All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

Caught Fast Times at Ridgemont High the other night on tv. The amount of future stars in that movie is almost comical. The group of stoner friends by themselves are Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, Anthony Edwards and Eric Stoltz. The other thing about the movie is that it's much darker and realistic than some more famous teen movies. There is no way John Hughes would have ever dealt with abortion. The closest he came was having Cameron ruin his dad's Porsche because he didn't get hugged enough. In most genres there is a realist and edgey backlash to Hollywood fluff. For some reason it went backwards with 80's teen flicks. We went from Fast Times in 82, Valley Girl 83, and Last American Virgin 82, to the Molly Ringwald Trilogy of 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink (84-87) plus Weird Science, Can't Buy Me Love etc. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just weird.

I went to the Earl in East Atlanta for dinner last night and then hopped on over to the Gravity Pub. The first surprise was the good (Shiner Hefeweisen on tap) and cheap ($2 PBR 12 oz cans all day every day) beer selection. The second great surprise of the evening is when they started Bingo at 9:30. It's completely free and you get to win the type of stuff you wish you still saved your money up for and bought at Toys R Us. Also, you get an extra playing card everytime you order a drink after the game has started. It's hard to explain how immensely entertaining this was. I'll definitely head back for the Bingo again, considering Gravity was already one of my favorite bars in Atlanta.


I heard the new Audioslave song,Doesn't Remind Me, on the radio this morning and it receives my full endorsement. It doesn't sound anything like Audioslave or Soundgarden, minus Chris Cornell's voice. The verse is an old, clean, rock sound. The closes comparison I can come up with is Weezer, but that doesn't really do it justice. Anyway make an effort to hear that song.

TV:

I'm giving My Name is Earl my vote of confidence. There may be something else on but the only thing I feel the need to mention tonight is Lost on ABC at 9pm. The first season was as good as anything I've ever seen, right up there with the first season of 24. If you haven't seen the first season grab the dvds from Netflix or something and try to get caught up as quick as possible. That being said I think they could wrap up the series in about 6 episodes. I'll be interested to see if they can crank out another 24 episodes.