Waiting...

This movie friggin' rocks. I picked up a previously viewed copy of Waiting... at Blockbuster over the weekend. Written and directed by Rob McKittrick based on his experience working at a number of restaurants. Great ensemble cast starring Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Justin Long, Kaitlin Doubleday, John Francis Daley, Luis Guzman, Rob Benedict, Chi McBride, David Koechner, Alanna Ubach, Dane Cook, Andy Milonakis, Max Kasch, Jordan Ladd, and Vanessa Lengies.

This is a very well-written comedy and from what I've read on message boards, pretty accurate of what life is like working in the restaurant biz. It's supposed to be THE movie for all restaurant employees, which to be honest, makes me a little leery of eating out ("the five second rule! the five second rule!"). The film follows the length of one shift at the restaurant Shenaniganz (similar to Bennigan's), a typical chain restaurant. We are introduced to the behind the scenes action in the restaurant through Mitch (Daley) while he is being trained by Monty (Reynolds) on his first day. There are several subplots and layers to the story, but the story pretty much focuses on Dean (Long) and his unhappiness at being a waiter and desire to do something better.


Dean is very good at being a waiter and is very well-liked by the rest of the staff. Monty is the sarcastic, smartass charmer. Amy (Doubleday) is Dean's sweet girlfriend who wants a bigger commitment from him. Serena (Faris) is Amy's friend, Monty's ex and a pretty cool chick. Raddimus (Guzman) is one of the cooks who helps train Mitch on the finer points of "the game" and is pre-occupied with finding new places to have sex with his hot bartender girlfriend, Danielle (Ladd). Calvin (Benedict) is one of the waiters who is an insecure pushover for women and has psychological problems using public washrooms. Naomi (Ubach), a waitress, is a short, little spitfire full of cursing rage. Nick and T-Dog (Milonakis and Kasch) are the two wigger busboys who find ways to shirk their work and get high in the back. Bishop (McBride) is the wise, philosophical dishwasher that the staff approaches for advice on their problems. Dan (Koechner) is the dorky manager who wants to be included in the staff's social activities. Did you get all that?


The film is hilarious and gives the audience who are not familiar with working in a restaurant environment a peek at what goes on behind the scenes, like the "game". A game made up by the male staff where they try to get another male to unknowingly look at their penises (and then cook and handle your food after they've handled themselves). The one part that is the most memorable is what the kitchen staff does to a plate of food sent back by a bitchy customer. Spit, pubic hair, dandruff, other stuff goes into this food when you aren't nice to your server (Monty: "She broke the cardinal rule...don't fuck with people who handle your food"). Waiters having to fight over the computer, dealing with nasty customers who don't tip, and having to sing to customers are all demeaning aspects of the job.


Everybody is so perfectly cast and they complement each other very well. The funniest part being that Mitch, the new guy, doesn't get to say anything and steals most of the scenes without saying a word. His character is mostly based on his reactions to his new environment. There is also a really great one take shot that winds around the restaurant from the kitchen all the way around the restaurant and apparently took all day to set up. McKittrick even refers to this as his "movie geek shot". The DVD is awesome because it has the most thorough documentation of the making of the movie than any other DVD I've seen. The behind the scenes stuff is almost better than the movie and McKittrick is quite a character and entertaining to watch. There is a TON of special features, cast interviews, behind the scenes stuff, bloopers, deleted scenes and included in that, is the cast re-telling one of the best on set April Fool's day jokes. Hilarious stuff and I highly recommend it, if only to gaze upon the hotness that is Ryan Reynolds (hot and funny is a deadly combo).

According to the IMDB message board for this movie, the best way to avoid having other people's bodily secretions in your food is to not be mean and rude to your server, don't send anything back, and don't come into the restaurant in the last half hour before closing. Also, another wait staff inspired site, www.bitterwaitress.com has some other behind the scenes stuff and awesome gossip stories from wait staff who've waited on the rich and famous (shitty tippers, rude, demanding diva behavior). Too many funny lines so I'll settle on Floyd (Dane Cook) greeting Mitch, the new guy......

