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Funny How Time Flies When The Apocalypse Nears

It seems like the older we get, the faster that time goes. Every month you hear people say, “Wow! I can’t believe it’s already July!” or “Wow! I can’t believe it’s already November!” Next thing you’re saying soon it will the year 2001 or 2010 or in our soon to be case- 2012. I suppose 2001 was a space odyssey as we continue to find space to put all the crap we’ve accumulated. 2010 was the year we were supposed to make contact. I’m sure we met somebody, somewhere and I’m sure he/she was a really nice person despite forgetting his/her name. 2012 is the year that supposedly the world is going to end. Forgive me if I don’t believe a prediction by a civilization of people who couldn’t predict their own destruction yet somehow has predicted ours. On December 22, 2012 we’ll all be saying “Hey that Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is nothing but an ancient Y2K hoax.”

Others have predicted our destruction to no avail. Take Harold Camping for example. The Rapture was supposed to happen this year on May 21st with the end of the world occurring on October 21st. He had been wrong before in 1988 and 1994. Keep trying until you get it right, eh Harry? For a supposed Christian radio host, the guy clearly needs to open up his Bible and I don’t know… read it? It clearly states in Matthew 24:36 that:

“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”

No one except Harold Camping and his crazy numerology conclusions, apparently.

First of all, the Bible is not some secret, encrypted text where you need your Little Orphan Annie secret decoder ring to solve the hidden message. You don’t need numerology to read it. You don’t need a PHD in Theology from some quasi-religious institution. You just need to know how to read. And if you can’t read, you can just cop an audio version of it.

Second of all, even if the Rapture had occurred in May like Camping predicted, the world would not have ended in October. God is not going to destroy the universe. Wouldn’t that be like burning down your house because your kids can’t stop misbehaving? The Rapture predates the Great Tribulation which last 7 years and many believe will begin once Israel makes a peace accord with the Antichrist. After this Great Tribulation, Christ will return to Earth, vanquish Satan and his minions and begin his 1000 year reign. Granted, I didn’t major in mathematics in college but I’m pretty sure the time between May and October in the same calendar year doesn’t equal over 1007 years.

Maybe Christ will return in 2012. We’ll just have to wait and see. 2012 is right around the corner after all. 31 days to be exact. Feel free to stock up on canned goods and bottled water and mark “X’s” on your Mesoamerican Long Count calendar as the days go by.

Just don’t forget your blu-ray copy of Apocalypto. You’ll probably need something to watch the day after the world doesn’t end.

Give the 7 Year Old from 1982 a 50″ Plasma TV

Flashback to 1982… I’m 7 years old living in Milwaukee and my favorite baseball team is in the World Series.  Can the Brewers pull it off?  My dad gets 2 tickets to one of the home games and I’m so excited.  But wait… he’s taking my mom??!  She doesn’t even like sports!   This is a crushing defeat before the series has even begun.  

Instead, I get to watch only parts of the games on TV before having to go to bed early because I’ve got school in the morning. This sucks!  So I sneak out into the hallway just out of sight and listen to the game.  The Brewers have a 3-2 series lead!  So stoked!  But then the Cardinals come back and win the World Series 4 games to 3.  What is this miserable pain in my gut?  Why won’t this go away?

Flash-forward to 2011.  The Brewers win the Central pennant and clinch the #2 seed and home field advantage at least in the first round of the playoffs.  Even if they make it to the World Series, there’s no way I could afford tickets to a game much less a flight and hotel on top of that.  I’m married now so I understand why my dad took my mom.  Maybe this time I can watch the playoffs on a 50″ plasma TV.  What would the 7year old me listening to the game while my parents thought I was asleep think of such a sight?  Maybe the Brewers can win it all this year…

Dan Gerous- “Amazing (This Is What I Do)”

Cleveland’s dopest MC returns with an absolute banger produced by yours truly with a sick video as well. Spidey in the black suit wrecking shop on the Sinister Six and still finds time to make out with the Black cat!

