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My name is Riley, and I play drums and write music for a band called Thrice.
This is where I ramble about music, sports, food, books, the interwebs and whatever else I deem worthy of sharing.
In addition to my ramblings here, I write a weekly column for Getting Blanked called "The Battle Of Los Angeles" and a bi-weekly column for PureVolume called "Everything In Its Right Place".
I'm also the co-founder of a baseball-specific twitter feed and blog with my good friend Ian, called Productive Outs.
In the past, you may have read my column at OC Weekly called "3hree Things", which ran every Tuesday for a couple of years, my writing on the Los Angeles Angels and Lakers for SB Nation Los Angeles, my newsdesk contributions for several of SB Nation's regional sites, or my sporadic contributions to Flip Collective .
And last, but not least, I have a bandcamp page and a soundcloud page that I'll be posting my own music and remixes on every once in a while.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions presented on this blog are mine and mine only, and do not reflect the position or views of Thrice as a whole.
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So, uh … this is a real movie
Yup. A real movie about “an unfortunate ten-year-old who suffers from nearly incessant intestinal gas issues” who wants to be an astronaut. He’s shunned by his family and classmates because he smells like poo, ends up on death row somehow, and only his friend, Alan A. Allen — a nerd with no sense of smell — will help him make his dream come true. The film also features an “explosive finale” (Oh, I get it.) in which I’m guessing involves farting and rocket ships which is … I can’t even.
Thunderpants was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
THE FUNNIEST MOVIE YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN
I was lucky enough to stumble upon Big Man On Campus during a late night channel surfing session back in 1990 or so, and it’s been one of my favorite (but admittedly pretty horrible) comedies ever since. Starring, Allan Katz (who has since gone on to star in…well, nothing), Corey Parker (who also starred in such classics as Love Boat: The Next Generation, and Encino Woman), Cindy Williams (Shirley, from Laverne & Shirley) and Melora Hardin (Jan from The Office), it’s a hilarious and heart-warming biography of Los Angeles Clippers center, Chris Kaman tale of a socially retarded hunchback that goes to college.
My half-assed research shows that it’s only available on VHS, which is pretty disappointing because only those of you who collect technological relics will have the ability to follow up on this recommendation and actually watch it. Until a studio remakes it, or the handful of people that have actually seen the movie make enough noise to warrant a DVD release, grainy YouTube clips will have to do.
