An Introduction

I've drawn (via coin flip conducted earlier this afternoon) the honor of writing the first post to this joint responsive blog. My writing partner is Jason Wojciechowski, who I will refer to as Wojo from here on out. We'll be trading posts, discussing pop culture, sports (I'm a Mets, Knicks, Giants, and tennis fan; I'll let Wojo tell you who he likes, but, weirdly, they're all the teams I liked besides the New York teams when I was a kid), and their intersection, along with whatever other tangents we end up on. I'll be the resident live music dork and the one who watches the shitty reality TV shows.

We were discussing the Golden Globes earlier (particularly Christina Hendricks' Golden Globes )
but I wanted to mention my favorite part of the drinking game at the party I was at: not only were we drinking at every mention of Haiti, as well as all praise of George Clooney, but we were going to chug if George Clooney won an award and discussed Haiti. This made us all very sad when he didn't win for Up in the Air. I'm not sure he should have won, but how could the Golden Globes rob us of what was sure to be the most smug self-aggrandizing humanitarian speech of all time? There was going to be a whole South Park episode in there. (Speaking of which - I still cannot get over the "Gingers Have Souls" video)

I'm writing this while watching Tropic Thunder. Any thoughts on this one, Wojo? I'm assuming you've seen it, since you see everything (as opposed to me - I only see everything involving Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen). Tom Cruise is surprisingly funny as the studio head. Unsurprisingly funny is the guy from Hamlet 2 as the director. Hamlet 2 is phenomenal, by the way - the story of a down on his luck drama teacher who writes a bizarre, hilarious sequel to Hamlet and convinces an absurd bunch of high schoolers to put it on. Tremendous choral soundtrack too, with an amazing version of the Elton John song Someone Saved My Life Tonight. If you haven't seen it, your complete obsession with Glee demands that you do. As a sidenote, I promise to catch up on Glee, now that they've released the first episodes on Netflix.

I would be watching the Australian Open, but it appears nothing of note is happening. This is, of course, a good thing, as much as we all love underdogs and upsets - boring beginnings to tennis tournaments (and league playoffs) make for better conclusions. A Nadal upset would be interesting now, but its overrated in comparison to the awesome Nadal-Federer final I hope is coming. Have you gotten to see any of Nadal so far? He looked absolutely terrible at the end of last year, but maybe the six weeks off has given him his legs back and let him play his style, which requires endless running.

I'm going to finish this up to watch a rerun of the Knicks game from yesterday. Prior to the game, the DVR picked up the Mike D'Antoni Show, which I'd never seen before... they're filming it literally in a hotel room (although since its the Four Seasons in Philly, there's a lovely view of Logan Square). I feel like this show would be much better if they had a "Dressing Like Mike" segment, about where he gets his suits, ties (the non-ugly ones) and how to grow such an awesome moustache.

Last thought - though I haven't read the article yet, don't think the John Mayer Rolling Stone cover is going to help his credibility. Yikes.