Pajiba

Sooo...another week of waiting for good movies to come out to buy? Cool...I'm fine with that. Nothing in here appealed to me, except for John Adams...but I may be forced to suffer through Jumper soon...my mom really wants to see it and is buying it.

I just never got into Californication even though I loved David Duchovny in X-Files and, of course, Evolution.

My day is MADE. I've been waiting for Witless Protection to come out on DVD and now here it is! Yay!

Kolby, are you as excited for Witless as I am? Because I just grabbed a six pack of Miller High Life (the cham-pag-knee of beers) and am ready to watch the cheesey poofs out of that bitch.

Julie, your cracks about Miller High Life are not appreciated.

You are BACK ON THE LIST.

Oh TK...

Please tell me that you are not defending Miller High Life.

Please?

At least it is a step up from MGD or Milwaukee's Best.

I'm a little low on cash this week, so rather than shell out the dough to see Witless Protection and The Bucket List*, I figure I'll just douse a corkscrew in lighter fluid and stab myself in the eyes... If someone would be willing to take a sock fulla washers and beat me about the head and neck as I do this, even better...

(note to self: add "The Fuckit List" to the Palahniuk review)

even though I loved David Duchovny in X-Files and, of course, Evolution.

Oh god Evolution is my secret shame.

TK, Miller High Life is only good for playing beer pong. I can't HONESTLY mock though, me and my friends' choice of cheap beer? Schaefer. That's right. Pabst's trashier cousin.

Milwaukee's Best.

THE BEAST!!! God, I'm having flashbacks to making out with strangers at Penn State parties. oh younger Julie, don't go into the blacklight.

twig, I got your back. There is nothing, I repeat NOTHING, to be ashamed of when it comes to Evolution. David Duchovny moons the army and they fight aliens with shampoo...shampoo!

Julie, there is always Mad Dog or Busch.

We really do have some bad beer in the US.

I am a beer snob...I snub everything from Coors to Rolling Rock (not even for beer pong, unless I am very desperate) and I will not go anywhere near PBR

Oddly enough though, Budweiser strait outta the tap at the Anheiser/Busch Brewery after the tour, really really good
my friends and I figure that beer is like a new car, the second it leaves the lot, its value halves

so all you guys up there, shame one you

life is far too short to drink cheap beer

We may have some bad beer, but we have some orgasmicly delicious beer as well. Flying fish, Rogue, Magic Hat, Sea Dog, Blue Moon, the awesome Sam Adams' winter sampler with the Fezziwig and the Porter, Dogfish, Sly Fox, Yuengling, Troegs (oh Mad Elf, you naughty mistress of drunkitude)...my god I crave beer when it's hot outside.

We've got some delish beer treats near my house - hooray for microbreweries! Nothing beats the chocolate hazlenut porter at C'est What in downtown Toronto.

I'm nursing a Blue Moon as we speak...

If you are in Michigan in the summer, and you find yourself next to a frosty Bell's Oberon...

Drink it!

Pea, a microbrewery (Dock Street) opened up a few months ago TWO BLOCKS from my apartment. They have this one right now, Bubbly Wit, that it the best summery beer I have ever ever tasted. It's a wheat beer fermented with champagne yeast, and it's smooth and has an aftertaste of honey and fruit and has an ABV of over 7% so you can totally be a cheap date with it :p

I want. I'm so going there after work...it's 98 degrees, fuck it.

If you are in Michigan in the summer, and you find yourself next to a frosty Bell's Oberon...

HA! Twig, my good friend is from Michigan, and if she see's Oberon on a beer menu she collapses into a puddle of beer-induced joy. That is some awesome beer.

jM...you are dead to me.

Life's too short to drink cheap beer.

I'm too short and I drink cheap beer.

PBR and Miller High Life are wonderful, wonderful things. And since I can no longer appreciate the sweet, sweet nectar that is Yuengling, everything else mine as well be in cans.

