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hey hey! almost three months since my last post i'm noticing here, so, yeah, that's pretty good right? keeping right up w/ things.

well, this isn't much of a post anyway. just sort of a reminder to anyone who happens upon this page to start checking back in more regularly. things are more than a bit hectic right now, though in a pretty good way, but i should hopefully start getting some shit down here.

so for now, go out and enjoy the lovely day, or what's left of it, and i'll talk to all y'all motherfuckers later.

stahl

mo' sportz

it's hard not to chat about sports these days, and sports specifically. namely the sox. ok, the super bowl is less than a week away, and that is awesome as i very much look forward to my dad enjoying his steelers winning and all. he's been pretty psyched to this point, so he should be "overjoyed" once they wrap up the seahawks.

and uconn, well, hey now. here we go. all the way baby. from here on out their schedule does not let up, and i could not be more psyched. get ready for ranked games day in and day out. this shit is "tight!" i just hope playing down to their competition the past couple of games doesn't catch up to them tomorrow, but i don't think it will. and for a team that does play to it's competition, i cannot think of a better way to close out the season and head towards the tournaments than to play game after game of ranked team. they could and should be on a role like they've never seen before. should be exciting.

and i had totally forgotten, but peter manfredo has a "contender" fight in providence in two weeks, sunday february 12. a perfect valentine's day gift! i'm trying to figure out who else is fighting, which neither espn.com nor ticketmaster.com want to help out w/. well, i can only assume it'd be someone amazing, and that manfredo's fight would be the greatest fight in history, because the ticket prices are (lowest) $35, $125, $225, $300 and $500. seriously. at the dunkin' donuts center in providence. $500. seriously. w/ no other matches even listed in their attempts to sell tickets. will there be other contender matches? will 'fonso be fighting? the latin snake? my boy joey perhaps? what IS the deal? cause goddamn, those prices are insane for one match that manfredo should handle easily. i mean jesus, the dude he's fighting is 38! and he's not "b-hop." so, that should be good.

but baseball, or more so, the sox. coco crisp is officially "in center field and leading off!" i have made mention of how i don't think he's gonna be able to play in boston. that's my biggest concern that he's one of the majority of players that cannot handle the pressure of playing in boston and new york. the sox have been fairly lucky w/ this lately, at least luckier than the yanks have been, but i fear this could be a big one. that being said though, it's hard not to get caught up in the "what if?" what if he CAN handle the town? well if he can somehow, then we're looking at a whole lot more than anyone had even begun to imagine would be possible after damon left. this is a guy who's young still, and has had his numbers increase in every year. a guy who hit over .300 last year, which in boston would be a 100 run season at the leadoff. he's a guy who also hit like .331 in the final 30 games of the season last year, which if you'll remember were crucial to a very heated race for the central title down to the final weekend of the season. that was a pressure situation, and this kid delivered. again though, delivered in cleveland. which, even in a playoff atmosphere, is not even close to playing in boston, in april.

all that being said, i'm still gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and hope to god he can handle things here. because like i said, if he does, this is one hell of a situation we're looking at here. it's just that he doesn't help things out by saying things to the effect of, "i'm not johnny damon, so i don't think people will really compare me to him." that's not the exact quote, and i'm having a hard time finding it for some reason right now, but that's the idea. and to be so naive to think that not only will that happen, but that it's already happening and will only increase in intensity from now until he leaves town is just plain stupid. and it really shows he has no idea what he's getting himself into here.

on the other hand, i am very psyched about david riske, especially over guillermo mota. this is a guy who seems to really love the idea of coming to boston, and while not the name that mota is, he has far better numbers, especially over last season, than mota. he should be good for us, and if not, ah well, not really that big of a deal.

now we're only left shortstop-less. but w/ many available players to trade to the o's for tejada. not helping baltimores case to keep him is that javy lopez is now looking to be re-signed by spring training or dealt. what a surprise. lots of money or get me the hell out of here. i think that's actually the orioles motto, it's on a plaque somewhere in the stadium.

i'll leave this one as a sports post again, but i've got movie reviews, news and some videogame chit chat to delve into later in the week. last week would have hard more posts, but one of the days, i think friday, blogger was down for an extended period of time, so i wasn't even able to sign on. so sad. but i've got the goods this week. tune in! later!

stahl

who likes sports shorts?

so what a fucking sporty weekend we've got here, let me tell you. well, slightly longer than the weekend, since i somehow missed a friday post, yet again. but let's jump all over this shit.

