You Can't Make Me Watch Hamilton

So, "Hamilton"...The smash hit Broadway show has surrounded in critical acclaim since 2015 has taken things to the next level as it is now streaming on Disney+....

I haven't had the chance to see the Live Stage show and I haven't watched it yet, now that it's streaming...Some who know me my be surprised by this...I love theater...I was a "theater kid" in high school...Not acting, singing, dancing...Behind the scenes...Set construction, lighting, rigging, set changes, stage managing...I still love live theater...

So why haven't I seen "Hamilton" yet?  Honestly...I don't want to...And I have a few reasons...

It's not just that I know all I need to know about Alexander Hamilton after the report I did at St. James Elementary School...The Encyclopedia Britannica and I crushed it! Got an "A"....

It's not that I don't like Musicals....I love Musicals...It's not that I don't like the style of music...I'm fine with all music, as long as it isn't Country...I hate Musical Movies..."Grease"...Hate it!   I love West Side Story"...I love "Guys and Dolls"...On a stage...On a screen...Movie screen or my TV screen, I hate them all...Sitting in a theater, watching living and breathing people who I can physically touch before security tackles me and drags me out, is great...There is a realness to it, where it doesn't seem fucked up seeing people break into song...Yes, suspending reality and people breaking into song makes sense and works for me in a live, in person setting...Maybe I'm fucked up in the head, but I can't do that suspending of reality when watching it on 60-inch TV screen...Sinatra breaks into on my TV and I'm rolling my eyes and annoyed...

Then there's The "Wayne's World" Effect...That's what I call it...Almost always when something gets hyped intensely, once I get around to seeing it, I'm let down...Or just flat-out hate it...The first time I remember it happening on a grand scale was "Wayne's World"....Always enjoyed the SNL skits, and was semi-excited to see the movie...Then it came out and the world was raving...And then "Bohemian Rhapsody" (the song) was playing all the time on MTV with a video filled with "Wayne's World" clips....Yes, MTV, Music Television played music many, many, many years ago...The was merch everywhere, the sequel was getting hyped before the first one was even out of the theaters...So, I finally get to see the movie...And not only was I letdown, I thought it sucked...All these years later, I still think it sucks!

I also feel the same about "The Matrix" and "The Blair Witch Project"...

It was a bad movie...If I have a reason, I'll sit through a bad movie...I'll sit through it more than once...I saw "Nightmare on Elm Street 4" six times in the theater...It was a bad movie...But the popcorn hand-jobs were good...




Say what you want about those Catholic School girls...But if you found one that was a goer, you went to any shitty movie just be in the dark with her...


Clearly I digressed....


So, because of the hype-machine, I'm fearing I'll be letdown by "Hamilton"...The "Wayne's World" Effect...

Musical Theater, is good...Musical Movies, suck...

Hey, for everyone who has seen it...Is Katherine Ryan's bit about "Hamilton" true...It gave me a good laugh...






Anyways, I think I'll sign on to Disney+ and re-watch "The Mandalorian"...They don't break out into song, like  a proper onscreen fantasy land!

Monday Moaning 11/18/19

Well, it's been awhile since we did this....

Have you seen "The Mandalorian?"  I gotta say, I was pretty annoyed when I found out about the new Disney+ streaming service...You know Disney, always doing whatever they can to make another buck...But being a Star Wars fan, and after seeing the trailer for "The Madalorian" I knew we had to get it...The kids are excited about being able to see classic Disney shows and then you have all the Marvel bullshit and all the Pixar stuff, so it's cool....But a Star Wars series that takes place 5 years after "Return of the Jedi" about a Manadolrian bounty hunter, that has a western vibe to it...I'm all in...

And it's so fucking Disney that they release it right before Christmas and boom,

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A fucking baby Yoda!

Baby Yoda's are gonna be selling like hotcakes this Christmas!

Enough of that...I need to have a few words with Cleveland Browns fans...Everyone surely has seen what happened last Monday night at the end of the Browns/Steelers game....

I was going to put the video in, but the NFL keeps blocking it with their copyright bullshit....But I know you saw that shit...

I'll start by saying I hate the Steelers and living in PA makes me hate them more...Listen Browns fans...I get it, Rudolph was fighting too...You say he started it, but if you watched the video without your shit stained colored glasses, you'd see Garrett brought Rudolph down to the ground, well after he released the ball, and unnecessarily...So, he was salty...Then you say Rudolph kicked him in the balls...No he fucking didn't, he was getting bounced around on the ground by a guy bigger and stronger than him...He didn't kick, his body was being rag-dolled...

But no matter what happened, You don't bash a guy in the head with his helmet after you rip it off his head...Seriously, if you can't be on-board with that simple logic, you really, truly are a fucking asshole...There aren't many lines in football, but we should all agree that's the line...Drop the helmet and punch him in the mouth...Everyone would have been fine with that...

But wait, there's more....Now you dolts have started a petition to have Myles Garrett reinstated...You really think he shouldn't have been suspended? You really are fucking dummies...I have many friends that are Browns fans...If these words bother you, UNFRIEND ME, because you're being fucking ridiculous!


Next on my shit list.....All these fucking, fucktards saying that if what happened to Rudolph would have happened to Tom Brady 'the NFL would banned Garrett for life' or "taken the Cavs title away from Cleveland" or many other idiotic statements...You people are so clueless....

The NFL suspended Tom Brady for having air leaked out of footballs...for doctoring the balls, something every QB admittedly does...Aaron Rogers over inflates his...Eli Manning wrote an article the year before about how he doctors and under inflates balls, yet the NFL only went after Brady...these posts are such idiotic, bullshit....try actually knowing some factual shit...And Brady and The Patriots took the NFL to court where the courts ruled in Brady's favor....Goodell and big guns in the NFL have no love for Tom Brady...

Now onto Peter King and some of those other talking heads who love yapping about the NFL...these fuckers who talked about how what happened with Garrett and Rudolph has them thinking twice about letting their kids play football...

Did these idiots even watch the game...As fucked up and horrible as that incident was, it was only third worst hit to the head in that football game...For Christ's sake there was a guy wobbling off the field with blood rolling out of his ear...That shit didn't have you thinking, 'honey, lets not let junior sign-up for football, he may end up with permanent brain damage'?

Seriously!?!

Well, that felt good....

As for my readers from way back, as I said, it's been awhile since posting one of these...And I always kept you up on the fam...The youngest is a 3rd grader...Our oldest is a senior in high school, while the boy always known as Little Beeze is a Freshman, both plugging their way through high school in this twisted age where everything is done through smart phones...A world run on "Social Media" but the people have less and less social skills....I love technology, but it's kinda fucking us and I find myself reminiscing of a simpler time....Like the 90's...Who would have thought that? 

I hope you all are well...

Have a week.