"Famous Scientologists"

Here is a list of all the famous sceintologists. Also, I wanted to link my readers to Ben's blog. Many of my readers also read Drew's blog. However Drew accepted a ton of money from the Republican party in exchange for his silence.

Lostprophets (roof tops)

Um, the original link to this video is broken. Here is it again.

"26 Days"

Ok, ok its only 10:38 so its really still 27 days. But by the time you read this its 26 days.

"Shadow of a Dowd"

Here is a a great article on Flyers energy line player Jim "JD" Dowd. Jimmy born in the garden state talks about his days as a kid going to Devils games when they first came to New Jersey. The article also traces Dowd's over coming the odds and actually making the team, and having to live in fear that Peter Forsberg was going to end his NHL days.

Hot/Crazy Scale

In honor of the return of HOw I Met Your Mother on St. Paddy's day. I am posting Barney's hot crazy scale theory. Don't have to be a fan to enjoy the video.

"Turkelton"

Network tv shows that air on networks and are produced by companies that own rival networks are usually pretty screwed. Scrubs is made by touchtone who owns ABC, and airs on NBC. NBC doesn't get squat for returns or DVDS. So they always screw SCrubs. Now they are refusing to order any new shows,which would mean we will never get a finale of SCrubs. There are a few pre-strike shows left and will start airing in April. NBC is determined to screw Scrubs and their fans till the end. However, a rumor has surfaced that ABC will order 18 shows for next year, as long as they sign the cast up for an 8th an final season (this would be like the third final season for Scrubs) it is coming back next fall. Kind of thought it was time to bow out, but if this is the only way Scrubs can get a true ending. Than I am all for it.

"No Country For Old Men"

Ralph Nader is running for the white house again. Mostly out of spite to the deomcrats this time. With him and John Mccain running we got two guys well into their 70's running. REally what are the republicans thinking? Most the core part think he is too much of a pinko. Not to mention he is running up against Obama. I have never seen anything like Obama since I was old enough to vote. The lines to see him speak are like the lines at a Hanna Montana concert. He is young and many ladies say he is quite handsome. Like it or not that gets you votes in the tv age. Did you know we haven't had a bald president since people starting watching their candiates on tv all the time? This country is looking for someone young and refershing and the democrats have just that.

"They Say It's Your Birthday"

I HAD to post this because Friday Feb 29th is Simon Gagne's birthday. He doesn't get one for another four years. I just wanted to wish him a happy birthday. Now rest up and get the room to stop spinning Gags, we need you back next season. Also, readers if you do a google image for "GAGS" you might want to have your safety search on some really wierd stuff comes up! Maybe the guys will take Simon to Mainstreet for his b-day.

"It Ends Tonight"

I feel like the Flyers won a playoff series. It was merely a game. But thank god, they ended a 10 game skid.

In Rocky like fashion too. All hope was lost down 3-0. Than finally two goals to answer back.

The rest of the game we kept hanging on to each other. Finally Danny Briere stuck it to his old team. By winning a game and actually earning his paycheck in the shootout! Wow!

On top of that we got a 55 point scorer for Alexander Picard. Pic is was good player for the Phantoms, and deserves a shot at the NHL.

Vinny Prospal the former Flyer comes back. We need all the help we can get up front. Imagine Richie feeding him the puck when he returns.

Everyone has to hold the fort down till we get more players. We might not be done, the trade deadline is 3pm tomorrow.

I posted a video All American Rejects, "It ends tonight". Hopefully the darkness turns to goal lights. The lyrics are pretty in tone with what the team most be feeling.

"Who Owns the Chiefs"

JR's top 10

Here is some great off ice JR moments. HIm acting on HACK, hugging Ed Snider, cussing out refs, singing to Tony Amonte, cussing out Hitch, and trash talking.

"Home Coming Night"

"When a Shark Stops Swimming, it dies, Mr. Mulder...."

Damn...I miss JR and his antic. Miss the 110% he gave each day. They dont make them like him anymore. I really will cheer for San Jose once Philly's quest for the Cup ends. I am going to the game tomorrow, and I cant wait. Although, it will be sad to see him live likely for the last time. Thanks for getting us to the Eastern Conference finals with that OT goal JR! rock on!

" I Am on the Way GUys!"

24 hours and for about the 5th or 6th time, Peter Forsberg has "unretired". For some reason he seems to think in the next 7days he might feel 100% again. Is he packing to touch down in PHilly again? Packing all this Flyers gear?