Floyd: "Welcome to thunderdome, bitch."

More ramblings to come......

Riding Giants

This is one of my favourite documentaries. My love of documentaries and my love of surfing rolled into one. Directed and co-written by Stacy Peralta, Riding Giants is about the history of big wave surfing. Brilliantly edited by Paul Crowder, the story is told in three different chapters, featuring three different surfers to represent their era and location.

The first chapter begins with a short animated clip called "1000 years of surfing in 2 minutes or less". It then picks up from the early 1950's in southern California to document that period, and takes a nostalgic look at the migration of southern California surfers to Oahu, the discovery of the North Shore and the creation of the surfing subculture. Peralta is able to tell this story so well with the aid of Greg Noll's many hours of archival footage shot on 8mm during these surfing trips to Hawaii. Greg Noll is the featured surfer of this chapter, as he is thought to be one of the pioneers of the North Shore and carved the mold from which all big wave riders are cast. His flamboyant attitude and bigger than life persona allowed him to create a business making and selling surfboards. The archival footage is helped brought to life by interviews with Greg Noll and the other surfers who made the pilgrimage to Hawaii, Pat Curren, Micky Munoz, Peter Cole and Ricky Grigg (surfer and oceanographer).


The second chapter of the film concentrates on Jeff Clark and his discovery of surf spot Mavericks in northern California. It also contains interviews with other Maverick surfers like Darryl Virostko (Flea), Evan Slater, Peter Mel, Grant Washburn, Dr. Mark Renneker and the only female surfer to be interviewed, Dr. Sarah Gerheardt. They give illustrated definitions on key terms in surfing for laymen. It also touches on the story of Mark Foo's tragic drowning death at Mavericks.


The third chapter goes back to Oahu and focuses on Laird Hamilton's life as a young fatherless boy transplanted in Hawaii to his emergence as the greatest big wave rider the world's ever seen. It also documents the beginning of tow in surfing, the discovery of Peahi and Laird's amazing ride at Teahupoo. This segment features interviews with Laird's partners Dave Kalama and Darrick Doerner and other Peahi surfers Buzzy Kerbox, Kelly Slater and Gerry Lopez. The other interviewees who help bring the stories to life are surfing writers Sam George (who co-wrote the movie with Peralta), Steve Pezman (big wave rider and editor of Surfer's Journal), and Grant Warshaw (editor, encyclopedia of surfing).

Overall, this film is excellent in showing a different side of surfers than the images usually thrown at us through various surfing exploitation movies. The "surf bum" stereotype is shattered through the surfers who present themselves as dedicated athletes passionate about their sport and find solace and life changing transformation through riding big waves. The editing and soundtrack are excellent. The DVD special features contain two great feature commentaries, one with director Peralta and editor Crowder, the other with writer Sam George and surfers Laird Hamilton, Jeff Clark and Greg Noll, deleted scenes and a 'making of' featurette. A must see, especially if you enjoyed Peralta's other documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys.

More ramblings to come.....

An Inconvenient Truth

"The Era of Procrastination, of Half-Measures, of Soothing and Baffling Expedients, of Delays, is Coming to its Close.

In its Place We are Entering a Period of Consequences."

-Sir Winston Churchill

I strongly, STRONGLY urge everyone to see An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary on the effects of global warming. Everybody refers to it as Al Gore's documentary, but it's actually directed by Davis Guggenheim. My son asked me last week what global warming was, but I did not feel that I had enough information on it to give him a good enough explanation. Enter the previously viewed section of Blockbuster....one of my favourite places to pick up documentaries. I cannot begin to tell you how convincing Gore is at pointing out the urgency in reducing our CO2 (don't know how to make that little 2) emissions. He gives a lot of scientific evidence, but presents it in visual pictures and in language that everybody can relate to and understand, of the changes that have taken place in a very short amount of time. Pictures of the difference between various mountains now and thirty years ago, rivers that have all but dried up, melting glaciers are all evidence that we are causing all this damage to the earth.


