A Very Merry Perri Christmas Review

  I preordered Christina Perri's new Christmas EP on Amazon.com about a week ago. It arrived today. So I thought I would review it. Usually I cannot stand Christmas music but this is an exception. I am a fan of Christina Perri. I know the owners of one of the places she worked as a waitress in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. So there is a little backstory to this purchase.

The album artwork

  Now where was I? Oh yes my review of A Very Merry Perri Christmas. This CD has 6 tracks. Five of them are covers of Christmas songs with the exception of Something About December which was written by Christina Perri.
The tracklisting is as follows.

1. Something About December
2. Merry Christmas Darling
3. Please Come Home for Christmas
4. Ave Maria
5. Happy Xmas (War is Over)
6. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

  Now this EP is way better than any Christmas music I have heard while shopping in stores during the holiday season. Christina gave a lot of effort and emotion into singing these songs. You can tell with "Other" artists are selling out and don't give much effort into their Christmas albums. Most of them are generally disliked and frowned upon by their fans. I really hope that stores will play some of her versions of Christmas songs instead of the boring versions that have been played for years.
  Onto the album artwork. I like the album art. It's really different than most conventional Christmas album artwork and isn't cheesy like some of them. I think the side profile of her head is a unique feature that separates this album from the others out there. On a side note this EP is not in a jewel case, but a Digipak instead which gives it a Nine Inch Nails album feeling. Most of Nine Inch Nails albums are Digipaks.
  Overall I give this EP 10 out of 10 stars. You're probably thinking that's a little biased. It's not trust me on that. This EP is fantastic and stands out from the generic Christmas albums put out by other artists. It's better than Randy Travis's two Christmas albums. I'm glad that Christina Perri stayed away from some of the more annoying and stupid songs we hear around Christmastime such as Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, or Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk this Christmas or Rocking Around the Christmas Tree. I highly recommend this EP.

Mattel Basic 18 Kelly Kelly

My Dream Came True

  About a week and a half ago I had a strange dream that my Walmart had put out a case of Basic Series 18. Sure enough, I went to Walmart on that Friday and there enough they had put out a case of Basic 18 the RAW SuperShow case. When I had got to the toy dept, I almost had a stroke thinking that I must be a psychic. Sadly I am not. Now where was I? Oh yes, Walmart putting out B18. I already had Hunico and Sin Cara from that set already. I had bought them at Kohl's a few months prior. I didn't need a CM Punk, although they were all gone from when I got to Walmart. There were the Hunico's and Sin Cara's there and the digital camo Cenas and one Cody Rhodes. I had hoped to find Kelly Kelly but, She was already gone so I thought.
  It wasn't until yesterday when I went to go to work, I would find that Kelly Kelly. I know the dept manager of Toys at Walmart, because once worked in my department. He told me that the figure wasn't returned, it was probably hidden somewhere. Wait a second! I must be a psychic because I had a hunch that that Kelly Kelly was hidden by somebody who was hiding it from a scalper or didn't have the money for it so hid it until they came up with the funds. Well I guess one of the associates found it lying around their dept and returned it to toys. The top of the carding was a tad bit bent I guess from it being hidden for a week and a half. I bought it and went to work a hectic day all by myself until the other person came in at 5. So I decided to leave the Kelly Kelly in the box and I hung it on the wall in my attic.

Happy Birthday To Me

  Today I got one of my birthday presents to myself in the mail. It's a Rihanna action figure. Actually it isn't a Rihanna action figure. It's really Alicia Fox. Many Mattel WWE action figure collectors think this figure looks like Rihanna including myself. I bought her from Ringside Collectibles. She was $40. You're probably thinking $40 is way too much for an action figure right? In reality $40 isn't that bad because when you buy from Ringside Collectibles you save money on gas you would use to go to countless stores looking for a figure. You can also preorder sets of figures too.
  Now I bought this figure two weeks ago and they said the figure was on backorder for late October. Well I got my shipping notice email on Tuesday and I got it today. I ordered B23 Kane yesterday.
  Overall I like this figure alot. It comes with the hood accessory. She is also wearing a skirt. Mattel has also made the Divas of Doom Beth Phoenix in a skirt also. So I can see this trend continuing in the future.

   The picture to your right is the attire her action figure is wearing minus the fur hood. That picture was taken at a SmackDown house show sometime last year that is where the Mattel Design Team scanned her head to be made into an action figure. The hood that comes with the action figure is removable by the way. Also some wfigs.proboards.com members said that her top and skirt is removable. Naughty naughty I say.

Take That Rihanna!

  On a side note Shelton Benjamin looks alot like Chris Brown minus all the crazy tattoos of course. However that is what I think anyway. One thing you can do is reenact the domestic violence between Chris Brown and Rihanna. I Keed I Keed.  I have bad taste don't I. Well. I can't wait to get my B23 Kane so I can show off his evolution through the Mattel figures.

Who Would Steal That?

  Today I thought I would write about a car. It's a car that my family owned at one point. The Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera was one of the top stolen cars throughout the 1990s. I don't condone stealing cars but it makes me wonder why would somebody steal an Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. The car is the most bland unattractive car that General Motors had made. People don't steal ugly cars.

Why Would Somebody Steal this?

