The Continuing Inner-Monologues of a Music/Film Junkie's Life

My blog is dying from neglect....

2006-05-24T19:50:00.000-04:00

it sucks when you have so000 much work to do and so little time to waste on a blog...

t

God's gonna be laughing his ass off tonight...

2005-12-10T23:47:00.000-05:00

I don want to say we'll miss Richard Pryor because technically we've missed him since he retired. To say he went to soon means we ignore the pain and suffering he had to go through with the MS and stroke recovery. So I'll just say thanks raising the bar of comedy and humor so high that I end up repeatedly smacking my head on it as I try pole vault to make people laugh...see that has got to be shittiest joke analogy since before Mr Pryor changed the game in the 70's.

I own all of his albums on vinyl, CD and DVD and will now spend the next week watching and listening in memoriam...Anyway I suck at writing sentimental shit (as you can tell) so I am done today.

Trey

I recommend the Richard Pryor album,"That Nigga's Crazy" I first heard it when I was in 4th grade and I was forever changed. Next, I was listening to George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Denis Leary, Dennis Miller and Lenny Bruce. Pryor is the greatest gateway drug know to mankind because if you OD on him it just mean you laughed so goddamned hard that it feels like you did a thousand stomach crunches....

Being absent for two months makes the heart grow less fonder....

2005-12-10T02:45:00.000-05:00

I have been gone for the past two months because over night I was thrust into the chaotic world of church video productions and have been barely keeping my head above water by bluffing my way through it...
" Do you know how to operate this camera?" "Sure"

"Are you sure there is enough light?" "Of course"

"Do you really know what you are doing with this Blue Screen Stuff?" "Yeah, it's child's play"

Same old bullshiting I have done throughout all my jobs.

So far I have Produced and edited 3 shorts, edited together some music videos for theme nights, Produced-Filmed-edited a documentary on a big youth gathering the youth group went to, Planned and Operated a camera for simulcast of my churches 25th anniversary and finally taken step to build and instruct an internal video team made up of church volunteers...for free
working 20 to 30 hours a week, but at least I am being paid valuable "experience" (which for some reason my student loan people won't accept in lieu of monetary reimbursement)...

Later

Trey
AKA
The Trizzle (old reference to Snoop Dogg's show but I don't give a shit)

I'll start with recommendations again when I start updating regularly

Not much to say today...

2005-10-03T23:20:00.000-04:00

I am ecstatic over the cancellation of Taradise and Tara Reid's apparent break down and also the fact I am about to upgrade my almost 5 year old Sony VAIO P3 833mhz up to a P4 1.6ghz any finally be able to run Video Editing Software without crashing...other than that I am setting up some free lance production jobs, fixing some of my camera support equipment and tricking enough people into the lie that "I know what I'm doing..."

The Deceitful Editor

Trey

I am still listening to an album I am thinking of recommending but I need to listen to it a little more before I go and tell people to buy it...

I am back...

2005-09-28T11:59:00.000-04:00

Sorry it has been a while but I've been sick, working on a resume, getting a demo reel together for my resume, moving furniture from Atlanta to here, having the van break down half way between Atlanta and here (thank got we also had aUhaul truck) and finally comtemplating my next film script I am gonna write. With all the BS that has been happening in pop culture I don't o where to begin so i won't bor you and try to recap with my unwanted opinions. Instead i'll just tell you something about my next script idea, think of Boondock saints or Hell town with a darker twist, at least that's what I'll be going for. I've already started going thru my music collection to create a truly inspriation playlist to write about a jaded and cynical servant of god who gets pushed over the edge and pushes back and so on....I don't know what it is about people on the edge of what we concider good and evil but i love to write about people who constatnly struggle with their inner demons and angels. maybe it is because i see myself that way...I am not quite a christian (any more) but I try to life a good life and do what I interpret as a righteous path...you know, I don't kill people, I try not to lie or commit (major) crimes. I am techincally a baptist but the way I live my life, by their tenants, I am going to hell already...personally, I take God's judgement when my time comes till then pass the booze and let me drink my inner demons away in peace...

trey

I really only have one recommendation today Joe Henry's album Tiny Voices while i have only heard a few tracks I can tell you based on the strength of one track "Sold" that it is an incredible album. With in a few seconds of the beginning of the track I was over come with the image of a darkly lit, sweltering, smoky back room of some dust bowl speak easy right out of the 30's where people come to forget about the miseries of that time and wash the taste of dirt in the air from their mouths on some cheap bathtub gin or canadian whiskey...Listen to It and Love it.

As an apology to any semi loyal readers out there...

2005-09-18T15:19:00.000-04:00

I've been sick with some kind of sinus/throat/ebola infection...be back on a regular basis soon...

Trey

Usless News Flash

2005-09-14T17:44:00.000-04:00

Britney popped out her hellspawn as her useless hubby looks on while sippin' on a Big Glup™ on his golf cart driven by a bodyguard.

I was driving thru Georgia today...

2005-09-13T22:17:00.000-04:00

I was going to a funeral and my family and i stopped at a rest stop just inside Georgia as I waited for my various family members to complete the task given to them by nature and human biology I walked around and saw the stupidest Public Service Advertisement poster ever...

unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera so it might hard to appreciate the absurdity. But to set the scene: 2 people in an office setting doing as office-serfs do; you know, talking, reviewing papers and gossiping except for one minor difference...The background is a the shoulder of a highway with a motion blur of a car in the foreground sandwiching the 2 office idiots between them like their office is actually outside on a highway...brilliant, right? To top it off the caption at the bottom says "What if someone drove through your office?" and then some tired old phrase about obeying workzone speed limits. Before I go on let me state I am not against the message just the vehicle (no play on words intended) used to advertise the message. If someone drove through my office it would surprise the hell out of me because I opted to take a job where I work inside not as part of a road repair crew on a Highway for the Fuckin' Department of Transportation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand it might be easy to come up with good slogans for shit people don't want to hear about but let's not perpetuate retarded campaigns that are a slap in the face of logical human beings...that like to speed thru workzones...

trey

If you have the Encore series of channels on the drama one try and catch a made for Canadian TV movie called the The Arrow. Even though I think the Canadians have designs to infiltrate the US i am able to put that aside to watch Kids in the Hall and this slightly fictional piece of historical-docudrama about a Canadian company that create a super advanced(even by today's standard) and the government struggles that would sink it. Dan Aykroyd is incredible in it as an ambitious company president battling his infidelity, alcoholism, and opposition government and his own arrogance. While it is a great performance I see streaks of Joe Friday from Dragnet in his portrayal. Check out when you can or set your PVR/Tivo for record...

Only thing on my mind the past couple days...

2005-09-10T10:32:00.000-04:00

Tara...please just stop it. I mean the drinking, the diva-ness, the slutiness and for gods sake please stop perpetuating the myth that you have a modicum of talent. Yeah, you were lucky enough to get cast in a High Budget B-rated high school sex comedy that just happen to hit big and as your drinking money vanishes you buy a set of tits to give most porn stars a run for their money just to get more roles and all it could do was get E! TV to change the name of Wild On to the least inventive name I could possibly think of "Taradise" only someone like you could take a beautiful place like St. Tropez and ruin it simply by showing up. I only ended that sentence because it ran on a little too long...kind of like her career. While enough of my hatred and bitching about people with no discernible talent (except for being a slutty prude which you think would be an oxymoron).

I am off, currently working on a essay piece for the blog about my disillusionment with being an adult and the lies told to my by movies about love, sex and life. I want to make sure I actually write that one well instead of a rambling rant type as I think of different words that mean the same thing i.e. Paris, Ashlee, Tara, Nicole, Kimberly and Britney which all mean "no talent."

Trey

I have my first audio job in 2 and half years tomorrow...

2005-09-03T21:44:00.000-04:00

Well, its not really a job I volunteered my services for my church to be the engineer that records the service. Even though I am not getting paid and only recording this for the archive I can honestly say I am nervous as hell... I haven't worked a board in 2 years, I gonna be seeing all these people from my past I haven't really seen in years, I am worried about the pain in leg as I am running around getting set up. But I'll get over it and soar or crash...

The worst part is I need to be up at 6:30 am and I haven't seen that part of the day in a long time...anyway I'll be praying for me not to screw up.

Later
Trey

No selection today I've been to busy getting all my gear together...

Friends are a pain in the ass...

2005-09-01T23:59:00.000-04:00

I told one of my friends about my blog...you know just asking them to check it out as one friend sharing something they made with another friend. Here is what I get...

"Your grammar and punctuation is atrocious" "You don't seem to talk too much about movies and music" "Sometimes you seem to fall out of focus with you original thought" "It seems to me that your either talking about how much you hate something or you ideas on male fashion...how does that have anything to do with movies and music?"

My response...

"Yeah...and?"

I mean I value most of my friends opinions, but I never asked for an editor, plus I never promised good grammar nor have I ever said this blog was just about movies and music. The only thing this blog is about is the thoughts about pop culture that seem to dance about in my head...I have ADD which explains why veer from the point highway worst than Nick Nolte driving home after a two week bender.

I went on to explain to them: "I know where your coming from on this, You have a valid point there...yada yada yada, blah blah blah...but I don't think that is important. I'm not publishing in the NY times or writing a novel...I'm simply writing about what angered me or gave me a tinglely feeling in pants for that day...end of story...

trey

Because I was looking back at my blog posting to make sure I didn't make any promises about content I want to repost one CD I mentioned earlier Afghan Whigs - Black Love probably the band best or second best effort in their career. While the whole comes across darkly sensual Greg Dulli adds a funky edge with just enough grunge feel that makes the Whigs' sound all their own...check it out...also it is great "gettin' down to it" music (wink) if you know what I'm sayin...

I love closing sales...(Caution: Inflated ego ahead proceed carefully)

2005-08-31T23:59:00.000-04:00

The local JC Penney is closing one location to open another down the road we get to reap the savings...I got 2 J. Farrar and 2 Crazy Horse by Claiborne dress shirts, 4 J. Farrar ties, 3 pair of Docker's slacks (with stainguard) and a nice cord Blazer for about $300 and I saved about $250. I wish I could have gotten some shoes on sale but right now I need clothes due to the weight I have put on since being sidelined by the car accident. I am working on losing that weight but when you can't walk for more than about 10 minutes without having excruciating pain in your ankle and calf it is a little hard to burn calories fast enough. I have though about creating a exercise bike rig with a new pair of Kenneth Cole shoes tied to a stick in front of it or a bottle of Level Vodka with ice, club soda and limes next to the bike...either way I got to shed this weight quick mainly because it pisses me off that I have this great wardrobe of clothes that don't fit me. Even my sterling silver rings that I spent a long time collecting and putting together a respectable and versatile selection won't fit on my swollen fingers. I mean I really hanging on to my style rep by a thread.

