February 07, 2005

• Awful, boring game. I'm half asleep. Halftime would've been good if the ghost of John Lennon had appeared to beat the shit out of sellout Paul.
• Not to be a total pain in the ass, but I have rented Rashomon this evening and am in the middle of watching it. Who's playing? Were there any boobs shown?
• Paul McCartney's withered old schlong remained safely in his pants. New England vs Philadelphia. Watching only to see how close my pregame prediction of NE by 20 was. (currently up by 10 with the ball)
• People who get excited about the commercials really concern me. "Millions of dollars are being spent on messages which are trying to brainwash me into purchasing specific products. Not only do I approve of it, but I am thankful and look forward to it!"
• The Beatles are totally dying in reverse-talent order. McCartney is *not* next.
• OK the Eagles actually made it close. And yet the game is still not interesting.
• I think Paul has always been incredibly talented, and I find the hipster cliche that george was somehow better than Paul a bit silly- if you listen to "Let it Be" or "Hey Jude", george never came within a mile of writing a song that good and its debatable if John did either. Paul has turned himself into a clown in the last few years, but aging gracefully is not an easy trick I suppose.
• People who get excited about the commercials really concern me. (I'd be more worried about people who get "really concerned" about people who get excited about the commercials.) Newsflash: commercial television contains commercials. By virtue of the audience and (ridiculous prices) it is a big deal for ad agencies. Like anything else, commercials can be done well (effective) or done poorly (not effective). It's part of the day, like it or not. It's another thing to score (and since the game is -more often than not- a dud, the commercials are often the most-talked-about things, the following day. Being actually influenced by commercials is a completely separate subject. I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised for the snarky comments since anybody into the game is still watching it.
• Did anyone see the Heineken commerical with Brad Pitt being chased? A friend of mine is in it, so I'm curious if it made it on the air.
• The commercials are duds this year so I find myself actually watching the game itself - which isn't very exciting this year. Maybe we need more boobage?
• I saw the Pitt ad.
• Yawn. Rodney Harrison just made a shitload of gamblers very very unhappy by sliding there rather than running that back for a TD and covering the spread.
• One of the best Super Bowls I've ever seen. Usually a snoozefest blowout, this one was actually worth watching. I realize I'm talking to myself here, since, judging by all the previous comments in the thread, there aren't a lot of football fans here.
• don't be lonely, rocket88. it was a good game, until i realized the eagles were down 10 with 5 minutes to go and realized there was no way the eagles were gonna make that up. i learned my lesson: always gamble on the super bowl.
• Now I am watching "My Name is Ivan" by Andre Tarkovsky. Who won?
• I am a football fan. I just found it an amazing poor game, less enjoyable to watch than even a blowout. Last year's was a great game. NE/St Louis was a great game. St Louis/Tennessee was one of the best ever. So was GB/Denver. We've been lucky in recent years. But this was amazingly dull for me.
• Just caught the final quarter on Shanghai cable during a coffee break. From a foreigner's point of view I always find American football too stop and go. I can see there's interesting tactics and great athletic skills, but I prefer the flow of our style of football. Guess it's what you know. The Chinese commentary team certainly seemed enthusiastic. Funnily enough most of the adverts here seemed to be for women's sanitary pproducts which doesn't seem quite the right demograhic.
• Dynasty
• I think there must have been some deal with the Devil. New England/Boston get to win everything in the world except the one contest that really mattered.
• Curse the Patriots!!!!!!!
• ok... While My Guitar Gently Weeps is waaaaay better than Hey Jude.
• Squid, hope you liked rashomon.
• I disagree, but so what? So George had one really good song. Paul wrote tons of them.
• Paul had to deal with Lennon constantly ragging him about his songs. So Sir Paul made sure he brought his best stuff in the studio. If Lennon was still alive I'm sure he would have made fun of McCartney's Michael Jackson duets.
• The Beatles are totally dying in reverse-talent order. McCartney is *not* next. I love bashing Paul but Ringo is not more talented.
• Ringo did do those good voice-overs for Thomas the Tank Engine.
• That was Ringo? *head explodes*
• I love bashing Paul but Ringo is not more talented. Sure, but come on, it's much funnier that way.
• A proud moment for Sir Paul.
• 'It was never as good after Ringo Starr stopped doing the narration.'
• So close, and yet so far.
• Paul McCartney: He's not exactly the fictional Masters of Krikkit but then he IS the real songwriter mentioned in association with them by Douglas Adams. I realize that some people love to knock over those at the top, but dissin' Paul McCartney's talent as a songwriter takes the cake.
• Paul McCartney is to the Beatles as Sting is to the Police. On the other hand, everyone loved my Guacamole and I'm nice and drunk. The party I went to was awesome...ended with cartoon network.
• This thread is unbelievable. I'm going to sportsfilter.
• I watched it on Tivo, so I had the ability to fast forward through Hey Jude (not a big fan of the song, just kinda rambles). I was really expecting him to play Maybe I'm Amazed, which seems to have become his signature song for the later part of his career. I had actually thought the half-time show would be more Pual McCartney and less Beatles.
• Ringo's my favourite Beatle. The game was dull as dishwater this year; nothing going on until the 3rd quarter. Didn't help that I only had one actual football fan over, and even though she's a NE fan, she doesn't like watching things go badly. So...not the best evening of football. Though like ActuallySettle, I'm pleased enough because I made a new dish in my slow cooker and everyone liked it. Which is pretty miraculous. And hey, it was football. And hey, Paul McCartney was there, and he chose some great songs. So, it's all good, time for bed, and please let someone else make it to the game next year, for a little change? Heh.
• 'It was never as good after Ringo Starr stopped doing the narration.' And none of this has been an FPP?!? Sorry rocket!
