"Baseball and life, one in the same. Everybody says that life is too short. Bullshit. Life, unless you get cancer or hit by a bus or set on fire, takes forever. Just like baseball. It's a series of long, mind boggling boring stretches of time where absolutely nothing happens. So, you take a nap and then after a little while, when that crisp crack of the bat hitting the ball - so crisp you can almost smell that wood burning - jolts you awake & you open your eyes to see something so exciting and intricate and possibly very, very meaningful has just happened. But, you missed it, cause you were just so goddamn bored in the first place. But, you know, a couple of hot dogs, throw in some beers, the occasional blow job and that's that." -lou, rescue me .
i'd like to think life isn't quite as boring as lou makes it out to be, baseball either for that matter, especially with the cubs battling the hated brewers for the nl central right now (& what's with bud selig's boy, cecil cooper, starting three rookie pitchers against milwaukee), but i still really enjoyed that monologue from last week's season finale of rescue me, one of the best shows on tv right now...particularly because the character lou was speaking to, sean, fell asleep right in the middle of it.
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related: switching from baseball to football, but staying in television, here's a great write up from the sports guy on why you should watch friday night lights, another one of the best shows on tv...one of the reasons he doesn't mention, is the killer soundtrack, which includes well picked indie rock & original compositions from explosions in the sky...unfortunately, nbc has moved it to the friday night death slot, so set your tivo season pass & cross your fingers it doesn't get cancelled...here's what patton oswalt had to say about it in the most recent issue of rolling stone:
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I know there's a lot of nerds like me saying, "I would never watch that show because it's about high school football and people who are physically fit and out in the sunshine and not getting the crap pounded out of them every day." But think of it as this fantastic alternate universe that's even beyond 'Battlestar Galactica'. 'Friday Night Lights' takes the vehicle of high school football and uses it to smuggle in all of this stuff about religion and patriotism and fate and personal responsibility - I've never seen a heartland show that's so gray. The characters aren't just faced with one choice or another, they have, like, five choices, and each one has four subsets, which is how real life is. And the quarterback doesn't have sex with the coach's daughter, which is weird, because she's hot! This is not a confused teenage girl. She's ridiculously wise beyond her years. Her dialogue is clearly, "This is a forty-three-year-old seasoned writer." She's like, "As Proust wrote, 'What the fuck are you saying?'" What planet am I watching this on?
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related: while on the subject of sports & television, i wanted to mention the very funny sports action team, which my friend kristen produces...in chicago, it's on ch. 5 after sunday night football...check it out.
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