As arrogant as this all sounds I don't mean to sound like that. For the first few years of of my socially awkward life i was totally clueless about clothing until my second girlfriend took me out of my grunge induced apathy and introduced me to The Gap and Structure and since then I have taken my style and ran with it. While I'm not even close to being good enough to become some kind of "stylist" for hire I have had other guys' girlfriend ask me to help out their beaus because they don't have the patience.

One guy refused because I he saw me dressed up in some hot rodder camp shirt with a flaming microphone on it and I think I was wearing my punkish Love and Hate Tred-Airs. This was when I held a desk job at an insurance company so I explained to him that since 40+ hours a week I live be a strictly drab dress code during my off time I try and dress like a rock star. He still refused. I really can't blame the guy because ever since he moved out from underneath his family's house he shopped for his bad khakis and polos at WalMart and either wore his 7 year old Columbia Fleece jacket or a very dated suede bomber jacket. It wasn't that he guy was poor he just didn't care. So I made a deal with him that I'll take him to the mall take him to one store him he like what I picked out he would at least give me a chance.

So to protect my own inflated ego I decided not to get too risky for a first store so I asked his girl about most of his wardrobe and realized American Eagle was the place to start. I'm not a huge fan of the place (I think in the last 8 years I've bought 4 rings and 1 sweater from them) and even though I could tell he was reluctant to admit I knew what I was doing he was happy with what I choose for him. Next we hit The Gap, Eddie Bauer I even got him to take a few chances at Gadzooks (this was before they got totally estrogen on us). I could tell when I presented him to his girl she was really happy with the new him. Of course I am sure this got him a really good end to that evening (wink, wink). And anytime I can help someone out great but if can improve the sex without being there that 's even better.

I liked helping the guy because I like to feed my own ego by helping people but also just love shopping. Some guys like to built hot rod, some hunt and fish, some obsess over sports, I Like to hunt couture. When I lived down in Orlando for a while this first thing I did was locate all the local malls on a giant street map I had on my wall then I found the best one and I spent 6 or 7 hours just learning my new hunting grounds. Sad, I know, but that is why a homosexual friend of mine described me as "the absolute gay-est straight guy" is has ever known. I thought about getting business cards printed with that on it if I ever start a styling company but that'll never happen...

But there it is my whole arrogantly-egotistical-fashion-obsessed view of my own existence laid out for all you readers.

trey

While Bill Murray's new film with Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers, is hitting big in the Indie Market (and you all should go see it) I gotta say that Jim is a...a..."Intriguing" director and I recommend his film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai as one to watch. Forrest Whitaker plays a hitman who fancies living by the rules and etiquette of bushido and the mafia family that employs him get on his bad side. Really the funniest thing is main mafia character Sonny Valerio is a Public Enemy fan if I remember the scene correctly. Anyway go check it out...PEACE!

Why didn't I get HBO months ago...

2005-08-29T23:59:00.000-04:00

Even though I know I am the last to jump on the Entourage band wagon, I gotta say that this show is the best comedy show on HBO since...Mr. Show with Bob and David. or the first couple of seasons of Dream On. I think the only way to phrase my feelings about the show are this....

ARI GOLD IS THE MOST AWESOME CHARACTER EVER & I WANT TO BE HIM...

One thing I think I have omitted in the past blog posting are my careers aspirations of becoming a producer or talent agent. I think I have the balls for it...In 8 months when I make the move out to Cali I will kill myself to get to that level of power behind the scenes. Fuck fame! Let all these wanna be directors and actors fight chance to parade out in front of the fucking cameras and pose for the paparazzi, jaunting off to 12 hour long press junkets where your asked the same stupid question about " So, how was it working with [insert famous director or actor's name here], going to premieres where your wardrobe is pick apart by some talentless hack who could only get a job wisecracking about clothes, and the privilege to be spoken ill of on shitty tabloid blogs by people who are bitterly and angrily jealous about the attention they get when they head out to Starbuck's for a FrappuccinoÂ® and Variety.

I don't need that shit or want it I simply want to be a power broker in the business or at the very least besuccessfull in whatever path I choose. If I start producing children's videos I want to blow Barney the Purple Dino's numbers out the fucking water every time I release a DVD and "educational" toy with it...

You know sometime I wonder how I start talking about one thing and wind up on another...I think it is my stream ofconsciousnesss writing style. I usually give my postings maybe 5 minutes thought before I write. I think it works for me and like most thing in my life I have had hits and misses when it comes to my posting...but this is for me I don't do it for mass acceptance. You agree with my aggressive opinions on pop culture...GREAT!!! You believe I full of at least 3 type of bullshit and then some...FUCK OFF AND WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG TO ATTACK ME!!!!! Just make sure to send me the web address for it some I can make sure I am properly quoted.

Now that i havesufficientlyy driven the point car off the road and over a cliff into the ocean...I bid you...adieu

Bonne nuit, mon peu a mentalement handicapé des enfants.

Henri (my name from french class)

Regardless of how badly I got off point go Rent, Buy or Video-On-Demand the series Entourage it is some funny and well written material...I should have started watching it earlier but I was hesitant to see another project with Adrian Grenier in it but he impressed the shit out of me for the first time since I first saw him in Drive Me Crazy and Cecil B. DeMented...oh and the director of Drive Me Crazy did I great little film called Bandwagon catch it on IFC or the The Sundance Channel if it comes one...
GO WATCH'EM BOTH
...Bandwagon and Entourage I mean

I really hate people who pre-judge...

2005-08-24T23:59:00.000-04:00

I was at a record store today and I was dressed fairly nice (Geoffrey Beene Burgundy Dress Shirt, Black Docker Slacks and my new Pierre Cardin Shoes) and instead of going through the whole store to find what I want, like I usually do, I wanting just to ask where the band I was looking for was located. So I found a clerk, about 20 years old with a bleached blonde faux hawk, about 10 different pieces of hemp jewelry, old ass cords (probably thrift store Gap brand), a "Buck Fush" shirt and chip of hardcore poserdom on his shoulder the size of Eurasia. Now usually I get a chance to ask a question before I get an answer but not in this case. The moment I walk up to this piece of shit this is how the convo went....

Me: "Pardon me, sir,can I ask you something real quick?"

Dickhead: he looks at me with bored anger as he glances up from some shitty underground music magazine and replies with contempt, "The new Hootie album is over there."

Me: "What?"

Dickhead: "You are here for the new Hootie and the Blowfish album, right?"

Me: " No, and while I do enjoy their music, I was going to ask if you keep Social Distortion in the Rock or Punk section."

Dickhead: "Oh," even what seems like even more contempt like I was encroaching on his sacred territory "We keep it in punk."

Me: "Oh...okay,"I walk away puzzled about the treatment I just received.

Now, I as I am looking for the album I want to get I keep telling myself, "Don't be that guy."
Don't be the jackass that complains about how he was treated because the person he asked is prematurely jaded and bitter (it shouldn't happen till your 25) and is offended by their attitude...

unfortunately, I was that guy. I went to go talk to the manager who I was semi-friendly with because I knew him from my college radio days. While I wasn't the main cause for getting him fired I found out I was the last straw. I started to feel bad but then realized the kid was a fucking dick to me for no reason...I over heard him say he was just kidding with me (the joke was lost on me) and then I watched him from the safety of the "D" section of Dance/Electronica as he handed over his register keys and stormed out of the store like he was the one wronged. I talked to the Jake, the manager, afterwards he said he gotten nothing but complaints about the kid the past 4 weeks he has been working and he even thought he was stealing magazines but never caught the little prick. To think I got someone fired, got me thinking...I have actually done worse to people...including pre-judge them. But, if I did pre-judge them I kept it inside so at least I wouldn't look like a dick this guy didn't so he finally paid the karmic toll of being an absolutely arrogant prick who could learn to keep he mouth shut. I actually saw a lot of myself, before I grew up, in the kid once I thought about it; but, he rolled the dice and lost to a guy who was already in a shitty mood.

Hopefully the kid will get he head on straight and grasp the fact you can't be dick all the time...if he doesn't...fuck'em

War, Hate and Apathy

trey

Go check out the Social Distortion album, White Light, White Heat, White Trash it is probably one of the best rock albums ever made, especially the tracks Crown of Thorns and I Was Wrong.

GO BUY IT NOW AT YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE WHERE YOU GET TREATED WITH CONTEMPT BUT YOU KEEP GOING BACK BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY PLACE IN TOWN WHERE YOU CAN BUY GOOD KOREAN POP MUSIC, EXPERIMENTAL NOISE ROCK AND ACTION FIGURES OF ROCK STARS...

The new generation on web stuff is a pain in the ass...

2005-08-23T23:59:00.000-04:00

I been setting a new email, address, a flickr account, organizing all my important web accounts, going thru password changes, and other such things to ensure my public profile stays as private as possible. I have 3 pages of new passwords, screennames, web addresses and other such info I need to memorize...so i can't wait till they plant those chips in our hands to track us so that someone will develop a web access sensor that reads the chip and does all that for you. That's all I have to say this evening.

trey

go see another James Bond Film

James Bond kicks so much ass!!!!!!!