He also points out that as long as global warming continues, the hurricanes will be more frequent and increase in ferocity. There is also a trend caused by global warming which creates floods in areas and droughts in others. He also shows future projections of the cities that will be underwater if current conditions continue, which include New York City, most of Florida, Shanghai, and Beijing. The most depressing thing being that the U.S. government is doing nothing to help, with Gore pointing out that one of the people Bush appointed as the environmental guy was also a lobbyist for the oil companies previous to his appointment. It really is scary to watch, but at the same time Gore is so engaging and surprisingly entertaining. The film is based around Gore's multimedia presentation on climate change, interspersed with clips and anecdotes from his personal life. Such as his sister's life long cigarette smoking habit and their family's decision to stop growing tobacco after her lung cancer diagnosis. The message being, we need to stop the behavior that will eventually kill us.

The film however does end on a more uplifting note, being that we can help to change things. By reducing our CO2 emissions, getting energy efficient appliances and light bulbs (we already have them and it sure made a difference in our power bill), reducing our dependence on foreign oil, getting hybrid cars (if you can), recycling, finding alternative sources of energy, and getting on your government's ass about their environmental policies. Visit www.climatecrisis.net for more information.

I cannot stress this enough, SEE THIS FILM NOW. My son is already making posters to bring to school to let other kids know what they can do.

More ramblings to come.....

Golden Globes 2007

Woo, I hijack the television two times during the year. The first time is for the Golden Globe awards and the second time is for the Oscars. I tuned in just to see Jennifer Hudson win her Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe. You go, girl!

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Babel --Winner
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls --Winner
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You For Smoking

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
Peter O'Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland --Winner

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Penelope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherry Baby
Helen Mirren - The Queen --Winner
Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat --Winner
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Aaron Eckhart - Thank You For Smoking
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Kinky Boots
Will Farrell - Stranger Than Fiction

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada --Winner
Annette Bening - Running with Scissors
Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine
Beyonce Knowles - Dreamgirls
Renee Zellweger - Miss Potter

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls --Winner
Jack Nicholson - The Departed
Brad Pitt - Babel
Mark Whalberg - The Departed

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls --Winner
Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

Best Director - Motion Picture

Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
Martin Scorsese - The Departed --Winner

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

Babel (2006): Guillermo Arriaga
The Departed (2006): William Monahan
Little Children (2006): Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal (2006): Patrick Marber
The Queen (2006): Peter Morgan --Winner

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

Bobby (2006)("Never Gonna Break My Faith")
Dreamgirls (2006)("Listen")
Home of the Brave (2006)("Try Not to Remember")
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)("A Father's Way")
Happy Feet (2006)("The Song of the Heart") --Winner

Best Television Series - Drama

"24" (2001)
"Big Love" (2006)
"Grey's Anatomy" (2005) --Winner
"Heroes" (2006/II)
"Lost" (2004)

Best Television Series - Comedy

"Desperate Housewives" (2004)
"Entourage" (2004)
"The Office" (2005)
"Ugly Betty" (2006) --Winner
"Weeds" (2005)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy

Alec Baldwin for "30 Rock" (2006) --Winner
Zach Braff for "Scrubs" (2001)
Steve Carell for "The Office" (2005)
Jason Lee for "My Name Is Earl" (2005)
Tony Shalhoub for "Monk" (2002)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy

Marcia Cross for "Desperate Housewives" (2004)
America Ferrera for "Ugly Betty" (2006) --Winner
Felicity Huffman for "Desperate Housewives" (2004)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus for "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (2006)
Mary-Louise Parker for "Weeds" (2005)


Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama

Patrick Dempsey for "Grey's Anatomy" (2005)
Michael C. Hall for "Dexter" (2006)
Bill Paxton for "Big Love" (2006)
Kiefer Sutherland for "24" (2001)
Hugh Laurie for "House M.D." (2004) --Winner

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama

Patricia Arquette for "Medium" (2005)
Edie Falco for "The Sopranos" (1999)
Evangeline Lilly for "Lost" (2004)
Ellen Pompeo for "Grey's Anatomy" (2005)
Kyra Sedgwick for "The Closer" (2005) --Winner

Well, that's that. Everybody looked great. I loved that Jennifer Hudson and America Ferrera won. Sascha Baron Cohen gave a hilarious speech about his co-stars balls and anus being on his face? I haven't seen the movie, but the speech was funny and everybody in the audience was cracking up. I still have to speak to my theater about why they never screened Dreamgirls, because I really wanted to see it. Meryl Streep also gave an awesome speech and she was so great as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. Warren Beatty was honoured by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. It's also cool Forest Whitaker won for the Last King of Scotland. I've been hearing rave reviews about him in it, but I was really hoping Will Smith would win. It was also great seeing Martin Scorsese win, but I have yet to see this The Departed that I've been hearing so much about. One of these years he has to win an Oscar. There wasn't a lot of surprises, but it was good.

Til next time.......

DVD Quote of the Day: Mean Girls

Okay, okay. So a regular reader is on my ass about getting posts up more frequently, so I'm attempting to keep up to demand. What's up with school wanting you to do all this reading and shit? Anyhoo, I just fell in love with Tina Fey. I saw Mean Girls once before shortly after it came out, and thought it was funny. I was out last night prowling for a DVD fix and picked it up because I hadn't seen it in awhile.

Tina Fey wrote this based on Rosalind Wiseman's book "Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence", which is cool considering it's a parental self help guide book with no narrative story. I said I fell in love with Tina Fey because this is one smart, well-written comedy. Directed by Mark Waters, who also directed Freaky Friday and Just Like Heaven. Someone once pointed out that the sign of great casting is when you can't imagine anyone else in the roles. Starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Lizzie Caplan, Daniel Franzese, Jonathan Bennett, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler and Ana Gasteyer. I'm not very big on Lohan because her personal life often eclipses her professional life, but she has a very likable screen presence and is perfect as Cady. I love that they cast some of the funny, talented SNL people that need to get work more often (Meadows, Poehler, Gasteyer).


Cady (Lohan) just moved from Africa and is attending public school for the first time. Janis (Caplan) and Damien (Franzese), the artsy outcasts, take Cady under their wing to guide her through high school social politics. When the highest clique in the school's social hierarchy, "the Plastics" (McAdams, Chabert and Seyfried) offer to take her in, Janis sees this as an opportunity to get revenge on the Plastics queen bee, Regina George (McAdams), for being horrible to her in the past. Cady reluctantly goes along with her plan to infiltrate the Plastics. The situation is further complicated when Cady gets a crush on Regina's ex boyfriend, Aaron Samuels (Bennett). Cady learns about the intricacies of "girl world". Such as when girls fight, it has to be sneaky, never date a friend's ex boyfriend, and when it's Halloween, wear the sluttiest outfit you can find, and add animal ears. Cady also learns about the "burn book", a book where the girls put pictures of everybody in school, and then write nasty things about them. There is plenty of conflict, and the tension and backstabbing between the girls gets worse and worse.


I would have liked to have seen more of the subplot of the newly divorced Ms. Norbury (Fey), the calculus teacher, and Mr. Duvall (Meadow), the principal, with their budding romance. I was iffy about this movie at first because it seemed like Heathers meets Clueless, and frankly, they're both so good they really don't need to be redone. This is different, though. I love the little jungle-themed vignettes (hard to describe), when Cady makes comparisons between high school and the way animals act with each other. The special features on the DVD are awesome with feature commentary by director Waters, producer Lorne Michaels and writer Tina Fey, bloopers, deleted scenes, and some behind the scenes stuff. In the special features, Rachel McAdams says something interesting. She says that Chris Rock once pointed out that women would run the world....if we didn't hate each other so much. So true! We can be horrible to each other. Ms. Norbury (Fey) says to the girls during the aftermath, that they have to stop calling each other sluts and whores, because when they do it, it makes it okay for guys to do it ("It's just bad for business"). There is so much humour in this film and I usually go with one of the funniest lines, but I'm going with one of the most profound. Here it is, from Cady's voice over narration on what she's learned about Girl World.....