theo's back. what a shock. and i am happy about that, and i am hoping things will start to turn around a bit here, but i'm also so very pissed that all this shit took place to begin w/. do i think johnny would be gone had theo been here? no, i don't. do i think we would have made the move for beckett? no, i don't. but at the same time, while the beckett move, by itself, is a great fucking move and was well worth making, we've got a rotation of pitchers who can go out and start baseball games. at this moment, we still do not have anyone who can even stand in centerfield and pretend he's a centerfielder. nor do we have a leadoff hitter. so...yeah. at this moment, i would take johnny over beckett, and i would take theo having never left in the first goddamn place.

i hear coco crisp is on his way over here, in one odd trade of basically prospects for prospects, which is good news. better than trading away bronson for some untested kid. coco crisp is a good player, but is he the type of player that can play here? that i really wonder about, and i'm kinda worried that the answer is no, he's not. he is also no johnny damon, but that can be remedied quite quickly if theo can come back, use his skillz (yes, w/ a z, they're that good) and get tejada up in boston for clement. all this talk of us signing alex gonzalez is, i hope, just a backup plan to tejada, and possibly even another piece to add to the trade for tejada, to fill baltimore's new hole at short. because man, alex gonzalez? seriously? it's better than trading players away for no good reason to tampa to get the same exact player, but come on. and better yet, why have you not yet traded wells to the padres for dave roberts to leadoff and play center, and then dump clement, gonzalez and "prospects" on baltimore for tejada. what IS the deal?!

well, uconn went about handling it's business this weekend, sloppier than anyone would have liked to have seen, but they got it done, and got it done w/ very little concern. they are THE team in the country this season. and as if them winning wasn't nice enough, duke and florida were nice enough to lose and open the door up to the number one spot once again. here we go. uconn huskies, number one in all the land! all the land i say!!!

then the steelers went about just handling the broncos, and the panthers reverted to the team they were throughout portions of the regular season, just unaware that yes, they actually were a nfl football team. surprise! jackasses... not that i'm overly pissed, though carolina would have provided a much better "game", this should most assuredly hand the steelers their fifth title, and give jerome one hell of a send off. i'm very much looking forward to the flat out dismantling the steelers will do to the seahawks. i mean, seriously, seattle, super bowl champions? come on.

but the biggest most insane sports news of all was kobe bryant literally beating a team single handedly. i mean jesus christ, what he did sunday night, scoring 81 points, was just beyond words. i'd try to talk about here, and tell you all the stats, but it just doesn't even get it across. 81 points! in one game! he outscored the raptors 55-41 in the second half himself! 58 times this season an nba team hasn't even scored 81 points! in a whole game! as an entire team! come on! 81 points! i hope it's an instant classic, as i assume it will be, because man do i need to set my dvr for that. that is a game that everyone should watch, because if you know me, or read this blog, you know i'm not down w/ the nba these days. i keep up w/ it, i watch sportscenter daily, but i couldn't even tell you who's in first in what division (though i've got a prety good guess.) i follow certain players, kobe being one of them, but i could not care much less about the nba than i do these days. but this here, kobe scoring 81 goddamn points, is possibly the most amazing thing i've seen in sports. at the very least in the nba, or in the game of basketball. i've seen larry legend, i've seen jordan, i've seen jordan's flu game, but i don't know if a single thing i've seen in the game of basketball can measure up to that performance. i mean jesus, it's the second most points ever in the nba. and you may say, well, anyone can do that these days w/ all the shots the stars are shooting. no! he shot 28-46 from the floor! 18-20 from the line and 7-13 from three! those are insane numbers! a.i. scores in the 50's quite often. kobe does as well. everyone gets their 50 point game every so often. but kobe not only has the second highest scoring game of all time now, he's also only the third player in the history of the nba w/ two games over 60 points in a season. third player! ever! (wilt and jordan are the other two) this is a game that'll be talked about for a long fucking time, as well it should be, because if you don't understand what kobe did, you need to take a look again. this is one of the finest performances any athlete has ever had, ever.

so yeah, a whole lot of sporty type things to chat about. i'll leave it at that for now. enough to wrap your little heads around. plus i've got a goddamn script that, for whatever reason, has yet to read itself. imagine that. ps. god i love making movies that are just sad ripoffs of something, that often times, wasn't an original or good idea in the first place. this would be my ryan reynolds movie, if i were to do it. we shall see. i would totally have a beard in it too, just like he did. good times. and that's that. gotta take a leak. later.

stahl

i am so sexy right now

heeeeeeyyyyyyyy...i'm sick. sweet. that being said, i can let you know ahead of time this'll be a short, even less worthwhile than normal post. but i don't want to take it out on you, it's not your fault. or is it? last time i was here, i think you were coughing something up. goddamn you...

so a quick mention of how easily uconn trounced (TROUNCED i tell you!) syracuse, AT syracuse no less. sure, the final was only eight points, but good lord, that's not how the game played out. a severe beatdown that should serve notice to the rest of the big east (and those fuckers down in north carolina. yeah, i'm looking at you duke) that uconn is starting to hit it's stride. saturday night, 9pm, espn, hi def, uconn at louisville, in what should be another statement to the country. and who would have thought that this is all coming on the back of hilton armstrong? i mean jesus christ, when did he learn how to play basketball? what's w/ this okafor impression he's doing the past few weeks? let's hope he can keep it up.

so yeah, i'm all "online", checking out auditions for films and all, and i come across this headline here...