2005-08-22T23:59:00.000-04:00

Being your average American male I have spent most my life as a 007 fanboy. Hell, the only reason I drink vodka martinis are because of that resilient British spy. Now I hear the news that the producers of the James Bond films has stated Pierce Brosnan's services are no longer needed...that sucks...not only is he the second best Bond ever I can't think of a single actor to replace him. Heard some blind web rumors throwing around Colin Farrell has a younger Bond fresh to MI6 and trying to prove himself but I am fairly sure the young Irishman is too much of a loose cannon to play by contact rules out side of the films. Even though I find the idea interesting it'll never happen. One more substantial rumor involved the Alex guy from Tomb Raider 1 as James but I don't see the 007 spark in him. But, I'll wait till they find a new until I start bitching about...but here's my ranking of the different Bonds, films and Cars

THE BONDS
1.Sean Connery (don't even fucking argue about this one)
2.TIE Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore (both excellent choice that couldn't take the reigns when they should've due to the fact that they were tied up in evil TV contracts)
3.Timothy Dalton (was the best angry bond after going for revenge in License To Kill)
4.George Lazenby (Bond gets marriedÂhe can never get marriedÂever thatÂs why she diedÂdumbass)

THE FILMS
1.The Man With The Golden Gun (Ultimate villainous actor Christopher Lee and Goodnightight in a bikini? How could you say no)
2.Dr. No (Christopher Lee was supposed to be in it and it has Honey Ryder [who persist to take advantage of me in my dreams] in a bikini)
3. Goldfinger (The whole scene with the laser and the table is an incredible diabolical moment in film."Nooooo, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die," just awesome)
4.GoldenEye (Pierce Brosnan kick down the door and asserts his Bondness and the Bond Girl Xenia Onatopp kill people between her legs...if I had to choose I way to shove off this mortal coil it wodefinitelyaley be between Famke Jensen's legs)
5.You Only Live Twice (Donald Pleasence AKA the Best Blofeld, Little Nelly and lots of beautiful Japanese women I wanna take home with me)

THE CARS (swear I am not bias towards one brand verses the rest)
1.Aston Martin DB5 - Goldfinger and Thunderball ( when I first saw this at a car show I didn't say,"Oooh, Look at that Aston Martin DB5," I said, "That's James Bond's car.")
2.Aston Martin V8 Volante - The Living Daylights ( the first Bond car that just looked mean...)
3.Aston Martin V-12 Vanish - Die Another Day ( aside from the fact it is a beautiful example of modern British automobile engineering from Aston Martin it also turns invisible)
4. Any of the BMWs in the last 4 films
5. The 2 Lotuss...Lotuses...Lotusi...Loti...The two cars that share the brand Lotus

UPDATE: I just read they are thinking of Clive Owen as the new Bond...great choice...

I'm off to have a martini

Trey

GO SEE A BOND MOVIE...I recommend Dr. No for people who are new to Bond...

Well it finally happened...

2005-08-20T10:48:00.000-04:00

I got slapped with so piece of shit's spam as a comment, so as I ponder whether or not I am gonna allow comments in the future may I say spam is advertising and should not be protected by the first admendment and I think we should take all the spammers out there hang them by piano wire tied to their big toes and cover them in various poisonious creatures and take bet on which one kills them first...but that's just my opinion I could be right...Dennis your my idol please don't sue.

trey

The confession of a Hetero Shoe Whore...

2005-08-19T23:59:00.000-04:00

I love shoes. I just love'em. Kenneth Cole. DKNY. Sha-Sha. Cole Haan. Steve Madden. Hugo Boss. Mark Nason. Stacy Adams. Anyway, the list goes on and on. The only thing I love more than a great looking shoes is when I find any DKNY or Kenneth Cole clothes on sale. Sometimes I don't even care if the shoes hurt a little. I have this great pair of DIESEL combat style boots (marked down from $250.00 to $55.00, awesome) that look great with Levi's and a "vintaged" graphic tee; but, with my leg injury (recovering from a compound tibia/fib fracture)I can only make it from my car into Target back to the men's section and spend about 30 minutes on feet before I start hurting. But I say "So be it. That is the price of fashion."

Stupid, I know but if I look good I feel good. In the past 10 years since I became aware of the fact that the opposite sex cares about how you look I have only owned 5 pairs of comfortable shoe and at least 12 pairs maybe more of great looking shoes that hurt a little and most of those were in the past 5 years.

But today my shoe game was at its best because with a suggestion from my friend I hunted down the most exquisite pair of Pierre Cardin loafers (pictured above)I have ever come across in my life and I only paid $30 for them...well I didn't pay for them as much as I borrowed money from my friend. What else could I do among the sea of discounted shoes at Marshall's I see these Pierre Cardins wink at my from about 15 feet away. They were shining like a diamond in the dirt next to some lame ass brown suede Rockports. I didn't even need to try them on like King Arthur knew he was destine to be the King of England I knew I was destine to swagger around in these loafers. In fact I think I ask my friend to borrow the cash before I even picked them up. No box just a little tag and alarm marker on them. He lent me the cash and before we even got out of the parking lot I had them on. And they felt heavenly.

I should also says since my accident have been stuck wearing either my Vans, a slightly over the top pair of poser punk Tred-Airs (one shoe say love the other says hate I still love them though) or my Diesels because my right foot has swollen up to a size 12 wide when I was a size 11 narrow. So to get these excellent pair on size 12's I felt touched by god...or at least touched by Carson Kressley...that didn't come out quite right...Any way I love shoes.

May your Ferragamo never get dirty,

Trey

While it is not a movie or album like usual I must recommend while on this fashion kick. Carson Kressley's book, Off the Cuff is a great instructional guide to fashion for those who are couture impaired and also keep those with gift on the right tracks. But the book breaks everything down and give a little history and advice for all basic type of clothing from head to toe. He also has these little do's and don't that are very helpful. If I hadn't spent all my money on clothes for myself this past X-mas I would have given this book to all my friends...Lord know some of them need it more than I do.

GO BUY IT NOW

Has anyone wondered what happened to the cable channel BRAVO?

2005-08-17T23:59:00.000-04:00

I not talking about the homosexually skewed programming, I am talking primarily about the dumbing down of the network. Bravo was the last bastion of Culture, Arts & Entertainment after A&E went the way of endless episode of crime shows and Biography (and now more recently Dog, Inked, Knievel's Wild Ride and Growing Up Gotti). Bravo showed enlightened programs on various aspects of music and drama. Now we have Showbiz Moms& Dads (plus the Sports Spinoff), Seemingly endless repeat of Celebrity Poker, Being Bobby Brown, the Battle of the Network Reality Stars, Blow Out, today Independence Day was on and in the past 2 or 3 months I know they showed the Steven Segal Dramatic Classic HARD TO KILL twice or more. They only shows that saved the network are the West Wing, Kathy Griffin (because she knows it is a joke), and Project Greenlight (simply due to the fact it gives loudmouth gas bags like me the hope I can win a chance to make a shitty movie). I think I know what went wrong with it, NBC. Now I don't know when NBC acquired Bravo but when they did is probably when the decline started. No, you say? How could the ratings giant known as NBC run a network into the ground...I give one show as proof..."I Wanna Be A Hilton," a show where own host has been quoted saying, "This show fucking sucks."

ahhhh, who knew Kathy Hilton was such a wordsmith...and on that note I ranted enough on this shitty little blog.

Later Bitches, I'm out
Trey

I just saw Sin City. I recommend it only to people who can watch pointless and meaningless ULTRA-VIOLENCE...Enjoy!!!!

Okay, you're 34 and still wearing your Iron Maiden T-shirt in public?

2005-08-15T23:59:00.000-04:00

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!? I don't know much about fashion and trends but I do know one thing band t-shirts(even "vintage" ones) are to be worn by the following people only: adolescents, teen garage bands, college radio DJs, and old loser burnout classic rock DJs. I was a college radio DJ and was in band as a DJ I received lots of shitty bands free T-shirts...when I graduated I retired them to the OKAY-I-VE-GOT-TO-CLEAN-THE-BATHROOM-BUT-DON'T-WANT-TO DIRTY-UP-MY-GAP-TEEs-SO-I'LL-WEAR-THIS-OLD-BAND-T-SHIRT collection That doesn't mean love the bands any less it just means I don't want embarass the band or myself as I get older or if the bands start to suck. I know the cutting edge fashion tsars want to tell old Tees with quirky or dated graphics are the "new thing" but let me tell you the novelty of wearing a WASP shirt is about one time then you're the jackass at the end of the bar hitting on chick in an old ratty thrift store t-shirt you got suckered into paying 30 bucks for it at the "vintage boutique".

If you feel driven to follow trends like the rest of us lemmings do us all a favor and go to Old Navy, Target, Urban Outfitters, etc. and by a brand new "vintaged" t-shirt with a made bar, chessy state slogan or stupid 70's graphic on it and spare us from the shitty shirts that are as worn out and dated as the music represent...

Oh yeah and the next person 30 or older I see wearing a Limp Bizkit or KORN shirt that isn't a roadie for the band, a fire extinguisher and my caffeine & nicotine fueled rage are going to cave their skull down it to their necks. Remember shitty Nü Metal is for kids not rabbits... ;-) have a nice day

Trey has now left the soapbox

Now I have never been a huge fan of emo or any emo type music. I carried a messenger bag in college, I carried a flask of vodka, a pack of Lucky Strikes, and CDs I played on my show; but, I sure as hell didn't keep a poetry book in it or listen to Promise Ring and At the Drive In at the locals only coffee joint sucking dow...I gotta little of track there...Anyway I was turned on to this band Death Cab For Cutie and I have been told it is not emo...okay, fine but it is about as close to it as comparing Mississippi to Alabama they're practically the same. Any how, the CD Transatlanticism got me to try it out also check out the lead singer's side project the Postal Service it kick some ass too.

Villian Quiz

2005-08-13T12:27:00.000-04:00

I testing out this image feature and sharing art....

2005-08-09T23:59:00.000-04:00

I was hoppin' around online lookin' for the next gadget, pair of shoes, piece of clothing that would make my life complete or whatever but I stumble upon a new cellphone from Sony S710 something. But as a briliant marketing gimmick and art project they got a photographer named Robert Clark to go around a shoot photos on this camera that has a 1.3 megapixel here is the site showcasing the art and to the left is a sample of his art.

The guy is good go check him out and i'll go buy the camera and be complete until the next cool gadget comes along.

Trey

oh and just because I haven't said it in a few days I still hate the pop culture train wreck known as Paris, Lindsay, Ashlee, Britney, etc.

No recomendations for movies or music today

Today i went on a quest for metrosexual supplies...

2005-08-08T22:44:00.000-04:00

Yes the ever vigilant quest for male beauty and youth through expensive moisturizers, exfoliators and other pointless concoctions that the makeup companies (that have been exploiting the low self-esteem of women for years) slap on a high price tag and exploit a new market. I am not perfect, I can admit that. No amount of L'Oreal Men's Expert moisturizer will make me look like Brad Pitt...but i still buy it simply because the pursuit of vanity far more interesting the apathy of not caring what i look like. When I say pursuit I mean going to the modern day monument to disposable consumerism, your local mall, and finding the next big thing is skin care fore men. Like Anthony Logistics For Men Oil Free Facial Lotion or Art of Shaving Peppermint Facial Scrub spending your money on it and rushing home and throwing down your bags of crap and ripping into this little secret of skin health. As we apply it to our skin in a ritualistic ceremony in the honor of the all-knowing writers of CARGO magazine. As we continue to give of ourselves, heart, mind and wallet, as we buy these products over and over again while complaining about how the we have become slaves to the beauty gods but never admitting that you, yourself never use facial moisturizer to maintain that soft, supple, clear complexion.