Cady: Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George's life definitely didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.

More ramblings to come.....

DVD Quote of the Day: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

I got a few weeks off between semesters, so like any good student I did absolutely nothing. Nothing at all, except buy some new DVDs. After watching The Pursuit of Happyness in the theaters, it reminded me of how much I used to enjoy The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. So I got seasons 1, 2, and 3 and zipped through all of them already (maybe even twice). Unless you live under a rock, you probably know the premise. Will Smith stars as Will, a young man from Philly sent to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in Bel-Air to keep him out of trouble. A great ensemble cast with James Avery as stern, father-figure Uncle Phil, Janet Hubert-Whitten as fiery, mother figure Aunt Vivien (seasons 1-3), Alfonso Ribeiro as uptight, young Republican Carlton, Karyn Parsons as ditzy, superficial Hilary, Tatyana Ali as young Ashley and Joseph Marcell as Geoffrey, the sarcastic, British, family butler. A "fish out of water" story about Will shaking up the Banks' household.

While watching seasons 1-3, I realized how many cool guest appearances were made on this show....Richard Roundtree (John Shaft), Don Cheadle, Heavy D, Quincy Jones, Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Theo on the Cosby Show), Naomi Campbell, Vivica A. Fox, Jasmine Guy, Queen Latifah, Tisha Campbell, Lela Rochon, Nia Long, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Diedrich Bader (Oswald on the Drew Carey Show), the FINE Allen Payne, Milton Berle, Raven, Garcelle Beauvais, Larenz Tate, Lark Voorhies (Lisa on Saved by the Bell), Sherman Hemsley, Oprah Winfrey, Vanessa Williams, Kim Fields (Tootie!), Tom Jones, D.L. Hughley, Bell Biv Devoe and recurring appearances by Jeffrey A. Townes as Jazz and the divalicious Jenifer Lewis as Aunt Helen. Some guest appearances wouldn't be as impressive if you were too young to remember some of these people. I had to explain some of them to my son when he asked, "Why are they clapping for that guy?" (You see, there was this show that was really popular a long time ago called "The Cosby Show"....etc)


Hilarious stuff. Unfortunately, Janet Hubert-Whitten was replaced mid-series by Daphne Maxwell-Reid as Aunt Viv. It's not completely clear as to why (some say she didn't get along so well with Will Smith, others say she demanded too high a salary, others say the producers fired her for getting pregnant), but I felt the Aunt Vivien character wasn't the same after that. Not only did Maxwell-Reid look nothing like Hubert-Whitten, but Aunt Viv lost her fiery personality. In any case, I enjoyed the first three seasons during the break. The season 1 DVD box set has 4 discs with 24 episodes, and a short, retrospective documentary with the creators and cast. The season 2 box set has 4 discs with 24 episodes and two special features (The Best Bits of Bel-Air and Bel-Air Bloopers). Season 3 has 4 discs with 24 episodes and two special features made up of highlights and bloopers. Here it is....during the episode where Uncle Phil, Carlton and Will go camping, get lost and run out of gas....

Uncle Phil:...We'll just thumb a ride to the nearest gas station. We used to do it a lot in the 60's.
Will: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Uncle Phil, could you please take a stroll into the 90's, please? We are three black men on the side of a mountain road. The only people that's gonna stop is gonna have on sheets and saying stuff like, "Get 'em, Jim-Bob!"

More ramblings to come....