I'm tellin ya, Icehouse is the nuclear cheap beer. Get a draft pitcher if you can. Or rather don't, but, you know, I sure found it to be effective at destroying my motor functions with little effort. Plus, it's really cold!

(on the other hand, seeking out Athens' own Terrapin Rye Ale is recommended heartily)

Seriously Brian...my friend and I go to The Khyber on 2nd St. for happy hour a lot, and they have $1 bottles of Yuengling until 7:00. It is glorious. They don't have it in California? What a travesty.

Oh, man, I LOVE Miller High Life. A cold Miller High Life that you drink in an old man bar, poured into a short glass (or, as I like to call it, "a sexy lady glass"), backed up with a shot of bourbon. Oh, man, that's living. And, as the mother of a young child, I miss living.

Julie, I'd poor some out for the homies who can't have any but...what a waste...maybe if I find some Schlitz.

Jay, while Icehouse is so cheap and so bad, I remember the ultimate cheap beer in college was Natural Light. $10 a case.

Oh yeah. So horrible and yet so cheap.

I love Blue Moon and will now be ignoring JM's existence.

Julie, you can't really find Yuengling north if NY either, whenever anybody heads down PA way, we bribe them with lots and lots of $1 bills to bring back many many cases...

the Boy and I once saw it listed as on tap at a Ruby Tuesdays, but it was just false hope. They don't have it. We swore very hard at that menu.
even a bar in Boston who's claim to fame is having over 200 beers on tap did not have it. it was again with the swearing...

insert, I am curious (and running out of actual work to do so I need something to distract me), why is it that you can no longer appreciate yuengling?

Personally, I prefer Two-Hearted Ale to Oberon. Cask-conditioned Two-Hearted on draught. Mmmmmmmm. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

And you can't forget Three Floyd's when listing the best US breweries.

Megbon, that reminds me of a special that a local hipster bar, Bob and Barbara's, offers...$3 for a can of Pabst and a shot of Jack Daniels. Hee. I only go there for the nights when they have Drunken Spelling Bee, since I get withering stares for not wearing an ironic tee, but when I do I get the special and give my friends the shot. Because ew.

Julie, not liking the cold beer/Jack Daniels combo is beyond me! Then again, I think that black olives are the devil's food and I've heard of people eating them on purpose!

I cannot appreciate Yuengling, because I don't live in PA anymore, so I can't obtain it outside of our fine commonwealth.

And I'm guessing the bar in Boston that you were referring to is The Sunset Grill and Tap. I used to live down the street from it back in my halcyon grad school days.

Yuengling? Mmmmmm, I wish I could have one of those right now...but the fridge is sooo far away.

Julie, oh, Troegs.... My buddy and I were just up there this winter from our normal roost in Baltimore. And there was glorious sampling to be done on our tour, including... Naked Elf. I promptly bought a growler full and to say I had a great weekend would be to imply that I remembered it!

Troegs.... fantastic right out of the frakking barrel!

And I'm guessing the bar in Boston that you were referring to is The Sunset Grill and Tap.

Troegs is, indeed, a gift from Santa Claus. I love their Sunshine Pilsner, I would have so many of its fermented yellow-tinged babies.

WTF comment? What I meant to say is that the Pajibacon should be held within walking/staggering distance of the Sunset.

it is indeed insert
five of our friends have birthdays within 2 weeks of eachother in April, so we decided to go there to celebrate

can I just say, parking in Allston is a bitch, half the outing attendees cars got towed (I took a chance and parked in a TJ Maxx parking lot as there was NO parking to be found on a sat night, thankfully, car was still present and fully intact when we went to leave)

my friends borth just graduated from Temple, and she brought back 3 cases of yuengling from PA, we had the best party this past weekend with that

you know what is fun? throwing ping pong balls at a rapidly rotating ceiling fan and watching them bounce back at triple force and impale the person standing next to you

and rub it in jM...rub it in...you'll get yours someday, just watch [begins scheming jM's downfall]

that was supposed to say friends brother

apparently I cannot type comments and pretend to work at the same time today

Oh boy, you said ping pong balls Bethy, and now I'm having flashbacks to my favorite scene from Zombie Strippers. Which I watched this weekend with my brother, and can not stress enough how awesomely ridiculous it is. It was made even better with a six pack of Sam Adams Summer Ale and a pitcher of baybreezes.