Bitching and complaining aside, I gotta go now because it is time for my night time exfoliation and moisturization.

later Bitches...

trey

Check out the band JawBox's album: For Your Own Special Sweetheart. You'll need to go to an indie record store buy it but it well worth it...You like it if you like Sonic Youth, Afghan Whigs, Nirvana whatever
GOBUYITNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I believe I have seen the funniest damn movie ever...

2005-08-07T23:59:00.000-04:00

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story!

A "friend" of a "friend" got a "copy" the past week I have never laughed at a movie quite as hard as I did at this one. Especially Seth MacFarlane's use of...well I let you be surprised or told by somebody else. Anyway i gotta go watch it again...

Later

Trey

go by the DVD of the above when it comes out sometime in september

A another usefull day of not much going on...

2005-08-02T23:59:00.000-04:00

I spent the whole cleaning my place, reorganizing my music, and ripping CDs to my computer. The only thing useful about today is I found out when I get sweaty and active my new glasses will slide right off my face, but then again I have never been one to choose practicality & function over form and fashion. (especially shoes; and no, I am not a chick and I am not gay) Speaking of that subject I am glad to see more and more straight men caring a little more about the F-word, but more on that later...I gotta go polish on my colection Kenneth Cole shoes.

Ken, you Kick Major Fucking Fashion Ass.

Trey

not suggestions for music or movies today...

I have been really busy...

2005-08-02T01:21:00.000-04:00

In the past month or so i have completed my film script first draft, been cleared by my doctor to get back to me life, started legal action involved with my accident, tried to get contacts, got new glasses, started writing music for an album I am working on, and wasted time playing video games on my PS2...which unfortunately has left me little time to concentrate on my blog. I can only blame my laziness and ADD on this but I hopefully can change that starting today.

Even if all I do in one day is wake up shower watch TV and go sleep I'll post it. Because after all the shitty reality TV show out there I know some people would find that infinitely more interesting than what Balki said about Jose and Janice on the Sur-"real" Life. At least I would and I would like to get back on my small soap box where I openly and gleefully voice my hatred for Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Ashlee Simpson & her greedy father, Britney & Kevin, celebutants, Reality TV, bad music, optimism, anyone who takes themselves too seriously, shitty movies, pointless greed (i.e. film remakes), Tara Reid, PETA, Militant Vegans, the Freakshow known as Tom Cruise, low carb fad diets...am I forgetting something...oh yeah...most of humanity.

Stay Tuned for more useless and idiotic rant like above...

trey

Watch the movie Pump Up the Volume one of the few Christian Slater films where I feel he doesn't channel Jack Nicholson...okay maybe a little but at least the movie has a nice safe corporate message for the kids...

"Speak your mind and start your own pirate radio station"
Sponsored by Radio Schlock

Sorry For the absence Friends...

2005-07-12T23:49:00.000-04:00

Sorry i've been gone for a while, but between the past family gatherings, drinking binges and other entertainments I was also working on my script with Jeff and after a year on writing we finally finished the rough draft...more details later...

Trey

greeting from my brood of irish southerns...

2005-06-25T23:59:00.000-04:00

Big family reunion this weekend the whole clan is meeting like we always do. Spent al day with some of them and get spend all day tomorrow with more of them. Please...kill me! I am stuck with people that the only thing we have in common is a last name so here's what I'll wind up doing tomorrow: Sticking to my parents or close relatives following them around like a shadow, remaining silent until spoken to, waiting for lunch, trying my best not to smoke, jonsing for a stiff drink (they rented a church for the gathering) and ending the day inpain from standing up on my still-mending leg all day. But still they are my family so i must go concidering I haven't been to a reunion in at least 6 years.

O death where is thy sting?

Trey Xxxxxxxxx (censored to protect the guilty)

Best stoner movie I have ever seen has got to be Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. If you get the unrated version make sure no one sqemish sees the film. go check it out.

I had an entry but it still needs work...

2005-06-24T00:54:00.000-04:00

I started writing tonight entry but the way I write lead me down a darkened path. When I write stuff for this silly little blog I kind of write in a stream of conciousness way that along with my ADD is what usually leads me astray of the subject at hand. Well I started ranting about Mega-Stores versus small msuci stores and took a turn into some personal issues I wasn't even sure I could talk about yet...you know until we get to know each other better. I'll fine tune the post and put it up soon I just don't want to throw it up here in the slapped together way I usually post because of the subject matter. I started writing the blog at 10:30 and it is now 12:54 as i post this substitute entry...

Peace Out

T-Dawg

Go see a Woody Allen film or something....

Adventures at Liquor Land...

2005-06-22T23:59:00.000-04:00

Well I'm back from the local Bar/Wings Joint after a few Stoli Soda and Limes I am staring to have an onset of a hangover as I write this.

My idiot friend Jeff challenged me to name 3 songs to represent the is past decades 90's to as far back as I could go...I took the challenge. now some might disagree with my choices but I could really give flying fuck because these are my choices...

I warn you now I feel very strongly about music so my vocabulary gets just as strong to voice my opinion from here on...

90's
Limp Bizkit - Nookie
(as much as I hate them they kicked off the end of the 90's and decline of music)
Nirvana - Lounge Act
(when them make a movie of Kurt's life this song will be great in the movie trailer)
Dr. Dre - Any Single from The Chronic
(the doc blows up and takes G-Funk into the pop culture lexicon)

80's
Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
(same old shit they put on the 4 prev. albums/the definition of "badass" hair metal)
Duran Duran - Rio
(come on it's fucking Duran Duran the ultimate 80's band..The Cure almost won)
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
(First Video MTV Played on Aug, 1, 1981 need I say more about the subject)

70's
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
(fuck the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten and his fucking ego)
KC & the Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
(Sex, Drugs and Disco the ultimate 70's theme of excess)
Led Zeppelin - Rock'N'Roll
(once a song for generation now a song to sell Caddies to that same generation)

60's
The Doors - Break on Through
(I'm not huge Doors fan but even my dumbass can recognize musical genius)
The Rolling Stones - anything...
(it's the Fucking Stones for christ sakes)
The Beatles - She Loves You
(If you don't understand this pick leave my fucking blog now!)

50's
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
(I never got Elvis but millions upon millions did...so I give props to the King)
Chuck Berry - Johnnie B. Good
(Dude was the Hendrix of the 50's)
Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock Around the Clock
(First rock hit ever)

40's
Bing Crosby - White Christmas
(I've heard it so many times I can hardly stomach listing it)
Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child
(This Woman is who Macy Gray ripped off)
Gene Krupa - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
(Whenever I hear this song I think of WWII and horny soldiers on leave)

I'd try to come up with a few more but I'm not sure how many more I could pull out of my ass.

T. Diddy

I recommend any of the above....

My bible came in the mail today...

2005-06-21T22:43:00.000-04:00

My new IKEA catalog came today and my obsession with American disposable discount culture kicked in full strength. I have only put down the catalog to write this entry. I have been intrigued with the Swedish furniture maker since I first saw Fight Club. I also became obsessed with the ideals in Fight Club not so much following them as much as preaching them from my hypocritical podium surrounded by my own ever-enlarging pile bullshit. Here's how riduclous my obsession is I own the Fight Club on VHS, DVD, Spec Ed DVD, Film Soundtrack, 2 version of the book (with and without movie art work), book-on-tape, movie poster and the biggest travesty of the Fight Club universe the Fight Club video game. I have been told by loved ones (especially my girlfriend) that I need to seek psychological assistance...when they do I start spout al 8 rules of Fight Club just to end the conversation.

Enough about that I was reading about how former GO-GO/current dominatrix & Surreal Lifer Jane Wiedlin is working with Paris Hilton on the next sign of the apocalypse Paris's album. All ya'll get right with the lord whether you call him Jesus, Allah or Robert Evans cause I have a feeling when this LP hit the streets fire and brimstone isn't far behind.

You are not your khakis...

Trey

Go see and catch "rescue Me," on the FX network. I used to think Denis Leary was just a comedian who could play a thug...I was wrong. Dude has some acting chops and writing talent. so go watch the crazy-alcoholic-irish firefighter known as Tommy Gavin on cable and get the Frist Season DVD...

Spin Magazine finally proves to me they might know what they're talking about...

2005-06-20T23:09:00.000-04:00

First let me say I am a huge Nirvana fan...but I must agree with their choice of the #1 album of the last twenty years, that is Radiohead's OK Computer and of their top ten I agree with all but one and that was Prince's Sign 'O' the Times but only because I think "Batdance" was his magnum opus of the 80's...seriously...I'm not kidding...really...okay maybe I'm screwing with you. While I haven't gotten my hands on the whole list yet I was disappointed to see that the Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen was below Pearl Jam's Ten at 99 and 93 respectively.

But, no uses whining about a list that really means nothing in the grand scheme known as life on this planet earth. At least Spin magazine is a little less of a shitrag than what we now call Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone used to be the magazine outside the mainstream now it sets the mainstream.

Now I'm off my soapbox

Trey
aka
no fan of modern culture mags

I'll make the recommendation today some light, fun and happy...watch Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal featuring a younger Max von Sydow before his awe inspiring appearances in Ice Pirates and Judge Dredd. Go see it and compared to all the shit going on in the world right now this movie will make you dance a jig or wish you were dead...

I'm back from my attempt at writing a script...

2005-06-17T17:36:00.000-04:00

My writing buddy and I had to quit writing our script for now otherwise we were gonna kill each other. But today I went and saw The Longest Yard. I thought it was one of the better remakes I have ever seen. Especially how faithfull they stayed to the original. Any fan of sports or Adam Sandler needs to see the film. The guys playing the guards, while there performances left something to be desired I remembered they're wrestlers and football players. Go see it now.

the Reluctant Blogger

Trey

GO see the above...

Writing is hard...

2005-06-09T01:29:00.000-04:00

I will never write a script while trying to quit Pepsi (a long time staple my my diet) and trying to smoke less. In the past 3 weeks I've taken on the task of no MacDonald's or other similar fast foods, no soda except for pepsi edge and coke c2, also no or low caffeine drink only and smoke less than a pack a week (yes a week not a day).

The only thing sustaining my sanity as we write is my Arizona green tea and vodka with club soda. In a week and half I've gone thru 4 or 5 gallons of green tea and paced around my house enough to have walk to from NYC to LA trying not to think about a big fat juicy double bacon chili cheese BBQ burger with a heaping pile of greasy salty vinegar soaked "freedom fries" and tall pitcher of Budweiser follow by a satisfying smoke. Food porn you gotta love it. Well I need to go pleasure myself to the menu I have from Fuddrucker's...and then work on my script.