Dan Gerous- “Amazing (This Is What I Do)”

Dream Theatre: thrILL! vs Sugar Ray Leonard

Last night I had a dream that Sugar Ray Leonard and his crew rolled up on me. His manager (who looked like Leo from The West Wing and it probably was him since I did watch the beginning of War Games last night) insisted I come with him inside this house to discuss something. I followed him up these stairs to a 2nd floor apartment and after he pulled a gun out, he turns toward me and sees me with a .38 pointed at his dome. CH-CHIK! BOOM!!

Sugar Ray hears the gunshot and sends his cronies after me. I lock the door and bolt out of the bathroom window and jump down to the backyard. One of his goons is running right at me but I pulled a Reggie Bush vs Fresno State sideline cutback and leave him face-first on the turf.

I jet through the yard and as I run across the street, the perspective shifts from 1p to 3p and a younger version of myself seeks the help of a neighbor. The neighbor directs me to safety inside his home. Sugar Ray and his crew slowly walk up to the man and shakes his hand before following me inside. Gift-wrapped.

I started yelling across the street at the neighbor putting him on blast for going out like that. I don’t know what happened inside but I still had my piece and I bet I put Leonard on the ground faster than Kevin Howard and it wouldn’t be with gloves.

March Madness

This month flew right by and nary a post in sight. I got caught up in the NCAA Basketball Tournament and watched my Arizona Wildcats destroy the hated Duke Blue Devils. That was fun!! They had UConn on the ropes only to frantically turn the ball over too many times and give the game away. Yet, we still had a shot to win it but missed 2 shots and a tip-in at the end. Great season nonetheless and Sean Miller is doing big things in Tucson and has impressive recruiting classes put together for ‘11 and ‘12.

As far as who’s going to win overall? I’m pulling for VCU.

Other than that, I’m digging Isaiah 52-54 and am blown away at how profound this Book is and how relevant it is today.

Mad Men on Blu-Ray is inspiring. The writing, directing, and acting are all exemplary. Man, this show is legendary.

The MPC has been on fire lately and I’ve knocked out 3 absolute bangers. We’ll see if someone laces them soon otherwise I’ll post the instrumentals on YouTube soon.

Holla if you hear me.

And the Oscar for Best Tweets goes to…

MYSELF! lulz

Here is a sample of tweets from last night:

Kirk Douglas was awesome in Lord Of The Rings as king of the Orcs

Dominic Cobb made a fortune planting inceptions in the minds of Academy voters to vote The King’s Speech for best orig screenplay

The #Oscars are booked with @ABC until 2020. Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs will co-host

Matthew McConaughey must get his orange spray-on tan done at the same place as @jimrome and George Hamilton

Cate Blanchett’s dress looks like her kid made it with construction paper, macaroni, glue, & paint

Mandy Moore & Chuck? Never have I loved my DVR ffwd more than this moment

When did Napoleon Dynamite dye his hair black and get LASIK? It worked and won him an Academy Award

How can you make Harry Potter and Twilight even worse than they already are? Autotune

Hilary Swank peaked on Beverly Hills, 90210 but was never good enough for Steve Sanders

Darth Beatty is more machine now than man

Do you think that Javier Bardem was able to get his compressed airgun past security? #NoCountryForSpanishTerminators

Natalie Portman with the win. Black Swan is no Phantom Menace tho

Harry Osborn has an Oscar nomination. That alone could snap Gwen Stacy’s neck.

Not one Oscar winner thanked the Lord. Your idols cannot save you egomaniacs

The King’s Speech should do a sequel where his speech is about how The Social Network deserved Best Picture more

David Fincher can blame getting robbed of the Best Director Oscar on Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on SNL

peep more tweets at my Twitter page

INCREDIBOLT Delay

INCREDIBOLT was posted on YouTube and immediately received positive feedback before being pulled from YouTube for copyright infringement. Now I’m not saying I own either The Incredibles or Bolt because I obviously do not, but I was surprised that amidst the hundreds of videos featuring clips from both films my video was the one removed. Is it because mine was really good? I did spend a looooooong time working on it. I did not seek to make any money off of it. If anything, it was a labor of love and inspiration for Pixar and Disney. Perhaps you could even call it a demo reel. Yet it got yanked almost immediately while the others conspicuously remain.

I digress.