"Looking for a good looking masculine actor 25-30"

so i'm interested, cause that's a hell of a headline. i go ahead and click the link, only to read the greatest posting ever...

Looking for a good looking professional actor to play a role for a male client. You should be muscular, professional, good looking. Prefer light brown to blond hair, green or blue eyes and white male.

You will be flown to Denver for the weekend and be available to the client for the weekend to attend dinners, movie and social engagements: Friday evening to Sunday late afternoon. This is NOT an escort job. This does NOT involve sex and discretion is a MUST.

Interested actors should send your resume and headshot and zed card or shots that demonstrate your physique to this listing.

• Job location is Denver
  
• Compensation: $700 for the weekend plus airfare and accomodations

yes, yes, oh dear god yes. now THAT is an audition i'm interested in! let me tell you something, when they say this does NOT involve sex, oh you better believe this involves sex! gay sex! for you! and if not "sex", rape can be assumed. good old fashioned, gay denver rape. just the way god intended. but goddamn, i implore you to check into this. it's not an opporunity that should be passed up, by those who fit the profile. and for those that do check into it. good luck. let me know how easy that $700 is to make. yikes.

ok, i'm dripping shit everywhere now. gross. so, bed time and such. thanks again for getting me sick asshole. yeah, i'm sure it wasn't you.

stahl

football and ikea, a real man's post

look who just keeps on coming back for more. is it me, or is it you? i don't know, but i may not ever put anymore thought into that again, so, yeah. let's assume it's your fault.

what a weekend of the football, eh? eh? eh! yeah, that sounds good. namely that steelers game though, what a cock burner that was. steelers come out gunning, left and right and everywhere in between! the colts are all, "football? what?" and then joey porter is fucking bitches like it's his bitch fucking job. but then, slowly but surely, peyton remembers he's amazing, and the refs decide that they're not even gonna watch the game, not even in the fucking replays they spend minutes reviewing, and all of a sudden we gots us a game! the colts bring it all the way back to three, but then joey porter just starts slapping bitches w/ his dick again, and the steelers d wraps it up. that's a wrap!

but slow down, hold up, wait a minute! wait a goddamn minute! or, a minute twenty, something like that. steelers from the three, a touchdown to wrap it up, bettis for the gold...a perfectly placed helmet on the ball, fumble! nick "i fell down the stairs, i swear!" harper picks it up and he's out of here, gone, touchdown, colts comeback to win! but sweet fuck, as if he wasn't the best qb from that draft two years ago, he's also the best tackling qb, and big ben makes the game saving tackle of all game saving tackles! holy shit! a minute to go! colts ball, two timeouts, godfuckingdamn!

well, needless to say, it wraps up w/ a first down or two, and a 44 yard "chip shot" for vaderjackoff (i don't know how to spell his name, not to mention he is an enormous douche) to te this fucker up and push ot. from the left hash, in the dome, this asshole misses so fucking far wide right you'd almost assume he was trying to kick from the sidelines. what a kick. a kick that saves the steelers from one of the most ridiculous "comebacks" ever. hell, even though the colts didn't complete the comeback i'm pretty sure i've never seen a game like that before.

the bears/panthers game was pretty good as well, and even though it was pretty close and all, that never felt like much of an issue to me, since i thought that steve smith could and would pretty much break it open whenever he needed to. i said it god knows how long ago, but this season there was no more entertaining player in the nfl. go ahead, look it up, i said it. i even named him midseason mvp. the man is insane.

that being said, the panthers should cruise, seriously cruise, past the seahawks next week. the same should happen for the steelers, though i think the broncos should make it a it closer than the seahawks will. that being said, the superbowl should be fantastic. polamalu and steve smith will be the key's to that badboy. will (and can) troy stay back and stop steve smith? will troy be able to get to jake before he can even get the ball out to smith? what IS the deal? i'm very much looking forward to next week, and hopefully this here superbowl matchup. it'll be a doozy.

