putting out the invisible fire

every once in a while, we here at the bc like to put out little lists of things just to kind of let the people know where it is we are coming from. after my last blog entry i really started to marinate hard on the apatow universe and how one man and his merry band of prankster kids have basically come to dominate the scene of what it is that i like about hollywood. i mean for real, like eugene its got me straight trippin boo...i hope you look at this list and say i'm trippin too. not being a huge action/adventure guy, i find the only things hollywood is releasing with any regularity these days that even remotely peak my interest are apatow films.

so without further ballyhoo, beer cannes presents its big list of all things apatow to perhaps somehow come to a better understanding of what we like about them and in a greater respect, hollywood in general.

the best things apatow(and by extention hollywood) over the past some odd years.

1. the trailer for the pineapple express. yeah...i know it's just a trailer...but deep down we all know that this incredible trailer is the reason that the express just doesn't seem to hold up. and in all fairness, there may never have been, in the history of cinema, a film that could live up to the expectations brought on by this preview.

2. the scene in freaks and geeks where bill(martin starr) gets drunk on keg beer while drinking it out of one of those mini mlb batting helmets from baskin robbins while watching dallas when a party is going on. nothing is more geek yet soooo fucking badass cool simultaneously. the moment when i realised how dope that show actually was.

3. sex-panther. according to paul rudd sixty percent of the time, it works everytime. and that works for me.

4. michael cera singing these eyes in superbad is classic because when michael cera speaks with his cracking voice it's funny, but when he sings with it...it is pure gold. and it's a great song.

5. knocked up....rogan "you look like a cholo all dressed up on easter sunday" rudd "you look like babe ruth's gay brother...gabe ruth." i laugh as i type. well played indeed.

6. aldous snow. no particular scene...just aldous as he is....which is awesome

7. and you can't talk about sarah marshall without mentioning bill hader aghast at segal trying to "put his p in a v" or segal wanting to "b his l on some t's" i will never think of a blt sandwich in the same way again.

8. and then there is kunu, hawaiian for chuck, who stopped wearing a watch when he moved to the island...because he has a cell phone.(betcha can't tell my favorite apatow film so far)

9. red falling asleep at the end of p. ex. "i'm like the lame guy at the party, fallin asleep at nine o'clock" i love danny mcbride.

10. but not as much as paul rudd, whose turn as a beatle gave dewey cox its only non horrific and memorable scene. really...this list could have been wholly made of paul rudd, but we wanted to mix in some flavor.

11. and by flavor we mean darrel from the office telling leslie mann and that bitch to go home in knocked up. "i can't have no pregnant bitches running up in my club"

12. the singing of afternoon delight in anchorman. they do the harmonies so well and i too want to know what love is like. "more than anything in the world, ron." thinking of it is working up my appetite.

there are like a trillion others, just nice little moments that really are the apex of what hollywood has to offer right now and i no doubt forgot at least a million that i probably like better than even these. but this is where i will start...with a mangled albeit humorous skewer of the current state of humanity. feel free to relive your own favorite moments in the comments section...i guarantee it will make you smile. i am and i didn't even touch the infinitely quotable ricky bobby or his invisible fire.