So about two weeks ago I stopped by the trendy t-shirt kiosk at the mall and asked the trendy 20-something working there what "Vote for Pedro" was, because it was killing me that I kept seeing it everywhere and was far too untrendy to know what it meant.
She asked me if I'd seen the movie, told me to watch it...but said to do myself a favor and rent it so I could watch it at least twice more. She said it just doesn't sink in the first time, but it's hilarious every time after that. I watched it twice in two days on cable and she was right.
Personally, I like "Girls only like boyfriends who have great skills" the best. True that.
Yeah, I know plenty of women who list "nunchuk skills" as their #1 trait for their dream guy. ;P
Oh, and Back in Black was my absolute favorite album in 5th grade...because crush Mike D. had it listed as HIS favorite album in the slam book that was going around, y'know. Will always have a place in my heart.
Wow, pretty advanced musical taste for a fifth-grader. I think I had Michael Jackson and Ray Parker Jr. in heavy rotation back in those days.
You were also a toddler in those days.
I was doing "The Rock" and the robot, too, no doubt about it.
But he was very cute, that Mike D.
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