The Cranky Dieter

Trey

I thought the producers of Hunt For Red October were crazy when they tried to past off Sean Connery as a Russian but watch You Only Live Twice and you'll see Sean Connery trying to pass as Japanese...If you haven't seen it you must, not just for that but also to see the original and the best Bond ever...

Coming soon to your local water supply...

2005-06-06T00:50:00.000-04:00

This kind of research scares the hell out of me...

CNN.com - Tests reveal 'trust in a bottle' hormone

No entry today just go out side and enjoy the weather wherever you are...unless the weather is shitty...but if you listen to music while being outside may I recommend the OM Lounge, Vol. 1 Compliation especially tracks 1,4,5,6,8...ah screw it... just enjoy the whole damn thing.

be back in a few days

Trey

I know I am not the first to notice this but...

2005-06-03T23:59:00.000-04:00

Just about every big "summer blockbuster" movie coming out is a remake or some other non-original idea: Dukes of Hazzard, Honeymooners, Herbie, War of the Worlds, Bewitched, Fantasic Four, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Longest Yard, Batman Begins and Bad News Bears. Some of these I am sure will be alright films, but where are the new novel scripts. Are the movie studios such slaves to the focus group and the almighty dollar they won't take anymore chances. Where are our producers of old who listened to a pitch and gave it a greenlight based on only their gut. The producers like Robert Evans who brought a studio back from the brink of bankruptcy on his intuition. All we really have to day are the Weinsteins and even they are choosing a few non-original films. Someone made the arguement to me that one of Robert Evans greatest films the Godfather wasn't original it was based on a novel. Here's what I say to that person...

DO YOU REALLY FUCKING THINK THAT ROBERT FUCKING EVANS WOULD GREENLIGHT A REMAKE OF HOUSE OF WAX WITH PARIS FUCKING HILTON!!!!!!!

I will admit it is probably a poor example (I came up with it while I was really pissed), but think back even 10 years ago...that piece of shit movie never would have been made. I can even admit I am very close-minded to most of the films coming out now a days; but, that is only because I have been witnessed to the slow death of the film industry due to focus groups, internet piracy, idiot pop icons and the illusion that MORE MONEY = A GOOD MOVIE.

How many of you out there can say after viewing a pirated film you still went to go see it in the theatre. I can't even say that I saw Matrix Reloaded two days after it premiered in theatres in the comfort of my living room. Now after I looked at the numbers and stats about financial impact of internet piracy I felt regret so I stopped downloading music, movies and software. I not gonna preach about it though every person must make their own disecion about it. But when good movies make less at the box office because of downloading the film industry feels less inclined to make movies worth a damn. I'll leave you with this go see the Longest Yard and Batman Begins and please don't go see HERBIE: FULLY LOADED...or at the very least just download HERBIE...

Your Resident Anti-Lohan/Hilton Advocate

Trey

No recomendations because I have been too busy writting my shitty script to find one...

I apologize for my absence...We're finishing our script

2005-06-01T22:33:00.000-04:00

When it really comes down to it I must say that "I am no writer." Yes, I've written a few short scripts and stupid crap like that (including this blog) but I hate writing. The whole process from sitting there and typing or writing it out with a pen and paper, it sucks. Editing a piece really takes it out of me as re-edit over and over again till I kill it. I write out of the simple necessity to create my films. My writing partner feels the same way; but, I am lucky enough to have a friend like him where he does most of the actually writing as we collaborate. We'll continue to struggle thru the writing process.

Until I am certain we're keeping the current version of the script I'll hold off on sharing the details.

Anyway, I was watching Hoffa on AMC and I was suddenly jarred by something in the film, not the riot or anything gruesome...but how bad the outdoor sets in the film are. Not the ones actually shot outside but the ones shot on a soundstage. Primarily the hunting scene and one the final scenes with Armand Assante; also, another I have my suspicions about. Now if it was done for artistic sake, fine...if the scene's were just lit and dressed that bad, god help Danny DeVito.

But in the end who am I to critique the man's film...I have only shot 3 short with no budget on 8mm video which it equivalent to...to...to nothing, nada, zip in the motion picture industry. I'll bitch when I run a film studio...

My Robert Evans bless you,

Trey

I leave you with Highlander was my recommendation of the day, any sci-fi/fantasy fan worth a damn has seen this film but, more people need to see it. As a fencer I appreciate the sword work in it. As a film addict I find it funny how a Frenchman was cast as a Scotsman for the same reason I find it funny when they try and pass off Vancouver or Syndey as New York. Whatever GO WATCH IT.

Get Back Jack, Do It Again...NOT F*&%ING LIKELY

2005-05-29T23:13:00.000-04:00

Imagine being stuck in a mini van headed to Jacksonville FL with your parents, a headache, your dad blaring Steely Dan for the five hours headed there and half the ride back. Also your plan to bring and old ass 5 incher B&W tv and rig up your PS2 to it fails. Then you finally get to the restuarant you're supposed to meet your family 3-hours early and waste the in between time at a BigLots, Dollar Tree and buy Lottery tickets at a gas station. To top it after all the fun before we get to the restaurant, still early, and we start to drink just enough to get tipsy. The rest of the family starts to tickle in after 30 minutes. We then realize...my father and I are the only ones drinking. We aren't alcoholics or very heavy drinkers but when we drink (epecially me) I like to fill up. So now I, after having 6 Stoli and Sodas with lime, am struggling to hold my shit together so our little branch of the family tree doesn't seem like a bunch of booze hounds. That plus dealing with the awkwardness of meeting relatives I have never met, ones I thought were dead and the rest I only thing I have in common is a last name. I shoving pieces of Longhorn's free bread down my gullet to soke up the alcohol and sober me up but all it is doing is taking up room I was saving for my 11oz. New York Strip Steak.

We finish eating, chat up the relatives and leave. 30 minutes on the way home with Steely Dan's Aja on its 2 repeat I start to get a semi-hangover headache which I tend to get after drinking a lot and abruptly stopping and not going right to sleep. My mom was driving back so she changed the music to the new Michael Bublé album. The guy is good so don't get me wrong when say it drove even more out of my mind to here that album for 400th fucking time since she bought it 4 weeks ago. Between her playing that one, Isaac Hayes' Greatest Hits, Judy Collins, Frank Sinatra's Duets and Nickel Creek over and over and over and over again I am suprised I haven't stolen all her good CDs so I don't lose my taste for them, the Bublé and Hayes that is.

Any way by the time we back home at 10ish last night I thought about the one good thing that came from is horrifying trip to the HELL known as family. I talked to a cousin that might be able to secure funding for one of the script that my friend Geoff and i have been working on. I'm not gonna say that the script will change Hollywood and the way people write in the future, but we like it and to film it and take to a few festivals just to get our feet in the door. I might describe it in a later entry, but first we need to finish it...well at least flesh out the last 25% of it.

Oh yeah plus I got to laugh to myself about my parents obliviousness to the origin of Steely Dan's name...for those of you who know here is something else to giggle about. There was bar around here in the 70's and 80's called Steely Dan's. I just hope the owner was William S. Burroughs fan...

O death where is thy Sting. The Man is never on time...

Trey

Now, while I am still in the struggle of grasping the text and subtext Bill Burroughs' Naked Lunch I have seen the movie and if your a fan of films (especially off-kilter ones) you gotta watch it. Even if for no other reason than to watch it high you must get it. David Cronenberg's visual style combined with Peter Weller's performance is not as much magic as it is a dark curse that leaves you...leaves you...I guess the only word is bumfuzzled at the end where you want to try bug powder or watch the movie again. I must warn you the the movie has some dark, gritty and twisted imagery and if you're more like the happy go lucky type proceed with caution...

Adventures in the Southeast...

2005-05-27T23:59:00.000-04:00

I was driving around today with my friend and co-filmmaker Jeff(or Geoff, however he chooses to spell it) and we went to pick up some stuff from another friend's house. After that we headed to BK eat some burgers and ponder what we would buy if we won the BK Star Wars Sony shopping spree. We all have dreams and my dream of producing movies is second only to owning everything Sony makes. But at least after all the Bullshiting we did I now know why America is as fat as it is...more chances to win the bigger the drink or fries you order.

Tomorrow I leave for Jacksonville, FL with the (pa)Rents and plan to dive in head first to some Tony Hawk or GTA all the way there. Don't worry my children the talking asshole returns Sunday Night.

Until Then

Trey

The only thing I listened to today and can actually recommend is Jamie Cullum's Twentysomething. Whether your 20 or 50 this 25 y.o. brit knows jazz and how to bring a rock feel to his sound. About a year ago VH-1 hyped this album as "Classic Jazz with a Punk vibe" which is a close approximation of the sound but I don't think it is quite punk enough to be likened to punk. Anyway it is a great album and all those twentysomething's out will really connection with the title cut.

Also check out the cuts: "All at Sea" "High and Dry" "I Get A Kick Out Of You"

GO BUY IT NOW

Can the people producing "I Want To Be A Hilton" please kill yourselves...

2005-05-26T11:59:00.000-04:00

I sure any repeat readers I have know I hate reality shows and those who are close to me know I hate "celebutantes" with Paris Hilton being the one I tend to focus most of my anger towards. But now the geniuses that took our obsession with watching people make fools of themselves merged it with some people's need to do anything for money and time on the TV and made FEAR FACTOR have added a new facet. "I want to be a Hilton" contestants will compete in events such as best nightshot sex scene, longest cell phone number list, worst embarrassing moment to their family, shortest dress without showing muff and of the most vacant & vain one wins...at least so I believe because I will never watch it.

Maybe what I said above is petty, juvenile, imbecilic and uncalled for; but, what I feel is really uncalled for is the fact I know who Paris Hilton is. I remember a time long ago a time known as the 90's where a person needed at least the illusion of talent to garner even a fraction of the attention Paris gets when she is involved in some "beef" with another no-talent clown like Lindsay Lohan. It really pisses me off how we (as in society) have let fame substitute talent. I should not even know the following names: Paris Hilton, Haylie Duff, Ashlee Simpson, or any person latching on to their siblings fame.

Paris Hilton was working on an album for god's sake. Lindsay and Ashlee couldn't go through a performance without their "support orchestration," and usually got caught using it in the worst places; Ashlee on SNL and Lindsay on the TODAY show, both on NBC. Maybe NBC is the key, maybe they're our only ally in this fight against mediocrity...

Sadly no because after all...