Who knows by the time you read this, I bet he retires again. Wait, I just got a google news alert. Foppa is offically hanging it up. Wow, breaking news as I am writing this so if you are reading it just as I posted it, you are learning here. Ignore the story you saw on the news tonight or what you heard the guys say during the game. Foppa is NOT coming back this season. Maybe, next season?

ACtually, it has just been made offical that PEter Forsberg is not going to make up his mind just yet. He thinks he might still be able to play for an NHL team. Many teams are stil in the running to get him. Including PHilly.

It turns out that PHilly will have to seek another way to end the 8-game skid, because Peter Forsberg has made it public that he WILL NOT come back. He is not confident about this healthy. He doesn't want to come back and let people down. I can understand and respect that. Hats off Peter the Great.

Get those Forsberg jerseys out of the closet. PEter is coming back to the NHL, and its very likely he will be a Flyer again. This gels with the rumor of Jason Smith being traded. That way Foppa can have his 21 back.

Bad News Flyers fan Peter Forsberg will NOT be returning to the NHL....

THIS JUST IN.....FORSBERG IS COMING BACK!

"Robot Jon"

So, under the last post. I got a random comment about how 9/11 never happened. It appeared to be some sort of robot spam. I had fun with the comment asking if he was indeed Charlie Sheen (if you dont get that google Charlie Sheen and 9/11).

I got a post this afternoon that I approved that appeared to be from "Jon". It said "check this out" and had a link. I clicked on the link and some sort of spam of anti-virus came shooting up. One of those deals where it said that my computer had been "infected" which basically crashed my computer. I doubt Mosco would have spelled his own name wrong, so I assume that was "Robot Jon".

In order to prevent my readers from "checking out the link" I deleted the post from "jon. He left an IM that said he signed up for a thing that tells him when I post. Apperently you can do that? So, I dont know if that was related to Robot Jon.

At any rate, I don't normally like to delete posts, and thats why I did. So, if some reason John wanted all have our computers tell us that it was infected by a virus I am sorry I deleted it. Also, I guess if you want to talk about how 9/11 didn't happened in response to my Peter Forsberg posts, I guess thats cool.

ps

Looking forward to the new epsiodes of TWo and HAlf Men, Mr. Sheen and thanks for reading.

"Foppa Drama Peters OUt"

Dark clouds have formed over the WATCH OVER YOU center. The hockey gods have knocked us from trying to over take the Sens to the brink of non-playoff team land. Hatch, Luppy, and Downie are all hurt. Gag's hockey playing days could be over all together. Its really unreal, 7 straight losses and a total tailspin. Its gut check time. If Briere doesn't score this week, he will officallybecome the most hated athlete in Philly. Meanwhile across the Globe, Foppa has said that he will not play this season. All that hype and drama for nothing. At least the big names should start getting traded now, that Forsberg has taken his damaged non-fitting skate out of the mix. Here is a recent picture of Foppa who apperently chopped his trademark floppy hair. HE is seen with his miserable looking girlfriend. Perhaps she drafted him in her fantasy league or something? If the Flyers lose to the Senators tomorrow........

"Two BIG Reasons to Smile"

Pitchers and Catchers reported today! Go Phils! What did you think I ment?!?

"Benson"

Phils signed Benson....

"Show Me the Way to Go Home"

I spent most my Sunday asleep in order to shake a cold, ran too late to pick up a paper today, and didnt surf the net at work at all. So, I was in the dark to anything going on in the world for nearly 24 hours.

That is why it was such a surprise when talking to my friend Ed on the way home today, that he basically casually refered to the death of Roy Scheider. I had no idea. Followed by Dan's email bewildered why there wasn't any post about it. I knew it wouldnt be a simple picture post...

Now anyone that knows me, knows my favorate movie off all time is Jaws. One of the main reasons for that was because of the performanc of Roy Scheider, of Cheif Martin Brody. I don't know if it was the fact it was first non-kiddie movie I was able to watch with out my parents watchful eye (although the first time I watched it with them, I had to cover my eyes a few time or I'd get in trouble). Or, perhaps Schedier's character has some simliar qualites to my father.

"Jaws" was the movie that started it all basically. The movie that sent me down a path of a life long obession with the movies. How they were made, learn actors other movies that were in movies I loved, and take note of different actor's techniques. Scheider, an actor whose performance made me intrested more in actors who are committed to having their characters come across as real people. The best actors, are the ones that make you forget they are acting, and in his prime Roy did that.

