nate mcguire

What better way to get your holiday week going than with this? You’re welcome. As a disclaimer, I’m only posting these because there is such a hullabaloo about her doing this photoshoot for GQ. I mean, really? It’s GQ and Aniston is smokin’ hot. Get over it.

You know the picture will be good when the caption says: “Tie, Black Fleece by Brooks Brothers.” and nothing else.

thanks to tyler, inebriation, and terrible music, I was inspired. So I was sitting here attempting to think of something to post about because I’m bored on Sunday, along with listening to some suprisingly terrible internet radio. That and this post from tylerjameslee helped me out, so I’ll be giving you the fly by music review of the top 30 of the current billboard 100, due to laziness.  I don’t know what it is about the masses, but seriously, this music sucks. I think I’ll go back to my outdated music library, or pandora, thank you.

List:
1. Single Ladies, Beyonce - Really?
2. Live Your Life, TI - meh
3. Just Dance, Lada GaGa - no.
4. Circus, Britney - no.
5. Whatever you like, TI - meh+
6. Womanizer, Britney - no.
7. Heartless, Kanye - no.
8. hot N Cold, Katy Perry - oye.
9. If I were a boy, Beyonce - just plain bad.
10. Love Lockdown, Kanye - no.

see there is already a problem. beyonce, TI, and britney dominate the first 10. I haven’t seen a song I genuinely like yet. What the hell is wrong with us?

11. Love Story, Taylor Swift - terrible.
12. I’m Yours, Jason Mraz - this guy is a crock.
13. Kevin Rudolf ft wayne, Let it Rock - never heard it, has lil wayne so it must be awesome.
14. Miss Independent, Ne-Yo - his name makes it suck even more
15. Right Now, Akon - akon is played out
16. So What, Pink - i thought someone shot her by now
17. Gotta Be Somebody, Nickelback - need I say more?
18. Can’t Believe it, T-Pain/Lil Wayne - this might be the first one that is “alright”. at number 18
19. Mrs. Office, Lil wayne - also not bad.
20. Zac Brown Band, Chicken Fried - eh?
21. Rehab, Rihanna - I thought we had a rehab song already?
22. Disturbia, Rihanna - she’s not too bad.
23. Addicted, Saving Abel - worse than nickelback
24. Green Light, J. Legend and Andre 3000 - best one so far
25. Pop, Jim Jones & others - annoying as fuck
26. One More Drink, Luda - no.
27. Chopped ‘N Skrewed, entertaining, but not good
28. Better in Time, Leona lewis - meh, but she is super hot
29. Beautiful, Akon - i thought this song was dead last summer
30. You found me - meh.

There you go, the top 30 shittiest Billboard songs in America today. Please listen to some better music. For the children!

welcome to winter. it is snowing here and Dallas and my little brother got out of school but I still have to work.  Not cool man, not cool.

So what you’re looking at here is something that we in Texas, at least to my knowledge, do.not.have.  I wish we had stuff like this, but I’m pretty sure it would be illegal here or something. Stupid rednecks.

Its called the Money Maker - and it’s sold in convenience stores around the bay area of California.  What you say? Liquor in a gas station? “That shit be wack, yo”.  Yeah, pretty much everywhere but the south you can buy the good stuff at a gas station and get yo’ drank on.

I stumbled upon this fantastic holy creation on this crazy dj/rapper guy’s blog: Grocery Eats. If nothing else just go read a couple of their posts, that shit is hilarious. This little mini mixer set of drinks is like a happy meal for adults - except without the gay plastic toys that you get tired of in 5 minutes.

They have a bunch of different “flavors”, the one posted here is The Money Maker and it’s definitely going to fuck you up. The ingredients are:

1 Green Apple Smirnoff Ice
2 Smirnoff Apple Twists
1 Bicardi Big Apple
1 Tanguaray

So I’m going to have to make one of these on my own this weekend, or one of their other flavors since I don’t like drinking jolly ranchers, like Cutty bang or Killahoe.  Good names, right?

Other stuff going on:  Texas is in the Fiesta Bowl, playing Ohio State. Whoopdi Do.

We’re going to probably bail out the automakers, which is a stupid idea. Umm and other news, I’m not really sure what is going on in the world because I’m stuck in a conference room all day…but I figured I would try and post so I didn’t leave you 3 days in a row without some information from my sick knowledge center I like to call my brain.

We may have won, but UCLA sure are winners. MMM.

Last night was a crazy game, but it looked like from the start the horns would have it. We were up by 8 (I think) at the half, and AJ Abrams was shooting lights out from behind the arc. We, as we usually do in sporting events, tried to give up our advantage during the second half, and UCLA caught up and took the lead for a while, but it was never more than 2-3 points.  They definitely don’t look as solid as they did last year, they didn’t handle the ball well and gave us a bunch of easy turnovers.  Our rebounding was also ridiculous, at one point I think I saw 4 offensive shots and rebounds in the same posession before we scored. Final Score: 68-64, Longhorn Victory.

Outside of that, its Friday. Finally. December 5th, apparently, is Repeal Day in the US.  If you’re like hey, Nate, WTF is repeal day, and why should I care?  Prepare for the knowledge bomb.  On December 5th, 1933, Utah, the final state needed for a three quarters majority, ratified the 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition and restoring the American right to a celebratory drink. While the amendment still allowed for state and local levels of Prohibition, by 1966 there were no state laws banning alcohol.  I know here in Texas we still have dry counties or limited access to hard liqour in some counties, which is random and REALLY annoying when you want some good liquor.

