Troy, You Suck.

It was a busy weekend over here. In addition to the NFL draft, which lasts two days in case you were fortunate enough not to know, we went to go see Fall Out Boy Sunday night.
Driving to the show was an experience I will always treasure. I piled into a 5 passenger car with five boys (plus me) and then I listened. I listened to what boys talk about when they are together. I was struck by how much they sounded like girls. I also figured their conversations would be more focused. They're not. Very jumbled. Very unfocused. Until one of them said, "I was reading about the strange sex habits of animals".

Then everyone was listening.

Apparently there is a species of octopus that has a detachable penis. As impressive as that is garter snakes have two (though they aren't detachable). That's right two. That just screams trouble. I also learned how long gorilla and duck penis' are. I am so much smarter now. I wonder if I'll ever be able to use this information perhaps during a game of trivial pursuit or while homeschooling my children. OK maybe not the last one. This particular conversation ended when one of them wondered out loud if he could push his own penis back into his body thus creating a sort of penis innie and another one of them encouraged him to try it sometime to find out. Come to think of it they didn't sound like girls at all.

After listening to an hour of boys talking about baseball and penis' I was subjected to 2hrs of warm-up bands. First was Hey Monday a Paramore type band that I like alot. Then All Time Low who were good enough, meh. Up next in the never-ending line-up, Cobra Starship who were kind of awesome. The lead singer had alot of charisma and it made the whole show better. The final warm-up band was MetroStation. Being honest, they had the most radio hits of all the warm-up bands, but wow, did they suck. Their lead singer was super annoying like he was trying too hard or was too in love with himself or something. And then... (screaming fanfare) Fall Out Boy!

They were spine-tinglingly awesome. The only thing I didn't enjoy was Pete Wentz talking in between every song. Seriously, dude, you can go from one song right into the next one once in awhile. That being said, I'm not a reviewer but Wentz spotted one in the audience and he requested that the reviewer write, "This is the most awesome song ever (America's Suitehearts), by the most awesome band ever." So there you go Wentz, at least someone wrote it.

Which brings me to why Troy sucks. First, they failed to sell-out their little college arena. Then the people who were there just stood there. This was a rock show people! A really good rock show. Jump around, scream, convulse, something. You don't just stand there while Fall Out Boy is rocking your brains out. I'm seriously disappointed in you, Troy.

Penis

In leiu of sharing my picks...

...I thought I'd just share which movies I thought were worth watching and which ones I strongly suggest you avoid.

First, though, I would like to share that I'm going to see Fall Out Boy. I won't lie, I'm a little giddy about it. The actual concert isn't until the end of April but that just gives me something to look forward to during these bleak ugly winter months. ( did anyone know it was supposed to snow again to day? Does anyone care anymore?)

To keep us from getting too bored while we wait for Fall Out Boy, the nice people in Hollywood are putting on the Oscars tonight. In the past four weeks, the Coach and I have watched 19 films in preparation for the big night. Well 18 really, we had already seen The Dark Knight. I'm not a big TV/movie watcher and I'm so, so, SO ready to be done watching these movies.

I'm not going to list my picks for you because seriously how boring is that. I will say that I don't think that there will be too many upsets tonight and in spite of my great love for the film Milk I really think it's going to come in second to Slumdog Millionaire in several categories including Best Picture. That's not to say that I didn't love Slumdog Millionaire because I did and am even considering purchasing it when it comes out on DVD, which I never do.
As a side note even though I feel that Heath Ledger should (and most likely will) win for his portrayal of the Joker, Robert Downey Jr. was just brilliant in Tropic Thunder. I laugh just thinking about it.

And now if you are looking for a good movie to check out in the coming months I strongly recommend Milk and Slumdog Millionaire. I also loved Frost/Nixon and the Wrestler. In a Rolling Stone interview Sean Penn said that the Wrestler was a beautiful film and he cried. I totally concur except I didn't cry. I'm cold hearted that way. For a film that's a little more off the beaten path The Visitor was a beautiful film as well. It's a total art film so if you don't like that kind you should probably skip it but if you do check it out.

As for films to avoid, um, Frozen River sucked big time. As did Rachel Getting Married, Revolutionary Road and I know this won't be popular but Wall-E. If I had a choice between watching Wall-E again and eating bull testicles, well I'd have to give it some thought but that it's even up for debate should speak volumes.

I'm going to go vomit now.