What will become of INCREDIBOLT? I still plan to post the soundtrack. After all, Disney has has no claim whatsoever on the dope hip hop music composed by myself. Stay tuned for more news…

February went by in a flash and I didn’t even post once? Yikes! I wrote the Green Bay blog but posted it shortly after it hit March 1st. Anyway, much to talk about in the near future.

Green Bay Packers: Super Bowl Champions

I’ve been a fan of the Green Bay Packers my entire life. Growing up in Milwaukee, I endured a grip of 4-12 seasons watching Lynn Dickey, James Lofton, Mark Murphy (as a player), Brian Noble and many others as we struggled to even have a winning season. Ron Wolf and Mike Holmgren came in the 90’s and created a complete culture change overhaul and an eventual champion. We won Super Bowl XXXI and appeared in another. Along the way, a certain gunslinger QB made a name for himself and won the hearts of Packers fans everywhere.

Those times have come and gone and now we have been blessed by another Pro Bowl QB named Aaron Rodgers who endured immense scrutiny and second-guessing by nearly everyone. Ted Thompson was vilified by many for having the courage to draft Rodgers and then jettison the Silver Fox after his ego had completely superseded the stratosphere. Thompson and Mike McCarthy put together a championship caliber team mainly through the NFL Draft (Clay Matthews, Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, etc.) and by adding a few key free agents like Charles Woodson and Ryan Pickett as well as UDFA’s Tramon Williams and Sam Shields. Mike McCarthy built an offensive juggernaut and Dom Capers’ installation of the 3-4 defense hit its stride in its 2nd season smothering opponents at every turn.

Despite a staggering 15 players on the Injured Reserve list, the team came together and got on a impressive streak winning streak as the regular season was nearing a close. They won at home against the NY Giants in a dominating 45-17 performance and then securing a playoff spot the following week on the road against our hated rivals the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field 10-3. Everyone anticipated the Bears resting their starters at some point because they had secured the #2 seed and a bye. They didn’t and they should have because they LOST! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

The following week the Pack went into the Linc in Philly and beat the Michael Vick hype machine Eagles 21-16 to advance to the next round against Atlanta in the Georgia Dome.

The Falcons were the #1 seed in the NFC and thought by many to be the best team in the postseason. The Packers destroyed the Falcons 48-21 and the game was over after Tramon Williams’ 70 yard pick 6 INT thrown by Matty “Slush” going into the half. Aaron Rodgers showed why he is one of the best QB’s in the NFL with 31 of 36 for 366 yards passing and 4 TD’s (1 rushing).

The NFC Championship Game and the Halas Trophy was poetically housed in Soldier Field. Chicago’s defense was strong and a cheapshot helmet-to-helmet personal foul by Julius Peppers on Aaron Rodgers took him out of his rhythm. A pick 6 INT by B.J. Raji thrown by the anti-clutch Jay Cutler was the difference as the Packers won 21-14.

Super Bowl XLV would be played in Jerry Jones’ funhouse in Dallas against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Two of the most storied franchises in the NFL going head-to-head was a dream matchup for the league. Green Bay got off to a big lead highlighted by Nick Collins pick 6 INT thrown by Ben Roethlisberger.

Seeing a pattern yet? Our secondary is the best in the NFL. Charles Woodson broke his collarbone on a fantastic defensive play and Sam Shields suffered an injury the subsequent play. Things were not looking good defensively for Green Bay but thanks to the extra long and extra awful haltime performance by the Black Eyed Peas, Dom Capers was able to put together a plan to compensate for the injuries to key starters. Aaron Rodgers was masterful in a MVP performance and the defensive backups played brilliantly as Green Bay held on to win 31-25.

“Celebrate good times! Come on!!!” Kool & The Gang may not have been the group blasting from my speakers (actually it was Lil’ Wayne’s “Green & Yellow”) but the celebration was on and it felt awesome!! It FEELS awesome!!! I’m extremely happy especially for the veterans like Woodson and Donald Driver (also hurt during the game) to finally win a ring. Greg Jennings giving the glory to the Lord was the icing on an absolutely delicious cake.

Next year we want another one!!!

The Vampire Film I Want To See

The vampire craze has long been out of hand. Twilight. True Blood. The Vampire Diaries. Gossip Girl. There is one I’d like to see though:

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