A Few Of My Favorite Things is a series that appears most weekends on Driven By Boredom. Each week I talk about three of my favorite things from a specific genre of film, music, or something else all together. Each favorite thing is accompanied by a video and a description of why it is one of my favorite things. Click here for more favorites.

So evidently my childhood hero Patrick Dempsey is on Grey’s Anatomy. I don’t know what that is, but I assume it is some sort of TV program that I have never watched because I am too cool for TV. Wait, no I am not that guy. I do own a TV, I don’t have cable or anything, but my roommate seems to watch Scrubs several times every night. I just have never seen Grey’s Anatomy nor do I know what it is about. What I do know is that in the early 90’s Patrick Dempsey was my idle. He was so nerdy yet so cool. In 1990’s I went to a new school and I got picked on a lot. I liked all these girls but I didn’t think I had a chance. Patrick Dempsey shouldn’t have had a chance either, but he was the nice guy and in the movies all the girls fell in love with him in the end after dumping their abusive jock boyfriend. Keep reading to relive my top three favorite coming of age stories of all time.
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A Few Of My Favorite Things is a series that appears most weekends on Driven By Boredom. Each week I talk about three of my favorite things from a specific genre of film, music, or something else all together. Each favorite thing is accompanied by a video and a description of why it is one of my favorite things. Click here for more favorites.

I have a pretty decent record collection and since I don’t own a CD player, I am pretty much listening to vinyl or mp3s.  I never really saw the point in buying new music on record.  If I could get it on CD I was happy to go that route.  Because of this my record collection consists of three main groups: mid 90’s punk 7″, hip hop and dance singles and music recorded before the invention of CD’s.  When I am hanging out in my room or about to go to sleep I mostly want to listen to full length LP’s so the singles don’t get nearly as much play these days.  While DEVO and Hall and Oates get their due, I find myself listening to mostly old rock and 70’s soul.  Side 1 of Menagerie by Bill Withers gets a lot of play as does T-Rex’s Electric Warrior.  But the music I find myself coming back to again and again is movie soundtracks.  I have never been much of a sound track guy in the CD world, but for some reason I own probably two dozen CD soundtracks on record.  It was really hard to narrow down just three.  I already talked about my fascination with Blaxploitation in an older Favorite Things, so my Shaft and Superfly soundtracks are out, and I mentioned the very punk rock Return Of The Living Dead sound track in my Zombie write up… so that helped narrow down things a bit.  So read on to hear about my three favorite soundtracks that I on on vinyl.

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I always put a comma before the and. I know it is not unnecessary, but I have always done it. Also, it strikes me as odd that pointlessness is actually a word. It just looks awkward.

So I haven’t taken a photo since Friday night and those photos sort of sucked. Saturday I went out with a girl I met who I figured dug me and six of her girlfriends. She and I talk every day and she seemed sort of into me. All of her friends flirted with me and stuff and I had fun, but for some reason she basically flinched in horror every time I touched her for some reason. I finally got her alone at the end of the night and she told me she was tired and that she would hang out with me on Sunday. Then on Sunday of course she is sick or something like that. So I went to see American Gangster* with my friend Keith. Then during the movie this insanely hot girl I met three weeks ago texted me. Have you ever been in a bar talking to someone, and then when you saw them in the light you realized they were not attractive? Well this was the exact opposite. I would never have talked to this girl in the first place if I had realized how hot she was. She is sort of stupefying hot. Anyway she had blown me off before and I figured I would never hear from her again then out of no where she texts me asking me when we can hang out. So I make plans to go out with her last night and of course when it comes down to hanging out she is sick. So that is two people who are too “sick” to hang out with me in two days. Amazing. I just sat around feeling sorry for myself and lonely until about midnight when I went out to get food and realized it was raining so I decided against going to the city. So… three days, no pictures. Sorry.

I have spent that time being productive. As you saw I made my Flickr page. I also organized all that stuff so I can print a portfolio and some little mini books so hopefully I can get some better paying jobs. Maybe I can shoot some new people for a change… no offense lower east side. Now that I have my best images up I am going to work on an event page that is unassociated with this site so maybe I can get some corporate gigs that normally frown on pornography for some weird reason.

Also, I realized yesterday that 6 people owe me a total of $900 dollars, so if you are one of them, please fucking pay me. Thanks.

Lastly, I don’t like to post blogs without a picture or a video or something so I was looking at DBB 1.0 and I found this scan of a Yo! Mtv Raps card that I sold on ebay in early 2003. Here is the item description:

This item is most fantastic. Of all the MTV Raps cards I have, these are the only guys I have never heard of. On the back however, you find out exactly who they are. They are Super Lover Cee and Cassanova Rud AKA Calente Fredericks and Erik Rudnicki, two equally amazing names. It also gives us the low down on this amazing fact: “Super Lover Cee was born in the Bronx and raised in Astoria, Queens, New York. Casanova Rud grew up with Cee in the Astoria Projects. They’ve been working together since 1992. They duo’s debut album is titled Girls I Got ‘Em Locked.” What a success story!

Have a good day.

