This summer has been kind of quiet. Best part of it has been getting Javalina on the weights. He seems to like it and takes instruction pretty well. I am not forcing him to do it, it comes mostly from him. As a matter of fact, he is taking little digs at me, because I am quick with the excuses to not work out, but I am not the one trying to get stronger for the football season. We have commandeered the living room, since Wife is only here on the weekends, it was not hard to do. We have the bench right under the big screen TV, the punching bag in one corner of the room and then we have the floor for drills, as best we can, I certainly don't want to go outside in this freaking sun. I know he won't have a choice in a couple more weeks, but at least we can wish for a freak break in the High pressure system and maybe we get inundated with clouds.
The only other thing we could label interesting/scary was Boy getting sick from some weird third world disease. Luckily, it was caught by the doctors here fairly quickly. It is still going to cost a couple thousand bucks to pay off all the doctor visits and tests they did, but at least Boy is well. We had a deal at the beginning of summer, kind of like my folks put on me, that during the summer I was to pay for my vehicle, well he was going to do the same thing, but that is the money I will be using to pay his doctor bills, at least we have that.
Wife had her two weeks off and it was great having her home fro awhile. She was then able to schedule some conferences here and was in town all of last week, but that is coming to an end. At least we get to have her here a couple more long weekends (they only work 4 day weeks during the summer).
As for me, I continue my march on night shift. I am kind of tired of it, but I worked a couple of weeks on days and it did not seem any better. Work just kind of sucks, paycuts will do that to your mood. I like chemistry, but I actually leave work damp from sweating when I have to run back and forth from the acid hoods to the tools. I know I'm brown but I never signed up to be a day laborer, shit my lab coats need Clorox to stay white, I shouldn't be that busy.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Monday, July 30, 2018
7/30/18 The Middle (Series Final)
This was always the little show that could. I am really surprised it lasted this long. The show focuses on the Heck family. The mom was Patricia Heaton (from Everybody Loves Raymond), always meaning well, but we usually disagreed with her parenting skills. The dad, Neil Flynn (Janitor, from Scrubs), very stoic, a man of few words, but always there for his kids. Then the three kids, each totally different but cool in their own dorky ways. Axl Heck was the older boy, always very confidant and a bit of a douche, but in a non-threatening way. Sue Heck was the dorkiest girl ever, but you couldn't help love her for her "never give up" attitude. Finally, the little brother Brick, who was a mega nerd, happiest when reading for his own pleasure. His greatest accomplishment was buying the library micro-fiche which gave him so much info to read and learn from.
The show ran for 9 years and we saw the kids go from grade school through high school and the eldest boy Axl even managed to finish college and in the final episode we see him taking a job in Denver. Mama does not take this well, seeing her family moving apart but struggling because the right thing to do is support the son and let him make his mind up.
Sue grows up constantly competing to join groups and never quite making it, but she does well enough by forming her own, including a cheer squad in high school and a drama group in college. She is still working on becoming the best version of herself and it was cute to unite her with Axl's best friend who is studying to be a doctor, although they did try to marry her off after high school with Axl's other best friend that became a plumber before her character was sent to college, which is a much better storyline, but living in the rust belt, marrying her off post high school would have possibly worked too, but she was still too immature. The end episode tells s she is ok and eventually marries the doctor, I believe she lived happily ever after. She summarized the title perfectly, as she has been a little sister to Axl and a big sister to Brick, it has been perfect living in the middle.
Brick had some funny quirks as a smaller kid. he would repeat certain words and then when they fixed that, he would whoop every now and then. He was constantly reading and I would say he raised himself, going as far as getting his driver's license on his own. In the end, the mom says he became a writer having fantasy stories falling into his microfiche machine and solving mysteries along the way, which sounds perfect for him.
I never thought this show would last, it wasn't as exciting as some of the others that came and went. Nothing much seemed to happen from week to week and I didn't think either parent was that great at parenting, other than being there for their kids. Still, we had a good cry as we said goodbye to the little show that could, shit with 214 episodes, it should be in circulation for a long time.
The show ran for 9 years and we saw the kids go from grade school through high school and the eldest boy Axl even managed to finish college and in the final episode we see him taking a job in Denver. Mama does not take this well, seeing her family moving apart but struggling because the right thing to do is support the son and let him make his mind up.
