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Post by grover on Mar 18, 2008 2:19:41 GMT -5
Does anyone watch The Venture Brothers? I know Jackass watches Adult Swim. When I get home from work, if I'm still wired at 6 in the morning I will watch this to settle down, and laugh my balls off. This show is awesome.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 21, 2008 17:49:12 GMT -5
Prepping for tonights dinner I watched a show I DVRd off Food Net, all about a pierogie festival in Illinois. A fun 30 minute jaunt. They go all out here, including a guy dressed as a pierogie named Mr Pierogie, contests involving throwing and catching buttered pierogies, a pierogie eating contest, and a best-pierogie contest. I am a cheese or potato guy, but some of them were filled with apricot, saurkraut, peach, all kinds of stuff. Looked like a fun time, I want to go. They had a cool parade and everything, and everyone was whooping it up. I even saw a building in the background of a scene called "Pierogatory"
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Post by Chris on Apr 23, 2008 0:49:34 GMT -5
Speaking of NOFX...I've been season passing their reality show on FUSE. Backstage Pass.
It's a good show chronicling their world tour aimed at some of the more obscure cities bands usually don't hit...as well as some of the big cities.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 23, 2008 7:45:10 GMT -5
LOL - I just taped a show off FUSE, surrounding white rappers Kaves and ADM of "The Lordz" - formerly known as The Lordz of Brooklyn. I have not watched it yet, but I saw them showing Kaves promoting it on another show by tagging a wall they built across from Penn Station for him to spraypaint.
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Post by Chris on Apr 23, 2008 9:14:07 GMT -5
It's called The Brooklyn Way.
Can't believe it's still on. I jumped on that a year ago, and promptly jumped off.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 23, 2008 9:15:18 GMT -5
Seriously? They were portraying it like it was new, and I had never noticed it in the listings.
Cho, you ever listen to any Lordz of Brooklyn? I once saw them live and they were really living the gimmick, stalking around the club before they went on in their black trenches and fedoras.
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Post by Chris on Apr 23, 2008 9:18:18 GMT -5
Nope, I've never heard their music. It's rap, right?
Yeah, this show has been on for a long time. I'm not sure what's playing now is new, or just repeats.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 23, 2008 9:21:02 GMT -5
Yeah, its rap. Picture a bunch of Irish and Italian guys doing street rap, about dumping bodies under a boardwalk, and getting into bar fights on a Saturday night. Its fun stuff, but I am sure in most circles its frowned on as godawful bad.
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Post by Chris on Apr 23, 2008 9:22:09 GMT -5
Some googling shows that this show first aired sometime around June of 07.
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Post by Chris on Apr 23, 2008 9:23:02 GMT -5
So basically, it's House Of Pain a decade or so too late?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 23, 2008 9:25:41 GMT -5
Could be. I honestly do not know much House of Pain, aside from what you always heard on the radio and music channels. One guy has this gravelly voice, and there is an Italian guy called Paulie Two-Times who repeats stuff in his rap, and they say stuff like, "Its the LOB-ya, not my pizzaria, word to mamma-mia' and stuff like that
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Post by Chris on Apr 23, 2008 9:28:19 GMT -5
Yeah they were bad. I saw them get booed OFF the stage before they were able to complete one song, while opening for the Ramones at the Hollywood Palladium.
Watch the NOFX show, Tom. Better band, better show.
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Post by Chris on Apr 30, 2008 9:07:47 GMT -5
FSN In Focus: The 1990s New York Yankees
This is a good show - basically a 1/2 hour documentary of whatever the topic may be (in this case the 90s Yankees) accompanied by strictly still photo footage.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 30, 2008 9:19:11 GMT -5
I dont like the idea, cause the 90s Yankees - Hell, almost everything Yankees, has been done to death. I would rather watch the old games from that era on tape, and do, than watch a "documentary" or people talking about it.
I just taped VERMINATORS on Discovery, a reality show following exterminators around, and at work. My Grandpa was an old-school exterminator, I had fun as a kid pawing through his encyclopedias of all things bug. Have not watched this show yet, and will need to watch it alone as Dana has no use for bugs.
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Post by Chris on Apr 30, 2008 10:40:50 GMT -5
Well, it's only a 30 minute show, so it's not overkill. I could see that format with that topic getting tired after an hour.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 30, 2008 10:46:35 GMT -5
Oh, I am by no means lambasting you for watching it, I do understand its appeal. But I have seen enough, and read enough. All bases were covered to me, as it were.
Cho, watch Verminators.
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Post by Chris on Apr 30, 2008 10:55:17 GMT -5
Is Kelly Bundy in it?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 30, 2008 20:09:21 GMT -5
Just set the DVR to record this tomorrow (Thursday the 1st) at 10AM on National Geographic Channel
"SHRINK WRAPPED AND BOXED UP"
"The packaging industry is spotlighted. Included - the history and future of packing materials, environmentally friendly plastics made of corn and tapioca starch."
