Sexy Q & A

What is Sexy Q & A? Just a little something I'm participating in that was introduced to me by the awesome MJ. Many thanks to her as this was a keen little exercise. If you would like to participate, there are rules listed below. If you would like to see MJ's post where she asked me the questions, click here. Sorry if any of the following is more detail than you needed to know, but hey, it's Sexy Q & A!

The Rules:
-If you want to participate, leave a comment below asking to be interviewed.
-I will respond by asking you five questions (each person's will be different).
-You will update your journal/blog with the answers to the questions.
-You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
-When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

1) Have you ever played hooky from work or school for the purpose of sex?
I have never played hooky for it (from neither work nor school), but when I worked at UCLA I showed up late for quite a few of my weekend shifts due to sex. Needless to say, those were some of the best days at work. What a great way to start the day!

2) You meet an intelligent, shy, sorta cute girl at a bar or party. You totally dig her and think about asking her out for dinner. After a couple of hours of fantastic conversation fly by, she leads you to her car and you guys start making out. It becomes clear that, as she moves all over you, she's much more of a vixen than you thought. Soon, she reaches into her glove compartment and produces a condom. What happens to your opinion of this girl? Would you go for it? Would you still want to ask her out?
I have not yet made out with a girl the day I met her. I don't think I'm a prude and I'm all for getting down and dirty (take that as you will) with the right person, but I actually want to know the girl before I stick my tongue down her throat (or stick Scott Jr., well, you know). But getting back on track…my opinion of this girl? First I'll say this: I don't think there's anything wrong with being passionate and being in the moment if there's that much magnetism to merit the meeting to lead up to sex. I'm not judging anyone who would do such a thing. Since I have not had sex that shortly after meeting someone, all I can say is that the way I feel, I personally would not have sex on the first date because that's a bit outside my comfort zone; again, I would like to know the person first. I suppose the readily available condom could be an issue. It's good to be safe, but I wouldn't just have condoms around if I weren't in a relationship...although I guess it's better to have than not to have in the event of an 'emergency.' It could just be stored there from a previous relationship. So then I'm guessing the shy thing is just a way to lure me in? Arrgggh!!! Call me a wuss, but I don't think I could go all the way that soon. I just think that a girl who moves that fast is a bit of bad news for me personally. I don't think a situation like that could develop into any kind of positive relationship for me. I don't mean to offend any single girls reading this who have condoms in their glove box (which is a bad place to keep them by the way!) that they keep there for the purposes of casual sex...whatever tickles your pickle is fine by me. I don't think you are bad people, you're just a little bit outside my comfort zone as far as sex with me goes.

3) Do you ever get turned on while watching mating scenes on the Nature Channel (or similarly nature-themed media outlet)?
I don't get turned on by it, but it is interesting to watch sometimes. Sex in general (human or animal...yes, I know we are animals too) is kind of funny at times. Some of the faces people/animals make during orgasm are priceless...and the noises...hehehe...gotta love the noises...just think of the sound a 300 pound swine would make when getting off...egad, I'm immature.

4) If zombies existed, you know as well as I do that they'd get it on with each other. Your task: describe zombie nookie.
It would hardly be romantic. The undead exist with the most basic animal functions, like the need to feed. Since they are soulless and lack emotions, there would in essence be no such thing as zombies making 'love' (stay with me here). On that note, they would also lack the impulse to reproduce and hence technically would not have sex. Even though they were once human and humans are probably the only species who have sex with emotion involved (I fell asleep a lot in science classes so please correct me if I'm wrong…but I do know that we aren't the only species that has sex for pleasure), if zombies were to get it on, it would just be primal, animalistic fucking. Nothing sexy about it. Just fucking. However, do keep in mind that since a zombie body is constantly in decay, there's a chance that the consistency of the body's flesh might be so decayed that it is too soft and thus fully penetrable, hence the zombie 'member' may just bust through the 'love crevice' (be it the vagina, anus, mouth, or just a hole somewhere where the flesh has already rotted away) and out the other side. The zombie 'member' may also be so decayed that it just might break off. There would be no worry of the zombies eating each other's parts off if there's oral involved because they do not eat necrotic flesh. They just might thrust away until one gets distracted by food or something shiny...or in the event that there is oral, the twice aforementioned 'member' could thrust through mouth into the neck and damage the spinal cord or brain, hence killing the partner.