so football! what the fuck else is up. i took a trek to ikea this weekend w/ my lady. man, what a party that place is. if you're ok w/ giving up a day, your sanity, and you're ok w/ getting lost inside one building w/ no fucking idea where you are, and just hoping you'll eventually get to where you need to be, might i suggest ikea. it's the second time i've been to that place now, each time at a different ikea, and each time has been crazier than the last. they've got some great prices on some none too shabby products, that is a fact. the furniture is what people seem to go for, and it ranges from "oh man, that's really nice, and so cheap!" to "what the fuck is this shit?", but the kitchen goods downstairs are the coolest shit in my book. knives and pots and pans and shit, all for insanely low prices. and so far all that shit has held up. some knives that are used regularly, and some pots and pans as well, over a year now, that are still rocking out.

though to attain such cheap goods, you have to be ok w/ the idea of wandering aimlessly, and driving around the parking lot for a good hour or more, damn near fighting people to hopefully, eventually find a spot. once you're in though, it's all good. all confusingly lost good.

let's see, anything else to chat about here on this day? ah yes, i saw brokeback moutain this weekend. and after having to hold myself back from just flat out ending these fucks in the back (and because of my "no longer legal to beat up kids" age, being forced to go "tell"), i settled into one of the more depressing movies i've seen. i mean, man alive, ouch. you will not get over how slow this movie is. and i say slow, and it'll come off as a bad thing, but it's not. this movie is just fucking slow though, that's the only way to explain it. it takes it's sweet time w/ everything it does, and as slow as it does move, you just kind stay glued to it the whole time. while little seems to happen, so much seems to be keeping you there. i'm guessing it's heath ledger, who not only gives a fantastic performance, but also got the better character to play of the two. this movie is not about these two dudes being gay together. it's not often about that actually. it's a movie about heath's character, and him dealing w/ his gayness and his life around him, trying to please everyone and pleasing no one at the same time. it's really rough to watch him go through his life as he does, just never seeming to be able to allow himself to be happy. seriously, one sad ass, depressing as hell movie. that being said, it's definitely something that should be seen. movie of the year? i don't know. my initial reaction was while it was great, no. but the more i think about it, the more i like it and everything it does. i don't know how many of the other "picture of the year" movies i've seen this year, but this certainly is worthy of the debate i'd say.

my favorite part of the whole movie, by the way, anne hathaway's character and her ever changing look from time period to time period. it was like looking at pictures and memories of my mom, minus the smoking. hilarious to me, because man did they nail that shit. good stuff.

ok, time for a shower and showery type things. woo! have yourselves a merry little monday, and i'll chat w/ y'all later!

stahl

lost is back! seriously!

wednesday is here, and just like that, almost gone. funny how we so look forward to these days only to watch them flash by in the blink of an eye. what? was i the only person looking forward to "wednesday in general?" cause, you know, wednesday's are cool.

to figure out that it actually was wednesday (because watching lost an hour ago didn't really drive that point home enough) i took a look to my left. see, right to my left is this lovely wall. and that wall is normally adorned w/ one of those large "blotter" type, desktop calendars. it's nice and big, i can see the dates from a distance, and they provide a good deal of space for me to be able to write down things i need to, on the two days every three months i have something to actually do. but sadly, my calendar was for the year 2005, and for those of you paying attention at home, that has officially come and gone. so for a good week i sat here, confused as to why the days and dates weren't matching up w/ what websites and my computer was telling me. i kept thinking, "damn, i need me a new calendar." never did i actually get up and get such a thing, but goddamn did i think the hell out of it.

so today, w/ my "d.i.y." attitude (that's like a tv channel or something now), i threw caution to the wind and went on ahead and fixed it up all nice. i ripped off the final month (which was december for those wondering, or, you know...retarded) to expose the cardboard backing. a sharpie, a bunch of horribly sloppy lines and ten minutes later, voila! january 2006 is mapped out as far as the eye can see. i'm quite proud of it myself. i'm thinking of maybe making a line of hand drawn calendars. who wants one? they really class the place up, trust me.

so yeah, wednesday. lost. fantastic. i gotta say, i was psyched, to the limit, for the return of lost. what i did not realize was how psyched i was until the show started. and then it all came flooding back, and let me tell you, i was PSYCHED. and an eko episode no less! sweet jesus! i won't go too in depth, since some of you may be on the west coast, and/or downloaders/dvr-er's, but it is fucking great to have that show back. eko like a motherfucker!