American Gangster was fucking awful. It was nothing but mob and gangsta film cliches. There were tons of hip hop cameos that served no purpose. T.I. who I liked in ATL just talked in his normal speech despite the film being set in 1968. On top of that they showed RZA’s Wu-Tang tattoo when they could have easily covered it. It was nearly three hours long which is basically three hours longer than it should have been. If you want to see Academy Award winning actors Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in a movie together go rent Virtuosity, which while horrible, is significantly shorter and at least 30% more realistic. The best thing about this movie was that when I searched for “American Gangster” on youtube I found this amazing clip that I saw years ago but forgot about until just now. Watch this clip below over and over for 3 hours and save yourself $11.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGWeB-1Uxp0[/youtube]

Never in my adult life have I been so happy to see a blurry side boob/nipple. I might have been a bit more excited if I saw this around the time that Beetlejuice came out and I had the biggest crush on her ever. Coincidently that might have been the last time I was so excited to see a nipple: 1988… Actually it was in 1989 when my friend Marshall Heart and I biked about 3 miles to this guy Sean Ward’s house where he had burried one of his dad’s Playboys from 1979 under a bush in the back yard. The pages were all fucked up and they smelled like mold. My grandmother was baby sitting me at the time and when my parents found out we had gone missing they were completely freaked out and eventually tracked us down to this park where we quickly ripped out some pages and hid them in our shoes. I treasured those pages for years after although I did feel some guilt and told my dad that I had seen a Playboy that day. That begun a long storied history between me and porn, although it wasn’t until 1999 that I got in on the pornography game personally. 200 naked girls later, you get this site. Welcome.

Anyway, click the photo to see the uncensored version of Winona Ryder nude in Sex And Death 101 and click here to watch the clip.

A Few Of My Favorite Things is a series that appears most weekends on Driven By Boredom. Each week I talk about three of my favorite things from a specific genre of film, music, or something else all together. Each favorite thing is accompanied by a video and a description of why it is one of my favorite things. Click here for more favorites.

Welcome to the Halloween edition of Favorite Things, my weekend blog about three things I dig. Today we are talking about zombies. I love zombies. I got into an argument the other day with someone who tried to say that vampires were better than zombies. That is just bullshit. Vampires are fucking boring. If you get eaten by a vampire… guess what? You get to live forever. Get bit by a zombie? You are just constantly hungry for brains and the chances are someone alive, who is much faster than you, is going to come a long with a shovel or a shotgun and detach your head from your body. That is scary. I am not a big horror buff, but I am a zombie fan. My horror section is probably 60% zombie films. One of my favorite movies of all time is Dawn Of The Dead. Just thinking about it gets me all excited. I sort of want to live the rest of my life in an abandoned shopping mall actually. It is so spooky. Sean Of The Dead was pretty fantastic too… it was probably the funniest horror movie I have ever seen. I have all the Evil Dead movies including the Necronomicon special editions that scream when you press them. I own at least two Re-Animators and Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive and about a dozen more (Redneck Zombies anyone?). Anyway, zombies are amazing and not just because they moan a lot and eat brains… they do a lot of other things too. After the jump I am going to break down my three favorite things that zombies do, so please, read on.

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“Fuck You, That’s My Name!  You know why mister? Because you drove a Hundai to get here tonight; I drove an $80,000 BMW; That’s my name.”

Best. Scene. Ever.

My friend sent me this 30 Rock Alec Baldwin clip and it made me think that this scene from Glengarry Glen Ross might be online… and it was. Glengarry is a good movie, but honestly the reason I bought it was so I could watch this scene whenever I wanted. So, now you can too. This scene was not in the original David Mammet play, but he wrote it specially for Alec Baldwin for the movie. Oh man, Baldwin is such a bad ass.  My friend Keith can do this monologue nearly word for word, it is great.  This is great.  You are great.  Watch this clip.

“You see this watch? That watch cost more than your car.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROhlThs9qY[/youtube]

Once I took a film class and I had to make a film on Super 8MM. I just filmed trash in an alley behind my house. While I am obsessed with film I have 0 aspirations to direct movies and I pretty much just wrote the whole class off. I wanted to be studying film not wondering around with a 20 year old camera. So I just stuck some Black Flag music over the in camera edited footage. I don’t know why I am even uploading it except… um… why not? So enjoy my “Jealous Again” music video. Also, instead of putting my logo over all my YouTube videos I am just going to attach my DBB Productions logo at the beginning. So enjoy that sucker.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VmcuD8zdBQ[/youtube]

 I just finished watching this Roger Corman directed film called the Intruder. It was made in the middle of the civil rights movement about a man who comes to a small southern town to try to stop the integration of the local high school. The man is played by William Shatner. I have never been a Shatner fan but this was one of his earliest rolls and it has to be one of his best. Considering Corman is best known for making “questionable” B films you have to imagine it is one of his best films too. The whole film was shot on location in the south using locals as actors. None of them had copies of the script and Corman changed their lines every day so know one knew it was a pro-integration film. Once the locals found out what they were doing they kicked Corman out. The local sheriff said he would arrest him if he came back to town but Corman needed one more shot. He didn’t want to get any of his crew in trouble so he went out by himself with a camera and shot the last scene and flew out of town before getting stopped. The most powerful part of the movie is when Shatner gives a rousing speech to the people of the town convincing them to basically start a race riot. Shatner was so brilliant in it that the actual actors got completely riled up and they had to add some extra lines of dialog that never made the film in order to settle the people down. They almost thought it was real. Luckily someone has put the entire scene online. I suggest you rent the movie before watching this scene, but if you don’t think you can dedicate 90 minutes to watching Shatner scream about Jews and blacks then by all means hit play below and watch this amazing scene.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXdgElbKe_w[/youtube]