Sue grows up constantly competing to join groups and never quite making it, but she does well enough by forming her own, including a cheer squad in high school and a drama group in college. She is still working on becoming the best version of herself and it was cute to unite her with Axl's best friend who is studying to be a doctor, although they did try to marry her off after high school with Axl's other best friend that became a plumber before her character was sent to college, which is a much better storyline, but living in the rust belt, marrying her off post high school would have possibly worked too, but she was still too immature. The end episode tells s she is ok and eventually marries the doctor, I believe she lived happily ever after. She summarized the title perfectly, as she has been a little sister to Axl and a big sister to Brick, it has been perfect living in the middle.
Brick had some funny quirks as a smaller kid. he would repeat certain words and then when they fixed that, he would whoop every now and then. He was constantly reading and I would say he raised himself, going as far as getting his driver's license on his own. In the end, the mom says he became a writer having fantasy stories falling into his microfiche machine and solving mysteries along the way, which sounds perfect for him.
I never thought this show would last, it wasn't as exciting as some of the others that came and went. Nothing much seemed to happen from week to week and I didn't think either parent was that great at parenting, other than being there for their kids. Still, we had a good cry as we said goodbye to the little show that could, shit with 214 episodes, it should be in circulation for a long time.
Sunday, July 29, 2018
7/29/18 How Hard Is It Best Buy?
I don't know if it is a sign to slow down or if it is high time to bitch and maybe just start shopping for everything through Amazon. Javalina is having a problem with his TV, when you turn it on, sometimes it will not light up, but you can see that it is on very faintly, if the room is dark enough. There may be a way to fix it, but in this age of disposable goods, I thought it much easier to just replace it with a newer and bigger and maybe even fancier TV.
Last year Boy upgraded to a 60in 4K HDTV which we luckily found as a return on the floor for under $400. I told Javalina, if you are lucky, we can maybe get a similar thing. We found a TV which was 65in and 4K and HDTV. I am sure Boy's has better chips and things inside it, but a bigger picture is a bigger picture. The bigger TV is $569-$599, depending when and where we get it. Javalina though kept most of his money last time we went to Disney and so when we came back, his wallet had $500. Because of this, I told him, well, give us $200 to pay upfront and then it's like we're just buying a $400 unit. After all this, they didn't have any in stock. We looked around and found a comparable unit for $579. Again, they didn't have it in stock and couldn't look into ordering it for 3 weeks. Wife tried at home to get either of the units at home online and it was the same shit. She was unable to find either of the units to order.
Other than Best Buy we enjoyed the afternoon by taking a ride towards the lake and around 620. We ended up at Lakeline Mall, which to me looks like it has seen better days, there were a few too many stores closed, Sears is in the process of closing and a few too many stores selling used junk/memorabilia. After we left, we were headed to Carraba's for some stinky Italian cheese, but we saw a buffet restaurant, Dimassi's Mediterranean Restaurant. Since it was cheaper (we checked on the phone) and looked like something different, we decided to give it a try.
The food was really really good, even the Sprite tasted better than ever. I think it's because we hadn't really eaten all day. As good as the food was, it only took one plate to realize I was gonna have to use the facilities. I started breaking it down and the way I was already gurgling and I was going to get a second plate, judging we were about 20 miles from the house, I was not going to make it to my personal throne, so a road pooping it was. I came out wanting more food, I hadn't had dessert, but everyone knew I destroyed that bathroom, how would it look for me to nonchalantly continue eating? I cut my losses at 2 plated, but realized I could have had more, the meats were especially good.
The night ended with a pit stop at HEB for breakfast material, and then we saw the first three episodes of Orange Is The New Black. It was a pretty good day for Casa Gallegos.
Last year Boy upgraded to a 60in 4K HDTV which we luckily found as a return on the floor for under $400. I told Javalina, if you are lucky, we can maybe get a similar thing. We found a TV which was 65in and 4K and HDTV. I am sure Boy's has better chips and things inside it, but a bigger picture is a bigger picture. The bigger TV is $569-$599, depending when and where we get it. Javalina though kept most of his money last time we went to Disney and so when we came back, his wallet had $500. Because of this, I told him, well, give us $200 to pay upfront and then it's like we're just buying a $400 unit. After all this, they didn't have any in stock. We looked around and found a comparable unit for $579. Again, they didn't have it in stock and couldn't look into ordering it for 3 weeks. Wife tried at home to get either of the units at home online and it was the same shit. She was unable to find either of the units to order.
