Obama’s new wheels are hot. Check out the first pictures of the new armored limousine which will be used to drive Barack Obama around. Called “Cadillac One” the car will first be seen on January 20th as part of the inaugural parade. It is traditional to show presidential cars off for the first time in this way. (click image to enlarge).

I just saw The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke in it. This is SUCH a damn good movie. If you want to see an actor playing a used up-beat down-end of his rope character then you have to see Rourke as over the hill professional wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson. It is VERY hard to watch this film because The Ram is such a mess and how well Rourke plays a character that is probably VERY close to his real life.

Rourke IS going to be one of the favorites for Best Actor for this role. This is one of those once in a lifetime roles where everything comes together for an actor. I was exhausted at the end of watching this movie. You literally feel every hit and fall the character goes through and most of the pain is from his life outside of the ring. Rourke’s relationship with his estranged daughter is also very hard to watch at times.

Marisa Tomei is also good in the movie as the closest thing Rourke has to a love interest. She plays a stripper and is virtually naked a lot throughout, but also has some emotional moments with Rourke.

Rourke has had so much plastic surgery that he looks “off”, but (more…)

Some good friends of mine produced this entire video, wrote the song, and did all the music. They are very talented musicians, performers and dueling piano players. Enjoy the video!

Here are the lyrics from the video.
Lyrics by Troll and Michael McCaslin /Music by Troll/Video and Photoshop by Troll & Creeto

Obama Rhapsody
He won the white house, its not a fantasy
Won in a landslide, First black guy in history (more…)

We are only a few hours into 2009 and already I wonder what the new year will bring for both our country and myself personally?

While we wont have a massive political campaign that comes to a historic end, we will have the first African American President who will have to perform beyond the hype and Saturday Night Live parodies.

While we will still have an economic crisis in the country, maybe we are coming out of the worst times. The cost of gas continues to drop into the low $1 range and hopefully will not go back up to the $4-5 prices we saw in 2008. Mortgage rates are at all time lows and the car companies are offering incredible deals to stimulate buying. Can the stock market return to the higher levels it once enjoyed?

Speaking of Detroit, will the Detroit Lions ever (more…)