I deserve this…

It showed at various film festivals in 2013 but I don't think it had an actual release until early 2014.

I was not a fan of The Immigrant. It was visually appealing but melodrama rarely does it for me on film (it works better on stage in my opinion). Also, I love Joaquin Phoenix but I thought that this was one of his worst performances. I don't know if he was to blame or perhaps Gray is just not particularly good at…

Only Lovers Left Alive was one of the most enjoyable experiences I had at the movies this year.

I got around to reading Freedom this year after having read The Corrections three years ago. I enjoyed Freedom for the most part but Franzen has some writing habits that I find irksome. I can' t think of an example off the top of my head but he does this thing where he subtly hints at the importance of an object or…

I also finally read Oryx and Crake. I enjoyed it for the most part but some of the dystopian stuff was a little over the top. Oddly enough, what Atwood's descriptions of the future reminded me of was the Detroit from the original Robocop movie. I haven't started the next book in the series as of yet.

I still have a soft spot for Styles' brand of commentary. It might be a bit overzealous with the "SPORT OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING" type of stuff but it is still vastly superior to the Raw team these days. Though if I never have to hear him screeching, "CAT FIGHT!" ever again then I will be perfectly fine.

I only remember him for his back and forth with Heenan and Ventura. I don't really remember how he called matches the way I do with JR or Styles. Probably because I was really young when Monsoon was on commentary. I read some quote by Dave Meltzer that basically said that a lot of heels hated Monsoon's commentary…

I was randomly looking at the list of year end awards from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and Gorrilla Monsoon won "Worst Announcer Award" several times. It kind of blew me away because I thought most everyone remembered him fondly.

I think you may have just described Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling's entire shtick.

There is a lady I work with who is pretty awesome but hasn't kept up to date with music for a long time. She recently started dating a guy who is a drummer in a few different bands. One of his bands does a lot of cover songs and she said that the songs are "A little too hardcore for me." I asked her to give me an…

There is this one guy in my office who is just slightly off. You wouldn't think it just by looking at him. He is kind of good looking. Dresses pretty well. Makes a good income in sales. He isn't the type of guy who loves World Of Warcraft or collects swords or something but holy shit is he the most incredibly awkward…

Didn't NBC try to do this exact same thing with Michael Richards after Seinfeld went off the air?

Springfield was such a weird town. I had friends who went to school there and every time I would visit them it felt like it was something I like to call a "hate trip" (kind of like when you hate watch NBC musicals). I ate terrible but delicious fried food. Drank to the point of almost getting alcohol poisoning at…

I like the idea of starting a grindcore band and calling it Running Water. "NOW OPENING FOR NAPALM DEATH….Uh, Running Water…?"

I guess you can call them Running Water if you prefer.

God dammit. I missed an opportunity to quote Wayne's World.

They named themselves after a state park in Missouri. It is an area that Native Americans once called Ha Ha Tonka which apparently translates to "running water."

Something else I noticed is that Pynchon is the first author I have read that seems to really make the reader really empathize with a really high person. Not just, "I know that feeling" but…I don't know…it is weird because I feel like I get lost in the dialogue of who said what, and what that reference meant, and is…

I'm about 150 pages into Inherent Vice. My first time reading Pynchon. I do really enjoy my back and forth thinking of, "Man, Doc is kind of an idiot" and then "Oh, wait he is just pretending to be an idiot" and then, "Wait, is he actually an idiot?" and finally, "Oh, he is just high…I think."