Other than Best Buy we enjoyed the afternoon by taking a ride towards the lake and around 620. We ended up at Lakeline Mall, which to me looks like it has seen better days, there were a few too many stores closed, Sears is in the process of closing and a few too many stores selling used junk/memorabilia. After we left, we were headed to Carraba's for some stinky Italian cheese, but we saw a buffet restaurant, Dimassi's Mediterranean Restaurant. Since it was cheaper (we checked on the phone) and looked like something different, we decided to give it a try.
The food was really really good, even the Sprite tasted better than ever. I think it's because we hadn't really eaten all day. As good as the food was, it only took one plate to realize I was gonna have to use the facilities. I started breaking it down and the way I was already gurgling and I was going to get a second plate, judging we were about 20 miles from the house, I was not going to make it to my personal throne, so a road pooping it was. I came out wanting more food, I hadn't had dessert, but everyone knew I destroyed that bathroom, how would it look for me to nonchalantly continue eating? I cut my losses at 2 plated, but realized I could have had more, the meats were especially good.
The night ended with a pit stop at HEB for breakfast material, and then we saw the first three episodes of Orange Is The New Black. It was a pretty good day for Casa Gallegos.
Saturday, July 28, 2018
7/28/18 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
I did not like the end of this movie, like it was almost intentional to keep the big money machine going. There were many things not believable and that made the movie even harder to swallow. I don't believe the island would be abandoned of government entities making sure shenanigans like stealing of smaller dinosaurs didn't happen. There is no policing and so a small army can come in and take the animals and sold/kept at no cost to anyone?
The movie picks up with the island where the dinosaurs live is in danger due to a volcano that is just naturally becoming active and Claire has set up some sort of small organization to try and save the dinos from a certain extinction. Jeff Goldblum is still around but detached from the action. He is in front of Congress trying to convince them to let the dinosaurs die with the island, as things go. He worries that they could be used for bad, just as some maniacal maniac has just started that plan.
Enter Eli Mills, who is in charge of the Lockwood Estate, who is the old business partner of Hammond, the financier from the very first movie. He tricks Claire into agreeing to go to the island and using her fingerprint to unlock the safety system and if she could, "take Owen, who trained Blue because we need Blue who is super smart for ummm nefarious reasons." He has her tricked into believing they have another island set up where the dinosaurs could live without human interference, but of course, that would be too easy and nobody would profit from that.
Within minutes of getting on the island, they find Blue, the dummies are tricked, Owen is shot with a tranquilizer and the "bad guys" take everything they want, including Blue. Owen then wakes up, just in time, and runs back to the control center, where Claire and the computer dude, who we are all pretty sure is not going to make it are, having just escaped an attack by a dinosaur. They all run to the edge of the island, the volcano has gone into full eruption mode and it is spitting and oozing hot lava everywhere.
The setup for the next movie is pretty much made by taking a good twenty or thirty good sized dinosaurs back to the US, again the boat just comes in, there is no customs to check in, just a giant boat, never mind what could be getting delivered. There is a collection of bad guys on the Lockwood estate and they are bidding for the dinosaurs to take and do with as they please. It only takes a small-ish dinosaur to wreak havoc as he escapes with the prodding of Owen. This causes everything to fall apart as the bad guys with money disperse and/or get destroyed by the few dinosaurs that get free. One of the security guys accidentally shoots a container with some poison and of course, the system that pushes fresh air is disabled, so the dinosaurs that are still contained are all going to slowly die. Claire, the idiot that she is, starts freeing up the dinosaurs, then the little girl finishes the fuck up by releasing the dinosaurs out the gates into the woods and beyond.
We find that the girl is a clone and although we don't really care, it gives her fuel to be ok with releasing the dinosaurs out to the world. I saw it as a dick move because in a real world, these few dinosaurs are going to cause a few hundred to a few thousand deaths, just because she determined they were like her and they have a right to live. Maybe they have a right, but you can't release alpha predators like huge dinosaurs into our backyards. It's going to be her fault as far as the predators and how many Americans they destroy.
The movie picks up with the island where the dinosaurs live is in danger due to a volcano that is just naturally becoming active and Claire has set up some sort of small organization to try and save the dinos from a certain extinction. Jeff Goldblum is still around but detached from the action. He is in front of Congress trying to convince them to let the dinosaurs die with the island, as things go. He worries that they could be used for bad, just as some maniacal maniac has just started that plan.