5) What would you do for a Klondike Bar? If you don't like Klondike Bars, just pretend you do. Pretend they are your most favoritest treat in the whole entire universe.
Fuck anything that moves. Yes, I know this contradicts my answer to question #2, but come on! It's a Klondike Bar!!!...that I'm pretending to like...(I'm lactose intolerant by the way)

"When it comes to reassuring a traumatized 19-year-old, I'm about as expert as a palsy victim doing brain surgery with a pipe wrench."

Sometimes...

...I just want to disappear.

I don't know if any of you listen to Nine Inch Nails, but this is how life feels right now:

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feeling disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end

you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

"And everything seemed to be going so well."

Trivia for Squiggle #7

Today's edition of Trivia for Squiggle involves not only useless facts specifically about chocolate and coffee, but also some general food facts as well. I'm hungry...

151. A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.

152. German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate Co. The product was named in honor of him -- Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate.

153. One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

154. Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.

155. The botanical name of the chocolate plant is Theobramba cacao, which means "Food of the Gods."

156. The term "white chocolate" is a misnomer. Under Fedaral Standards of Identity, real chocolate must contain chocolate liquor. "White" chocolate contains no chocolate liquor.

157. "Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and as sweet as love" - Turkish Proverb

158. A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!

159. The world's costliest coffee, at $130 a pound , is called Kopi Luwak. It is in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.

160. Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.

161. Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.

162. Frederick the Great had his coffee made with champagne and a bit of mustard.

163. The word "tip" dates back to the old London coffeehouses. Conspicuously placed brass boxes etched with the inscription, "To Insure Promptness," encouraged customers to pay for efficient service. The resulting acronym, TIP, has become a byword.

164. The pound cake got its name from the pound of butter it contained.

165. The sandwich is named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), for whom sandwiches were made so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.

166. The hottest chile in the world is the habanero.

167. The white part of an egg is the albumen.

168. The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.

169. Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.

170. Watermelon, considered one of America's favorite fruits, is really a vegetable (Citrullus lanatus). Cousin to the cucumber and kin to the gourd, watermelons can range in size from 7 to 100 pounds.

171. When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.

172. When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."

173. When potatoes first appeared in Europe in the seventeenth century, it was thought that they were disgusting, and they were blamed for starting outbreaks of leprosy and syphilis. As late as 1720 in America, eating potatoes was believed to shorten a person's life.

174. The fungus called truffles can cost $800 to $1,500 per pound. They are sniffed out by female pigs, which detect a compound that is in the saliva of male pigs as well. The same chemical is found in the sweat of human males.

175. The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing.

"I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman."

Trivia for Squiggle #6(66)

Trivia for Squiggle #6 marks the first time we've seen two trivia installments in one week. Due to the fact that this is the sinister sixth issue AND it's coming at you from the sin city of the west coast (straight from Hollywood, CA), all the trivia today is entertainment-based.

126. C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

127. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

128. Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."

129. Carnegie Hall in New York City opened in 1891 with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.

130. Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

131. To create the sound of the heavy lid of the Ark being slid open, sound designer Ben Burtt simply recorded him moving the lid of his toilet cistern at home.

132. "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

133. Because of TV censorship, actress Mariette Hartley was not allowed to show her belly button on Gene Roddenberry's STAR TREK [episode #78 "All Our Yesterdays" in 1969] but later Roddenberry got even when he gave Hartley "two" belly buttons in the sci-fi movie Genesis II (1973).

134. Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra, 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to date (mid-1999). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to 270 million 1999 dollars.

135. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

136. Even though they broke up 25 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.

137. George Harrison, with "My Sweet Lord," was the first Beatle to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.

138. "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.

139. In 1938 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for $130.

140. In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been changed to R.)

141. In 1987 Playtex premiered the first US TV commercials with real lingerie models displaying their bras and underwear on national television.

142. Mickey Mouse is known as 'Topolino' in Italy.

143. When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

144. Penny Marshall was the first woman film director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office - she accomplished this with the 1988 flick Big.

145. The 1st interracial kiss on TV took place Nov. 22, 1968 between Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt.Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) on an episode of "Star Trek."

146. The 1st time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, "I'll Never Forget Whatshisname." In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, "Scarface," the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds.

147. The 1st winner of the Academy Award for best picture, and the only silent film to achieve that honor, was the 1927 film, "Wings."

148. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

149. The first CD pressed in the US - for commercial release - was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.

150. In Frank Miller's Sin City, guest director Quentin Tarantino directed the scene involving Dwight (Clive Owen) and Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) in the front of the car, before Dwight is pulled over by a police officer.