THEY'RE F**KING AIRING "I WANT TO BE A HILTON"!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It seem like this sad state of affairs started with the omnipresent Paris at every media event she could her privileged little finger around. As another human I really bare no ill will toward her and I am sure she is a lovely girl to befriend; but, as the Pop Phenomenon known as Paris Hilton sometimes I would like to set her on fire just to hear her say "That's Hot," and mean it

The Mean Asshole

Trey

P.S. Jason Hervey I believe is producing this crap...he played Wayne Arnold in The Wonder Years.

Finally, check out the Self titled album from the Thorns. The band is comprised of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge and Shawn Mullins. This album is an incredible mix of all their styles and if you like Alt. Country or Folky Rock get this album immediately...BUY IT

Help me out here...

2005-05-26T02:34:00.000-04:00

After all the rants and bitching I've been doing I think about changing the description above to

"The monotonous adventures of a self-righteous jackass involved in a vain & useless battle to save the world from itself..."

I think it sounds catchy...or...

"Join me on as battle with scandalous addictions: movies, music, my own voice, terrible grammar and ellipsis..."

Tell me what you think.

Trey

Images and Labels...WTF do they matter?

2005-05-25T23:46:00.000-04:00

Ever since the Swing explosion of the late 90's I have been fan of the retro 40's and 50's style of dressing. Between the suits, khakis, bowling/camp shirts and Brylcreem I finally was able to dress myself in something other than t-shirts and thrashed jeans. But, I thought the swing revival was a joke some great bands came out of this time: Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad VooDoo Daddy and Royal Crown Revue. But the attention paid to this short lived fad was unacceptable and no matter how much I distanced myself from it I always heard in the distance "look it's a swing kid," two words that would ignite my fiery rage, "Swing Kid."

In all my entire life nothing pissed me off more than those two words. I'd like to say my dressing like that was an expression of the age of my soul not what was playing in my car stereo, but it was only because back then I hated The Gap, American Eagle, Eddie Bauer you know the rest of the names. I rebel against the fashion of the time simply because instead of spending 30 bucks on some t-shirt at the mall I found a deeper satisfaction of spending 40 bucks in some "Vintage Clothing" store (overpriced thrift store) that paid 2 buck for it. I did it because I felt like that was my way of thumbing my nose at society; when, in reality, I was just feeding the beast through a different orifice. But nothing is better than that self-glorification of when you think you're rebelling against something.

I strutted around a smug anti-trend follower of the rebellion. At the time I thought the war was against money and corporations after dealing with all the shit that comes with that I know the true enemy...Rebellion.

Say what you wanting about selling-out, buying-in, workin' for tha man, any other defining phrase of the uncool sellouts. The fact of the matter is I wake up wear what clothes suit me at the time I own stuff from the Gap, Old Navy, Target, Thrift Stores, and Structure (I was told to correct this to Express Men or something) I listen to whatever music I want and no longer feel tied to the image of rebellion. Also when I stopped wearing the chain wallet I was able to Stand up out of a chair without snagging it on something.

I no longer feel contempt for people who shop at the Gap and I don't feel for people who shop at Vintage clothing store. I feel it for people who now think like I did...especially when I see them walk out of Hot Topic with a bag full of shit their parents willingly bought them so they can be an individual like everyone else.

Viva La Revolucion©

Tré Guevara

P.S. I am no rebel or sell-out...I bought my way in because I like the Banana Republic shirts feel against my skin. Sue me.

Speaking of swing kids recommend Swingers and Swing Kids. The first is a great little independent comedy that will probably resemble my life when I make the move out to California and the latter is about a Swing Rebellion in Nazi Germany and features Frank Whaley, Christian Bale, Noah Wylie and Robert Sean Leonard in some of the grestest performances I have ever seen.
GO WATCH'EM

Three Dark films...

2005-05-24T23:59:00.000-04:00

I sat down and watched 3 really dark movies back to back: Monument Avenue (AKA Snitch), Dark City and Blade Runner. All great films but they wound up putting my in a shitty mood. Not because of the dark depressing tones and look of the films. The will never be able to create films as dark as these even if I live to be 1,000 and continuously improve my work over those years. If I ever make a film that is even compared to these movies I would be honored, but with my luck I'll wind up producing Barney 10: The Big Purple Dinosaur vs. The Boobahs...

I tried go in a positive direction in this entry but rode it right off the rails with that last pessimistic view of my future career. So, I leave you with two things WATCH THE MOVIES MENTIONED EARLIER and please don't watch Britney and Kevin's "reality" show. Come on kids, I love a trainwreck as much as the next guy but this shit is way too much for even me to handle.

Peace, Hate and Chaos

Trey

daily recomendations above

I'll keep it light today...

2005-05-23T20:43:00.000-04:00

After spending the last two days on socio-politcal soap boxes I'll just leave you with some movie selections. 3 Films by the Soul Cinema Goddess known as Pam Grier. Foxy Brown, Coffy and Jackie Brown are some of her best work, especially Coffy. Go check them out and other films in the Soul Cinema series.

The Usless Gasbag

Trey

I have new guilty pleasure...(Caution Mindless RANT Towards the End)

2005-05-22T22:30:00.000-04:00

CHEATERS!!!!! At first I thought this was a horrible way to get rating but then I saw this Crazy Ass Country Boy snap ram his deceased father's car into a lake with his cheating wife and her "lover" is side of it then as the guy got out he punched him. This is glorious television that reaches a lower level of human depravity than I thought COPS ever could. Seeing a guy caught with a tranny is one thing but to see a person's intricate web of lies and deceit crumble all around them in an exquisite emotional trainwreck that only rivals watching the Titanic sink or Hindenburg exploding. This one TV show that will find a home on my TIVO. Let's not forget the awesome host, Joey Greco. He shows up at work saying "who's dreams can we crush for ratings today," and when he gets to the victim he says "I'm sorry to show you this."

Having been cheated on before I feel for the victims. Although I must say I savor ever moment of their despair that comes through the TV. Not because I am mean or unsympathetic. I do this probably because I enjoy watching humanity, especially American Culture, slowly destroy itself. Not through violence but common human indignities: pride, greed, envy, anger, gluttony, sloth and my favorite lust. I plan on watching from my perch in the afterlife, above or below, as the world continues to rip itself apart. Also I love how we continue to appease the lowest common denominator of society. We do this with bad reality shows (why do the Gottis have a show), canned laughter sitcoms written by apes, shitty movies with a SFX budget that could feed the hungry throughout the world and meaningless pop music "sung" by dancers not real singers. It doesn't stop there we now vote for people who we think can win as opposed to the people who can do the job. I believe they US would be in a slightly better state if John McCain would have won the primaries; but alas, we got stuck with DUBYA (who I voted because Gore is Nuts and Kerry is a douche).

I am a conservative liberal or it is a liberal conservative. Some would say I am a moderate but click on that link and look at the synonyms for the word, I REFUSE to be labeled tame or calm. I don't care about parties who ever can feed the poor, lower taxes, keep us a world power, boost the economy all while not pissing off religious fanatics (Christian or Islamic) has my vote. If one person can't fit that description I say we change the laws and allow Arnold Schwarzenegger to run and fix everything or blow everything apart like he did in Commando.

But what the hell do I know about anything, I am 26 y.o. suburb boy with a useless degree raised on MTV, Pepsi, Marlboro and Budweiser.

Ahhh Fuck It

Trey The Grumpy Prick

Movies you should go see Bob Roberts and Primary Colors so you can see both sides are full shit...buy'em, rent'em, hell, download'em for all I care.

(I apologize how this blog entry got little off subject, I am little pissy because I can't find a job in my degree field)

I welcomed two new DVDs to my collection this week...

2005-05-21T22:44:00.000-04:00

The best action film of 04 is definitely Team America: World Police. I especially like how Parker and Stone instead of taking one side in an argument they sit back and address the hypocrisy of both sides. I am all for citizens sharing their opinion for the government and whatever; but actors should keep their mouths shut and act. They can feel how they want to feel but when they schedule press conferences to say how they disagree with this or that desicion it is nothing more than grandstanding by people who make way too much money to make believe for a living. Most of those who "took a stand" against Bush and the Iraq War did nothing but make fools of themselves. Some would says I do the same on this blog; BUT, I never expect to be taken seriously, even in my everyday life. I am a fan of Tim Robbins and Alec Baldwin but act or be in politics not both, even though both involve deception.

Enough of my soap box.

The other dvd I purchased was Ali G indahouse. I don't care whether or not you like him the dirty humor and his sheer stupity is funny as hell in this movie. I always thought he was funny and I knew his show on HBO was too british for american audiences but you need to watch the movie.

I have started designing a prototype for my theme music jacket...

Boo-Yaka-Sha

Trey

No movie or music selections for the day just pay attention to the above writings.

My Obsession with Tony Hawk Games and Theme Songs...

2005-05-20T23:49:00.000-04:00

I wake up turn on the TV play THUG for 2 hours, then i go through my weekly tivo'd stuff watch Good Eats, Naked Lunch and Family Guy. After all that I watch the last bit of the West Wing Marathon while flip back to the PS2 to play Tony Hawk in between breaks. Then I start to think back to the episode of the Family Guy I watched. It was one of the viewer mail shows with Peter's wishes. His second wish intrigues me. The one about theme music.

I wish there was some enchanted jacket I could wear that would play my personal theme music where ever I go. Maybe have it play a preselected mix of the Afghan Whigs, Isaac Hayes, Disturbed and Fu Manchu. I would have it mood, weather and time sensitive simply because it wouldn't be right to go for a walk on a spring morning and hear Disturbed's Down with the Sickness or standing in line at a bank and hear Isaac Hayes' Moonlight Lovin' (Ménage À Trois). What could be cooler than that especially if you're dressed for it. I try dressing like I'm Shaft even though I am a 26 y.o. dude from the Burbs of the Southeast. But at least I am cool in my own deluded egocentric mind. I thought of taking an MP3 player and rigging some speakers in some jacket to play music out loud but I believe it would annoy the piss out of the people I encounter through the day. I just wish the was a way I could do it and to the public it would seem like the most natural thing in the world. But this is one thing that will have to wait until I conquer this puny ball of dirt and water. I am amassing my intergalactic army as I type this.

All Hail Me As Your New Emperor and God

Trey

P.S. Think I said too much disregard last two sentences

Movie recommendation for the day: Just go see Star Wars:Revenge of the Sith if you haven't yet. Get over with so we can all go on with our sad pathetic little lives and let the news outlets report on something other than a movie.