Bethy, can't we just get along. I mean, it's not my fault that my friends have stellar taste in beer and that when they hang out at my place they leave too drunk to remember to take their tasty brews with them. Thus, leaving me with an ENTIRE fridge full of happiness. Oh, and it's ok Julie, I won't mention the cases of Stella and Sam Adams nestled in the back until your gone...dammit.

jM, you're an awful beer tease. You know what I do with teases?

[narrows eyes menacingly]

I make mean faces at my computer screen and do nothing.

:(

If my car's air conditioning weren't broken, I would be heading to the beer store later. And yet. Damn you 96 blue car whose make and model I just forgot!

Chevy! I think! Damn youuuuuu!

I fourth/fifth/sixth howevermanyeth the Miller High Life love. man's first attempt at beer aerodynamics. Hell...it's a giant leap above Red Stripe...

...when one considers drag coefficient.

Wilmington Italian Festival in FULL swing!!! Bring on the $4 pitchers and $5 carafes!!!

Bring on the $4 pitchers and $5 carafes!!!

!!! I take back any and all comments I have made to you mocking Delaware. Because that festival sounds awesome.

Italian festival makes it sound like the sausage is out in full swing. Heh.

Pissboy, do NOT shit on Red Stripe. Jamaicans have few things left that we can claim and Red Stripe is one of them!(even though I think it's brewed in England now)

Who's shittin on Red Stripe??? I have a few left from a case I purchased for Fight Night from Saturday that i can't wait to drink when i get home. I'm just saying, the Red Stripe bottle is the AMC Pacer to Miler High Life's SS Camaro...faster, meaner looking, and preferred by rednecks.

syntax is a bit fucked above...but you get it.

jM, I like-a the Red Stripe. I need to buy beer for apartment NOW, my new roommate is luckily just as much of a fan of it as I am and we've been molting in our apartment. Stupid heat wave. Beer cures all.

Forgive me, I get very defensive of Red Stripe. That, and I have be drinking all day.

jM-

I, in fact, appluad your taste in beer. We would get along famously. Mostly it was just depressing me to no end that you were able to be drinking good beer while I was still stuck at work for another hour in a non-air conditioned office...

but you send a brew my way and all is forgiven :)

and Julie, ping pong balls rock, no two ways about it

Mr. Kolby loves Miller High Life. He switched after Budweiser stopped sponsoring Dale Jr.

HA HA HA!

If you are playing Beer Pong and are out of ping pong balls, I know a great substitute.

Get a Guinness canned beer, drink it or pour into a cup. Cut open can and remove ball thing that makes the Guinness pour right. Wash it off so as not to cross-contaminate your beer, unless playing pong with Guinness. Works not quite as well as a ping pong ball, but it will be serviceable in a pinch.

Works not quite as well as a ping pong ball, but it will be serviceable in a pinch.

Ball shaped cat toys on the other hand, do not work...

we learned that the hard way

What is this Yuengling you speak of? Seriously, I've never heard of it but I AM intrigued.

And the new Alanis album is surprisingly pretty fucking good if anyone is interested.

Rob, I'm not much of a beer drinker but I can appreciate the many flavors of Yuengling. Seriously, give it a shot.

And I will be checking out that Alanis album.

We were forced to watch "Bucket List" and "Jumper" on a long flight (couldn't sleep). I didn't think it was possible to hate Morgan Freeman or Rachel Bilson but I came pretty close. Pass. Do. Not. Want.

I'm a little low on cash this week, so rather than shell out the dough to see Witless Protection and The Bucket List*, I figure I'll just douse a corkscrew in lighter fluid and stab myself in the eyes... If someone would be willing to take a sock fulla washers and beat me about the head and neck as I do this, even better...