"This time I can't bring myself to tell him to shut up. Sure he's an asshole... Sure he's dead... Sure I'm just imagining that he's talking. None of that stops the bastard from being absolutely right. I don't have a chance in hell of outrunning this cop. Not in this heap. The only question left is whether I'm gonna kill him or not. Tough call. For all I know, he's an honest cop, regular guy. Working stiff with a mortgage, a wife and a pile of kids. My hand moves all on its own, sliding one of my guns to my lap and thumbing back the hammer. I don't know what to do..."

My Blogger Twin

Not to copy the almighty Squiggle, but Doug found another blog called Bits & Pieces within the Blogger network. It's by a woman from the Philippines and what's weird is that her first post was just one day after my first post here. Our content is entirely different as she writes poetry, talks about her life, workday, child, etc...whereas I just post nonsense and bitch all the time. But she seems like a nice lady and she has THE BEST prefix to .blogspot.com I've seen so far: BRAINSPLATS! So go check out my Blogger 'twin' if you get a chance.

http://brainsplats.blogspot.com/

"It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying, sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people."

Trivia for Squiggle #5

It is time for Trivia for Squiggle #5. Today's installment contains random facts about language, space, and geography. Did anyone notice that I said "today's" and not "this week's"??? That's because starting this week Trivia for Squiggle goes semiweekly with the second installment rounding out your workweek on Thursday.

101. The word "assassination" was invented by Shakespeare.

102. The word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.

103. The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.

104. The word "karate" means "empty hand."

105. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

106. The world's largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.

107. The ZIP in Zip-code stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan."

108. Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language - 823 words without a period

109. Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

110. On February 7, 1969 a meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico.

111. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

112. Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.

113. Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.

114. A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.

115. About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.

116. Alaska, with 8, is the US state with the most national park sites.

117. All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.

118. Australia is the only country that is also a continent.

119. Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.

120. Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

121. Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.

122. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

123. Europe has no deserts - it is the only continent without one.

124. French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

125. Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.

"I know it's pretty damn weird to eat people."

Movie Quote Answers

Here are all the movie quote answers since the last answers post. For those new to the blog, at the end of each post I put a movie quote in smaller text...like this...feel free to guess what movie the quote is from in the comments section of the post the quote is attached to. Although I must warn you, it is mostly stuff from B-movies and horror. Every week or two I list all the answers in a post just like the one you are reading now.

7/26
"My Dad says the only people who put ketchup on hot dogs are mental patients...and Texans."
Timmy Deters as Tanner Boyle in this year’s Bad News Bears remake.

7/27
"Boy, the next word that comes out of your mouth had better be some brilliant fucking Mark Twain shit because it’s definitely getting chiseled on your tombstone."
Bill Moseley as Otis in Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects.

8/1
"I may not be Mr. Right, but I'm Mr. Right Now."
Khary Payton as Derrick in the straight-to-video Hellraiser: Hellworld...the eighth installment in the series.

8/2
"Son Number One, this tall drink o' cocksucker ain't dead."
Michael Parks as Sheriff Earl McGraw in Kill Bill: Vol. 1. If you haven’t noticed, Michael Parks plays two roles in the Kill Bill series. The other character he plays appears in Vol. 2.

8/4
"Your mouth says 'No, no,' but my tongue says 'Yes, yes!'"
Robert Englund. Freddy Krueger. A Nightmare on Elm Street.

8/8
"Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants, burninating all the people in the thatched roof cottages! Thatched roof cottages!!!"
This quote comes from "Trogdor" as performed by Strong Bad from the "Dragon" episode on Strongbad_email.exe.

8/15
“I set my standards pretty low so I'm never disappointed."
Once again, the Almighty Bill Moseley as Otis in Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects.

"I’m calling the shots! I’M Willy Wonka and this is MY chocolate factory!"

Trivia for Squiggle #4

The following comment has nothing to do with the trivia posted below, but I must say that Ozzfest up in San Jose was AWESOME...way better than my Ozzfest 2004 San Bernardino experience. Rob Zombie and Iron Maiden KICKED ASS. Ok, now on to the trivia. This week's edition of Trivia for Squiggle contains bits of information about measurement, science, language, and one human body fact. Unless people want me to keep this to once a week, I may go twice a week with these starting next week as I already have lots of trivia prepared and ready to be posted on this blog...and I'll just keep going until I just run out of stuff to post. Movie Quote Answers will be up tomorrow.

76. The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.

77. The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device.

78. Ten inches of snow equals one inch of rain in water content.

79. If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.

80. A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.

81. "Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.

82. A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

83. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

84. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

85. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.

86. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

87. Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.

88. The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.

89. The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

90. Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

91. "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

92. The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

93. The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."

94. The expletive, "Holy Toledo," refers to Toledo, Spain, which became an outstanding Christian cultural center in 1085.

