(forget the falling skiier, THIS is the "agony of defeat" symbol)
RANDOM THOUGHTS:
God Dammit, Northern Iowa! You see what you did! Not only did you manage you ruin almost half of all of the online brackets around the country by eliminating Kansas on Saturday, but you also managed to ruin this poor boy's innocence and shed a tear. This was probably his first season watching his beloved Jayhawks, and to ruin his hopes of seeing them win it all, well...it's just plain wrong. Might as well tell him that him that the Tooth Fairy isn't real, or that his old dog didn't "run away" and that his parents are going through a rough time in their marriage while you're kicking on a dead horse.
Oh well, guess you can't protect every child from the cruel world, in this case Ali Farokhmanesh (sighs). Anyways.... the following were on my mind between Monday, March 15th to Monday, March 22nd:
- If you had told me in September that the NBC Thursday Comedy Hour of "Community" and "Parks and Recreations" would be better than the hour of "The Office" and "30 Rock," I would have said that you were crazy. Now... I'm kind of agreeing with that.
- The owner of the Buffalo Wild Wings in all those commercials had to do something with the crazy first day of this year's NCAA Tournament. I mean, that has to explain the sixteen close games from the past week.
- I think we're seeing a little too much of John King. I like him in small doses, such as just appearing every six days during the 2008 election to show us the maps on that cool smart board/ magic wall, not every day like Larry King.
- I was watching TV 1 a.m. on a Saturday, when I stumbled on FX showing a five minute replay of the previous episode of "Damages." That got me thinking...wouldn't that be a great thing to do for every TV show? Think about it: instead of saving an hour a day to watch your DVRed "Lost," why not just watch a type of Sportscenter style highlights package of it. You know, the biggest moments you have to know, the best jokes, the kick-ass fight scene...all commercial free. After all, if we can be able to miss a sports game just because the fact that there will be a highlight reel moments after it finishes, why not do the same thing for TV (or movies for that matter).
- Who knew that the only thing you needed to make a movie about a teenage female rockband to gain appeal and attention was to have its two (one is underage) main character have a make-out scene.
- One of the best things about the NCAA tournament: seeing the seniors of the losing team going to the bench filled with pride and emotional before the end of the game while onlooker look-on and cheer (some even cry). That, and those awesome buzzer beaters.
And that's going to do it for another edition of "Random Thoughts." As always, I hope you found them interesting and/or entertaining. And now, to end this post, it's the second edition of the "Zep-tastic Song of the Week" (and, yes, that's the uncreative title that I will keep for this). Last week we kicked it off with "Kashmir." Tonight, it's a song that while as not great as last week's, it's still a great rock song as well as another one of their best, "Whole Lotta Love." Enjoy:
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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