Weekend In Review

Friday
After a quick trip to Portillo's for a wicked Italian beef, me and the moms went and saw Sin City. It was AWESOME!!! Easily among the top 5 coolest movies I have ever seen. Naturally I fleshed out the list:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill vol. 1
3. Sin City
4. Snatch
5. Reservoir Dogs

It's pretty obvious that I'm a huge Quentin Tarantino fan. Well guess what, Tarantino is credited as a "guest director" for Sin City. From what I've read he was payed one dollar for his contributions (the same amount that co-director of Sin City, and good friend of Tarantino's, Robert Rodriguez got for composing the score for Kill Bill vol. 2). Anyways, the acting was phenomenal, except for Brittany Murphy who I can't stand anyhow. Jessica Alba was too hot for words. But the best part of the movie was the cinematography. It's commonly known that Rodriguez tried to recreate as many scenes from the original comic book panels, and you can tell. The actors walk and move just how a comic book character appears to move, right down to the way that they reach for a gun. And they reach for lots of guns. And of course it was nice to see Mickey Rourke get some work.

This movie gets 4.5 out of 5 milks.

Saturday
After a excruciatingly long 8 hours spent on a practice MCAT, I got the chance to play with the Feedback Whales. Word on the street is that we are going to have a concert this summer. It's supposed to be at the end of June in Plano. And by street, I mean Route 34.
The practicing was terrific. It was great to be back behind the set, working on some of our favorite songs. We're going to play mostly covers at the show. For sure were going to play these songs: "Midnight Creeper" and "Speaking in Tongues" by the Eagles of Death Metal, "Tame" and "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies, "Keep On Rockin' In the Free World" and "Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young, and "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads. There have been a few other ideas that we have tossed around, but we already have those ones down for shizzy. Should be fun.
After band practice, I went home and ate some terrific biscuits and gravy (Murph, what?). Then I set up our brand new DSL modem. It's weird, in the last two weeks my house got DSL, Dish Network, and a DVR. It's like we instantly decided to go from 1999 to 2005.
Speaking of DVR, I watched some DiVo'd episodes of the Office before I went to bed. It's a terrific show, you should watch it.

Sunday
Church and then to Chinatown for my uncle's birthday. Terrific food. Went to a Chinese market where they took fish straight out of a tank, chopped their heads off, filleted it, then set it on the counter for sale. Possibly the worst smelling store in the history of stores.
Got back to school, won an intramural game then chilled hardcore with the Fites. We started our new Sunday night tradition of the Contender, then Pimp My Ride, then Damage Control. This two hour span may be the pinnacle of broadcasting. X to tha Z was x-tra sweet today, throwing out puns left and right like a regular Contender. Hahaha. The car they did was ridiculous. It even had spinners for the Speakerboxxx. The only bad thing about the shows is that the Guy from Simple Plan hosts DC. We've come to a general consensus that X-Zibit should host every show on MTV, just for the faces and unintentional comedy. All in all, a fantastic night and weekend.

Czech back later for Street Cred from around the world.