Enter Eli Mills, who is in charge of the Lockwood Estate, who is the old business partner of Hammond, the financier from the very first movie. He tricks Claire into agreeing to go to the island and using her fingerprint to unlock the safety system and if she could, "take Owen, who trained Blue because we need Blue who is super smart for ummm nefarious reasons." He has her tricked into believing they have another island set up where the dinosaurs could live without human interference, but of course, that would be too easy and nobody would profit from that.
Within minutes of getting on the island, they find Blue, the dummies are tricked, Owen is shot with a tranquilizer and the "bad guys" take everything they want, including Blue. Owen then wakes up, just in time, and runs back to the control center, where Claire and the computer dude, who we are all pretty sure is not going to make it are, having just escaped an attack by a dinosaur. They all run to the edge of the island, the volcano has gone into full eruption mode and it is spitting and oozing hot lava everywhere.
The setup for the next movie is pretty much made by taking a good twenty or thirty good sized dinosaurs back to the US, again the boat just comes in, there is no customs to check in, just a giant boat, never mind what could be getting delivered. There is a collection of bad guys on the Lockwood estate and they are bidding for the dinosaurs to take and do with as they please. It only takes a small-ish dinosaur to wreak havoc as he escapes with the prodding of Owen. This causes everything to fall apart as the bad guys with money disperse and/or get destroyed by the few dinosaurs that get free. One of the security guys accidentally shoots a container with some poison and of course, the system that pushes fresh air is disabled, so the dinosaurs that are still contained are all going to slowly die. Claire, the idiot that she is, starts freeing up the dinosaurs, then the little girl finishes the fuck up by releasing the dinosaurs out the gates into the woods and beyond.
We find that the girl is a clone and although we don't really care, it gives her fuel to be ok with releasing the dinosaurs out to the world. I saw it as a dick move because in a real world, these few dinosaurs are going to cause a few hundred to a few thousand deaths, just because she determined they were like her and they have a right to live. Maybe they have a right, but you can't release alpha predators like huge dinosaurs into our backyards. It's going to be her fault as far as the predators and how many Americans they destroy.
Friday, July 27, 2018
7/27/18 Father Of The Year (2018) (Netflix)
I love a good David Spade movie, I know it's really an Adam Sandler movie, but I have always liked Spade. He is kind of a weasel with a heart of gold. He always plans and schemes to win with minimal effort but in the end, he never wants to hurt those around him that count on him and he generally gives as much as he can, even when he plays these sorry characters like Joe Dirt.
There is no doubt he is trailer trash as he comes out from under a trailer in the first scene of the movie. His son is debating whether to spend time with him or not and apparently they have been talking because Spade is in the "basement" of his trailer pulling out a very old and stained mattress for his kid to sleep on. His kid is of course, some kind of genius and has a dream job lined up now that he has graduated from college. I loved the first ten minutes of the movie, Spade then invites them to go for a swim and the first image shows Spade in this beautiful blue water, he is swimming underwater, facing up. Then the camera pans out and the "swimming pool" is the back of a neighbor's truck with a blue liner. It is most funny when a lady comes out and hurriedly takes off without noticing the swimming pool and Spade swimming, he lasts about 8 seconds back there, like a bull, he gets thrown off naked, it was hilarious.
The movie is supposed to be a coming of age, the friends are kind of lost and working shitty jobs, but it gets focused when the two friends start talking about whose father would win in a fight. Spade is mentioned of the theoretical fight and when he gets in a drunken stupor heads out to find the friend's dad. The dad is a big ole pus and wants nothing to do with fighting him. They run around all over the house, end up on the roof and the son and Spade fall off the roof unto the neighbor's giant greenhouse, demolishing it in the process. They end up in jail, and before you know it, the son loses his job offer. The neighbor is an old lady willing to drop the charges if the kid builds her a swimming pool for her grandkids.
There is a lot of silliness but I think Spade's son learns to appreciate his father and when face to face with his hero, he finds out some stuff that helps make his mind up as to what to do with the rest of his life. I don't want to give too much of the story away, but there is a love interest also.
There is no doubt he is trailer trash as he comes out from under a trailer in the first scene of the movie. His son is debating whether to spend time with him or not and apparently they have been talking because Spade is in the "basement" of his trailer pulling out a very old and stained mattress for his kid to sleep on. His kid is of course, some kind of genius and has a dream job lined up now that he has graduated from college. I loved the first ten minutes of the movie, Spade then invites them to go for a swim and the first image shows Spade in this beautiful blue water, he is swimming underwater, facing up. Then the camera pans out and the "swimming pool" is the back of a neighbor's truck with a blue liner. It is most funny when a lady comes out and hurriedly takes off without noticing the swimming pool and Spade swimming, he lasts about 8 seconds back there, like a bull, he gets thrown off naked, it was hilarious.