My Fav. Movies of Roy's

Scheider's most famous pre-Jaws movie, was "The French Connection" where he played Gene Hackeman's sidekick in the movie about the obessive persuit of a scumbag druglord. Scheider (a jersey boy like me) was perfect as the no-nosense partner, that in some regards kept his partner in check. Despite his roughness, you could tell (because it was played subtley by Schieder) that he would a brother like bond with Hackman's character.

It was the acting of Jaws, that made it much more than just a "monster movie". Cheif brody was flawed for a hero. He feared water, so it going out on a boat wasn't his idea of fun, he drank too much, was neortic as he was tough, and Scheider nailed each aspect of this. Examples include the way he played the scene as Quint and Hooper compare injuries. He lifts his shirt to expose what looks like an appendex scar. He wanted to fit in, and relate a story. He realizes it doesn't compare to their and simply drops the shirt back without saying a word. Other scenes, as his reaction to a grief stricken mother who lost her son in shark attack. Also, the often overlooked scene with his son at the dinner table, where Schedier offers no lines till the end, but right there you realize how important his kids are to him, and what kind of father he is. Few actors could have made that scene work so well, without seeming force. It makes the line on the boat with hooper later, about moving away to NYC to a place where their no murders in 20 years more meaningful.

Also, who could forget his line "Were are going to need a bigger boat"

Scheider, was the only one of the big three that returned to Jaws2. The movie was weak compared the original, but I still consider it to be good film. The main reason is the performance of Scheider. Some scenes are hard to watch, because he is so good. Everyone thinks he is suffering from some sort of post tramatic syndrome from the events of the first film, when he insists another shark is lurking about. AT one point they let him stand in a guard tower and overlook the waters to protect the people of the shore resort. He thinks, he sees a shark heading towards the bathers. He runs down, and onto the beach firing his gun and screaming. It turns out its just a school of bluefish, and if anything he put people in a panic and in harm. The reaction on his face says a lot, as people behind him are yelling thats its just bluefish. He has to turn and face the crowd and let him know "its okay you can go back" seeing the tough non-sense Brody have to accept he was wrong and may have just lost all crediblity borders on the heart breaking.

Following those scenes we see Brody (in a trade make Scheider rant scene) berat the city council that he still thinks he is right despite, being wrong in one instant. That many people are still in danger. But its too late, he is done for, and fired. Powerless to do anything this time, he gets hammered and returns home. He slumps drunkenly into his wife on the coach, and we see Schedier expose Brodys insecurities again. These scenes stayed longer with me than most of the shark sequences.

Despite his acclaim in "All the Jazz", that movie just was never my cup of tea. To each their own, but I know many people that adore that movie, and think that was his best role. Sadly, Roy was more of an actor ideal for the 70s movies than the 80's. Although, I really think 2010, is really overlooked, and stands up today (despite all the cold war stuff) as a descent Sci-Fi movie after all these years. Don't compare it to 2001, and just enjoy his performance in that. Through out the 80's he starred in "The Men's Club" (haven't seen it yet), but more famously, action movies like "Blue Thunder" (known as that movie he did with all the helicopters), and "52-pick up". A lowpoint came in the awful, Kirk Cameron drama "Listen to Me"

Sadly, it seemed Roy loved sunbathing which likely resulted in his skin cancer hurt his chances of movie rolls too. If you see behind the scenes of Jaws most of the time he is sun bathing. Even in one shot on the boat he randomly has his shirt off. His first scene of JAws 2, he almost looks ethnic he is so tan. I always wondered if thats what made him age poorly later in life. His skin tough, and leather looking likely prevented him from getting leading man roles in the later 80s.

Roy, went back to the water and on to the small screen in the short lived Sea-Quest. Their are rumors that he hated the silly direction the show went into in the 2nd season, and wasnt happy. He eventually left the show.

The of the 90s Roy, was pushed by the new age action heroes into the straight to video bin. With movies like Plato's Run and entire dracula movies where he played a preist. He would occasionally resurface in small parts in theater released movies. He played a good, but real small role in "The Rainmaker" and early role for Matt Damon, and most recently "The Punisher". According to IMDB, he still has some movies yet to be released.

In JAws he utters the line, ..."but in Amity one man can make a difference..." in movies one actors role can make a difference. A difference that stuffs my shelves with movies, and embarked me on a journey of watching countless movies over the years. Some, many times over and again like JAws, the film I love above all others. Few things in life give me as much joy as sitting in the dark, gazing at my big screen with my DVD player spinning a new discovery for me or something from my collection to revisit again and again.

Thanks Roy! Hope found you way home, now im going to post this blog and shut the computer down.......because I am tired and I want to go to bed....