So break out your booze, buy a stranger a drink (preferably a hot stranger), and celebrate your constitutional right to “MIX SOME DRANKS”.

I have nothing to say except this: Stay Classy, Horns. Hook ‘em!

Good quotes from our team

Yesterday M$ released the new Xbox “experience” update for the 360.  I’ve yet to tool around with it hardcore, but from initial observations, its very uhh…different.  I guess I was a fan of the blades, and seeing as my xbox goes straight to CoD4 on boot up, it wasn’t really an issue.

Obviously the first thing that you’ll notice is the pairing of xbox and netflix.  This is probably the single most important update that they’ve provided, and I’m thinking I may renew my netflix account just to watch the streaming movies.  At 5.99 a month you can get unlimited online access to their movies and a one real movie in the mail at a time. Oh, and its in HD. I’ll mess around with it more tonight/this weekend and fill you in.

So, seeing as the house of cards that is our financial system is collapsing, I thought I would give an update for today.  The Dow closed at around 7500 today, which I was thinking might be the bottom.  Today I’d like to revise my statement and say it could go even lower than 7k.  This crap is going to be around for a while.

The S&P closed down 6.7%, undercutting its low from the 2000-02 bear market during trading today.
Here are the numbers, enjoy:

and for the “more” part:

Texas Tech plays OU this weekend in Norman. This will be the first time that I’m cheering for OU hardcore. I’m looking for a 3-way tie and us on top of the BCS. SOLID.

Well, fall is offically in full swing.  We’re getting down to the nitty gritty of college football season, its cold (sort of) here in Dallas, some freshly dead deer is at the processor, and it gets dark approximately an hour after lunch.  The good thing is Thanksgiving is on its way, quickly followed by Christmas and New Years and taking all your vacation before they tell you it doesn’t roll over.

I’m really struggling to provide you with something meaningful today, so here is the trailer for my favorite series of movies of all time, Bond. The new movie comes out Friday and apparently is already a hit in China, according to Variety, “James Bond’s latest outing “Quantum of Solace” has shaken and stirred Chinese audiences, netting 11.4 million yuan ($1.67 million) on its opening day, the biggest opening day for a foreign picture this year.”

After a recent discussion with my friend, it came to my attention that there are a lot of stupid people in America.  This movie, directed by Oliver Stone, “portrays” George W. Bush’s two terms as President.  A lot of people I’ve talked to apparently are under the impression that this is some sort of documentary, showing us the truth behind Bush’s presidency. It is not.  Oliver Sone is an interesting, but undoubtably controversial director, and his movies should be taken as such.  Stone has no qualms about making a movie and portraying his point of view, his movie JFK illustrates this beyond a doubt (and pretty much ruined his credibility). So please, go see this movie, as I probably will, but don’t be ignorant and take it for fact. Yes, W was not a great president, but he also got dealt a pretty crappy hand. Oliver Stone wants to exploit this.

“I didn’t go to the Lakers game because they were playing the fucking Bobcats… And I came here today because I thought this was a session on how my wife could learn to communicate, how to answer a question without a question, basic Humanity 101, which I thought, given your wall of fucking diplomas, you could easily fix, or if you couldn’t, you could give her a pill that would either fix it or make her a mute. But now, to turn around and gang up on me? I have work to do. I have hundreds of clients to deal with, and just so we’re clear, I don’t care about ANY OF THEM. They’re ALL just a number, like Wife #1 and Therapist #7… GOOD DAY!” - Ari to Wife #1 and Therapist #7

With the new season of Entourage starting last week, it seemed necessary to get you losers in the loop. You’re welcome. Here it comes, you’d better be ready.

HBO gives us another kick ass show, Entourage, one of its few hits outside of the Sopranos. It is produced by the miraculously successful Marky-Mark, I mean Mark Wahlberg and takes place in the daily life of Vince Chase, a young actor in Hollywood who loves women, partying, and happens to make a shit-ton of money doing movies. The boys, Vince, E, Drama, and Turtle, all hail from Queens, NY. The show is centered around the hilarious and vulgar lifestyle that Hollywood embraces, and its pretty much the best that you can get on TV right now. Jeremy Piven as Ari, Vince’s agent, pretty much kicks more ass than anyone has ever done in a role like this. I could watch a show purely about his exploits and it would probably be just as good. His superior acting skills (compared to the sometimes lackluster performances by the other characters) really can bring the show up another level. Another stand out character is Drama, played by Kevin Dillion, who pretty much does some ridiculous shit to make you laugh. And it works.

We’re now at Season 5 (didn’t realize that) so apparently you have a lot of catching up to do if you haven’t watched before. Vince is down in Mexico, sulking over the fact that his movie, Medellin, got completely dominated at Cannes, and now no one wants to work with him. The first episode of this season was definitely a filler episode, but enjoyable none the less. Get ready and catch up to us, ladies. One of the worst things about the show, but best thing for new fans, is the fact that they are only 30 minute episodes. This is great if you go get the DVD’s because you can rock them in about 2 weeks, but sucks for people like me that have watched since the beginning and have to wait week to week. Lame.

I think it is obvious by now that if you are still reading this you’re doing something wrong, because you should be WATCHING the show. Goodbye.