House MD

House just bought a honda repsol race replica motorbike. I'm so impressed. I bought the first season of House on sunday, and today i bought the second season, and am up to the motorbike episode. Even the chick at the checkout said she wishes she coudl just watch house all day, well checkout chick, welcome to my world. A sack of wine, and two seasons of House. The most blissful three days of my life, and i still have the majority of season two to go. Anyway, i prefer yamaha, in particular the R1, which is in direct competition with House's fireblade honda. They are both 1,000 cc, but the r1 just has the styling.

And according to my motorcycle magazines (of which i spent 30bucks on the weekend) you don't want to get a race replica unless you can actually ride, and by ride, i mean corner. I've been riding for about two months now, on the road, and i'm just starting to really lean a decent amount on the corners, i would still be able to lean 70% more, but im going okay. My farm bike is a honda, and i've been riding that aroudn the farm for years, i even took scotty savage to hospital with a grazed hand that he thought was broken. Now that segue, ties me back into my House rant. House is a cripple and just starting to ride, a race replica i will add, and they made sure to close-up on the honda logo, just like they do house's nike shoes. (i just wish toyota made motorcycles, so i could be un-repudiated with a sweet bike. )

Anyway, House bought the bike because some 9year old girl had cancer and made him realize that you can die anytime, and that she was happy with her life, even though she was dying, and House isn't. He took a bike for a spin and loved it. Now, i'm not saying i don't love life or anything, i ride because its awesome, but House finally realized how awesome riding is. And i'm proud of him. Also, i love how there is an Austrlian in House, who actually plays the part of being Aussie, (it's also a giveaway that Hugh who play House, is British, becuase he says Ozzie with a ZZZ not an SSSS like all other yanks, so when he read it in the script he knew what to acutally say. Most yanks see Aussie, so they pronounce it Ossie. ) Anyway , he calle Dr. CHase English, and CHase says 'i'm australian' and House says 'YOu have the queen on your money that's enough for me''. and i watched the bonus features, and they talk about how aussies hate being called english just like canadians hate being called american, and i related it to my time in america (which is good seeing as this blog is called danielinAMERICA) and how 9 out of 10 times i was asked what part of england i was from.



postscript: i have finished the motorcycle episode, and am up to the part where we see House's parents. Now, House is one low down sonuvabitch, and his father caught me completely off guard. The writing for this show is impeccable, i can't fault it, all the way down to the casting of the most low down sonuvabith R. Lee Ermy as House's father. For those who don't know he is the nutsack drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, and has played the same character in many roles since, it just goes to show you can make a career of your fifteen minutes of fame-just lok to big brother. So who would be the best candidate for the father of lowest of the low sonuvabitch on TV, the craziest sonuvabitch that made detective goram (of law and order, i don't know his real name) kill himself in the bathroom block.



Also, i have to put in this photo of Jennifer Morrison. She plays cartman, i mean cameron in House. It was probably after the 15th episode that i actually sat back and went, wow her character is awesome, nd she is hot, perhaps i shoudl study medicine just to meet someone so nice. I think its her character that i like, she is smokin' but not the immediate hottness. To tell you the truth it was only after House said she was gorgeous in an episode, that i was like holy shit House is right. I know, i'm taking way too seriously House's opinion, especially since he is a fictional character. I just love his existential attitude. That's why Fight Club is one of my favourite movies, dealing with all that 'what's it all about' 'wo is me' stuff, and House is a pragmatic example of someone living the no rules thing. Anyway, Dr. Cameron is awesome.

Also speaking of favourite movies, and simmo isn't goign to like this. But Armageddon was my all time favourite movie. Directed of course by Michael Bay, who did Bad boys, and some other stuff, anyway critics always write him off, but fuck them , i cried when Bruce Willis sacrificed himself for Ben Affleck, so he could make his daughter happy. And fuck i loved transformers. (and there are 2 maybe more obvious references to armageddon if you are unabshed fan like myself, and i have not looked on the net for these, the first being explicit when diegetically the viewer hears 'this is way better than armageddon. and later on there is the reference to when Bruce Willis has the list of demands from the astronauts, and they don't want to pay 'ever again', and in transformers--i had it but now i've lost it, anyway Shia Labeouf says 'like never again' he is listing a demand just like in armageddon) moving on..... And i'm not just jumping on the bandwagon, i was into Optimus Prime, back in the 80's. I remember when he didn't have the flame streak and was just blue and red. And he had a tralier, which carried all the other autobots, and he wasn't just a prime mover, (hence the name) and in that trailer was bumblebee and all the others. And i remember when my best friend Luke got the Optimus Prime toy, with the trailer and all, and all i had was bumblebee , and my parents didn't buy it for me, (just like they never bought me reebok pumps, and i had to settle for Lynx) So you can't say i'm not a true fan. And fuck, for a toy that made me so happy, the movie made me just as happy. I don't know what you are thinking Simmo (and i write this knowing only simmo and lachy read this blog) but damn boy, life is one dissapointment after another, and if you look at life, and see what its all about. You come to the conclusion that you expect things from your friends. You expect them to behave in certain ways or do certain things, or anyone for that matter, and when your little preconceived notions are shattered and what you want in life doesn't happen for you, you get all upset and run away. Well, fuck, lower those expectations, because your lucky to be in such a good damn country, and appreciate some mindless entretainment when you see it. Because we are all growing up so damn fast, what's the point in being dissapointed. There is no rationale behind being upset about transformers. They weren't just putting up special effects, and tryign to make money, there was obvious effort there, and i thought the script was quite pleasing. Seriously does it matter if Prime has lips, fucking hell what has the world come to that we sit in our high tech booths looking for any micro point of disagreement to how we think things should be. Because they aren't, and they never will be, and you should just think yourself lucky enough that you can sit in a warm room and enjoy a thoroughly entertainable motion picture.