High School Fights

I suppose this is the reason most people prefer Saved by the Bell to Boy Meets World

It's like a bar fight. I forgot how raw saved by the bell was..Check out Belding trying to break it up dressed up in a goofy costume. I always hated anytime I was dressed in a costume and a moment arose where I had to deal with something.

And how does Boy Meets World do it?


Weak! Boy never met a punch.

Best TV Shows

In my opinion there really is nothing good on television right now. I sit and I watch TV and I find myself just channel surfing because I really can't find anything that I like. Sometimes I get lucky and TBS is having an afternoon screening of the Kevin Bacon classic Tremors or perhaps if I am up late at night USA will be airing Return of the Living Dead 1 and 2, which are the zombie movies where the zombies run. Running Zombies!! You can't beat that. However, if I had to say where the bright spots are in American television other than re-airing Kevin Bacon monster movies and running zombie movies, then it would have to be:

Mad Men: This show is amazing. What i love about Mad Men is that it the back drop of the show when you first hear it sounds a little dull. When I first heard what it was about, (1960 NYC advertising executives) I really wasn't that interested. Then I watched it and it blew me away. They make it interesting with superb, smart writing, great characters, great acting and storylines that you never see coming. I think it may be my favorite show ever. Not only that but the lead character Don Draper is the new Tony Soprano but in a much cooler way.


Eastbound and Down: This show is also amazing and I had been wanting to watch it since its release. I recently viewed it and it lives up to all the hype. Absolutely hilarious and a very original concept. Not only that but for someone who is a sucker for shows that use source music to really fit the essence of a scene, this show nailed it with this scene:


LOST: if you read this blog then you should know how much I like LOST. I like it so much that I blogged about whether or not the Air France plane crash didn't actually crash but instead was on an island somewhere. I don't even have to put up a video for this show. The fact that I even had that thought about the Air France flight is pretty sick and shows that maybe I watch LOST a litte too much. Not only that but have you noticed that I always capitalize every letter in LOST when I write about it. The island won't let me not capitalize the letters.....See what I mean.

Arc of a Temp

Good morning! Had a great cup of coffee and a nice chocolate croissant. Checked my emails and some comedy blogs.

Oh no! Not more spreadsheets! Ugghh!

I am hard at work and not happy. These spreadsheets suck!


Look at all I have done! Its a complete spreadsheet and it wasn't fun!


These spreadsheets are starting to take its toll!

Driving in the Wind

Next time you find yourself about to go driving out in the Hamptons or maybe through the back roads of the Berkshires or maybe even along the Pacific Coast Highway, make sure you have the song "Walking in the Wind" by Traffic handy. Throw it on, turn it up as loud as it goes, put your windows down, have one arm on the wheel and maybe your other arm around your Best Girl or maybe petting your Yellow Lab sitting in the passengers seat, and then of course repeat until you get to your destination.



Also, listen to the song while reading this blog entry. It goes nicely with that as well.

My favorite band right now

They are called Republic of Loose. They are from Ireland and no I don't like them because they are from Ireland and my last name is Murphy.

Here are my favorite songs:
Somebody Screamed


I Like Music


23 Things I Don't Like

Willie Mays

I'm a Benicio Del Toro fan but i'll be damned if this doesn't make perfect sense. Why is that?? God Dammit Rod you've done it again. Touche!

The Boilermaker

So I jogged in the Boilermaker roadrace this past weekend which is a 9 mile run through the streets of Utica, NY which is a pretty awful town. No offense to Utica but you make Washington Heights seem like Palm Beach. Do you want to know how bad Utica is? The Boilermaker is the biggest event that goes on in Utica. When a 9 mile jog is your towns highlight, well lets just say enough said. But aside from that, I realized how much I dislike major roadraces. Its not the actual running that I dislike, its what goes on before and after the race. I can't exactly put my finger on what it is that I don't like but perhaps this video can help clear it up. This video shows three people "hanging out" and "cutting loose" after finishing last years Boilermaker:

See what I mean? I don't know what it is but roadraces really bring out the cheesiness in people because I saw similar behavior at this years Boilermaker with the help of that song "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray (Use your imagination). All I'm trying to say is that I have the NYC Marathon coming up and I am more terrified of the pre and post race antics of the fellow joggers than I am of the 26.2 miles.

More Temp Stuff

I was in the Kitchen at my temp job yesterday having an afternoon snack. My snack consisted of a bowl of cheerios mainly because thats all the kitchen had at that point in the day. A guy that is pretty high up in the company came up to me and said "You're Phil right?" and I said "Yeah" and he then said "So are you here as an auditor or something?" I'm sitting there thinking, "Yeah, how many auditors do you know eat cheerios at 3 in the afternoon?"


On a side note, I shampooed my hair last night which maked me look like I was in the Monkees.

HBO

Remember when HBO played this before they showed a movie.

Wow!! I have to admit I got a little choked up watching this. It's a weird memory from when I was a little kid. My brother taped The Empire Strikes Back on HBO and it used to be my favorite movie. Everytime I watched it I always made sure to re-wind it all the way to the beginning so that I could see this HBO introduction. They don't make em like they used to.

1982

This song by Keni Burke came out in 1982, which is the same year I was born.

I just hope that when Keni Burke passes away we give him the same treatment that we are giving Michael Jackson now. Based on the jumpsuit he is wearing in this video how can you not.

Hey Preppy!

Remember when AC Slater used to always call Zack Morris "Preppy" on Saved By the Bell? I never understood why. I mean I sort of get it. Zack Morris had the blonde hair, he was pretty clean cut, but still it didn't make sense. I mean check out Mark Paul Gosselar (Zack Morris) now:

He looks pretty Preppy these days.

But here?:

Come on.It looks like he got those clothes at Marshalls. And its almost a canadian tuxedo. Preppy? Not in my book.

Wacko Memorial

Thousands of Michael Jackson fans gathered at the the Apollo Theater in Harlem to celebrate the life and music of the "Gloved One." I find it a little strange that they would honor him at the Apollo considering he really wasn't black anymore.