Adventures in the Lucasverse

2005-05-19T22:37:00.000-04:00

Not get get to wrapped up in it but I saw Episode III today. I liked it. Nuff said. Today CNN had 6 different news stories about it and probably 10 or more just the past week including a less than flattering review of Entertainment Weekly (AKA Auxiliary Toilet Paper Weekly). While I did have some issues with the film I left the theatre more than satisfied. This is all to be said about it here.

After that I came home got my PS2 on wit Tony Hawk 3 and 4. I created some of the stupidest skate parks. After than I created a few playlists of MP3s to listen to while I kick some ass on Delta Force. Played that for about 3 or 4 hours. I just can't get enough of killin' games monsters, stormtroopers, nazis or whatever else is tossed my way, I'll kill it.

Then I started to work on some song ideas for recording tomorrow (Sonic Foundry's ACID Pro Kick Ass).

Boring day over

Trey

Fans of the campiest tv show ever created said goodbye to Frank Gorshin this week. Not to get to weepy about but his portrayal of the Riddler was one of my favorite villains of the series which lead to my pick of the day. The last movie I remember seeing him in Twelve Monkeys, Terry Gilliam's classic about time travel, the end of the world and Brad Pitt's 2nd best performance ever.
GO RENT IT FROM NETFLIX OR BLOCKBUSTER

Two thing piss me off...Dentists and My Sony MD Player

2005-05-18T23:58:00.000-04:00

I dread going to the dentist. Its not that I am scared or intimidated I just hate the sound of the drill. I don't care about the pain, the vibrations and discomfort involved with getting a cavity fixed just the noise of the drill. But ever since portable CD players became battery efficient its been easier to go to the dentist. With the introduction of MiniDisc players and MP3 players of various types help more with the variety I can bring wherever I go; but, today my Sony MZ-NE410 MiniDisc Player, that I have cherished and cared for since the day I got it, pissed me off.

Before I go on I must state in this world of short attention spans and always evolving technology my MiniDisc Player is the only gadget that has kept my interest for 3 years and possibly more as time goes on...until it screwed me over. As I mentioned above the sound of the drill is what I hate so to counteract that I create special music mix that allow me to...detach (that is the best word I can think of) from my surroundings. When I say detach all I mean is that I go into a meditative state similiar to zone out at work so it seems to go by faster.

These mixes have everything from Trance and Progressive House to Trip Pop and Acid Jazz. My favorite detachment mix a 5 hour Trance Mix starts off with Nick Warren - Global Underground #024 (both disc), Then Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport and finally Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure, Vol. 1. As I sat down and waited for the mouth butcher (that sounds like a porn term) I hit play as he applied the topical numbing agent...and nothing. I hit it again after taking the disc out and put it back in and it started to play and started skipping.

I have have listened to 80 MDs that personally burned, I clean my player once a month and treat it more delicate that most of my other electronic gear. It has never skipped before...never. So I take out the disc examine it and pull back the guard blow any dust away pop it back in it play. It then beeps and flashes error on the LCD screen as if it was taunting me into throwing the first punch. After that I almost threw the MD Player against the wall. Now by nature I am an angry and bitter person while I do hide it from my fellow Contributors to the gene pool usually inanimate objects feel my wrath. But I stop myself, try another disc I have some 4 hour Bad Religion mix, so instead of detaching I just crank the volume till I can hear anything but the harmonious aggression that is Bad Religion.

After all that's done I get home I can't eat with my numb mouth and as the numbness goes away some teeth he didn't even touch are hurting. So now I am stoned on 2 Hydrocodone and a single Miller Lite writing this long and blustery story about absolutely nothing. In conclusion this long and pointless story is stunning proof for the fact that I need to get out of this house, go to a bar, pickup a girl and get laid.

The Lonely Loser

Trey

For my daily media suggestion just click on one of above links Warren, Oakenfold Sasha and Digweed put out some great Trance, House, Dub, Trip Pop, Organic House, Electronica whatever you want to call it. And Bad Religion are the godfathers of the So-Cal punk scene.

CHECK'EM OUT AT YOUR RECORD STORE

GTA dreams = insanity

2005-05-17T22:52:00.000-04:00

I woke up today watched a little of the West Wing marathon on Bravo, even though I have seen every episode except some from this past season on NBC. Then I decided to settle up to that crackpipe known as my PS2 and pop in GTA:San Andreas. I play this game and the rest of the series including GTA 1 so much I have started to dream as if everything is GTA.

One of these dreams could only be described as GTA High. It is in this High School only created in my own mind. It's doesn't resemble any school I have ever gone to and while there were some familiar faces most of the people I can remember from the dream I have never met. I like the game I go around spreading havoc, death and debauchery through the school day. Attacking teachers, students and janitors while getting certain girls in hallway closets to replenish my health. While I would love to develop the game into a real property only those diehard GTA fans would even remotely be interested. And when I say diehard I mean those same people who would buy anything with GTA stamped on it and love regardless how bad the game is. Plus after all the school shootings and terrorist activities throughout the world in recent times the mere suggestion of a game like this would bring down a social and political outcry that Marilyn Manson would be jealous to have.

After saying all that I don't want to get some irrate email or comment stating I am a sick person for dreaming this. I can't control my dreams anymore than I can control the opinions of stupid close minded people (I count right wingers and hippie liberals in that category). I also don't condone violence towards anybody. Insult them all you want; but, please don't shoot them.

Atfer playing that for a few hours I went back to watching the West Wing and glancing through some A/V equipment catalogs and trade magazines doing my best to stay on top of my game for when I make my return back to the Entertainment Industry. All in all an uneventful day. But now I am off to read my Hip Hoptionary to get down with the vernacular of today's youth.

MADD UPZ TO YOU PEEPS GETTIN' YO GTA ON...A-IGHT

T-DAWG

For those of you sleeping under a rock since 1998 check out the album from SOUTH PARK Chef-Aid. Aside from the humor has some great performances by Isaac Hayes, Rancid, Ween and others.

GO BUY IT NOW

My life known as limbo...

2005-05-16T19:55:00.000-04:00

To let all the people who have nothing better to do than read my blog I started this as something to occupy my days as I recover from a near fatal accident that resulted in a compound fracture of my right lower leg and slightly fractured neck. That happened a year ago this past February. Now two titanium rods, 1 wheelchair, 1 walker and 1 cane later I can walk unaided for short distances and hope to resume exercising shortly. I won't be released by my doctor for at least the next few months maybe longer. I have always wanted to do nothing as if I was living my HS Junior summer all over again only now I'm 26 and realize...I LOVE WORKING. I bitched and complained since I was 16 about working and a year and half not working change my view completely I will work the rest of my life and even when I retire (if I can afford it) I will need a part-time job or full-time hobby. But most of all I can't wait till I'm released, I have the legal proceedings behind me and can move out to Cali to give my career the jumpstart it is going to need to get me back on track. While the time down has given me a chance to work on several movie scripts and project outline for film I want to make and record some film score ideas for those same projects I can't wait to bust my ass in the Hollywood machine. I know I won't show up in Studio City and show one person my script and be on the road to fame but I'll work non stop for the chance to make blockbusters like From Justin to Kelly, You Got Served, Gigli and of course the classic Crossroads.

Until then I will leave you with the sad little tidbits of my life, rant about useless shit and share good music and movies with you.

May Robert Evans bless you,

Trey

Nothing particular to share this week except for a list of artist I've listen to this week:

Green Day - American Idiot

Afghan Whigs - 1965

Remy Shand - The Way I Feel

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

System Of A Down - Toxicity

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "Out of Sight"

Isaac Hayes - Soundtrack from SHAFT (not just the Theme from Shaft)

Reading: The Art and Science of Fencing by Nick Evangelista

great book if you are interested in Fencing

BRB I'm CID about chat slang

2005-05-11T02:38:00.000-04:00

Okay, I understand in the fast paced world of IMs and Chatrooms you need to be short, sweet and too the point. But if one more person writes me a really long email using this bastardization of the english language I will be required to terminate them from our gene pool. And the next person who uses it in a live conversation, face to face they will only be able to get out the "BR..." as I end their life. Is it that hard to say "Be Right Back" compared to "BRB" their both three syllables. Please let's stop this murdering of the english language; bad action movies and talentless rappers have done enough damage.

*poof*

Trey

One of the best hip-hop bands ever, The Roots, great beats & intelligent lyrics...nuff said.

GO GET ANYTHING BY THEM NOW, but I recomend Things Fall Apart

My first viewing of Citizen Kane

2005-05-05T19:22:00.000-04:00

I have seen a lot of films in my life but now as I realize most of the films coming out are hopeless attempts at seeing how much money one can spend on a film I have started turning to older films that I should've watch years ago. Citizen Kane, a film about a self absorbed publisher by a self absorbed director, a reputation which I believe is deserved. Orson Welles is not only one of the greatest filmmakers of all time the size of his ego surpasses even mine. I gotta respect anyone with that little trait. If a director of today tried to pull half the stunts he pulled when he made this film the "Execs-in-Charge of Production" would can his ass and replace him with the "hot" music video director of the time. I also have never seen a movie where the main character is the center of a scene even if he is in the background with no lines. The cinematography of the film is best ever committed to celluloid. My only disappointment was due to pop culture's fascination with revealing the secret. I already knew what "Rosebud" meant. I gonna buy this movie for my DVD collection and if you haven't seen it yet go rent it. If you love good movies you'll love this; if you think Rollerball was a good remake do yourself a favor and rent Battlefield Earth instead...

Trey

If you don't know who George Clinton you need to tune into the Mothership freak-uencey (sorry I've been listening to him all day and he rubbed off on me) Start with Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome work your way on towards other stuff by Parliament, Funkadelic and the P-Funk Allstars at your funking leisure. Rock Out and pick up the album from your record store or your local mothership.

woof

Hitchhiker's Galaxy not too bad...

2005-05-02T13:10:00.000-04:00

I saw the movie last Friday and have been forming my opinion ever since. We all have been waiting for this movie and I would love to say this is the best film in the history of filmmaking; but, I can't. The movie wasn't terrible in fact visually the films was stunning but the filmmakers focus too much on visuals not enough on the plot and character development. I've read where some people complain about the oversimplified graphics in "the guide" but I think it just added to the fun feel to the movie. If the movie was 30 minutes longer or if they didn't need to use so much time in the movie informing people on back story they plot and character could have been more fleshed out. I hope they make a sequel and can dedicate it to the plot not just stunningly great visuals. The biggest surprise was Mos Def. I've seen him in several films and TV shows I also own two of this albums. I know the guy is talented but he captured the slightly off-kilter detachment of Ford better than I thought possible.

