3rd and inches

Mood: Battlin'

I have to admit I'm pretty blown away that Colin Farrell's career is what it is. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that he's a much-idolized superstar when, in actuality, he's quite unlikable and has little to no ability as an actor. What he's done in Hollywood barely registers on the radar and his personality off camera is the overdone 'bad boy' thing that really only succeeds in coming off as a spoiled little prick that, if he were just the random Joe on the street, would get knocked out on a daily basis by people who get thoroughly sick of his shit.

Which leads me to... Have you seen "Phone Booth"? Oh my word, this thing smells and Farrell is right there fanning the stink for all the world to whiff.

The premise of the film isn't necessarily a bad one. Intriguing enough from the outside to coax a viewer into it and unique enough to fuel slight interest.

And then it starts...

Now, I realize this rant isn't torn out of the headlines. After all, Phone Booth has been around for three years but yet its status as a running joke has stood that test of time. Take Farrell's squeezed-out-with-vice-grips performance that in no era would ever be convincing,
Kiefer Sutherland's absurd effort which shows that "hey, voiceovers can be awful to." On a side note, did Sutherland even leave his house to shoot this movie other than the one day necessary to film his capture? Was he sitting at home and watching old home movies of him and Julia Roberts and actually on the phone to the set?

And speaking of mailing it in, the usually likable Forest Whitaker really makes a bold effort to end his career right then and there. He may have in fact succeeded. Thanks Farrell, for bringing others down with you.

Other Notes:

• If you haven't seen Boom Goes the Dynamite, please do yourself a favour and watch this clip. It might be one of the funniest things I've seen online in my lifetime. Don't worry, it's safe for viewing in front of family or at work. Just good old fashioned failure at its best.

• An online profile for Colorado City, Ariz., a town well known for its polygamist ways, declares it as a "town of strong family values" and that, lately, " the government’s policy seems to be 'live and let lie.' This is the same state that was one of the last to officially acknowledge Martin Luther King's birthday so, multiple wives? Hell ya, get after it honkies.

• If you're going to be a DJ at a wedding social or reception, I think somewhere under rule No. 1 should be "Know when to play Michael Jackson's Billie Jean." I mean, we all know it's coming at some point. It's the track. But played too soon, you've taken it out of the arsenal before anyone can freak to it. My recommendation? 11:30 p.m.

Lyric of the day:
I'm countin' down to the day deservin'
Fittin' for a King
I'm waitin' for the time when I can
Get to Arizona
'Cause my money's spent on
The goddamn rent
Neither party is mine not the
Jackass or the elephant
20.000 nig niggy nigas in the corner
Of the cell block but they come
From California
Population none in the desert and sun
Wit' a gun cracker
Runnin' things under his thumb
Starin' hard at the postcards
Isn't it odd and unique?
Seein' people smile wild in the heat
120 degree
'Cause I wanna be free
What's a smilin' fact
When the whole state's racist
Why want a holiday F--k it 'cause I wanna
So what if I celebrate it standin' on a corner
I ain't drinkin' no 40
I B thinkin' time wit' a nine
Until we get some land
Call me the trigger man
Looki lookin' for the governor
Huh he ain't lovin' ya
But here to trouble ya
He's rubbin' ya wrong
Get the point come along
Public Enemy, When I Get to Arizona