Fear of a Black Hat

So, I'm in Superstore checking out the boxing week sales, browsing through the cheap DVD bins when I come across one of those finds that makes you exclaim, "No way!", no matter how crazy it makes you look to those around you. I found a copy of Fear of a Black Hat. I love this movie. I happened to catch it on the dish years ago on one of the independent movie channels. In case you hadn't noticed, movies seem to happen in twos. This came right after CB4, although it was filmed before CB4. It is the This is Spinal Tap of rap. It's not quite as polished as CB4, but to me, it's smarter, funnier, which is more impressive since it was done on a much smaller budget. ITC has set a budget for exactly $999, 999.99, because they did not want to say they had approved a budget of a million dollars for a first time writer/director.

Rusty Cundieff is the writer, director and stars as Ice Cold, one of the rappers in the group N****z With Hats (N.W.H.). Cundieff had written this mockumentary because he and the producer were big fans of This is Spinal Tap. Cundieff had told ITC that he would like to mostly improvise the film, like Spinal Tap, and could do it with a good outline. They went along with that, but Cundieff found in rehearsal that a lot of the more minor characters would try to improvise themselves into the rest of the movie. So Cundieff began shooting with only a week's schedule written, and would write the rest of the scenes at night after shooting that day. He went on to direct many episodes/sketches of Chapelle's Show, because Dave Chappelle was such a fan of Fear of a Black Hat.


The film begins with documentary filmmaker, Nina Blackburn (Kasi Lemmons), who is following the group for her doctorate thesis in sociology. N.W.H. is made up of Ice Cold (Cundieff, sort of an Ice T type character), Tone Def (Mark Christopher Lawrence, a hippie PM Dawn type) and Tasty Taste (Larry B. Scott, an Eazy E type character). The guys go on tour and have run-ins with their rivals, The Jam Boys (Moon Jones, Deezer D, and Faizon Love, who I LOVE), record company execs, police, security guards and encounter women trouble.

The film follows a similar arc as CB4, in that it follows the group on tour, documents the rise of the band, the beginning of troubles until the band ultimately breaks up and goes their separate ways creatively. The film goes on to skewer a lot of the rap groups and songs that were popular at the time, with appearances by M.C. Slammer, Vanilla Sherbet, Yo Highness, and an appearance by black film director Jike Spingleton (who was short, angry and near-sighted before Spike or Jon). They are N****z with Hats because they have a whole "hat philosophy". In short, the slaves didn't have any hats, not even a babushka, so when they got done working at the end of the day, they were too tired to rebel (Ice Cold: "So what we saying now is, yo, we got some hats now muh-fuckas"). The film is also like Spinal Tap in the way that all N.W.H.'s managers die under unusual circumstances, like Spinal Tap's drummers did.


The film is hilarious and will be funnier if you remember the time around the L.A. riots, and bands like P.M. Dawn, C & C Music Factory, and everything else popular in the rap/hip hop world in the early 1990's. Also, it is full of profanity and liberal usage of the "n" word, so if something like that offends you, you may not find it so funny. The lighting is sometimes really crappy, but given their budget and the fact that it is supposed to be a guerrilla style documentary, may be forgiven. Try to find it if you can on Netflix or wherever you find movies to watch it, if you haven't seen it. The DVD has a feature commentary with writer/director/star Rusty Cundieff, bizarre interviews with Cundieff, Lawrence and Scott in character, and a slew of funny, deleted scenes. The following is one of my favourite exchanges during one of Nina's interviews while they are discussing the L.A. riots (following the Rodney King verdict)...

Nina: Did you guys agree with the riots?
Ice Cold: Oh hell ya, I mean, the media was trying to say that,you know, the people looting was all lazy and didn't want to work, but I tell you what....you try carrying a leather sofa all the way from like, Larson and Crenshaw down to like, Pico or Venice or something like that. And then going back for them matchin' end tables? That's some work for your ass right there.

Happy New Year and more ramblings to come.....