Sandra Bullock Marries Jesse James- Huh?

[munk]

And, what is this about to me?

Well, I'll tell you!

Not too many months ago I started watching the various automotive programs on TV. Jesse James is a famous 'customizer' of both vehicles and motorcycles. He sold one to Shaq for 150,000....

I watched Jesse for awhile, and another program about Hot Rod builds-from a 'famous' shop in So Cal. Both Jesse and the other Hot Rod program have much in common. Awesome machines are built there, and someone is always treating someonelse really rotten. I mean, ego centric, belittling, tough guy in your face ROTTEN. I've just about decided it's par for the course in certain branches of the custom industry.

On the Hot Rod show, there is always a high turnover amongst staff. Certain staff are selected for real or imaginary transgressions and the rest of the chickens in the coop beak them to death. I've seen the same in some horrible bureacracies I've worked for. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

Incidentally, there's a guy on the Hot rod build show who is a pretty nice fellow. He seems to stick around show after show, and is one of the few constants. He was in a horrible accident and is recovering from this life threatening event with some major physical obstacles to overcome. I like him.

But the rest? Well, I wouldn't be marrying one of them....
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That's all. Certain fields of work in our society are probably more prone to dysfunction than others- and attract the egos with problems.


munk

 

[bilestoad]

While I have watched these shows and enjoy watching the creative process, I don't like the people on them. Is there a reason to behave that way? There was a show on Discovery called Southern Chopper. A great shop, everyone got along really well, and the owner had staff meetings at Biscuitville. The older designer in the shop would show the young ones the tricks of the trade, and the young ones were pleased to learn them.

Naturally it was cancelled.

 

[etp777]

Actually, it's called Soutehrn Steel, and there was just a new episode this past Friday, Bilestoad. So don't give up yet.

And Munk, I agree, actually, sadly, I tend to watch american Hot Rod specifically to see how horrible they act to each other, and hate to admit that. Personally though, would never get a car from their shop, just because I know any team with that much friction is not puttin gout the quality of a product they could if they were working together(on shows, you can see those kinds of teams on Overhaulin', on the aforementioned SOuthern Steel, and on a lot of the home type shows, such as In a Fix).

Course, also little problem that I couldn't afford a custom chopper or Hot rod, but that's not the point.

 

[Steely_Gunz]

I've tried to be a fan of Jesse James. Man, have I tried. I just can't. Does he do good work? Sure. But he always comes across as conceided to me. I dunno, but i remember the very first time he was featured on a show before Monster Garage and all that. He was a hard working guy that did great work. Cash flow was in one minute and out the next, like most small businesses. Now it just seems like he's so full of himself. Honestly, he reminds me of punk 14 year old. Ya know, the kids that just have it all figured out. Like i said, i've tried to like him, but can't. It's a shame a cutie like Sandra couldn't do better.
Actually, the same thing goes with American Chopper. I really enjoy that show as I work in a family business. I understand what it is like. However, i've really grown to not care for Paul Jr. as much. You could tell when the success really hit him in the head when he started to roll up in a Powler to work.
Maybe cameras really do capture a part of our soul.

Jake

 

[t1mpani]

Yes, the '30 (or 40 or 50) year olds acting like just-hit-puberty teenagers' thing seems to be what's hot right now. I can only hope that America is as fickle with "Reality TV" as it has been with every other fad, and leaves it behind someday. There is less and less on TV that I can stand to watch nowadays.

 

[Noah Zark]

I've tried to be a fan of Jesse James. Man, have I tried. I just can't. Does he do good work? Sure. But he always comes across as conceided to me. I dunno, but i remember the very first time he was featured on a show before Monster Garage and all that. He was a hard working guy that did great work. Cash flow was in one minute and out the next, like most small businesses. Now it just seems like he's so full of himself. Honestly, he reminds me of punk 14 year old. Ya know, the kids that just have it all figured out. Like i said, i've tried to like him, but can't. It's a shame a cutie like Sandra couldn't do better.
Actually, the same thing goes with American Chopper. I really enjoy that show as I work in a family business. I understand what it is like. However, i've really grown to not care for Paul Jr. as much. You could tell when the success really hit him in the head when he started to roll up in a Powler to work.
Maybe cameras really do capture a part of our soul.

