Likes: Funny TV (AFV, Seinfeld), $$$, Vico-tinis®, Buffalo Wild Wings, Portillo's beef, Luigi's pizza (Huntley), Gino's East pizza, Giordano's pizza, Casa Bianca pizza, various frozen pizzas (Jack's Naturally Rising, Tombstone Original, Digiorno Rising Crust, Digiorno Ultimate), stereotypes and people who reinforce them (e.g. Diablo Cody furthering the notion that women aren't funny), Operation Clambake, large televisions, large boobs, large pizzas.
Dislikes: Not funny TV (How I Met Your Mother), fat people, Ironic/Kitschy purchases (Buddy Christ, vintage lunchboxes, etc.), CA Pizza Kitchen, Red Baron frozen pizza, large nipples, large vaginas.
Music
This space is usually reserved for people who like to name obscure bands you never heard of so they can show you how cool they think they are (extra points if the band is from Europe). This section is constantly updated by said individuals because to them:
That said, The Dudes like Tom Petty. Further we think his best album is "Full Moon Fever." The fact that everyone in the world knows the words to "Runnin' Down a Dream" does nothing to change our opinion of him or his music. We often find ourselves singing along when Boston's "More Than a Feeling" is on the radio. Additionally, Bill likes Keith Urban. We welcome the wrath of our douchebag, music snob adversaries.
Movies
There Will Be Blood
Three Amigos, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Tommy Boy, Very Bad Things, Grandma's Boy, The Big Lebowski, King of Kong, New York Doll, anything but Juno
Television
Everybody Loves Raymond reruns, Family Guy, Ninja Warrior, Best Week Ever, How It's Made, Spongebob Squarepants, Jeopardy!, TMZ (greatest show ever), Simpsons reruns from the '90s, First 48, VH-1 Classic Albums. Also, Crime 360*, Greenovate*, Reality Remix*, CMT Music Awards*, and TLC promos.*
*(awesome narrator/announcer)
Books
(Wellness Central, 2008)
Scott has read the required nerd fantasy and sci-fi. Bill has read most Stephen King (Carrie thru Desperation) and all of the Encyclopedia Brown mysteries.
Otherwise we barely know who Gore Vidal is and often end sentences with dangling participles.
Heroes
The dude who invented masturbating...also firefighters
About me: The Dudes = Bill Lloyd & Scott Finch, long time male companions and authors of:
(Wellness Central, 2008)
Bill is a 31-year-old husband and father of two and a highly sought-after voiceover talent. You hear his voice every day on television (ABC, TLC, Fox Reality Channel), movie trailers (Pride, The Savages), and commercials (Ford Motor Company, Rozerem Prescription Sleep Aid). Bill is based in Los Angeles.
Scott is a software engineer (code monkey) for Panasonic in the Chicago suburbs. He moonlights as an iron worker, test pilot, and Alaskan crab fisherman, and enjoys kicking ass and taking names. When Scott isn’t on the job kicking ass, he’s usually somewhere else, kicking ass. Scott enjoys snowboarding, hang gliding, mountain climbing, non-arena football, and power lifting. When he’s not busy with his wife and three kids, he’s usually out beating up nerds or blasting his quads at the gym near his home in Huntley, IL.
Buddies from high school (Go Grant Bulldogs!), Scott, a new dad, began briefing Bill on the perils of pregnancy when Bill's wife became pregnant. The painfully true stories and circumstances surrounding the nine-plus months of madness fill the pages of The Dudes Guide to Pregnancy.
Thank for making Brad and I feel welcome in your home. We had a great time. Looking forward to the day I'm able to sit poolside sipping on a key lime martini...
