The blog will be off for the next few days, at least through the middle of next week, as #AvisTravels hits the road again, which should lead to some upcoming exciting posts!
Today’s “Desert Island” category will be Movies. This is the category that it took me longest to cover because it was the hardest to narrow down.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy a good movie, I just prefer TV Shows. I can watch episodes over and over, but never really feel that connection to movies.
So here are the five movies that I would have on my Island, and while I wouldn’t rank Leonardo DiCaprio that high on my individual actors’ list, I strangely have him in 3 of my top 6 movies (and strangely Tom Hanks too)…
- Gangs of New York – Daniel Day-Lewis runs the NY streets while Leonardo DiCaprio tries to avenge his father’s death on the streets of New York. Also, Cameron Diaz.
- Catch Me If You Can – Frank Abagnale Jr. (DiCaprio) scams the system, makes his own checks and runs up tabs around the country, while the FBI (Tom Hanks) is hot on his tail.
- Toy Story – This was the animated movie of my childhood, how can you go wrong with it?
- Die Hard – The movie of the 80s and the one you can watch over and over and “Yippie-Ki-Yay” along with them.
- Lethal Weapon – The banter of the movie is what is making the new TV show enjoyable as well.
It’s been a month or three since we’ve had a Song of the Day post, and while the race for the “Song of 2016” is nowhere close to being solved, as this year has been fairly dismal in terms “fresh good music”.
These songs aren’t necessarily new, or originals, but still good listenings!
Last time started with Green Day, and we’ll continue with another off of their new album!
Say Goodbye – Green Day
Violence on the rise
Like a bullet in the sky
Oh Lord have mercy on my soul
Kindred Spirits sing
For the sick and suffering (the suffering)
The city of damage control
Scars To Your Beautiful – Alessia Cara
An absolutely great music video:
But there’s a hope that’s waiting for you in the dark
You should know you’re beautiful just the way you are
And you don’t have to change a thing, the world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful, we’re stars and we’re beautiful
Oh-oh, oh-oh
And you don’t have to change a thing, yhe world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful, we’re stars and we’re beautiful
Here is a twinge of country, more on country music after the next edition of #AvisTravels.
Better Dig Two – The Band Perry
Here lies the girl whose only crutch
Was loving one man just a little too much
If you go before I do
I’m gonna tell the gravedigger that he better dig two
Some heavy-metal to wrap things up.
The Sound of Silence – Disturbed
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
Part of the problem that people have these days is that before they even read an article about what something is about, they already formed an opinion based on the site they are reading it on.
Well what if you can read your news from a compilation of news sites, of all different viewpoints and opinions, and not know where it is from (until after you’ve read it, if you still want to know)?
They focus on politics, economics, and culture, and The Daily Mixer is the site for you. From The Atlantic to Reason and The Daily Signal to Vice their list of sites are wide ranging.
With a lot of people very easily swayed on a story just based on who is delivering it, this site may have the right idea, even if all their sources aren’t top notch.
For Halloween Google has created a brand new game, accessible through the Google App on mobile devices, in which you are casting spells in an effort to banish ghosts and ghouls who stole a book from the library.
With swipes and swishes, you make your way through 5 levels of lines, arrows and lightning bolts, battling against ghosts, cauldrons, and bosses to each level.
You can also access it on a computer, with your mouse as your wand instead of the finger, through this link.
Good luck to everyone on this Halloween Day, and if anyone can beat my High-Score be sure to tell me how high you got!
Chicago Cubs. Haven’t won in 100+ years. Hadn’t been to the World Series since the mid-1940s.
Cleveland Indians. Haven’t won since the mid-1940s. Hadn’t been here since losing to the Marlins in ’97.
Chicago has the Curse of the Billy Goat and Cleveland has the curse of a city…until this year, when the Cavaliers brought the first Professional Championship to the city and the minor league hockey team (Monsters) also won this year, while the Browns are just terrible.
So which team do I want to win? Well, as much as the Cubs have Theo Epstein (of Red Sox infamy), I just can’t stand the high horse that Cleveland is currently riding and I would have to say that I hope that the Goat is finally slaughtered.
New York City FC has made the playoffs, and that means Yankee Stadium will once again be buzzing in November!
This will be the first time they have made the playoffs, in two seasons of play, and with a new formation and goalkeeper, who knows what this unknown team will do come Sunday (on the road) and then November 6th here in The Bronx!
But if you are looking for tickets, to this or any (hopefully) future rounds, be sure to message me, as I have a few sets of seats, and will make sure you avoid unnecessary StubHub fees 😉
Two new trailers came out this week, which are both turning heads.
The first was for Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and the return of our strange group of awesome misfits.
My favorite parts of both the trailer and the poster (below) is baby Groot 🙂
The other one that came out was the overly sentimentally sounding trailer for Logan.
I’m looking forward to both of these movies!
Tesla is expanding and in the near future all their vehicles will come equipped with self-driving capabilities.
To show off these features they’ve put out a brand new video showing a car (with a driver inside) leaving its house and going for a ride on the highway before letting its driver out at the destination and going to look for a parking spot.
The Teslas will also have the “Summon” capability in the app, so that when you are ready to be picked up, the car will come find you…I smell a batmobile in my future.
Also, in regards to the new prototype chargers, I’m pretty sure this is how compact cars are made…
Have you ever had to call 9-1-1?
From the few times I’ve called in, it’s always a mixed bag of what you’re gonna get. Sometimes the operators are clear and understandable, sometimes they just don’t want to listen to the info you are telling them.
19 months ago I discussed one instance I had with a call to the NYPD, and since then I’ve had a few other calls, thankfully with better results.
A few months ago I called for a FDNY request at 3AM as I smelled smoke in the neighborhood. Amazingly I smelled a fire a mile away, and as I placed the call I saw the first trucks heading in the direction….a mix in smoke traveling in the nighttime winds and fires going undetected when everyone sleeps.
This morning I had another instance to call into emergency services, and it wasn’t the first time I had a call similar to this: There was a man walking along the Manhattan Bridge.
Yes, there is a walking path on the Bridge….but it’s separated from the car lanes, and he was wondering along heading into the city in the two car lanes.
As bad as it is to have someone walking on the bridge at night, add in a black hoodie and black pants, and it makes it really difficult to see the person, especially because you don’t expect a person to be there.
I didn’t hang around to see if they responded, but at least it was a painless process calling them this morning.
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