95. The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.

96. The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.

97. The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.

98. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

99. The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic Church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

100. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

"I set my standards pretty low so I'm never disappointed."

McGrory Dies at 32

5/17/73-8/9/05

I am sad today. Matthew McGrory had a short acting career, but it will always be a memorable one to me. After being a recurring attraction on the Howard Stern show, his first acting gig was in Marilyn Manson's "Coma White" video. May he rest in peace.

From IMDb.com:
Actor Matthew McGrory died at home in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 32. Police say the huge star, who was over seven foot tall, passed away from natural causes. McGrory became an actor after appearing on New York DJ Howard Stern's radio show in the 1990s. He starred in films including Big Fish, Men In Black II, House Of 1000 Corpses and its recent sequel, The Devil's Rejects.

CNN.com: Matthew McGrory, 'Big Fish' giant, dead at 32

MTV.com: Matthew McGrory, Big Man In 'Big Fish' And 'Devil's Rejects,' Dead At 32

Trivia for Squiggle #3

This week's issue of Trivia for Squiggle contains information on plants, general people/humanity facts, and a few bits on measurement.

51. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

52. A pineapple is a berry.

53. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.

54. 99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.

55. Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.

56. Wine grapes, oranges, figs and olives were first planted in North America by Father Junipero Sera in 1769.

57. When you give someone roses, the color can have a meaning. The meaning of rose colors:
Red = Love and respect
Deep pink = Gratitude, appreciation
Light pink = Admiration, sympathy
White = Reverence, humility
Yellow = Joy, gladness
Orange = Enthusiasm, desire
Red & yellow blend = Gaiety, joviality
Pale blended tones = Sociability, friendship

58. Wheat is the world's most widely cultivated plant; grown on every continent except Antarctica.

59. When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.

60. The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.

61. The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.

62. The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.

63. A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

64. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

65. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

66. For drinking, washing, etc., an average American uses 168 gallons of water per day. The average American residence uses 107,000 gallons per year.

67. Hans Christian Andersen, Cher, Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Whoopie Goldberg, Greg Louganis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Gen. George S. Patton, are (were) all dyslexics.

68. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

69. Humans are the only animals that copulate face to face.

70. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

71. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.

72. Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.

73. The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover 10 football fields.

74. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

75. There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

Today's quote actually comes not from a film but an online flash movie which is also available on DVD:
"Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants, burninating all the people in the thatched roof cottages! Thatched roof cottages!!!"

Sequels that Sucked

Now, this is by no means a comprehensive list and more of an impetus for discussion. Every week Circuit City has a sale on DVDs (you know, the 2 for 10’s, 2 for 15’s, 6.99 each, etc…), most of which are crap but every once in a while you get at least one shining nugget. Last week was not a case of the latter as my purchase included one of the biggest crapfests of all time: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation...the purchase and viewing again of which spawned this blog idea. I have a love for crappy B cinema, but you can’t get much worse than this glorified Power Rangers episode. I really liked the first Mortal Kombat when it came out. I’m not a big fan of special effects, but at the time what they did with the digital in that movie was truly remarkable...it also had a great cast, the set design and cinematography was excellent, and it was interesting that they actually made a story out of it all. A lot of people don’t like Paul Anderson’s work, but I think the guy is brilliant and has a great approach to filmmaking. All that aside, this list consists of flicks where there was something so special about the original that was completely devoid in the next installment. Anyways, finally, here’s my list so far (in alphabetical order):

Analyze That
I don’t remember much about this one other than that when I was in the theatre I just wanted to walk out the whole time. The first one was good, not excellent by any means, but the sequel was just a complete waste of time.

Batman Forever/Batman & Robin
These are a little too easy, so I will only say two words on how these films went wrong: Joel Schumacher.

Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows
A slightly interesting approach in dealing with the cult phenomenon of the first flick (which was by no means a cinematic masterpiece, but still a really interesting approach to low-budget filmmaking and just filmmaking in general). This sequel was just a big Hollywood stylized flick where the only cool thing about it was that they played Godhead during the end credits.

Die Hard 2: Die Harder
The first one was a classic with a brilliant performance by Alan Rickman (his first feature film!). This steaming cow pie just...sucked...and it also loses mucho points when McClane stabs that guy in the eye with an icicle...yeecchh...

Halloween: Season of the Witch
This is the third movie in the Halloween series, but there is NO MICHAEL MYERS in it. What is the point in having a Halloween movie without Michael Myers??? It would be like trying to get off to porn made with Barbie and Ken dolls…just pointless. There are other Halloween movies that sucked, too, but this one is just unforgivable.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my most favorite films of all time. Temple was such a disappointing follow-up. It was like a big episode of Fear Factor...and there was that eyeball soup...again, yeecchh...