Seems quirky and fun.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 8, 2008 15:34:30 GMT -5
Celebracadabra. I think its on VH1? They get some D level celebs, pair them up with magicians, and they learn the tricks, do some challenges and perfomances, and one gets their wand broken and "dissapears" weekly.
Dana is a big magic fan, so I put it on our list. We enjoyed it more than we thought it would, even with a cast that included Carnie Wilson and someone from the Pussycat Dolls. Someone from the Outsiders was on there, Hal Sparks, someone from Kid N Play.
The show was fun. Oh, that annoying Ant guy was on there. He is playing the heel. The magicians are across the board, including some guy dressed like a clown called Silly Billy, who steals every scene he is in just by standing around in his gaudy clothes.
Last night, the debut we watched, they had as the challenge performing street magic. Next episode they perform in front of kids.
The show was fun. The scheming behind the scenes by sneaks like Ant who is trying to band together with select other contestants as a "Magic Mafia' to get the others out of the game is pretty cool. Guys like Sparks and the Kid N Play guy were really good with their magic and such.
If you have a passing interest in either magic or goofy celebs, find this and watch this.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 12, 2008 20:03:27 GMT -5
Kick ass! DVR this show on Nat-Geo if you can. BATTLE AT KRUGER. Lions chase water buffalo, and a baby buffalo is tackled into the water. As a lion and the buffalo grapple, another lion does a Superfly splash onto the tangle. A croc jumps in and a tug of war ensues between the croc and 4 lions. Lions win. The herd of Water Buffalo return to the scene and a scuffle ensues. 8 minutes of animal awesomeness. Make a long story short, watch the vid and watch the baby buffalo stumble away! And one Water Buffalo is a one-buffalo army, raising cain amongst the lions! This was filmed by safari goers, all amateur baby. Its apparently a YouTube hit for a while, over 30 million hits. Heres the link. But the special, addressing the play by play bit by bit, was tremendously engrossing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
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Post by Jason Giambi on May 19, 2008 11:14:25 GMT -5
NESN, 8 p.m.-11 p.m.
New England Sports Network presents Classic Yankee Losses, a weekly series showcasing the Yankees losing in heartbreaking nail-biters, complete blowouts, and even normal run-of-the-mill losses. Tonight: The Yankees' 7-4 loss to the Orioles on May 17, 1984.
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Post by Chris on May 19, 2008 11:57:18 GMT -5
Are you shittin' me? They actually air that? You know, when it comes to the extent to which they sweat the Yanks, they are fucking pathetic. That is utterly lame.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 19, 2008 12:05:50 GMT -5
While I do agree its lame, its kind of funny.
NESN shows Red Sox fans Yankee losses once a week, YES airs Centerstage with John Leguizamo 85 times a week. Which is worse?
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Post by Jason Giambi on May 19, 2008 12:28:09 GMT -5
actually it's a pardoy from theonion..... pretty funny I thought. what about bobby meacham yankeeography?
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Post by Chris on May 29, 2008 11:50:37 GMT -5
Roy Jones - ESPN Sweet Science - Documentary on Ruiz/RJJ fight
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 29, 2008 12:43:52 GMT -5
Giambi, you got us up in arms over nothing. You should have earmarked that as a parody. I knew something was awry when I could not find note of that anywhere when I dirtied myself poking around the NESN site trying to confirm this travesty.
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Post by Chris on May 31, 2008 13:39:47 GMT -5
I'm about to serve up a Roberto Clemente documentary that's been sitting on my Tivo for months now.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 31, 2008 14:03:02 GMT -5
You know what, i noticed that and meant to zip it and forgot. Let me know what you think. I have that Bobby Valentine thing saved from last week, may be getting on that soon. I once again "went around the block" as the first thing saved and not yet watched in my DVR box has been there since late May last year....its hit the one-year anniversary.
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Post by Chris on May 31, 2008 20:05:20 GMT -5
So it was a good documentary. I didn't know nearly as much about Clemente as I thought.
Apparently, what seems to be at least the first half of his career, he was very much a Gary Sheffield type - a highly skilled player with a noticeable chip on his shoulder about some perceived lack of respect he was getting due to race/nationality as well as a severe case of hypochondria. For all intents and purposes, he was widely regarded by teammates and opponents to be the same sort of pariah that Sheffield and Jeff Kent are viewed as.
I guess with maturity, he calmed down and became a much more dignified Latino elder-statesman of the game.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 3, 2008 15:26:39 GMT -5
I remember hearing that about Clemente. To be kind, he was reputed to be a jackass. And people say if he did not die in the heroic fashion he did, he would have been ushered out of the game and not really remembered with fondness, all talent aside. What I did NOT hear was that he mended his ways. I seem to have read he was always a dick.
There is a well-regarded book about him out there, but I dont know if its out there to glamorize him or what.
Oh, just a heads up, Cho...not sure if you ever saw that special on the Chupacabra that we discussed a few months ago on here - its being replayed tomorrow, Wed afternoon, on NatGeo Channel.
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