All in all the filmmakers did the best they could trying to cram 3 hour mini series and 3 trilogy of novel into a 90 minute feature comedy.

Go see it now.

Trey

For the musical feature this week the Baldwin Bros. - Cooking with Lasers. And no I don't Alec, Billy, Stephen and Daniel. The Baldwin Brothers are a group of guys out of Chicago who effortlessly blend soul, jazz, funk, electronica and lounge into music that you can party to or chill out after a long day. This is one of those few artist I feel that can reach across genres and everyone can like. GO CHECK IT OUT again try an independent record store.

Let's find the common ground between Scented Candles and Power Tools...

2005-04-30T11:58:00.000-04:00

I like scented candles. I like power tools. I like buying nick-knacks from Pier One. I like the going through Lowe's and buy screws and bolts I might need in the future. Yet in I go to Bed, Bath and Beyond I feel pussified and yet when I go to Lowe's I feel out of place.

Therefore I propose a new store Bar, Bath, and Tools. In this place we will have the hammer drills right next to pillow and welding supplies next to the scented candles. We won't stop there we will have a new line of power tools with changeable cases so you can match all your tools or color coordinate to your walls. A new line of scented candles with scents named: Live Well (for fishermen), Hot Rod Heaven (smells like gasoline and burnt rubber), Jazz Lounge (smells like cigars, martinis and old jazz musicians), Spring Brew (smells like Panama City at the height of Spring Break) and last but not least Cheap Whore (in Amsterdam and Bangkok variations). And much much more I just need about 10 millions dollars from one of my readers.

Anyway that was my ridiculous attempt at humor for the weekend. I've gotta change the title of my blog. I was at someone else's computer and couldn't remember the full web address and did a search for "Confessions Junkie Film" I went through about 20 or 30 of similar title before I found mine. Stupid me, I thought I was cute and clever. By the Time I do my next post I hope to have a new name for my blog that isn't as used. I know the 4 or 5 that glance at this idiot page don't car what it is named but I must do this for myself on my journey to become and true individual with a blog like everyone else.

Moderatio Est Figmentum

Trey

Now, I love B-films. Especially one full of self-absorbed people who produce and star because they have the money. Or one that cast bad actors or actresses in completely unbelievable rolls. The straight to video classic know as Skyscraper is one of these. Anna-Nicole Smith stars as a helicopter pilot who must stop terrorist from blowing up a new state of the art skyscraper. The villain is the worst actor/producer I have ever ever ever seen. While like most B-films the heroine is bound to get nude at lest once, but seeing Anna-Nicole nude isn't as much of a treat as much as the worst shot rape scene ever committed to film. Now before I go on I condemn any real violence toward women (except for Gloria Allred...just kidding) this rape scene is not so much a violation of the character she plays, but is a violation of the art of acting. It is performed with all the visceral anger and rage that one would see in an episode of "Rainbow Brite" using dialogue from some crappy 70's adult film. This is one of the funny films I have ever seen that wasn't meant to be funny. Bad acting, editing, special effects, writing, sets it has it all. Don't buy it rent it or steal it but don't pay full price for it. GO RENT IT NOW

BREAKING NEWS Pitt and Jolie Might Possibly Be Dated...I mean dating

2005-04-26T17:56:00.000-04:00

I can understand why some people might give damn about the Aniston/Pitt/Jolie love triangle...wait...no I can't. But, I guess people love train wrecks and the media machine is driven to force feed our appetite for this garbage. It isn't that I feel nothing about this, I feel bad when anyone's marriage fails (except for maybe Britney's that is one trainwreck I am waiting for) but I don't believe the news of these photos of Brad and Angelina on some beach deserve breaking news attention like some people are going to give. Well, with one exception if they are nude and/or having sex it deserves it but that is only because I am a pervert like most American males. They're both talented and their humanitarian efforts shouldn't go unnoticed but even as a film nad pop culture fanatic I couldn't care less about who they are bumping uglies with just asl long as he doesn't do a sequel to fight club and she doesn't do a 3rd tomb raider it is all good. So, Brad, Angelina Mazel tov and L'Chiam you should both live and be well and I hope I never hear about any relationship you ever have again.

Kush meer in toches

(its yiddish look it up)

Trey

Check out this British cat Mike Skinner AKA The Streets. A master of the style known as 2-step or UK garage. His rhyming patterns are a little unorthodox but his lyrics are brilliant and fresh to the ears...

CHECK IT OUT NOW

And about the yiddish above I had to look it up so must you here. I not jewish I just love the language.

Thoughts out of the blue...

2005-04-25T22:53:00.000-04:00

You know those crazy deep thoughts that sometimes strike you out of the blue (I really need to find out the basis for that silly phrase). Well today I had one while I was watching "The Drew Carey Show" on TBS and one of TBS's commercials about their comedy line up came on. Then it struck me,

"The only way to win a holy war is to kill everybody and the faction that was right gets to go to heaven and the wrong side goes to hell unless your an atheistic infidel and you go nowhere."

Now I know this isn't new thought but WAR SUCKS especially when it is a war about who's idea about an invisible man that lives in the sky is right.

Now, I do believe in god. My belief is mine and might be shared by other people; but, I do believe he/she think the human race, at least those who kill those that do not agree, need crush some tin foil on their theological antena and get a clearer signal. But what the hell do I know I'm a 26 year-old cat who thinks Frank Sinatra is god...

May Old Blue Eyes Bless You

Trey

Check out the movie Melvin Goes to Dinner, Bob Odenkirk's directorial debut. If you don't know who he is , he's half the genius (the other half being David Cross) behind "Mr. Show" probably the single best sketch comedy show of the 90's except for maybe "The Ben Stiller Show" which he and David also worked on. WATCH IT NOW....

It is official people will read anything on the net...

2005-04-24T23:58:00.000-04:00

It's true and I have proof...I've actually had at least two people view my blog within 2 days of starting it. Granted one of them was a good friend of mine. But just to say thanks to snakeinfall for commenting on this lacking attempt at reaching out to the world here are his blogs:

http://ebat.blogspot.com
http://epicture.blogspot.com
http://xiping.blogspot.com
http://healthsci.blogspot.com
http://jokeroom.blogspot.com
http://townson.blogspot.com

2 readers today tomorrow the population of Rhode Island
I'll keep my fingers crossed but you guys out check out this band...

From Monument to Masses they are a great post punk experimental noise rock band and don't be afraid of the Phrasing "experimental noise" just poke around on their site and find the free download of the song "Comrades & Friends"

http://www.monument-masses.com/

GO TO YOUR LOCAL INDIE RECORD STORE AND BUY THEIR ALBUM NOW!!!

Thanks again to my first viewers...

What a day to make my 2nd post about

2005-04-23T22:12:00.000-04:00

Tell me if you can do this on 4 hours sleep...
get up, get showered rush out the door with your family to grab breakfast before driving to an military airshow, walk and stand around for 4 hours (on a recovering broken leg) because you didn't remember to bring chairs, while waiting for a B-2 bomber to flyover and the Thunderbirds, all the while crisping under the bright sun and struggling with wind gust up to 35 mph and a steady wind of 25 mph, then after all that is done on your way home in the middle of nowhere your car blows a head gasket, spending more time in the above stated weather trying to get a cell signal, when you get somebody waiting on them to hopefully find you, after they pick you their tire goes flat, would change to the spare but the tire store that serviced them the previous day screwed up screwing on the lug nuts and snapped 2 of the studs and crossthreaded one of the other ones all to hell, getting ride from that only to head back and wait more for the towtruck who is late because he was the only one on duty and was tied up taking care of your family's car, when he shows up and get it loaded you head to the local tire store with friend who called ahead to the manager who was taking care him has left leaving a completely clueless moron in charge with no mention of the problem and finally when you get home and finally have a chance to rest having a big blow out argument with the family unit...

After all that my family still wonders why I smoke and drink.

I know people have way worst off than me. In the grand scheme of things if ever get to a station of Political and Social Leadership (god help us if I do) I'll help them as best I can. But now I'll smoke a pack and have a few vodka-sodas with lime and deal with my issues.

Trey

DJ Shadow - Private Press
Check out this work of turntable mastery...

Where is the good music...

2005-04-22T14:44:00.000-04:00

Yes I know you've heard this argument before..

Can someone please silence Ashlee, Lindsay, NFG, Britney, Avril, and if Paris is still contemplating her album her too. I don't want to sound like every other gen X-er longing for the "Reign of Seattle Grunge" to return and save from the bland pop and "Nu Metal" bands out there. All this crap is getting out of control. Music changes & evolves like everything I am sure rock fans who championed Led Zepplin and Black Sabbath were utterly dismayed at the sounds of Foreigner and Boston. But we all moved on dealt with the change from Pop to Folk to Acid Rock to Hard Rock to Pop to AOR to Disco to Punk to New Wave to Pop to College Rock back to Pop to Grunge to Alt Rock to Nu Metal and now New New Wave. But, as pathetic as it sounds, I wish I could loop 93 -98 over and over again. Nirvana, Urge Overkill, White Zombie, The Afghan Whigs, Candle Box, Cracker, Jawbox, K's Choice, Soul Asylum, Veruca Salt, and a load of other great bands all pushed out of the lime light and replaced by Korn, Limp Bizkit, Incubus, Britney, X-tina, NSYNC etc. Now we are also stuck with some on their siblings who only got their contracts because some marketing jackass and the original stars parents got greedy. But enough my bitching except for one final note, Lindsay Lohan can hardly act let alone sing; kids don't buy her album buy the one below...

Trey

The Afghan Whigs - Black Love

Most of my post will contain a link to an album, artist or movie I recommend. I not saying these are the only things you should listen to just things that I like and you might too.

First posting of my trendy new blog...

2005-04-22T13:25:00.000-04:00

I've always wanting a place to share my inconsequential but sometimes fevered opinion, whether it be on politics, culture, music, etc. But I never thought I could get it across on message boards and the such. I thought blogs were one of those passing fads until I read a few.
While I might not get the attention a arrogant music-and-movie loving jackass might want it is time for me to stop flapping my gums and do this or shut the hell up.

I will say this I'll try not to drone on and on about the same things most movie and music fans seem to drone on about for example: complaits about Episode I & II, Britney Spears, My Opinion on files sharing, blah, blah, blah...

Even if I do, don't bitch and go start your own blog.

Also bare with me it been years since I ran a website and it might be sloppy to begin with but I'll work on it.

Trey