Jake

What you said, Jake, what you said.

I used to watch both shows, now I don't. And I watched the Hot Rod show twice and refused to waste any more of my life on Boyd Coddington and his bunch.

Noah

 

[Yvsa]

Well personally I kinda like to watch Jesse James in Monster Garage and I relate real well to Paul Sr. and kids who don't pay attention.:grumpy: A quick right to the jaw and a short left jab to the gut would do a lot to get Paul Jr in line methinks. I have to give Paul Sr a lot of credit for not doing so.
Mikey just needs a hug from his dad now and then.
I could work well with Paul Sr but I wouldn't want to live in Orange County New York.
Pretty country but all that dayumed snow in the winter.:barf:

At least Jesse seems to have improved the sort of women he associates with IMO going from Janine, his last wife who I just Googled and found out was a porn star to Miss Goody Two Shoes Sandra Bullock.

Information from Google on the nupitals.
Clickey Thingies

 

[Eric_425]

I've tried to watch American hot rod too. But I stopped when I realized they didn't make hot rods. First and foremost, by it's definition, hot rods are fast. This is what makes a hot rod. Everything else is just filler. The guys on that show don't make hot rods. They just take old cars and paint them flashy colors. That's not hot rodding, that's american rice. It's just as lame as kids who throw on body kits, racing wings, and coffee can sized mufflers on their civics. When I want to see hot rods, I open up hot rod magazine. If I want to waste my time, I'll look at the junk on american hot rod.

 

[bilestoad]

Actually, it's called Soutehrn Steel, and there was just a new episode this past Friday, Bilestoad. So don't give up yet.

Well that explains why I couldn't find it in the listings

One of the problems with ALL of these shows is the editing. I don't doubt there are many times the team from American Hot Rod, Orange County Choppers, etc., get along just fine... but tension is more interesting I guess...

Although the unproductive son on American Chopper (Mikey?) grates....

 

[Dave Rishar]

I'm fairly sure that a lot of the drama in these shows is a put-on; I can't see people working under conditions like that when they have the option to quit. (When one doesn't have the option to quit, it's another matter, of course.) I think of these as a man's version of soap operas.

That being said, I do watch some of them.

I never could get into Monster Garage, though. The narrator's speech is so incredibly annoying that I find myself wanting to hit somebody after being exposed to it for only a moment.

 

[roughedges]

Jesse James is a cocky SOB, for sure. I have an acquaintance (ex-friend from a past life, how exactly am I supposed to say that? ) that shares a godfather with him... apparently Jesse took to carrying a Sig .380 after all the bikers he used to roll with got sick of seeing him in a ferrari.

But what in the hell is sandra bullock thinking? I know that girls all love the bad boy with a heart of gold archetype but give me a break!


On another note. Last night I just saw one of those extreme makeover shows for the first time. I lucked out.

It was Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and definetely some of THE BEST TV I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. They redid a home for a family in which the parents were both deaf (and one mute), the 14 year old boy should be sainted, and the 10 year old boy was autistic and blind. I am not ashamed to say that it brought tears to my eyes.

I think that there is a darkside to reality tv and that it corresponds with the dark side of the human spirit. There is also the light. The show I saw last night represents it in a blazingly bright fashion. I highly reccomend it to anyone who happens to come across it.

The "Home Edition" though! From what I am told the show is usually disgustingly petty.

 

[Mr.BadExample]

I'd watch these shows like the Apprentice, Hell's Kitchen, etc, if they popped the jerk one in the jaw once in a while.
Otherwise it kind of seems like bread & circuses crap to make people with miserable jobs feel like "well, it could always be worse..."

 

[Steely_Gunz]

SOME reality TV, some, is pretty OK. I don't like the stuff where it shows the ugly side of everyday people trying to out con each other when thrust into a situation where money is the primary driving force. Also, i don't like reality TV that follows around the rich, the famous, and the utterly spoiled. I don't care about how far removed Paris and Nicole are from society. I don't care to see the life and times of family whose patriarch made his fame by being a murderous mobster. Actually, the only celebrity based reality show that i do like is VH1's Celebrity Fit Club. It really puts hollywood in a different light when a bunch of D listers that used to be A and B listers are trying to trim some of the fat from living too high on the hog for too long. Most of these people have fallen a few rungs and know it. It's no longer about being on top. it's about getting healthy and not dying tomorrow from heart disease. Very tongue in cheek, and this season has the ever kooky Gary Busey.

