Mattlog

Busy, busy busy

I've been clearingout some debt lately and working my ass off in the process... so I've been a little too tired to write. You know real life taking over my cyber life.

The good news is that I've finished the script and have sent it out to be read. People are reading it giving me feedback and then I'm going back to polish it. Once the polish is done I send it back to AJ who passes it one to "his people" of which he has a small list of different people and we'll see how it goes from there.

If all else fails I have a back-up plan here that may work out. But it's a long shot but just may work.

So other than that not-so exciting piece of news... I'm bored... been watching commentaries to make me happy and OH! if you've never seen Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels ... well, you should.

SO enjoy this and come Monday I'll be back wih my usual Trite piece of writing that means and says nothing. :)

Matt

Men and Women

Aj in his latest blog talks a little bit about men. He describes what he believes are the three types of men in the world. You can click HERE to read up on that... you do that and I'll wait.

Having read that.... I think there are a few other types of men he missed.

4) Unavailable guy. This has has two subcategories.

A) Emotionally unavailable guy. This is the guy who for whatever reason can't bring his emotions to bear and does his best to keep the ladies around. These guys have a barrier that can't open up their emotions to share with a woman... which is all a woman wants really. These guys can also be the hitters. I mean there are ALOT of emotionally available men out there who aren't hitters but hitters almost always are... it's the only way in there heads to keep them around.

B) Unavailable Guy This guy is usually married or else considered out of the women's league. Some women love this type of guy for that reason. I'll never have him so at least I know what I'm getting myself in for.

Here are some other points women need to understand about men.

1) It's like Chris Rock says: "If you have not met his friends... you are not his girlfriend." If you have never been introduced to the guys your BF hangs out with on a regular basis you are something he keeps, literally, on the side.

2) Guys need to be allowed a sense of freedom. This is a fine line. You give guys too much freedom they'll wander off and find their bit on the side. But you can't keep a guy too tightly reigned in. Like for instance, my wife will have a girl's night out... because there's going to be a guy's night out on my end. It'll be a Thursday or something. And there are too polar opposite knee jerk reactions women have to that. Which are a) Matt, that ain't going to happen or b) the woman who says "yeah, I want to hang with my friends with you lurking around." EVen women aomg themselves think so differentyl on issues... no wonder we'll never figure them out.

Which leads me to the biggest thing... you gotta find someone you're super compatible with... or you'll never be happy. It's a fact.

That's my 2 bucks on the subject.

Matt

Why is this happening!!!!!!

I worked this fine Easter morning we were pretty slow at work. But apparently everyone was happy that Jesus had risen because all my tips were about 20%. A rare phenomenon at the 'Bee's.

So I got home watched my taped game of the Cubs trounce the Braves (thankfully) and was relaxed on the couch. It was about 7:58 and on Sunday that means it's time for Alias. A really good show I've come to find not as cheesy as I was suspecting but ranks in closely to 24.

7:59 Laying on the couch ready to go.

8:00 Nick and Jessica. What the hell... I want Jennifer Garner.

8:01 Wow Jess' boobs look really good in that dress. But god this show's getting under my nerves.

8:02 Why is this happning? I don't have the remote nearby...

8:03 Ahhhhhhhhhh!

I'm done.

Matt

See this Stunning read in MOVIE FORM!

Mad TV vs. SNL

I've always liked SNL. I love Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey. In the past Norm and Dennis and Chevy and Bill and Will and Dan and Dana and Billy and Chris and Phi... to name a few.

And what SNL does now is put famous people we may or may not like and put them in funny positions in a sketch. For instance tonight, the made the evil villianous Simon of American Idol fame get up and sing and shake marachas. They made Janet Jackson diss herself. A few weeks ago Ben Affleck made fun of Gigli and the whole "Bennifer" ridiculousness.

But apart from that and Weekend update with Tina and Jimmy and those few few moments with Famous people Snl just isn't funny.

Any more.