The movie is supposed to be a coming of age, the friends are kind of lost and working shitty jobs, but it gets focused when the two friends start talking about whose father would win in a fight. Spade is mentioned of the theoretical fight and when he gets in a drunken stupor heads out to find the friend's dad. The dad is a big ole pus and wants nothing to do with fighting him. They run around all over the house, end up on the roof and the son and Spade fall off the roof unto the neighbor's giant greenhouse, demolishing it in the process. They end up in jail, and before you know it, the son loses his job offer. The neighbor is an old lady willing to drop the charges if the kid builds her a swimming pool for her grandkids.
There is a lot of silliness but I think Spade's son learns to appreciate his father and when face to face with his hero, he finds out some stuff that helps make his mind up as to what to do with the rest of his life. I don't want to give too much of the story away, but there is a love interest also.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
7/26/18 The Spectacular Now? (Netflix)
I don't like to admit it but I think I secretly like watching these almost girly coming of age movies. I can't watch them with Wife or in company (she has a horrible habit of laughing/smiling at me if I tear up in sentimental parts) but I always find them good filler for when I have to kill a couple of hours at work and the YouTube videos aren't quite working.
This one was about a guy at that point in life when he has to decide whether he is going to settle for the simple life and stay in middle America enjoying the simplicity of small town life or if he is going to challenge himself and attempt to go to college and be somebody.
The movie starts with him explaining to a college form what makes him special and he decides to write about the relationship he just broke up from. The kid looks like he is a minute away from doing something sleazy, so I'll agree with the girl that dumped him that he looked suspicious, but in reality, he is kind of a good guy. He explains how he is trying to help his best friend get a "lady" and they go cruising, he pushes his friend and the girl he is interested on a canoe and then waits patiently in the car with the girl's friend. I don't see any shenanigans, still he was dumped. The girl moves on fairly quickly, so maybe she had other plans. Anyways, he seems to have a bit of a drinking problem, he always has a flask with alcohol and seems to be always drunk.
In the next scene, a "nerdy" or "good" girl finds him passed out in some random yard and they start talking. He finds that he likes her, but somehow he's not supposed to, even his dopey friend doesn't think this is a good enough girl for him to be associating with. He finds that this is really the girl of his dreams, slowly giving him the strength to confront her mother and find out about his father. He helps her too, she too has a mother that demands too much of her and he gives her the strength to tell her she is going off to some university somewhere.
His father ends up being a loser in the worst way a drunk can be. He invites him to come over, but when he gets there he doesn't really want to spend time with him. The kid sees himself in his father and starts pushing the girl away immediately, he doesn't want to poison her with his evil ways since he reckons he is his father. A bunch of drama ensues, but eventually he has another encounter with him mom and she ensures him that he is nothing like his father, his father thinks only of himself, but you are the most considerate person I have ever known she tells him. This speech and the thought of losing the good girl I think inspires him to ultimately get his shit together and write a coherent enough college entrance paper so that in the final scene he is reuniting with the good girl coming out of one of her university buildings.
The movie was good and quick. It showed what it needed to and not much more. I enjoyed it, and maybe a tear or two were shed, in a good way.
This one was about a guy at that point in life when he has to decide whether he is going to settle for the simple life and stay in middle America enjoying the simplicity of small town life or if he is going to challenge himself and attempt to go to college and be somebody.
The movie starts with him explaining to a college form what makes him special and he decides to write about the relationship he just broke up from. The kid looks like he is a minute away from doing something sleazy, so I'll agree with the girl that dumped him that he looked suspicious, but in reality, he is kind of a good guy. He explains how he is trying to help his best friend get a "lady" and they go cruising, he pushes his friend and the girl he is interested on a canoe and then waits patiently in the car with the girl's friend. I don't see any shenanigans, still he was dumped. The girl moves on fairly quickly, so maybe she had other plans. Anyways, he seems to have a bit of a drinking problem, he always has a flask with alcohol and seems to be always drunk.
In the next scene, a "nerdy" or "good" girl finds him passed out in some random yard and they start talking. He finds that he likes her, but somehow he's not supposed to, even his dopey friend doesn't think this is a good enough girl for him to be associating with. He finds that this is really the girl of his dreams, slowly giving him the strength to confront her mother and find out about his father. He helps her too, she too has a mother that demands too much of her and he gives her the strength to tell her she is going off to some university somewhere.