Jake

 

[Yvsa]

Mostly we watch the H&GTV channel. It's quiet, shows some beautiful homes, and gives tips on home improvement and is generally peaceful. Me Likey Quiet and Peaceful!!!!
Animal Planet is another channel I watch late at night or early in the morn as it's on all night.
I do have to admit that I'll watch Monster Garage or Orange County Choppers once in a while but I prefer Overhaulin', Mythbusters, Trading Spaces, While You Were Out, In A Fix, and such.
As far as the slimy reality shows like The Apprentice, Fear Factor, The Survival shows, never have watched one and doubt that I ever will, seeing bits and pieces at the kid's houses once in a while was enough for me.:barf:

On the other hand I like a good shoot'em up action film and really miss Charles Bronson. Seagull was okay for a time or two but got old quick. Bruce Willis the same as well as Chuck Norris.
Michael Rennie is another actor I really liked and not just as Klaatu in The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Michael Rennie did a lot of TV work.

 

[Noah Zark]

Jesse James is a cocky SOB, for sure. I have an acquaintance (ex-friend from a past life, how exactly am I supposed to say that? ) that shares a godfather with him... apparently Jesse took to carrying a Sig .380 after all the bikers he used to roll with got sick of seeing him in a ferrari.

Cocky psycho SOB, IMO. But how much of it is eyewash for our TV audience at home, Johnny?

. . . Extreme Makeover: Home Edition . . . definetely some of THE BEST TV I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. They redid a home for a family in which the parents were both deaf (and one mute), the 14 year old boy should be sainted, and the 10 year old boy was autistic and blind. I am not ashamed to say that it brought tears to my eyes . . .

I'm a Discovery/TLC/History Channel sort of person, and some of the Discovery/TLC stuff is getting to be off-putting as much as network stuff.

That said, EMHE is "must see" TV for my wife and youngest in my house. They love the show, and it's usually about helping some family that's been hit by some misfortune or another, like these deaf folks last evening. I've caught bits and pieces of maybe four or five episodes, and it seems to be OK for a reality show.

The one "makeover" show I get a kick out of is "What Not to Wear," another fave of my wife and daughter. I join them once it gets to the hair and makeup part; I find it remarkable the physical transformation that some of the "victims" make.

Noah

 

[bilestoad]

I'll watch Monster Garage or Orange County Choppers once in a while but I prefer Overhaulin', Mythbusters, Trading Spaces, While You Were Out, In A Fix, and such.

I enjoy Mythbusters, particularly Adam Savage. There's such glee on his face when they blow, crash, crush something...especially when it involves their crash test dummy...

 

[namaarie]

And here I was all confused that Munk was starting a celebrity gossip thread. Oh well. Maybe some things just aren't meant to happen.

Nam

 

[Bill Marsh]

And here I was all confused that Munk was starting a celebrity gossip thread. Oh well. Maybe some things just aren't meant to happen.

Nam

Ah, Sandra Bullock and Jesse James. Perhaps he will take the last name "Bollocks?"

There is something about her in the SF movie, "Demolition Man", with Stallone and Wesley Snipes.

Speaking of Wesley Snipes and 'other' strange movies, anyone see Wesley Snipes, John Leguizamo, and Patrick Swayze as drag queens. That was really weird. NEVER imagined three more macho men dressing up in women's clothes!

Guess that Stallone would have grunted at them. Arnold probably would have had fun with it.

All in all a poor movie. All it had going for it was these macho men having fun in dresses. Hmm do you think...... Naw! Couldn't be!

 

[Yvsa]

All in all a poor movie. All it had going for it was these macho men having fun in dresses. Hmm do you think...... Naw! Couldn't be!

Stranger things have happened.












But I dayumed sure would say it within hearing distance of any of the three.