The Most Interesting Clips You’ll Never See
Posted On Monday, November 26, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: Dos Equis, television commercial, The Most Interesting Man in the World, TMIMITW
As much as I loathe ad campaigns that carry even the faintest whiff of hispter chic, I've always enjoyed Dos Equis beer's "Most Interesting Man in the World" commercials. Their brilliant melange of footage of The Man, spanning several decades, feature him in situations so over-the-top and preposterous, that his ...
Jax Teller vs. Walter White
Posted On Thursday, October 25, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under Obsessions, Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: Breaking Bad, crime, drugs, Jax Teller, Joe Daly, meth, motorcycles, SAMCRO, Sons of Anarchy, violence, Walter White
(SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen all of the episodes of Breaking Band and Sons of Anarchy and want to avoid spoilers, go here.)
I'm a hopeless Sons of Anarchy junkie. What's not to like about a show celebrating white trash thug life full of bikers, gangbangers, crooked cops and the ...
Welcome to Extortionville
Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under News and Things, Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: cookie dough, cookie dough fundraisers, extortion. crimes, Joe Daly, Kids, School fundraiser
She stood at the front door, all nine years and three feet of her, clutching a shiny catalog in one hand and what appeared to be some sort of sign-up sheet in the other.
I knew what this was all about and I wasn't happy. There I was, grinding out some ...
Skynyrd
Posted On Monday, October 8, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under Concert Reviews, Music, Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: casino, concert, Gary Rossington, Joe Daly, Johnny Colt, Lynyrd Skynyrd, San Diego
On a hoary Christmas morning over thirty years ago, my parents ignited one of the pivotal torches of my life journey: they bought me a boom box.
Until then, I had one of those tiny turntable stereos that provided all the volume and muddled sonic clarity that a ten year old ...
Second Tier Stories from Ace Frehley
Posted On Sunday, September 9, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under Appreciation, Featured Posts, Music, Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: Ace Frehley, Kiss, Memoirs, No Regrets, nonsense, Rock Biographies
In a recent interview with BackstageAxxess.com, former KISS shred maestro Ace Frehley teased that his new book will include stories that didn't make his last book No Regrets: A Rock 'N' Roll Memoir.
We here at JoeDaly.net, mobilizing our crack team of investigative reporters, have marshaled our considerable resources and far-reaching ...
The Eleven Greatest Crime Movies of the Noughties
Posted On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under Obsessions, Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: Crime Movies, District B13, Gone Baby Gone, Intermission, Joe Daly, Memento, No Country for Old Men, Oldboy, Secuestro Express, Sexy Beast, Snatch, The Business, The Town
I love a good crime movie. Hell, I even enjoy a shitty crime movie if it has a good villain and some interesting sub-plots. The 90s spoiled us with a slew of outrageously good crime movies like Goodfellas and Heat. One after the other, classics like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, ...
Unsatisfied
Posted On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under News and Things, Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: Aurora Shootings, Joe Daly, Justice
I remember sitting outside one day, having coffee and talking to a friend about his insurance practice. He directed my attention to a four-way traffic light, where a guy was waiting to cross the street.
"See that guy over there?" he asked. "He thinks he's going to make it to the ...
Love at First Sting
Posted On Sunday, July 15, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under News and Things, Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: Joe Daly, Pool, procrastination, Scorpions, Sunday
As I sat on the patio this morning, sipping my coffee and listening to Ben Harper, I had no idea that yesterday had been the last day that I could truthfully say, "I've never been bitten in the face by a scorpion."
I should have been working, as I had promised ...
The Top Seven Facebook Cries for Help
Posted On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: Cries for Help, Facebook, Joe Daly, Status Updates
While very little on Facebook should be taken literally (or seriously), there are seven types of status updates that are, in fact, truly terrifying cries for help. The best thing you can do when you see one of these is to simply ignore them. Remember that first scene in Raiders ...
Anarchy in the UK
Posted On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 By Joe Daly. Under News and Things, Rantings of a Lunatic Tags: Black Sabbath, Download 2012, England, golden gods, Heavy Metal, lamb of god, London, metal hammer, Metallica
Holy shit, has this been a crazy week.
Arrived in London last week for a pair of monumental events in music history. First was the Download Festival at Castle Donington, somewhere up in the middle of the UK. Thanks to the generous intervention of the iconic scribe, Mr. Mick Wall, I ...