Posted by: Skittimus Maximus at June 10, 2008 1:22 PM




Only if I get to say "Homie don't play that" while I'm doing it Skit

What is this Yuengling you speak of? Seriously, I've never heard of it but I AM intrigued.

*shocked gasp*

Why, it's the only lager there is! Unless you're in North Wildwood and you try to get one at em-effing Keenan's.

Being a Northeast Philly girl (holla, Julie's grandmom) I'm a Miller Lite girl. Yeah, I said it. MLite! I also enjoy Magic Hat and Victory. Sometimes a Flying Fish. I love beer.

Magic Hat is yummy.

Well, no wonder, apparently they have no distributor in Georgia. I had no idea what the hell Julie was talking about when she first mentioned it, thinking maybe it was some strangely cheap imported Chinese beer. But I don't touch any lager so fortunately I'm not missing out.

Jay - the Yuengling Brewery is the oldest in the country. I can't believe they don't distribute in Georgia - Yuengling was the beer of choice on the UF campus, a mere hour from the FL-GA border.

So I take it none of you want to kick back with a PBR Tallboy? hehe...
But seriously, Alaska is the best place for microbreweries. Oh how I miss Alaskan beer...

on the UF campus

!!!!!

Holy shit, are you gonna make me start barking and snarling, you dirty fucking Gator?!?!?!?

I'm kidding of course, all I care about college sports is wanting Georgia Tech to lose because they're pompous shits (and have a crummy radio station too). If it's at the hands of UGA then so much the better.

Sure, maybe UGA and I have had some problems, but you don't let someone else trash talk your mom, right?

Here in the Southern Hemisphere MGD is found in the imported section of your local "bottlo". As such the, price is over inflated for what is often described as "weak as piss". Probably much like Foster's is to the rest of the world.
From my experience in the US of A, many Americans believe we actually drink Foster's in Australia. Arj Barker once commented on how cruel it was of Australia to trick the world into drinking such a shitty beer when they refuse to sell it in their own country.
The other thing I discovered was that asking for a "bottlo" or "bottle shop" will get you nowhere.

Just in case anyone cared to know what I do recommend... Cooper's Pale Ale or Cooper's Sparkling Ale which I was delighted to find in California. Get some if you can.

many Americans believe we actually drink Foster's in Australia.

Fourteen years ago at a Frente show at the 40 Watt a bunch of local yokels were hoisting up their Foster's "oil cans". The bassist said "Foster's. Australian for 'shit'".

Likewise, I've seen bands from other countries drink Budweiser here and been completely flabbergasted. Maybe it's an exoticism thing. I know Gallon Drunk were having none of our "piss weak lager" when they were here, so they had their heads on straight at least.

I love how Pajibans care so much about this week's dvd releases that they start talking about beer. And most of you aren't even Australian. It's the only place outside of Aus that the conversation turns to beer so fast, methinks...

Who put this list together? Whoever it was needs to apologize or be sacked immediately.

#1. Be Kind Rewind doesn't come out until next week on regular DVD and is only being released this week on Blu-Ray. As a result the vast majority of the readership can't actually get the movie on DVD this week but this isn't mentioned. For people who pride themselves on being in the thick of the industry this is an almost unforgivable miss considering that Be Kind Rewind is the FIRST movie release that is coming out on Blu-Ray before coming out in standard DVD format.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1239

#2. Californication Season One makes the list of notable DVD releases and Boondocks Season Two doesn't? Are you out of your fucking minds? The Boondocks has won a Peabody, Californication is only notable for being approximately the 4th most important thing David Duchovny has ever been involved in.

I haven't read the site regularly ever since Dustin Rowles described "Gone Baby Gone" as a "great fucking film" (which immediately disqualified him as being an authority on the subject) and this is the first thing I see on my first visit in over a month?

Jesus H. you all should be embarassed.

Sirkickyass,

OCD is treatable dude. Keep the faith.

@ Jay.

Gallon Drunk, respect.

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