I was watching the New Jersey Devils on the ol' rear projection a few night ago and really it should be said I was half watching and half doing paperwork. The New Jersey Devils are a playoff team, win more often than not, and boor you to tears in the process. So it made me think of others things in life that are deemed as great. But also crush your soul and bore you to no end. Now if I want to have any semblance of a following here on the old blog I need to stop talking hockey immediately and try to relate to all 4 of you that read this thing. So in the hopes that New Jersey Devils talk hasn't lost you already, here is my list of things that are great and also horribly horribly boring.
Momento
I am going to assume most have seen this movie. If you haven't it is a wonderful movie, while also being the worst movie ever(If you haven't seen it warning spoilers will follow). This is a highly intelligent movie that will keep you guessing. Except of course for the fact that you already know what happens! The story tries to pull you in by explaining piece by piece and in a very unique way how you get to the ending, which is actually the beginning! Once I watched it I knew I had seen a great movie. A movie that will be unlike any movie I will probably see again. Yet as the movie came to an end I just wanted it to end. I knew how things finished and I could pretty much piece together how Leonard Shelby got to that point in the move. Amazing and awful all at the same time.
-Honorable mention: No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood
Balancing Funds/Banking
It is something everyone values. Something everyone who is responsible pays attention to. You feel a sense of accomplishment when you balance the books or realize you've got a bit more money in the old savings than originally thought. Yet you put off this task as much as you can. You hate paying bills and you curse the day adulthood ever set in. It's something that is great because it is important to everyone to know what you can and can't buy next month. But it is still the worst thing ever. I hate adding up what I am paying in bills each month.
Celery
It's green, it's healthy. The calories you burn while eating the celery are more than the celery actually holds. But that stringy watery vegetable has no taste. Sure you can try and add peanut butter or hummus or cheeeeeeeessseeeee, but it doesn't hide the awfulness of celery. It is great, it is healthy, but also boring and tasteless.
Greg Maddux
A true hall of famer. A man who won a world championship. Eight all-star appearances, 18 gold gloves and four Cy Youngs. Arguable the best pitcher of his era. And all the while being boring as hell as he achieved this. Dinkers off the end of the bat, 80 mph jam shots. Movement movement movement. Crushing opposing batters with his speed changes from 82 to 76 mph. It was always boring as hell to watch his methodical way of going about his business on the mound. Which makes him amazing and awful all at the same time.
-Honorable Mention: Tim Duncan
The Grand Canyon
A majestic place. A place everyone should travel to at least once. There are trails and an endless amount of exploring that can be done. The views, the pictures, the ambiance is unlike anything you will see. And after those 14 minutes are up you are left standing there saying "well what do we do now?" There is nothing else to do once the beauty wears off. It becomes boring and you really are left wondering, how far is the drive to Vegas? Or at least that is what I would wonder.
Superman
He is a superhero, he is a man, with thick rimmed glasses. He can do amazing things like spin the earth to go back in time. He has sweet powers like super breath and eye beams of death. He can't be killed......except for a rock(cue the crickets). Nothing can kill him but a freaking rock? Really? And on top of that his biggest rival in all the universe is a bald businessman with questionable ethics. Wow how exciting......
Jack Daniels
It has been around 130 years. Founded in Tennessee. Clearly a popular choice. It is so freaking boring. Yet ohhh all the club and sorority girls always have that Jack n Coke in their hand. All those frat boys run around the frat house with a handle in their hand. And most people who consider themselves drinkers and who have more than 3 bottles of booze in their home have a bottle of Jack on call. Popular/great and horribly horribly boring.
Rose Bowl(For USC Fans)
USC vs. ___________ every damn year. USC wins by 20. Great(for USC fans) and boring.
Honorable Mention - UCLA bowl games. Great(also for USC fans) and boring
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c maybe c+
the title here explains exactly how i feel about your blog.
step up kazarian.
step.
up.
here's some suggested additions:
> the super bowl (lots of build up, big parties, commercial hype... typically boring game)
> chinese food/sushi (tastes so good, but literally one hour later i'm looking for a taco bell)
> holidays (new years eve, halloween, 4th of july, valentines day.... every year i get all excited, and so does everyone else. but when was the last time one of these holidays was truly worth the time?)
> the internet (i spend approximately an hour a day on the internet and what does it ever do for me? sometimes i get to read a blog from a friend and i get excited. most of the time i google "justin bragg" and read the same sports story on four different sites)
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