Legally Blonde 2
I’m not a fan of this type of movie, but all the energy and everything special about the first one was completely absent here. Not only was the plot incredibly stupid, also notice how Reese Witherspoon rarely appears in the same frame as any of the other actors which means that she is either a prima donna or they lacked the budget to have all necessary actors on the set at any given time.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
See comments above.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2
Wes Craven established all the Freddy rules in the first one only for Jack Sholder to break them all in the sequel. This was the WORST of the series. Another notable sucky Nightmare sequel was the fifth movie (“The Dream Child”)...many of you might argue the suckiness of the other sequels in this franchise, but there was at least one or two cool things in the other movies.

My dishonorable mentions (or movies that sucked but I’d probably still watch again) include:

Airplane II: The Sequel
William Shatner was fucking cool in this movie.

Aliens
Yup, I hated the second Alien movie whereas many people site this one as their favorite in the series (probably just because James Cameron directed it). Having children in these action/thriller/big ass-kicking monster movies is just not believable. I don’t believe for a second that Newt could’ve survived the Alien attacks when everyone else had military weapons and combat experience. That and, to me, the movie is going along at a great pace and then it all stops so Ripley can play mom to this girl which is where the movie drags for me. I know that there are people who can argue that Alien 3 and 4/Resurrection sucked, but I loved David Fincher’s approach to the bleak third chapter and even though 4 was a let-down in so many ways, it had Michael Wincott AND Ron Perlman in it! I’m a big fan of both those guys, so Resurrection was a bit special to me.

The Crow 3 & 4
Eric Mabius and Ed Furlong as The Crow??? At least #4 is kinda fun because you get to see David Boreanaz make an ass out of himself and Dennis Hopper plays some Mexican mafia leader named El Nino.

From Dusk Till Dawn 2 & 3
At least each sequel had Danny Trejo in it…and 2 has Bruce Campbell at the very beginning.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Ummm...great poster art?

I had more on the list, but this post is turning out to be kinda long...and I’m sure I’ve forgotten many movies that should hold a place in this Hall of Shame, but I’ll stop here and let you guys take over in the comments section.

"Your mouth says 'No, no,' but my tongue says 'Yes, yes!'"

The NEW Visual Smorgasbord

I always thought the Angelfire photo albums I created were kinda lame so I got rid of them and created a new photo blog thingie right here within Blogger. I've posted all the Visual Bits & Pieces and Visual Smorgasbord images and combined them into the brand new Visual Smorgasbord...there's also two new pics I found somewhere on the net. You can read the now buried introduction here.

I have added a link to this new blog on the right, but here is the address as well:
http://smorgasbordello.blogspot.com

ALSO, some of you may have already noticed, but I've added a few other links on the right to more weird and keen stuff out thar in cyberspace like:
Albino Black Sheep
This link takes you to the Flash Movies section of their site which I find them ost interesting, but they also have graphics and games as well.

Strong Bad Emails
This is the best part of the Homestar Runner site. Trogdor!!!

Coloring Book
Innocent clip art turned horribly wrong.

Deviant Art
A site where anybody can post their art/photogrpahy and in most cases you can buy prints of the images on the site. There's some really awesome stuff here...and a lot of crap, too.

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Trivia for Squiggle #2

Sorry I didn't post these earlier and sorry I haven't been blogging for a few days...but I'm back and kicking ass (or at least poking someone in the side with a stick). This week's issue of Trivia for Squiggle contains useless bits of information about the human body, various products, and food.

26. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

27. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

28. Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.

29. The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.

30. The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.

31. Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.

32. Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin in 1898.

33. Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.

34. BVD stands for the organizers of the company: Bradley, Voorhies, and Day.

35. Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.

36. Colgate claims "Tooth Fairy" as a registered trademark.

37. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.

38. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

39. The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.

40. When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

41. A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey

42. Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

43. Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.

44. China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.

45. Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.

46. Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.

47. Fried chicken is the most popular meal ordered in sit-down restaurants in the US. The next in popularity are: roast beef, spaghetti, turkey, baked ham, and fried shrimp.

48. Goulash, a beef soup, originated in Hungary in the 9th century AD.

49. In 1976, the first eight Jelly Belly® flavors were launched: Orange, Green Apple, Root Beer, Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Grape, and Licorice.

50. In an authentic Chinese meal, the last course is soup because it allows the roast duck entree to "swim" toward digestion.

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