• "People who get excited about the commercials really concern me." My girlfriend told her dad she wasn't watching the Super Bowl; she said his response was "I thought you'd at least want to check out the new commercials." I was like "WHAT?!? People actually watch commercials on purpose now?" (Should I blame our alien overlords?) In my day switching away from commercials was what remotes were for. The commercials are one reason why we don't watch TV, the sucky programs being another. This big set he gave us we use for concert DVDs (that he also gives her), my Burns & Allen archives, her small collection of Monty Python movies, and the Triple Crown races her dad doesn't get her to drive down to watch with him. That damn set'll stay off for months at a time; till I happened across cheap Burns & Allen DVDs I hadn't turned it on in over a year.
• Paul McCartney is to the Beatles as Sting is to the Police. I think a better comparison would be Lennon to the Beatles as Sting is to the Police. For Paul, I would say he is to the Beatles as Slash is to GNR. He's not Axl, but still integral and prominent.
• Yes, people watch the Super Bowl for commercials. Anyone who blanches at the idea of anyone ever wanting to watch a commercial should take a look at the finalist reels that come out of the advertising festival at Cannes.
• I thought the best part was Charlie Daniels playing Devil Went Down to Georgia, but maybe that's because the Eagles cost me 20 bucks.
• The super-what?
• So George had one really good song. Here Comes the Sun I Me Mine I Want to Tell You Something Taxman Within You Without You While My Guitar Gently Weeps And, have you ever heard the All Things Must Pass album? It's better than any of Paul's solo albums, even the Wings albums, and it may be the best album by an ex-Beatle, overall.
• We don't bother to watch the SB, but we have a thing here in the BlueHorse house about being able to keep the heat going and the pump running to flush the toidy; the power went off today at three and didn't come on again till six thirty. Turns out a transformer blew and took out all the power north of the town all the way up to the Prairie--about forty miles worth. Oops. I was a bit disgruntled, until Mr. BlueHorse reminded me it was SB Sunday. So THAT'S what that shreeking was all about!
• I have to say this is the first year ever that I went unaware of the Superbowl until hours after it was over. I don't really care anyway... the NFL has just gotten way too overcommercialized. It's right up there with NASCAR.
• A known lsd user and pot smoker? Does`nt get much better than that!
• If Sir Paul had came running into the field, wearing an apple t-shirt and ended up throwing a sledgehammer into a huge screen showing Michael Jackson' big face, now that would have been a nice half-time show.
• "Something" is one of the greatest pop songs ever. "Within You Without You" drones on and on. It sucks.
• GOSH! "something" eats shit big time. (Obviously that's just my opinion though and if you like it, good for you!) Something in that fucking song directs me to throttle my own mother.
• But Ringo had Caveman. A lowbrow humor masterpiece that someone actually wrote a caveman language for, which you could speak yourself if you paid attention to the movie. They can NEVER take that away from him. Nya ool, baybee. Nya ool.
• Also, I wonder if people single out the Michael Jackson duets now mainly because of what's happened to MJ since that time. He was still black then, though, and of course wildly popular. That the singles weren't great is another thing, but I find it telling that no one brings up Paul's ridiculous duet with Stevie Wonder. Now, back to your sports discussion.
• Hey I know let's argue about rock music
• A colleague of mine brought up the Frog Chorus as another bad Paul moment. The halftime show...it was just so boring. Why did everyone have to overreact so much to last year's debacle? There's a middle ground between exposed nipples and a snoozefest, I know there is.
• You know, Thriller is really a great song. No matter how freakshow MJ gets, I just love that tune.
• I did filmgeek. I'm in the middle of sort of a "self film school" of watching stuff that I watched in college along with a bunch of stuff that I should have but didn't. BTW, I too am a FCP editor.
• I was walking the dog in the park at whatevertime, and suddenly heard drunken, off-key, karaoke-style renditions of the final chorus of "Hey Jude" simultaneously waft out of a number of nearby houses. So that was the Superbowl?
• (I'd be more worried about people who get "really concerned" about people who get excited about the commercials.) I love it when people try to defend the stupid shit they do. It amuses me. The game was ok. Not really exciting, but not a total dud. I agree 100% with cabingirl on the halftime show. I thought it was boring, and I thought it was that way because of the reaction to last year's show. The following episode of american dad, however, was fantastic.
• I am still stunned as to how anyone considers that a "good" or even "OK" game. 1) A first half so sloppy and mistake prone that a commentator says at halftime, "I know you're supposed to have a lot of reverence for the Super Bowl, but that was bad football" 2) Dononvan McNabb living down to every bad thing ever said about him, missing easy throws like a nervous rookie and almost single-handly losing the game for his team. 3) The vaunted NE defense, with a ten point lead unable to put the game away and conceding a late TD when a great team would've clamped down. 4) An amazingly inept running of the two minute drill by philly that took so much time to score above TD that the game was effectively over anyway. Coach Andy Reid, who has been hyped all year, effectively ruined his reputation on that drive. 5) The one man almost everyone WANTS to fail, Terrell Owens, has a great game- highlighting just how mediocre the Eagles were without him- for all the nice things everyone says about them, they were exposed as a mediocre group who lack the will to win a big game. 6) An onside kick, normally the most exciting play in football, where no Eagle gets within 5 yards of touching the football. One of the poorest special team efforts ever at a crucial moment. 7) The Eagles last drive, again executed so ineptly that there was never even an outside chance of them scoring and finally 8) Rodeny Harrison intercepts the ball and slides down rather than scoring an easy TD, a "classy" move which was nevertheless a boring end to a boring game and no doubt infuriating to all those gamblers who had the Patriots minue 6 or 7. Overall, a stunningly mediocre display by both sides and the rare game where, even though the score was close, the winner was blindingly obvious throughout.