His father ends up being a loser in the worst way a drunk can be. He invites him to come over, but when he gets there he doesn't really want to spend time with him. The kid sees himself in his father and starts pushing the girl away immediately, he doesn't want to poison her with his evil ways since he reckons he is his father. A bunch of drama ensues, but eventually he has another encounter with him mom and she ensures him that he is nothing like his father, his father thinks only of himself, but you are the most considerate person I have ever known she tells him. This speech and the thought of losing the good girl I think inspires him to ultimately get his shit together and write a coherent enough college entrance paper so that in the final scene he is reuniting with the good girl coming out of one of her university buildings.
The movie was good and quick. It showed what it needed to and not much more. I enjoyed it, and maybe a tear or two were shed, in a good way.
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
7/25/18 Everybody Wants Some? (Hulu)
I don't know who pulled this magic off, but this is a bonafide 80's movie complete with a bunch of naked random titties like we grew up watching in the style of Porky's or Fast Times at Ridgmont High. The movie follows a freshman baseball player starting out his first year in college. Of course, there are the assortments of personalities and stereotypes right off the bat. There was not a single face I recognized in the movie, not that it mattered. Another thing that was weird was that although it was set in the 80's, the movie was made and/or released in 2016, but it had that gritty film look to it, it wasn't all Wi-Fi HDMI 4K fancy looking.
There was the bullying that goes with being a freshman from the upperclassmen. The outside of classroom education these upperclassmen are only too willing to give to the young and naïve. Although they are all on the baseball team, and that is all they talk about, they don't actually get out on a field until about an hour and fifteen minutes into the movie. The hothead freshman who has no time to make friends and wants to fast track himself to the pros is humbled in his first attempt at pitching when the team homerun king smacks his third pitch over the fence not to show off, but to calm him down that the season is long, and you are better off being a team player than trying to do this alone.
There was a ticker counting down until baseball playing day which gave it some significance, but I don't think all the guys were that worked up for it. Of course they have some coach coming in talking about rules and no alcohol in the house, and especially no girls in the bedrooms only to be obviously ignored when it is party time and the guys need a place to drink and party. They end up partying in a disco, in a country and western bar and then in a house full of theatrical art students. It seems someone wanted to get deep with the psychology of mankind, the freshman kid is asking one of the upperclassmen if perhaps they are confused about who they really are when they go out one night as cowboys, one night as hippies, and another night as punks, all in the same weekend. The upperclassman puts him at ease by saying "there are some animal species where the male sacrifices his life to get laid, all we are doing is changing our wardrobe a little bit in an attempt to get laid."
Overall, the movie was stupid but entertaining, there wasn't much of a point to it other than to show them coming together over alcohol, which we have seen too many times. It was a bit longer than it had to be at almost two hours long, but since I am stuck at work with nowhere to go and have to stay awake, the movie did its job.
There was the bullying that goes with being a freshman from the upperclassmen. The outside of classroom education these upperclassmen are only too willing to give to the young and naïve. Although they are all on the baseball team, and that is all they talk about, they don't actually get out on a field until about an hour and fifteen minutes into the movie. The hothead freshman who has no time to make friends and wants to fast track himself to the pros is humbled in his first attempt at pitching when the team homerun king smacks his third pitch over the fence not to show off, but to calm him down that the season is long, and you are better off being a team player than trying to do this alone.
There was a ticker counting down until baseball playing day which gave it some significance, but I don't think all the guys were that worked up for it. Of course they have some coach coming in talking about rules and no alcohol in the house, and especially no girls in the bedrooms only to be obviously ignored when it is party time and the guys need a place to drink and party. They end up partying in a disco, in a country and western bar and then in a house full of theatrical art students. It seems someone wanted to get deep with the psychology of mankind, the freshman kid is asking one of the upperclassmen if perhaps they are confused about who they really are when they go out one night as cowboys, one night as hippies, and another night as punks, all in the same weekend. The upperclassman puts him at ease by saying "there are some animal species where the male sacrifices his life to get laid, all we are doing is changing our wardrobe a little bit in an attempt to get laid."
Overall, the movie was stupid but entertaining, there wasn't much of a point to it other than to show them coming together over alcohol, which we have seen too many times. It was a bit longer than it had to be at almost two hours long, but since I am stuck at work with nowhere to go and have to stay awake, the movie did its job.
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