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Mountain Dew MDX Review

I am a self professed Mountain Dew addict. I drink it every day a the office, and I order a bottle every day at lunch. So it gives me great excitement when a new kind is introduced.

Admittedly, the last two Mountain Dew branded drinks have really let me down.  Mountain Dew: Pitch Black II really sucked (scroll down to read my full review)...I guess that's what you get with seasonal drinks..and a fucking halloween one at that. AMP also let me down. That was basically Mountain Dew: Red Bull. In came in the pretentious little metal can and everything. I like the concept of more energy in a can, but not when it tastes like you mixed MD with windex.

SO, it gives me great excitement to talk about MOUNTAIN DEW: MDX.  This is what AMP should have been.   It's an "energy soda" as it is labelled, it comes in a cool bottle, tastes just like regular MD but has lots more POWER.  Hell, it's got a little label that reads "fueled by POWER PACK". It's a cheap advertising gimmick, and it doesn't even make sense...but I'll tell you this - I drank a bottle before watching 24 tonight...and it's now 5:30 AM with no sleep and I FEEL GREAT.

Did I mention this shit is so green it's practially radioactive. Nothing says power like radioactivity.

Here is a brief rundown of all the Mountain Dew beverages I've come across so far and my official rating:

Mountain Dew: 10/10
Diet Mountain Dew: Are you kidding, diet is for pansies.
Caffeine Free Mountain Dew: Don't even talk to me if you drink this. 0/10
Mountain Dew Code Red: I'm not black, but it's still an 8/10
Mountain Dew Live Wire: 7/10
Mountain Dew Pitch Black: 4/10
Mountain Dew Pitch Black II: A worse sequel than coke2. 3/10
AMP: 4/10
Mountain Dew MDX: 10/10 How is this stuff even legal. Too much power.

Oh, and if you want to see the bizarre ad campaign with nocturnal animals singing Lionel Richie songs check out the official site at http://www.benocturnal.com/

The Pep Boys Entertainment Center

So this morning I needed to get my oil changed. While spending the entire hour wandering around the isles of PEP BOYS... to my UTTER AMAZEMENT they had a modest rack filled with DVDS.

Man, they had :
The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Some Dolph Lungren movie with Danny Glover as his cop sidekick
Escape From New York
TANGO AND CASH!
and a bunch of the other best movies ever made. I was so ready to buy them all at the bargain price of 7.33 a piece. The only movie I would have left rot on the shelf was "Point of No Return"..some shitty bridget fonda movie...must have been a mistake it was there. And lets be clear, if I wasn't walking by the motor oil and that hardcore orange handcleaner I never would have noticed these gems at all on the end of the isle.

And as shocking as that is, at the front of the store on the shelf above some bargain RIMS there were WIDESCREEN TELEVISIONS for sale. Yeah I couldn't believe it either.

There's my monthly blog update. Now you can all go to hell.