  To quote my late grandfather, "No one steals Oldsmobile's". He said that after his 1992 Cadillac Seville was stolen. He bought a new car after the Cadillac was stolen, it was a 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera sedan. He actually thought that nobody would steal an Oldsmobile. Ironically the Oldsmobile he bought wasn't stolen. We ended up with that crappy car after my brother hit a deer with his 80s Oldsmobile Cutlass coupe going back to college. His car was totaled so my parents gave him their Buick LeSabre. So my Grandfather was nice to give us his Oldsmobile because we were in need of a car. My grandfather went out and bought what I believe was a Buick Century. I don't remember exactly what car he bought after he gave us his Oldsmobile, but I am sure it was a Buick.
  Now back to why would somebody steal that. here is a website that shows the top stolen cars by state http://www.securitygrades.com/cartheftsbystate.html. The info is from 2002 and is a bit dated. The stats show that the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera is or was one of the top stolen cars. Frankly I don't have a clue to why would somebody steal such a hideous car. My dad said that it had to do with the door locks were easy to get into for that particular model. I'm not positive on that info, that is what he heard awhile back. There are better cars to steal than this clunker such as a Cadillac. 

A Good Place to Buy Cheap DVDs

  One of the best places you can buy DVDs at is no other than Big Lots. Big Lots is home to $3 DVDs. They also have DVDs for $5 as well. I have bought all sorts of DVDs there really cheap. When I am done with them I trade them in at the local record store for store credit. Anyway back to some of the obscure movies I have bought there.
  I have bought Bubba Ho-Tep at Big Lots a few years ago. They have just about every 007 DVD there with the exception of the Daniel Craig ones. The 007 DVDs are $5. You can't complain there. I also picked up one or two SyFy Original Movies at Big Lots. They Were KAW and Mega Python Vs Gatoroid. Some of the DVDs at Big Lots have their barcodes slashed for some reason. I noticed that this has been declining in recent visits. I used to buy tons of DVDs here but I only buy them once in a blue moon when I find something that I have been looking for or have gained interest in. Yesterday I bought The Don Is Dead which is a 1973 mobster movie starring Anthony Quinn. I saw parts of it on AMC's Mob Week and saw enough of it to buy it.
  Buying DVDs at Big Lots can be a fun experience. They have them on huge 3 tiered cubicles 4 sided shelves and on table bins. You'll never know what you'll find at Big Lots. One time around 2009 they had a buyout of TV shows on DVD. Unfortunately I couldn't get there for some reason and I didn't hear about it until a coworker told me about it. It was too late then.
  Big Lots also puts out horror movies in the fall and Christmas movies around the middle of the fall as well.
So go out to Big Lots and buy a handbasket of DVDs.

The Drive Bee

  One of my favorite comedy movies is a 1996 film called The Stupids. The film was a box office bomb and is generally hated among movie buffs and in some cases fans of the book series the film was based on. I never read The Stupids books when I was a child however I did read another book by the author and illustrator called Miss Nelson is Missing. I'm getting a little sidetracked here. Forgive me about that.
  Now where was I? Oh yes the movie The Stupids. I happened to catch this film on Comedy Central a while back when they sometimes show movies during the morning. I thought the movie was hilarious. So a few years ago around Christmas time I found the DVD of The Stupids at Big Lots for $3 and I bought it. It wasn't until I was on vacation in Maine in 2010 when I first introduced this movie to my niece and nephews who also loved this movie. So How does this relate to The Drive Bee?

  The Drive Bee is me and my nephews favorite scene from the movie. Everytime I visit him or he visits me, we talk about The Drive Bee. It's usual routine now. So The Drive Bee can be fatal. Any error you make with it can be fatal! How? When bees fly into cars or any flying insect for that matter, they sometimes can startle the driver of the car and cause them to panic and get into an accident. They can die from that accident as well. Bees flying into cars when you are driving is dangerous. So how do you stop the Drive Bee? The answer is kill it with a Well Made Shoe. Explosions may vary.
  This post is dedicated to my Nephew

A Sign of Growing Up

   In 25 days I will be turning 23 years old. I still have a lot of my old action figures from when I was a child. I have neighbors who moved in to a double home next door to my current house and they have a little boy who just loves Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. So over the span of a few months I began to give him some Power Rangers stuff that I had. First I gave him the DVD of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie. I only paid $3 for it at Big Lots a few years ago. He watched the movie and loved it. I also had a book about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from when I was about 5 years old. I gave him that as well and he loved it.
   Finally I was saving my old Power Rangers action figures for some reason. I had them since I was 5 years old. I was going to hold on to them to sell them when they would be worth some money. I realized that I would probably get diddly squat for them. I had six figures in total. They were the original action figures that when you pressed their belt buckle their heads would flip from their unmasked head to their power ranger helmet. Mine were all beat up from playing with them when I was alot younger. So over the last few days I was going to make an administrative decision on whether I should give them to my neighbor or keep them. My decision was clear I was going to give them to the little boy next door. When I gave him the grey Walmart bag with the figures, His eyes light up. I told him how their head mechanism works before I would give them away.
  Do I regret doing this? The answer is absolutely not at all. It was time for somebody else to enjoy them. I have outgrown them and gave them a new home like the ending of Toy Story 3.