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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMi9tvuuZY

Are you even serious right now??? Major hooks!

Went to see The Goonies tonight with Mikey & Frank. There's nothing like reliving your childhood when you're 32 years old. Last week, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and now this. What's even better is rediscovering the movie, and realizing how batshit insane some of the scenes in this movie really are.

In a PG movie, Mouth tells his Spanish maid that the top drawer is where we hide the marijuana, the middle is where the coke and speed are, and always, ALWAYS seperate the drugs. There's been 10 "shits" spoken by minors, a drug-dealing mafia, and a knife held to a 13 year old's throat.
And that's just in the first hour. Raiders had some similar scenes, none better than when God's fury is unleashed from the Ark, collapsing bones, melting faces, and exploding heads.

There's also a sense when watching this that every actor in this movie just gave it. They're not really acting, they're just being kids. Shit talking and razzing each other, but always there when you need them. Goonies Never Say Die!

Another thing to keep an eye on is how natural everything feels, and I think that's due to extended takes. Notice that when there are edits in most scenes, its cutting back to the same take, so everything flows really well. The editing and direction here are very tight. Also every stunt is real. No CG, and it shows. Today, the water slide scene would have been a travesty of poor looking CG. Back then, what did they do? Threw the kids down the slide because it looked fun as hell!

Finally, a kick ass theme song. Yes Cyndi Lauper, the Goonies ARE good enough for me...

Good times tonight, good times. When do we watch Jaws?

Frank says someone sent this to Mr. Watson for us. It's in a book called "Worst Album Covers 2." I think it should be called "Best Album Covers," but that's just me.

Shouldn't, me and Bob, your gadget loving My Chem guys have them?!?! If only you could see their smug faces in the pictures, those little bastards...

Our unending search for the latest cool tech has ended with the Palm Pre. This thing looks sick. After countless Sidekicks, Dashes, HTC Touch models, 9234's, 7890's 8966's, G1's and Curves, we finally found what we're looking for. It looks to be a perfect meld of Blackberry functionality with iPhone flash. Where the Storm tried and failed, (can anybody successfully type on this thing?) the Palm Pre looks poised to succeed.

My unending love/hate relationship with the iPhone has been well documented, and damn't I'm ready to commit wholesale to a phone. I've jailbroken the thing to get some more functionality out of it (PDANet is the shit!!!!) I've also suffered the harsh realities of running background apps on this thing. No battery life, and iPhone slowed to a crawl.

I've treaded dangerous, shark-filled waters paying the tech-world equivalent of a back-alley abortion clinic 15 bones to access a broken iPhone 3.0 beta software that almost turned my phone into a $599 paperweight, all in the hopes of getting this phone to do what I need it to.

Copy/paste is great to have, but a little unwieldy to use. And wait till you move your phone a millimeter and the "Nothing To Undo" dialog box pops up. The landscape everything i think might be the worst feature, because after almost 2 years using the thing, does anyone even want this anymore? Now the screen goes into extreme fits of non-stop spinning, like a drugged up raver, completely going against what you've taught yourself. Individual program toggle please????

There is also the issue of speed. The iPhone has gotten progressively slower with each new update. What once were cool transitions between programs is now revealed to be what they truly were from the start...LOADING SCREENS. Its not a stretch to say that sometimes its hard to get things done on this phone. The new iPhone hardware needs to speed up dramatically, and I hope somehow the transitions can be disabled.

I know I'm being a little harsh here, especially with a beta software, but from what I've seen so far it doesn't compete with the OS Palm has been working on. Maybe with kick-ass fast hardware, Apple will step up. I guess we'll have to wait till June when they announce what they've been conjuring up.

Until then, Palm Pre, come home to Daddy.

Japan, here we come!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79AAuo4Ja8w

I'm making parcels right now. Man how good is Youtube. I wish we were on Youtube...hint hint

http://vodpod.com/watch/1533257-hulk-hogan-wants-to-kill-his-ex-wife

OJ and Hogan tag team match???

Yeah, ummm....fuck Paris Hilton.

In a sleep inducing finish, Taya ended up with our man Bret's heart. Mindy left discouraged and disheartened. With her Sarah Palin good looks and twang, I thought for sure she would lose. I was right. In a shocking twist, a girl's decision to NOT have sex with Bret after five minutes of staring at each other lifelessly at dinner DID NOT get her booted off. Well played Taya, well played.

Congratulations Bret! You have get to have "hot, sexy, monkey love" for the rest of your life...or until next season starts up.

Will it be the Penthouse Pet or Sarah Palin look-alike??? I can't wait to find out!