the friday five:

1. If your life were a movie, what would the title be? "You Gotta Be Kidding! No way I'm paying $6.50 for this"

2. What songs would be on the soundtrack? A lot of U2. Of course, you would have to have Def Leppard's Octin Glibbin Octin Globin for when I totaled my car since that is the song that was playing very loudly when it happened. Some early facination with Prince would probably be replaced with Jaci Velasquez to keep the rating PG-13.

3. Would it be a live-action film or animated? Why? Live action sounds a little too interesting for my life-story, but I would hate for it to be animated. They would make me look funny, but then people would say, "Wow that really looks like you!"

4. Casting: who would play you, members of your family, friends, etc? Mel Gibson would play me for obvious reasons (Tom Selleck would do in a pinch).

Helen Hunt would play my wife (dead ringer looks wise), Mary Kate Olsen (that other twin just doesn't look the part) would play my daughter Alyssa, Tobey Maguire would play my son Cayden, Matt Damon would play my son Ethan (he's about the right size).

Alf (Bono from U2 would might need to do the stunt work for when Lance and I had a band) would play my friend Lance. Scott Glenn (played Bart Mancuso in Red October) would play my friend Tom Toner. Croc Dundee would play my blog subscriber Darren (Mel's playing me, sorry). Kirk Cameron would play my friend Wade. Bill Gates would play my brother Brad. My brother Rich would play himself (he can do about anything so why not act). Or Selleck can play Rich if we get Mel. Natalie Maines (lead singer of the Dixie Chicks) would play Shawna. Brett Hull (Detroit Redwings) would play Josh. David Hasselhoff would play my friend Jim Donnell. And Carlos Santana would play my friend Jim Eastin.

Bobby Knight would play my high school basketball coach Steve Bennett (coach would like that I think.) Leonard Nimoy would play my high school biology teacher Maurice McCoy. Daisy Fuentes would play a recurring role as a complilation of the girls I dated before I met my wife. (Hey it is my movie and it will be pretty boring anyway so why not throw in something for the teens.)

Oh, there's more! John-Rhys Davies (who played Gimli in Lord of the Rings) plays my friend Dan Knight. Anthony Michael Hall plays my seminary friend John Culbertson. Nicholas Cage plays my friend Ben Tobias (Cage is good at playing people full of conflict and angst!) Gary Busey would play my friend Eddie Hammond. Matthew Broderick would play my friend Fran Leeman. Al Pacino would play my friend Mark Smith.

I'm sure I've forgotten some people... sorry. Please leave other casting ideas in the comments!!

5. Describe the movie preview/trailer: It opens with a dark screen, which starts to slowly brighten until you can just make out an image of my dog's tail, but then quickly darkens again. The music is slow and doesn't grab you much.