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Bloggers. Wrestling Enthusiasts. Beer drinkers. Movie Quoters. We have our cake and eat it too. Ryan Fogarty and Matt Vieira are The Average Nobodies.
Life Lessons From Yoko Ono
It’s Friday. Let’s get yoked
“@yokoono: In winter the snow protected us, covering our pain. Now I hear ice cracking slowly in my brain.”
– Yoko should probably get this checked out. I’m no doctor, but hearing ice cracking slowly in your brain seems like one of the final stages of psychosis. I hate to disagree with the wise one, but being covered in snow seems like it would do more harm than good. After awhile our organs would shut down and then we would pass away. You have over 4 million followers, Yoko. Get your shit together
“@yokoono: Walk until your body feels like dancing. Then dance. You will find that you no more have difficulty in sleeping at night.”
– All these foolish doctors wasting millions of dollars on insomnia research. All these insomniacs polluting their bodies with pills to help them sleep at night. Should’ve listened to Yoko. Can’t sleep? Step 1: walk until you feel like dancing. Step 2: dance. I guarantee you’ll get the best sleep of your life. But remember, this is a two step process. You can’t just walk until you feel like dancing and stop. You won’t sleep. You may be asking yourself: “self, what if I just start dancing without walking first?” Sorry charlie, get ready for a restless night.
Another week in the books, two more lessons learned from Yoko Ono. Her knowledge is just like the sky: endless.
– Ryan
P.S. With advice like this, she should change her name to Yoko OhNo! right? Right? I need a drink.
Hopefully Bears Can’t Smell Crazy
Move over Florida, Rhode Island’s got crazy fever! This video of a Rhode Island NBC10 reporter explaining what to do when you see a bear is the craziest thing i’ve seen since Sharknado. That’s how to repel a bear?? By looking at this girls survival tactics something tells me she wouldn’t last 2 minutes on ‘Naked and Afraid’. Apparently this is going viral, and why not?! It’s hilarious. And it already has a remixed version! That’s when you know you’ve made the big time.
-MattyV
Flashback Friday: The 48 Hour Film Competition
With the 48 Film Competition upon us I give you our 2011 submission to the contest. Dodging Reality.
A business man escapes the confines of reality to challenge his arch nemesis through an office fantasy.
-MattyV
The Official Trailer for SHARKNADO Is As Horrible As You’d Expect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsqFR5bh6Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Casablanca. Citizen Kane. The Godfather. SHARKNADO. It’s that simple. When you see a trailer of this caliber come out, you just clap your hands and applaud. Bravo Hollywood.
– Ryan
P.S. Any time you can get Tara Reid and the father from Home Alone in a movie about a shark tornado, you HAVE to do it.
Jumpy The Dog Is My Hero
Hands down best trained animal on the planet. You might say the whales in Seaworld are, but i dare you to teach them a trick they don’t want to learn. Your ass would get swallowed up like yesterdays tuna. Jumpy is everything a dog should be: Smart, talented, athletic, and loyal. Why can’t my cat, Batman, be like this? Oh yea because he is lazy as shit! But he gets that from his master.
-MattyV
GQ Magazine Can Go To Hell
Rating The Insane Clown Posse (ICP) as the worst rap group in history was the worst thin GQ Magazine could have done. Do you have any idea the type of people you are dealing with? I’m not talking about physical violence, but just the sheer number of loyal fans [Juggalo to the lay person] spells bad news for them. Now i’m going to come right out and say it, I am a huge supporter of ICP, so this might be bias. But, I will also disclose that I am a music lover in general. I have everything on my ipod from The Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack (The original cast in London. Your a loon if you have any other version) to Pantera. ICP just happens to be a group that I have loved since I was in middle school. I will be the first to admit that their music is not everyone cup of proverbial tea, and I would never force it upon anyone. But calling them the worst rappers of ALL TIME? That is just crazy. I can guaran-damn-tee that who ever (I know his name, but I won’t give him fame he doesn’t deserve) came up with this list never went to and ICP show, listened to a full ICP album, or even had the decency to find out what they are about. They just know the mantra behind them and stuck them with this unfitting label. 20 years of music and touring say otherwise to your stupid list.
-MattyV
PS – Ask Berno, someone who has never listened to ICP, if he enjoyed the concert we went to. Go ahead GQ, ASK HIM!!!
Rusty The Red Panda Has Been Found
All’s well for Rusty, the red panda who set the Internet abuzz on June 24 when he escaped his exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C. On Tuesday, zookeepers returned the healthy runaway panda to his enclosure, where he soon went back to munching on fruit and bamboo and getting reacquainted with his old roommate Shama. Following his capture, the staff kept Rusty in the zoo’s vet hospital, followed by a “temporary holding enclosure,” where he remained until his release yesterday.” – Today.com
If you’re not happy that Rusty the red panda has been found and returned then you have no heart. He just looks like a panda I’d want to have a few beers with on a rainy day. Although I have to say, it’s kind of confusing that Rusty lives at the Smithsonian. I was just there with funky butt Matt, and I don’t remember seeing any live animals. Now I’m kind of upset I never got to see Rusty. Either way, I’m glad Rusty is home. Nothing better than a heartwarming panda story to start your day. Stories like this support my long standing theory that people care more about animals than they do humans, and quite frankly, I feel the same way. If Hank the janitor ran away nobody would give a shit, but if they never found Rusty, I don’t know if I’d have the strength to go on. Stay strong Rusty. Our hopes and dreams live on with you.
– Ryan
What I’ve Learned In My Short 24 Years
756,864,000 seconds, 12,614,400 minutes, 525,600 hours, 8,760 days… and 24 years. Thats how long this guy has been, crawling, walking, running, and…..walking on this Earth. Bare with me, this might be all over the place.
It’s hard to hold down what I have learned over the years so I will tell you what I have found to be true. Life is different for everyone, what works for one person, may not for the other and vice versa. Trying to emulate one person (say your hero or idol) is never going to work, instead take and steal from many people to create a person that is uniquely you. Play up your strengths and in doing that, find out what your weaknesses are; your weaknesses are what give this unique person you see in the mirror everyday. Take time to listen to yourself. I’m not trying to be all introspective and hippy here, but seriously, take a second and talk to yourself. Ask yourself questions, and answer them with the truth. Please, if you do this out loud to yourself, do it in a room where no one else is. I’m pretty sure they stopped burning witches at the stake, but I could be wrong. I digress. Lose yourself in some good music and explore new kinds whenever you get a chance. I have always found music to shake things loose in my head when I need it the most. Be unpredictable, if you want to try something, try it. If you want to go somewhere, get in your car and go. I’ve found this type of thinking to make me the most happy. Don’t let anything hold you back.
The last thing I will leave you with is something I learned from the great Gary Vaynerchuk. Do what you are passionate about. If for one minute you are doing something that you don’t 100% love doing, even if it is just a 1% dislike, stop doing it. Life is too short to do something that you dislike, even if its for one day.
The culmination or trial and error is what shapes me today and is what will shape me in the future.
-MattyV
There’s a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are. It starts, like all faiths, with a belief – a belief predicated more on whimsy than reality. And you’ve gotta believe for everybody else, too – until you can show them proof. If you’re lucky, someone starts believing with you – first theoretically, then in practice. And two people believing are the start of a congregation. You build a congregation of believers and eventually you set out to craft a cathedral. Sometimes it’s just a church; sometimes it turns out to be a chapel. Folks who don’t build churches will try to tell you how you’re doing it wrong, even as your steeple breaks the clouds. Never listen.
~Kevin Smith
