Bringin' it back

I've had a couple weird moments in the last few weeks since I've been absent from this blog. First, I went to a party, and everyone there knew me as the guy who had that FAST AND FURIOUS blog. Then, I was watching Bama nuke the city of Gainsville on Saturday, and Gary Danielson called the unstoppable runningback tandem of Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson "the Fast and the Furious." And then I went to see The Social Network, and I felt bad for not doing anything to advance humanity.

And then I remembered this blog. This will be my Facebook.

Starting Monday, the 365 Days of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS will begin again, starting at Day One. I will plunge ahead despite all my other obligations and my crippling depression, because maybe, just maybe, this is the cure for all my problems. We'll all find out together, I s'pose.

I Give Up

When I started this little project, circumstances were ideal for success. I sat at home all day and had plenty of spare time. And then, a week ago, I started a second job. And school started. And then I didn't have spare time.

So I give up. It wasn't that it was difficult to watch the movies themselves. No, it was being obligated to put out quality blog posts about them every day; I couldn't deal with the pressure to do this well, and so it wasn't fun at all.

I haven't decided if I'm going to keep watching the movies anyway. I haven't in two days, and I miss it, shockingly. So I'm leaning toward starting this project over, but retooling it somehow to make the whole thing work for me. I'll let you know.

I'm a little behind...

Guys, sometimes real life comes callin', and you gotta answer that shit or it just won't leave you alone. That happened this week, so I'm a little behind on updates. I have been watching the things and giving myself topics, but I haven't found the time to write them up yet. Keep your eyes open.

Day 14: This Bro...

I decided to turn this "goofy extra" thing into a thing, because when I was watching 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS I noticed this one hilarious-looking and wildly out-of-place dude that I just had to point out to everyone. This bro has less than one second of screen time, and it comes when the cops arrive after the race at the beginning of the movie. Enjoy; the bro in question is the blondie on the left side of the frame:

Oh boy. I think that speaks for itself.

Oh, and now that I've figured out how to make animated GIFs, you'll be getting a lot more of them. Yay!

Day 13: Almost Had Me?

When I lived in LA, I'd see famous people around sometimes. One time, I went to the movies on a Sunday morning, and I discovered that Keanu Reeves was sitting in the row in front of me. It was soooooo awesome, even though I hadn't started writing this blog and he didn't know yet who I was. We even made eye contact as we left the theater, and I immediately called all my friends to tell them about my amazing day.

So there's this one bro in the background of one shot in THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, and he's basically me before this blog brought me a bunch of bags of poon.

We encounter this bro in the crowd when Vin Diesel is telling Paul Walker what a fucking tool he is after they race for the first time. Master Diesel looks over at him and is like, "Almost had me question mark"

Not realizing that Master Diesel was just putting on a show because he was way excited that somebody was actually looking at him, the bro tried to actually answer the question. He starts waving his arms wildly and says something like, "I don't know, man. I don't know hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha." And then Vinny walks right on by.

But the man keeps on smiling hilariously, and he giggles to himself, and later that night he blogs about how he and super hunk Vin Diesel made eye contact. I feel you, bruh. I feel you. You're just one awesome blog about a gay-oriented action movie franchise away from being awesome. But until that day arrives, treasure these moments.

Day 12: You're a Lucky Man

Vin Diesel never really looks happy in these movies. He's plays more of a brooding, troubled baaaaaaaaaaaaaad son of a bitch whose mood goes mostly back and forth between perfectly level to angry as fuck. And in FAST AND FURIOUS, because he's dealing with Michelle Rodriguez's death, his default face is something like this:

That ain't a very happy bro right there. It hurts me to see him with so much more internal misery than usual, so when he has a very brief moment of levity in a club belonging to his new mortal enemy, I teared up a bit.

So Vin and Paul Walker are drinkin' and chillin' with evil villain bro Campos, and Vin and Paul are talkin' shit to each other, and Campos is like, "You bitches know each other?" And Vin's like, "Uh, yeah, bruh, he fucked my sister."

Campos responds with, "You're a lucky bro, Paul Walker," which confuses Mr. Paul, and he asks why he's lucky, so Campos explains his line of thought: "You're still breathing."

Vin! I can see genuine joy on your face, just like in the old days! Loooooooooove yoooooouuuuuuu.

I skipped yesterday because I was drankin'

One of my old bros came to town yesterday, so I ended up spending most of the day drinking beer and whiskey and some blue curacao somebody gave me. This led to me being drunk and not watching THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. My B. Day 12 is forthcoming, however.