Movie Reveal

1. Tommy Boy
2. Patton
3. My Cousin Vinnie
4. A Few Good Men
5. Ben-Hur
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Tombstone
8. Gone With the Wind (Rhett finishes it off with the iconic, "Frankly My Dear I don't give a damn" which would have given it away)
9. Office Space
10. Sixteen Candles

March Madness...Spring Break!

My Final Four

North Carolina, Georgetown, UCLA, and Texas


So here is my thinking about the Final Four...

1. Kansas hasn't followed through since I have been following the tourney, and they kill people's brackets every year!!! Why is this, everyone agrees there is talent all over the place at Rock Chalk KU, but when it comes down to winning a ball game in the tourney, name a guy on that team you trust in the clutch. They don't have a guy with the cahones to knock down a big shot in a big spot. Some have claimed that part of their problem stems from the 'system' working so well during the season, they don't develop a player with the big ego, big shot that can create his own game winner. To win 6 straight you are going to have to pull out some tough games, I don't buy Kansas.

2. So that puts my faith in Clemson.... oh the horror! Am I blindsided by my love of Tiger Football Tradition? Maybe. But I like Mays down low and Rivers & Oglesby jacking shots from all over the floor! Oglesby was taking shots from 30 feet out in the ACC final, amazing. First tourney appearance since '98 I have them jumping Kansas in the Sweet Sixteen before gracefully bowing out to a more polished Georgetown Team. (But Briton you say, Clemson can't shoot worth a lick from the FT line, how will they beat Kansas in a close game? Well I only have that matchup on paper, I fully intend for Kansas to choke to Kent State....) But it is Clemson, so I will probably be rewarded with a first round 10 point loss to 'Nova as Jay Wright and his perfect hair is paraded around Tampa.

3. Maybe it is just that I have seen UF play UCLA and Georgetown over the past couple of tourney's so I am more familiar with their teams. I know people aren't sold on Hibbert being tough for 6 games and there are questions about the Bruins injuries (we need the Prince on the floor!) But I really think these are two polished teams poised to win it all. If Howland can't do it this year, it might not get done!

4. I have watched Texas and UNC the most this year. I like both teams. If Rick Barnes doesn't get in his team's way, UT can take it to the Final Four. I talked to Psycho T before making my picks and he promised not to blink the whole Tourney and promised that Lawson was going to continue to sprint down the floor and score end to end lay up baskets in 2.6 seconds (see Carolina's ACC run where multiple players did this in multiple games) You have to get back against the Tar Heels.

5. Another year without Duke in the Sweet Sixteen (Hooray), 'Zona makes it interesting before falling to Xavier (who's players all jersey pop while chanting "Midmajor Who"), The OJ Mayo Show outshines Beasley, Siena gets biggest round 1 upset, George Mason does not get round 2 at playing Cinderella, and the SEC are all home and comfortable by the end of the Sweet Sixteen...


Finally: The pick!

UCLA 79 UNC 73

Win won for the Wizard of Westwood, return basketball to its natural order after the Gators (NIT CHAMPS - 3 in a row however you can get it!) have run roughshod for two years. Three Reasons Carolina won't win: 1. They hate playing Defense, 2. Roy Williams spends too much time in the tanning bed before the Final Four press conferences thereby losing his mental edge on Howland 3. I know too many Carolina fans and they are pretty much insufferable.



Caveat: Memphis could so win the whole thing.... (I love March Madness!)

Stealing Kerri's idea....Movie Quote Post!

Ok.. Here are 10 movies I really like. Maybe not my all-time top 10 list but these 10 would definitely be in my top 20, they are just the movies I thought of off the top of my head that had some great quotes. Name the movie and I'll give you credit for it in the blog. Double bonus if you can name the character that says it. If Vance has to do all of these by himself that wouldn't be fair so everyone needs to come through on this! haha.

Obviously you could find these on imdb or google, but try them out for yourself before cheating....If Trae ever read the blog he would get about 5 of these without even trying hard, but hopefully the rest of you can get them too.

1. “The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? ‘Building model airplanes’ says the little fairy; well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's knocked up. I seen it a hundred times.”

2. “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

3. “Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along. You get thirsty. You spot a little brook. You put your little deer lips down to the cool, clear water - BAM. A fuckin' bullet rips off part of your head. Your brains are lying on the ground in little bloody pieces. Now I ask ya, would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son-of-a-bitch who shot you was wearing?” Mona Lisa Vito My Cousin Vinny (Becky K., super proud she got this one and knew A Few Good Men, though Michael beat her to the call)

4. “Oh, I forgot. You were sick the day they taught law at law school.” Lt. Daniel Kaffee A Few Good Men (Michael P. got it right, first one down!)

5. “If I cannot persuade them, that does not mean I will help you...‘murder’ them. Besides, you must understand this. I believe in the past of my people, and in their future.”
“Future? You are a conquered people!”
“You may conquer the land. You may slaughter the people. But that is not the end. We will rise again.”

6. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”

7. “Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.” Doc Holliday Tombstone (Good job Vance)

8. “My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.”
“Where are you going?”
“I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong.”
“Please, please take me with you!”
“No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?”
“No! I only know that I love you.”
“That's your misfortune.”

9. “ What would you do if you had a million dollars?”
“I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.”
“That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?”
“Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money’.”
“Well, not all chicks.”
“Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.”
“Good point.”
Lawrence and Peter Office Space (Vance)

10. “I do independent study with her. I catch her lookin' at me a lot. It's kinda cool, the way she's always lookin' at me.”
“Maybe she's retarded”
“I'm being serious, ok. She looks at me like she's in love with me.” Jake Ryan 16 Candles (Tara)