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rob morrisonironywatch: smoking a president in “how high”
| written by geoffrey on 07/17/08 | 2 comments |
i’m always on the look out for new things to appreciate ironically. this is ironywatch.
for today’s ironywatch, i’m not going to go point-by-point to say what i love about the stoner “comedy” how high. i just want you to watch the above video. watch the above video, then i’ll put it into context for you with the following paragraph:
the characters in the film how high accidentally smoked the ashes of their smart, dead friend, which made them smart enough to go to harvard. when they run out of ash-pot, they dig up the bones of president john quincy adams in order to smoke him, so they’ll be smart again. not only do the characters not get in trouble for this, but the grave-robbing of john quincy adams isn’t even mentioned again in the film. amazing!!!
thank you, redman and methodman. after rewatching this clip on youtube, i stood up from my chair and gave how high a much deserved standing ovation. *puff puff* you’ve been ironywatched.
filed under ironywatch, movies
ironywatch: “trendy tees” from wal-greens
| written by geoffrey on 07/10/08 | 2 comments |
i’m always on the look out for new things to appreciate ironically. this is ironywatch.
back in the day, hipsters looked for funny and amusing t-shirts in thrift stores. a shirt that said, “alamo construction company” or “benjamin rigman’s bar mitzvah ‘94″ would be funny if worn by someone with no connection to said company or event. life was good.
however, like every cool “indie” thing to do, it eventually needed to crossover into the mainstream. clothing outlets like hot topic and even abercrombie and fitch decided to make new novelty shirts with funny graphics on them, which kids were all about. sometimes they were even racist!
now, trendy t-shirts are everywhere. it’s such big business that you can even buy them at your local wal-greens for $5 a pop. here are some examples:
filed under ironywatch, novelty
ironywatch: big fat liar
| written by geoffrey on 07/03/08 | 2 comments |
i’m always on the look out for new things to appreciate ironically. this is ironywatch.
frankie muniz may be best known as malcolm or agent cody banks, but his greatest achievement — a short story he wrote for school — has just been stolen from him by evil producer marty wolf (played by academy award nominated paul giamatti). uh oh. you don’t want to mess with this kid, marty!
welcome to the masterpiece that is big fat liar.
i had the pleasure of being forced to watch this on a greyhound bus ride, where they blast the audio over the pa system, so trying to drown out the sound with your own headphones is a futile waste of time. let me tell you, paul giamatti gets the shit pranked out of him in this film. here are a few ways in which frankie teaches paul not to plagorize:
- he turns his skin blue
- he turns his hair orange
- he superglues his cell phone to his ear
- he sabotages his car
- …which causes marty to crash into a monster truck. just like in real life.
the lesson of the film is: don’t fuck with 14-year-old frankie muniz. frankie, along with an unlikely team-up of misfits wronged by paul giamatti, will destroy your life. i wish i wielded that kind of power, but all i can do is put this movie on ironywatch.
filed under ironywatch, kid culture, movies
ironywatch: bowling for soup
| written by geoffrey on 06/26/08 | leave a comment |
i’m always on the look out for new things to appreciate ironically. this is ironywatch.
get ready to kind of rock out!
it’s fitting that one of bowling for soup’s big hits is called “almost.” that’s the perfect word to describe this band. they almost write good lyrics — if only they were a little smarter or a little stupider. they almost rock — if only they were a little popier (okgo) or a little rockier (foo fighters). the one thing you can say is that they write memorable hooks… which are almost likable.
for this reason, i really love “punk pop.” bands like american hi-fi and sr-71 know how to write catchy melodies and singable lyrics that leave you with the most hilariously sleazy feeling after listening to them. like chaperoning an eighth grade dance and checking out the girls butts. “work it, lindsay silverberg– oh no, what am i doing?”
bowling for soup is truly the shredded wheat of bands. the adult in you says, “turn off this empty pop garbage and listen to only philip glass — nyeah!“ however, the 11-year-old kid in you says, “fart, fart, fart - “1985″ is awesome!“ i’m not going to disagree with my inner 11-year-old, even though i know he gets fewer than 1/4 of the references in the lyrics.
this is ironic punk rock 101 - bowling for soup, you’ve been ironywatched.
filed under ironywatch, music
ironywatch: archie comics .com
| written by geoffrey on 06/19/08 | 4 comments |
i’m always on the look out for new things to appreciate ironically. this is ironywatch.
have you read an archie comic recently? good! then surely you’ve noticed that all your favorite characters — archie, veronica, moose — have been stuck in a strange time-warp. their clothing and language mimic modern times, but their mannerisms, character conflicts and art style are stuck in the 40’s. yes, this dinosaur of a strip has aged hilariously over the years.
nowhere is this more apparent than archiecomics.com. for example, all of the main archie characters have blogs (what? no mr. weatherblog?). here’s the header from betty’s…
filed under comics, ironywatch
ironywatch: sega superstars tennis
| written by geoffrey on 06/12/08 | 6 comments |
i’m always on the look out for new things to appreciate ironically. this is ironywatch.
while your favorite nintendo characters beat the shit out of each other in an epic battle of intergalactic proportions, your favorite sega characters, many of whom you don’t know the name of, play a game of tennis together. awesome.
being a sega fan has to be incredibly difficult these day, what with sega making progressively worse sonic games every year and little else. however, nothing is more amazing than taking 20 years of original characters and having them dick around on a tennis court. saying you like this more than smash bros. gives you a hundred gold rings worth of irony cred.
game. set. ironywatched.
filed under ironywatch, sports, video games, video games: nintendo