so i'm watching this show on nesn today, some sort of "sox news" or some shit. let me tell you, yikes. what an awful show. even more awful because eric "freide" (or whatever the fuck his name is) was filling in as host. those who watch the sox on nesn know that asshole. he's the dickbag that sits in the crowd w/ awful updates on players, and shitty interviews w/ fans, all the while coming off like the biggest dickhead around. he even seems like a bigger dick than remy. seriously, he is impressively dick-ish. anyway, bottom line here is that this show had segments teased at the open that made me believe i'd hear something of interest, even a rumor or something. but alas, an interview w/ francona and what amounted to a recap of the great big "nothing" the sox have been up to was all i got. so thanks a lot eric "fuck-eide." and yes, that's seriously the best i could do.

that being said, i am pooped. another "creative" day for me, which is carrying over into the blog a bit. more entertaining than this thing has ever been i can assume. so i'm gonna throw the wraps on this before i drone on and get boring for the sake of writing something. if i can keep writing regularly this may become a shorter post, so, we'll see what happens. even though it's shorter though, i think it's better. trust me, the sox are on the verge of pissing me off monumentally i'm assuming, so a long post will be on it's way, you can be sure of that. plus, it also seems that all the movies i made last summer are planning on having premieres at the same time in march, which is also looking like the same time i'm planning to go to sox spring training. so, that'll be one hell of a vent if that ends up happening. lots of anger on it's way is what i'm saying. so that'll be fun. for now, enjoy the rest of the week. this rain and thunder/lightening is nuts! enjoy it whilst you can! later!

stahl

who missed me?

seriously, who did? anyone? nobody? awesome. i figured as much, but hey, i'm back now! a busy couple of weeks to close out one year and start up the next, but i'm back to the basics now! chillin, sleeping, interwebbing, video games and all the good stuff.

so yeah, i'd go about catching up w/ all the things that have happened in the world since my last post, but, eh, you know. it's old news by now. something about a new year, vince young doing his best impression of god, west virginia apparently living in the 1800's still, college basketball getting all crazy (except duke still), and the giants proving how they are truly, "so good."

and yes, here i am, weeks w/ no post and i've got nothing to say. i have spent a good part of the day actually writing for real, so that may be helping. i'm also so fucking hungry right now i can't think of much other than that. which is cool, i'm sure even cooler to read still.

so w/ that i get back into my own boring life in an attempt to fill this goddamn thing out a bit. the past few days i've spent getting little to no sleep and working up to 18 hours a day, "on set", down in stamford, ct. yes, back to work indeed. one of the longest, most ball busting experiences i've had so far, yet also one of the best, most professional and most fun as well. it really depended on when you asked me in the day, but this thing seriously ran the whole emotional spectrum. i suppose that'll happen when you pretty much don't sleep for three straight days, w/ close to a three hour round trip drive on top of those 18, 10 and 12 hour days.

all that being said, it was one hell of an experience and time. and the film itself, "tick tock", should be the best thing i've been associated w/ so far. that being said, please do rush out and see "remedial attraction" still, sometime this spring, but the overall level of professionalism from top to bottom in this movie was great to be a part of. everyone in it was great too. ok, thinking back, not so much everyone. but the actors who are in it for more than "one day" in the story as all great. the one's in there for "one day" are all pretty shitty actually, but luckily, one day.

i've also never eaten so many pretzels in my life. and some little fig newton looking things that were so think and dry that i'm not sure how i didn't suffocate or choke to death shooting this thing. a whole lot of water was consumed.

jesus this is uninteresting. so to wrap it up, a great production, w/ some very great connections made (friday involved being filmed by a law and order director), and some high expectations. very exciting. and then some really awesome friends made as well, at least "in the biz friends", who i can't wait to work w/ again. the whole experience actually got my shit flowing again, hence the "real writing" done earlier.

i should also mention that while there are two days of green screen shit to shoot still (which i'm not involved in) there is already a newspaper article on the whole thing. there were a couple of reporters down there this weekend, and today's edition goes to press w/ a "tick tock" story. sadly no one wanted to interview me specifically, so it's not as cool an article as it could be, but still, if you're interested it's out there.

and oh shit, i almost forgot about my boy "lyric", a hip hop artist out of bridgeport. a) he's pretty damn good and b) was quite entertaining to me during the shooting. once crazy dude. i'll throw his myspace page up here, so feel free to check him out. i'll tell you, as much as i like him as a person and an artist, this page just doesn't do him justice. these songs are nowhere near as good as his newer stuff i heard this weekend, and it might be the most unintentionally gay pictures on the internet. super gay. but, if you saw ludacris this summer, and were there early enough for the opening acts, you probably saw lyric perform. pretty cool shit.

so that's it for today. good to be back. hopefully i'll have something of interest to actually comment on next time. which will be soon! later!

stahl