That's sad... I want to trust my Saturdays will be spent laughing. (Those few I have off.)

And then came MAD TV. Which started slow. It kinda started as bad as SNL is now. But something happened. It became funny. I laughed at four sketches tonight that had no... count them... no famous people in them. (Except for Vanessa Williams but I'm not sure that counts.)

I think SNL's biggest problem (besides taking less chances) it relies too much on it's "stars." Horatio and Jimmy especially. Too much. Let some lesser guys come up with funny stuff. And Darrell Hammond has had nothing to do since Bill Clinton left office. I always thought he was funny.

It seems like they're coasting through... "We're SNL. People will watch us."

SNL. I'm not putting you down... I'm still taping the show. I know what you do is hard. I've spent three years writing a screenplay. I'm not saying you're not trying... but maybe not hard enough. Get back to the roots... and it's hard after 30 years I know... but find the strange. Find your Coneheads... find your Wayne and Garth and watch Mad Tv because it's on your ass.

That's just my opinion... but I've always known funny.

I'm a sucker

I'm a sucker for romantic comedies. There've I said.

Now let me tell you why.

They're horrible charming. I'm not big on cutsey ones. Love, Actually. *shrug*

But those pithy great well made romantic comedies are awesome. For me it all started with When Harry Met Sally.... and I haven't looked back.

There's lots of reasons I think and allow me to break them down for you.

1) Becuase they're witty. I think romantic comedies are allowed more dialogue than any other type of film in Hollywood. It's two people being charming and witty usually fighting off their eventual love interest.

2) You like the actors. I think casting is everything in Romantic Comedies. If you don't like the actors involved you won't find the characters as charming. Forces of Nature is a fine example of miscasting. Hot Sauce will say it's because my man Affleck is in it. I say it's Sandra Bullock. No don't get me wrong I love Sandra Bullock... just look at Miss Congenality and Two Weeks Notice for great Sandra B romantic comedies. But with Forces of Nature she doesn't fit that character type. She's supposed to be a wild and wooly women... but that's Sandy. They should have cast some likably wild like Angelina Jolie or Katie Hudson (who has probably done one too many romantic comedies.) Sandra is just too all american.

Too prove my point even more I point out the fact that you would not want to see a romantic comedy with Joe Don Baker and Wynonna Judd (in her first movie following her sis' footsteps.

Nope and...

Nope

3) The most important reason: They're feel good movies. You never leave a good romantic comedy thinking "well they shouldn't have ended up together." Hugh Grant only has a career in romantic comedies cause he's just too good at it. He could never get away with much else. Except for the occasionaly period piece they throw him. But you hear Hugh Grant you don't think period piece you think Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Technically romantic comedies have been around forever. Shakespeare wrote some, for gosh sakes. In movies think of the Shop Around the Corner from 1940 starring Jimmy Stewart. This movie still holds up! But they went and remade it with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (another actor who may not ever get out of romantic comedy too bad to say) and called it You've Got Mail.

All this started because at the end of April comes a movie that looks like all of these things. The Laws of Attraction Julianne Moore who I adore and Pierce Brosnon who will be great in a comedy. Gonna watch it... you should watch the trailer I'm going for a bowl of soup.

Matt

Cubs Win!

Day 1 and what happens?

Cubs Win!

Holy cow! If Harry Carry hadn't lost it because of the Hot Dogs and Bud he enjoyed he might have lost it today.

Cory Patterson coming off a hurt season hits a homerun int he first innning.

Peter Gannon of ESPN thinks the seaosn will end like this.... he picked the Cubs to beat the Red Sox in 7 Games at the World Series.

That'd be great since I placed a 20 dollar bet on the Cubs in Vega$... it's win me 70 more. I could use that.

That's all I got for a Monday....

Yay Cubs!

Aj, looks like you and I will be back in Wrigley in October.

Matt

Moment of Zen When they used this in Star Trek II who would have thought it's be this easy to look at here. This is Hours of entertainment.