YouTube and drugs

For some reason, I have only recently ventured into the procrastination heaven that is YouTube. By following various links on Facebook, I have stumbled across some of the most hilariously ridiculous filmed nonsense ever. Awesome. My faves thus far (click at your own risk - embarassingly addictive):

Shoes
Charlie the Unicorn
"My Humps" by Alanis Morissette

In other news, I'm currently reading "Hard Sell" by Jamie Reidy. It came out a couple of years ago and I think I heard of it back then, but was spurred to pick it up based on a New York Times article from a few weeks ago about doctors who are willing to sacrifice credibility as unbiased scientists in order to fatten their wallets. Reidy is a former top sales rep for Pfizer who lost his job after his book was published because it revealed the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry. And, well, anything that gets someone fired/exiled/assassinated immediately piques my interest (e.g., Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses"). Anyway, Reidy's book is especially intriguing because he began working for Pfizer just prior to the company's introduction of Viagra to the market, which needless to say, rocked everyone's world *wink wink nudge nudge*. I can't put it down. I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever been prescribed a medication and anyone who writes/will write prescriptions. Which should safely include all of you. Unless you've never even had so much as an ear infection and/or hospitals gross you out. Read it anyway.

Movie madness

So if you're anything like me, you get really, really, really excited about certain upcoming movies. Really. And, if you're as much of a procrastinator as I am, you love watching trailers for said movies online. I was going to go to bed early tonight, honest! But then I found out that the cover for the final Harry Potter book was released today and then I had to watch the trailer for the next Harry Potter movie, one thing led to another and before I knew it, I had generated the following list of Must-See Movies being released this year:

Blades of Glory -- March 30th
Shrek the Third -- May 18th
Ocean's 13 -- June 8th
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- July 13th

I realize these are mainly sequels (or tri-quels?) but I tend to enjoy movies that come in series. Previous favorites include Rush Hour, Ace Ventura and, I am not ashamed to admit, Jurassic Park. I loved both Shrek movies, all three Harry Potter movies, and Ocean's 11. There were certain moments in Ocean's 12 that were priceless (Julia Roberts as Tess Ocean who has to pass herself off as Julia Roberts, the sexy French dude doing acrobatic yoga to traverse a room crisscrossed with laser beams, to name a few) but overall it was not nearly as well-executed as the original. That being said, any film featuring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon together could have crappy screenwriting, poor special effects, and a weak plot, and I'd still fork over $9.50 to drool over my popcorn for two and a half hours. Hee!

Anyhoo, that's largely what the last hour or so was occupied with. But it's past 11pm now and I think I'll turn into a pumpkin if I don't get to bed soon.